Export market · Canada
Barcode Solutions for export to Canada
Barcode Solutions are among the lines we supply most into Canada, where FMCG and retail make up much of the industrial base.
Barcode Solutions for Canada
Demand in Canada is built on food processing, beverage bottling, FMCG and retail. 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 barcode solutions the question is always scan rate on the customer’s own surface, and ribbon matched to facestock. Canada conditions are manageable, which widens the material choice. The surface still decides the adhesive though — a chilled or oily pack in Canada needs the same care as anywhere else.
Retail scanning is unforgiving about symbol size and quiet zone, and the usual cause of a no-read is not print quality but a label shrunk to fit a space it was never sized for.
A Canada order for barcode solutions arrives in long runs with frequent small variants, which is why the base plate stays on file and only the variable panel changes. What already moves from our floor to Canada is food and beverage labels and cosmetic labels, so a barcode solutions enquiry from Canada is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Montreal or Vancouver is the leg it travels, and a temperate destination is what the adhesive bond has to be specified against for Canada.
Where this sits against Canada rules
These are consumables rather than labelled products, so the destination’s consumer labelling rules do not apply to them. The regime your importer works to in Canada is Safe Food for Canadians Regulations, CFIA bilingual labelling, Nutrition Facts / Valeur nutritive in both languages, metric declarations — and the pack language is English and French, both mandatory. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy barcode solutions, but it is what the rest of your Canada consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Canada
Nhava Sheva to Montreal or Vancouver — 24 to 34 days. 34 days in a container is long enough for the hold to swing between damp nights and hot afternoons many times over. Landing into Canada, the usual complaint is not failure but curl at the liner edge, which becomes a storage question once the barcode solutions are off the ship.
In this range
Label stock, thermal ribbons and the printers and scanners that run them — 3 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Canada
Barcode Solutions elsewhere
All Canada ranges
Questions
Barcode Solutions in Canada — questions we are asked
Do you supply barcode solutions in Canada?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Montreal or Vancouver — 24 to 34 days.
What do Canada customers use barcode solutions for?
FMCG and retail mainly. Food and beverage labels, cosmetic labels, consumer product labels, carton labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for barcode solutions to Canada?
No fixed minimum for barcode solutions. Canada consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Canada run workable. Nhava Sheva to Montreal or Vancouver — 24 to 34 days.
How do Canada buyers usually order barcode solutions?
In long runs with frequent small variants, which is why the base plate stays on file and only the variable panel changes — that is the pattern across most of our Canada 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 Canada 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.