Export market · Egypt
Self-Adhesive Labels for export to Egypt
Self-Adhesive Labels are among the lines we supply most into Egypt, where food processing, pharmaceuticals and FMCG make up much of the industrial base.
Self-Adhesive Labels for Egypt
Demand in Egypt is built on food processing, pharmaceuticals, FMCG and brand protection. Food processing, pharmaceuticals 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 self-adhesive labels the question is always facestock and adhesive chosen against the surface, the temperature and the applicator. Heat is the constraint in Egypt. An adhesive specified for a temperate warehouse creeps at Egypt summer temperatures, so we specify to the temperature the pack will actually see there.
For pharma the facestock decision is usually made twice — once for the primary container, which is small, curved and often glass, and once for the carton, which is flat board and far more forgiving. Quoting them as one job hides the fact that only one of them is difficult.
A Egypt 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 Egypt is food labels and pharmaceutical labels, so a self-adhesive labels enquiry from Egypt is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Alexandria or Port Said is the leg it travels, and a hot and dry destination is what the adhesive bond has to be specified against for Egypt.
Where this sits against Egypt rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in Egypt is GOEIC registration, Egyptian Organization for Standardization marking, Arabic labelling, halal for meat products — and the pack language is Arabic mandatory. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy self-adhesive labels, but it is what the rest of your Egypt consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Egypt
Nhava Sheva to Alexandria or Port Said — 10 to 14 days. A 14-day sea leg is long enough that the container cycles through a full range of temperatures before it is opened. Landing into Egypt’s heat, an adhesive specified at Indian room temperature is close to its working limit on the day the self-adhesive labels arrive.
In this range
The core pressure-sensitive range — paper, polypropylene, polyester and vinyl — 7 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Egypt
Self-Adhesive Labels elsewhere
All Egypt ranges
Questions
Self-Adhesive Labels in Egypt — questions we are asked
Do you supply self-adhesive labels in Egypt?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Alexandria or Port Said — 10 to 14 days.
What do Egypt customers use self-adhesive labels for?
Food processing, pharmaceuticals and FMCG mainly. Food labels, pharmaceutical labels, packaging labels, security holograms — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for self-adhesive labels to Egypt?
No fixed minimum for self-adhesive labels. Egypt consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Egypt run workable. Nhava Sheva to Alexandria or Port Said — 10 to 14 days.
How do Egypt 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 Egypt 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 Egypt 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.