Export market · Qatar
Label Printing for export to Qatar
Label Printing are among the lines we supply most into Qatar, where food processing, FMCG and retail make up much of the industrial base.
Label Printing for Qatar
Demand in Qatar is built on food processing, FMCG, beverage bottling and retail. Food processing, FMCG and retail 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 label printing the question is always artwork proofed and colour recorded, so a reorder matches the first run. Heat is the constraint in Qatar. An adhesive specified for a temperate warehouse creeps at Qatar summer temperatures, so we specify to the temperature the pack will actually see there.
Most food work comes to us as a family of SKUs rather than one label, so the sensible economy is a common die and a shared base plate with only the variable panel changing.
A Qatar order for label printing 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 Qatar is food and beverage labels and retail product labels, so a label printing enquiry from Qatar is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Hamad Port is the leg it travels, and a hot and dry destination is what the adhesive bond has to be specified against for Qatar.
What Qatar requires
Cosmetic and personal-care labelling rules are the ones that bite here. In Qatar that means GSO standards, Qatar General Organization for Standards and Metrology, halal declaration, shelf-life rules that are stricter than several neighbours. Language on pack: Arabic and English.
We set label printing artwork against those Qatar requirements and proof it with your importer there before any plate or die is cut.
Getting it to Qatar
Nhava Sheva to Hamad Port — 5 to 7 days. At 7 days at sea this is a short route, so the risk is handling at either end rather than time in the hold. Landing into Qatar’s heat, an adhesive specified at Indian room temperature is close to its working limit on the day the label printing arrive.
In this range
Printing to order — cosmetic, bottle, QR-coded and tamper-proof labels — 4 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Qatar
Label Printing elsewhere
All Qatar ranges
Questions
Label Printing in Qatar — questions we are asked
Do you supply label printing in Qatar?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Hamad Port — 5 to 7 days.
What do Qatar customers use label printing for?
Food processing, FMCG and retail mainly. Food and beverage labels, retail product labels, hologram seals, carton labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for label printing to Qatar?
No fixed minimum for label printing. Qatar consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Qatar run workable. Nhava Sheva to Hamad Port — 5 to 7 days.
How do Qatar buyers usually order label printing?
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 Qatar 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 Qatar 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.