Export market · Mexico
Self-Adhesive Labels for export to Mexico
Self-Adhesive Labels are among the lines we supply most into Mexico, where food processing, FMCG and chemicals make up much of the industrial base.
Self-Adhesive Labels for Mexico
Demand in Mexico is built on food processing, beverage bottling, FMCG and chemicals. Food processing, FMCG and chemicals 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 Mexico. An adhesive specified for a temperate warehouse creeps at Mexico summer temperatures, so we specify to the temperature the pack will actually see there.
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 Mexico 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 Mexico is food and beverage labels and personal care labels, so a self-adhesive 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 adhesive bond has 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 self-adhesive 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 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 Mexico
Self-Adhesive Labels elsewhere
All Mexico ranges
Questions
Self-Adhesive Labels in Mexico — questions we are asked
Do you supply self-adhesive 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 self-adhesive labels for?
Food processing, FMCG and chemicals 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 self-adhesive labels to Mexico?
No fixed minimum for self-adhesive 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 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 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.