Export market · Mexico
Barcode Solutions for export to Mexico
Barcode Solutions supplied into Mexico, alongside the ranges that make up the bulk of our work there.
Barcode Solutions for Mexico
Demand in Mexico is built on food processing, beverage bottling, FMCG and chemicals. FMCG draws on this range, though it sits alongside rather than ahead of the lines listed below. Barcode Solutions are quoted per job for Mexico rather than against a price break, so a smaller run is normal work there.
What decides the specification
With barcode solutions the question is always scan rate on the customer’s own surface, and ribbon matched to facestock. Heat is the constraint in Mexico. An adhesive specified for a temperate warehouse creeps at Mexico summer temperatures, so we specify to the temperature the pack will actually see there.
Pharma barcoding carries batch and expiry as variable data, so the label is only half the job — the print method and the verification step after it are the other half.
When barcode solutions are ordered from Mexico they come in long runs with frequent small variants, the same way the rest of that trade buys. What already moves from our floor to Mexico is food and beverage labels and personal care labels, so a barcode solutions enquiry from Mexico is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Manzanillo or Veracruz is the leg it travels, and a hot and dry destination is what the adhesive bond has to be specified against for Mexico.
Where this sits against Mexico rules
These are consumables rather than labelled products, so the destination’s consumer labelling rules do not apply to them. The regime your importer works to in Mexico is NOM-051 food labelling with front-of-pack warning octagons, COFEPRIS registration, Spanish declarations, metric units — and the pack language is Spanish mandatory. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy barcode solutions, but it is what the rest of your Mexico consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Mexico
Nhava Sheva to Manzanillo or Veracruz — 28 to 38 days. 38 days in a container is long enough for the hold to swing between damp nights and hot afternoons many times over. Landing into Mexico’s heat, an adhesive specified at Indian room temperature is close to its working limit on the day the barcode solutions arrive.
In this range
Label stock, thermal ribbons and the printers and scanners that run them — 3 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Mexico
Barcode Solutions elsewhere
All Mexico ranges
Questions
Barcode Solutions in Mexico — questions we are asked
Do you supply barcode solutions in Mexico?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Manzanillo or Veracruz — 28 to 38 days.
What do Mexico customers use barcode solutions for?
FMCG mainly. Food and beverage labels, personal care labels, industrial labels, carton labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for barcode solutions to Mexico?
No fixed minimum for barcode solutions. Mexico consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Mexico run workable. Nhava Sheva to Manzanillo or Veracruz — 28 to 38 days.
How do Mexico buyers usually order barcode solutions?
In long runs with frequent small variants, which is why the base plate stays on file and only the variable panel changes — that is the pattern across most of our Mexico work in this range. Tell us the quantity and the reorder interval and we will quote the die and the material once, then hold both on file for Mexico repeats.
Tell us what it has to stick to
Send the pack, the quantity and the market it ships to. We come back with a specification, a price and a lead time.