Export market · Mexico
Chromo Labels for export to Mexico
Chromo Labels are among the lines we supply most into Mexico, where food processing and FMCG make up much of the industrial base.
Chromo Labels for Mexico
Demand in Mexico is built on food processing, beverage bottling, FMCG and chemicals. Food processing 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 chromo labels the question is always a one-side-coated paper that takes ink well but needs care in damp storage. Heat is the constraint in Mexico. UV exposure fades process inks faster there than the same job would fade in a temperate market, so anything displayed outdoors in Mexico needs a UV-stable build.
Chromo is the workhorse for gummed and wet-glue food labelling, and its weakness is moisture — a chilled or condensating pack is where it stops being the right economy.
A Mexico order for chromo 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 Mexico is food and beverage labels and personal care labels, so a chromo labels enquiry from Mexico is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Manzanillo or Veracruz is the leg it travels, and a hot and dry destination is what the board and the ink film have to be specified against for Mexico.
Where this sits against Mexico rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in Mexico is NOM-051 food labelling with front-of-pack warning octagons, COFEPRIS registration, Spanish declarations, metric units — and the pack language is Spanish mandatory. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy chromo labels, but it is what the rest of your Mexico consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Mexico
Nhava Sheva to Manzanillo or Veracruz — 28 to 38 days. 38 days in a container is long enough for the hold to swing between damp nights and hot afternoons many times over. Landing into Mexico’s heat, an adhesive specified at Indian room temperature is close to its working limit on the day the chromo labels arrive.
In this range
The economical chromo paper workhorse, gummed or self-adhesive — 2 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Mexico
Chromo Labels elsewhere
All Mexico ranges
Questions
Chromo Labels in Mexico — questions we are asked
Do you supply chromo labels in Mexico?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Manzanillo or Veracruz — 28 to 38 days.
What do Mexico customers use chromo labels for?
Food processing and FMCG mainly. Food and beverage labels, personal care labels, industrial labels, carton labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for chromo labels to Mexico?
No fixed minimum for chromo labels. Mexico consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Mexico run workable. Nhava Sheva to Manzanillo or Veracruz — 28 to 38 days.
How do Mexico buyers usually order chromo 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 Mexico 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 Mexico 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.