Export market · Mexico
Scratch Off Labels for export to Mexico
Scratch Off Labels supplied into Mexico, alongside the ranges that make up the bulk of our work there.
Scratch Off Labels 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. Scratch Off Labels 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 scratch off labels the question is always an opaque panel that cannot be read through and comes off cleanly with a coin. Heat is the constraint in Mexico. A seal that has to stay tamper-evident must not soften and re-adhere, so the adhesive is specified against the Mexico summer temperature, not the annual average.
Promotional scratch-off panels have to be opaque enough that the code cannot be read against a strong light, which is a coating specification rather than a printing one.
When scratch off labels 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 scratch off labels 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 metallised layer and the varnish over it have to be specified against for Mexico.
Where this sits against Mexico rules
No consumer labelling statute governs these directly; brand protection and, where they apply, track-and-trace rules are what shape the specification. 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 scratch off labels, 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 scratch off labels arrive.
In this range
Scratch-off panels concealing a unique code — 1 product line in all.
Also supplied to Mexico
Scratch Off Labels elsewhere
All Mexico ranges
Questions
Scratch Off Labels in Mexico — questions we are asked
Do you supply scratch off labels 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 scratch off labels 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 scratch off labels to Mexico?
No fixed minimum for scratch off labels. 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 scratch off labels?
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.