Export market · South Africa
Food Product Labels for export to South Africa
Food Product Labels are among the lines we supply most into South Africa, where food processing and beverage bottling make up much of the industrial base.
Food Product Labels for South Africa
Demand in South Africa is built on food processing, beverage bottling, retail, chemicals and engineering. Food processing and beverage bottling 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 food product labels the question is always oil, moisture and chilling, all of which lift an ordinary adhesive. South Africa conditions are manageable, which widens the material choice. The surface still decides the adhesive though — a chilled or oily pack in South Africa needs the same care as anywhere else.
Bottled and canned lines run fast and wet, so the label has to register on a moving curved surface and then hold through pasteurising or chilling. The artwork is the easy half.
A South Africa order for food product 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 South Africa is food and beverage labels and retail product labels, so a food product labels enquiry from South Africa is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Durban is the leg it travels, and a temperate destination is what the adhesive bond has to be specified against for South Africa.
What South Africa requires
Food labelling law is what governs this category here. In South Africa that means NRCS compulsory specifications, R146 food labelling regulations, SANS standards, country of origin declaration. Language on pack: English, often with Afrikaans.
We set food product labels artwork against those South Africa requirements and proof it with your importer there before any plate or die is cut.
Getting it to South Africa
Nhava Sheva to Durban — 14 to 18 days. 18 days in a container is long enough for the hold to swing between damp nights and hot afternoons many times over. Landing into South Africa, the usual complaint is not failure but curl at the liner edge, which becomes a storage question once the food product labels are off the ship.
In this range
Labels for packed food — jars, tins, pouches and wiped-down packs — 4 product lines in all.
Also supplied to South Africa
Food Product Labels elsewhere
All South Africa ranges
Questions
Food Product Labels in South Africa — questions we are asked
Do you supply food product labels in South Africa?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Durban — 14 to 18 days.
What do South Africa customers use food product labels for?
Food processing and beverage bottling mainly. Food and beverage labels, retail product labels, industrial and chemical labels, barcode media — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for food product labels to South Africa?
No fixed minimum for food product labels. South Africa consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller South Africa run workable. Nhava Sheva to Durban — 14 to 18 days.
How do South Africa buyers usually order food product 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 South Africa 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 South Africa 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.