Export market · Sri Lanka
Label Printing for export to Sri Lanka
Label Printing are among the lines we supply most into Sri Lanka, where food processing and pharmaceuticals make up much of the industrial base.
Label Printing for Sri Lanka
Demand in Sri Lanka is built on food processing, beverage bottling, agri-inputs and pharmaceuticals. Food processing and pharmaceuticals 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. Humidity is the constraint in Sri Lanka. Lamination keeps the print from going soft, and an adhesive rated to 45°C keeps the corner from lifting before the pack reaches a Sri Lanka shelf.
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 Sri Lanka 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 Sri Lanka is food and beverage labels and tea and spice labels, so a label printing enquiry from Sri Lanka is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva or Tuticorin to Colombo is the leg it travels, and a humid destination is what the adhesive bond has to be specified against for Sri Lanka.
What Sri Lanka requires
Cosmetic and personal-care labelling rules are the ones that bite here. In Sri Lanka that means SLSI standards, Food Act labelling rules, trilingual declarations on many consumer categories. Language on pack: Sinhala, Tamil and English.
We set label printing artwork against those Sri Lanka requirements and proof it with your importer there before any plate or die is cut.
Getting it to Sri Lanka
Nhava Sheva or Tuticorin to Colombo — 4 to 8 days. A 8-day sea leg is long enough that the container cycles through a full range of temperatures before it is opened. Landing into Sri Lanka’s humid air, board and paper take up moisture fast once the doors open, so label printing for Sri Lanka travel shrink-wrapped on the pallet.
In this range
Printing to order — cosmetic, bottle, QR-coded and tamper-proof labels — 4 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Sri Lanka
Label Printing elsewhere
All Sri Lanka ranges
Questions
Label Printing in Sri Lanka — questions we are asked
Do you supply label printing in Sri Lanka?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva or Tuticorin to Colombo — 4 to 8 days.
What do Sri Lanka customers use label printing for?
Food processing and pharmaceuticals mainly. Food and beverage labels, tea and spice labels, pharmaceutical labels, carton labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for label printing to Sri Lanka?
No fixed minimum for label printing. Sri Lanka consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Sri Lanka run workable. Nhava Sheva or Tuticorin to Colombo — 4 to 8 days.
How do Sri Lanka 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 Sri Lanka 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 Sri Lanka 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.