Export market · Qatar
Packaging Labels for export to Qatar
Packaging Labels are among the lines we supply most into Qatar, where food processing and FMCG make up much of the industrial base.
Packaging Labels for Qatar
Demand in Qatar is built on food processing, FMCG, beverage bottling and retail. 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. 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.
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 Qatar 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 Qatar is food and beverage labels and retail product labels, so a packaging labels 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
Chemical and dangerous-goods marking is the governing regime for this category. 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 packaging labels 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 packaging labels arrive.
In this range
Bulk and industrial packaging labels, including GHS drum marking — 3 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Qatar
Packaging Labels elsewhere
All Qatar ranges
Questions
Packaging Labels in Qatar — questions we are asked
Do you supply packaging labels 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 packaging labels for?
Food processing and FMCG 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 packaging labels to Qatar?
No fixed minimum for packaging labels. 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 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 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.