Export market · Nigeria
Packaging Labels for export to Nigeria
Packaging Labels are among the lines we supply most into Nigeria, where food processing and FMCG make up much of the industrial base.
Packaging Labels for Nigeria
Demand in Nigeria is built on pharmaceuticals, food processing, FMCG and brand protection. Food processing and FMCG in particular buy this range steadily, and the work is repeat work — the die, the material code and the colour target stay on file so a reorder is a phone call rather than a fresh setup.
What decides the specification
With packaging labels the question is always sacks, drums and tubs that are handled hard and stored outdoors. Humidity is the constraint in Nigeria. Lamination keeps the print from going soft, and an adhesive rated to 45°C keeps the corner from lifting before the pack reaches a Nigeria shelf.
Shipper labels on food cartons go into cold store, and board that has taken up moisture in transit will not hold an adhesive specified for dry warehouse conditions.
A Nigeria order for packaging labels arrives against a seasonal pack calendar, so the reorder is usually the same die with a new flavour panel. What already moves from our floor to Nigeria is pharmaceutical and food labels and security holograms and anti-counterfeit seals, so a packaging labels enquiry from Nigeria is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Lagos (Apapa or Tin Can) is the leg it travels, and a humid destination is what the adhesive bond has to be specified against for Nigeria.
What Nigeria requires
Chemical and dangerous-goods marking is the governing regime for this category. In Nigeria that means SONCAP certification, NAFDAC registration numbers on food, drug and cosmetic packs, batch and expiry marking. Language on pack: English.
We set packaging labels artwork against those Nigeria requirements and proof it with your importer there before any plate or die is cut.
Getting it to Nigeria
Nhava Sheva to Lagos (Apapa or Tin Can) — 18 to 25 days. 25 days in a container is long enough for the hold to swing between damp nights and hot afternoons many times over. Landing into Nigeria’s humid air, board and paper take up moisture fast once the doors open, so packaging labels for Nigeria travel shrink-wrapped on the pallet.
In this range
Bulk and industrial packaging labels, including GHS drum marking — 3 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Nigeria
Packaging Labels elsewhere
All Nigeria ranges
Questions
Packaging Labels in Nigeria — questions we are asked
Do you supply packaging labels in Nigeria?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Lagos (Apapa or Tin Can) — 18 to 25 days.
What do Nigeria customers use packaging labels for?
Food processing and FMCG mainly. Pharmaceutical and food labels, security holograms and anti-counterfeit seals, carton labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for packaging labels to Nigeria?
No fixed minimum for packaging labels. Nigeria consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Nigeria run workable. Nhava Sheva to Lagos (Apapa or Tin Can) — 18 to 25 days.
How do Nigeria buyers usually order packaging labels?
Against a seasonal pack calendar, so the reorder is usually the same die with a new flavour panel — that is the pattern across most of our Nigeria 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 Nigeria 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.