Export market · Thailand
Self-Adhesive Labels for export to Thailand
Self-Adhesive Labels are among the lines we supply most into Thailand, where food processing, FMCG and retail make up much of the industrial base.
Self-Adhesive Labels for Thailand
Demand in Thailand is built on food processing, beverage bottling, FMCG 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 self-adhesive labels the question is always facestock and adhesive chosen against the surface, the temperature and the applicator. Humidity is the constraint in Thailand. Lamination keeps the print from going soft, and an adhesive rated to 45°C keeps the corner from lifting before the pack reaches a Thailand shelf.
On food packs the adhesive sees the surface at its worst: cold, wet with condensate, sometimes lightly oiled from the filling line. A general-purpose permanent will grab and then lift at a corner two days later, which is why the wet-tack grade exists.
A Thailand order for self-adhesive 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 Thailand is food and beverage labels and cosmetic labels, so a self-adhesive labels enquiry from Thailand is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Laem Chabang is the leg it travels, and a humid destination is what the adhesive bond has to be specified against for Thailand.
Where this sits against Thailand rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in Thailand is Thai FDA registration and labelling, Thai-language declarations, nutrition labelling rules for packaged food — and the pack language is Thai mandatory on consumer goods. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy self-adhesive labels, but it is what the rest of your Thailand consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Thailand
Nhava Sheva to Laem Chabang — 9 to 13 days. A 13-day sea leg is long enough that the container cycles through a full range of temperatures before it is opened. Landing into Thailand’s humid air, board and paper take up moisture fast once the doors open, so self-adhesive labels for Thailand travel shrink-wrapped on the pallet.
In this range
The core pressure-sensitive range — paper, polypropylene, polyester and vinyl — 7 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Thailand
Self-Adhesive Labels elsewhere
All Thailand ranges
Questions
Self-Adhesive Labels in Thailand — questions we are asked
Do you supply self-adhesive labels in Thailand?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Laem Chabang — 9 to 13 days.
What do Thailand customers use self-adhesive labels for?
Food processing, FMCG and retail mainly. Food and beverage labels, cosmetic labels, packaging labels, barcode media — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for self-adhesive labels to Thailand?
No fixed minimum for self-adhesive labels. Thailand consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Thailand run workable. Nhava Sheva to Laem Chabang — 9 to 13 days.
How do Thailand buyers usually order self-adhesive 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 Thailand 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 Thailand 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.