Export market · Singapore
Chromo Labels for export to Singapore
Chromo Labels are among the lines we supply most into Singapore, where food processing and retail make up much of the industrial base.
Chromo Labels for Singapore
Demand in Singapore is built on food processing, beverage bottling, electronics, retail and warehousing. Food processing 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 chromo labels the question is always a one-side-coated paper that takes ink well but needs care in damp storage. Humidity is the constraint in Singapore. Board takes up moisture and loses stiffness, so cartons going to Singapore are run on a heavier caliper than the same job for a dry market.
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 Singapore 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 Singapore is food and beverage labels and cosmetic labels, so a chromo labels enquiry from Singapore is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Singapore is the leg it travels, and a humid destination is what the board and the ink film have to be specified against for Singapore.
Where this sits against Singapore rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in Singapore is Singapore Food Agency labelling rules, Health Sciences Authority for cosmetics and devices, weights and measures declarations — and the pack language is English. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy chromo labels, but it is what the rest of your Singapore consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Singapore
Nhava Sheva to Singapore — 6 to 9 days. A 9-day sea leg is long enough that the container cycles through a full range of temperatures before it is opened. Landing into Singapore’s humid air, board and paper take up moisture fast once the doors open, so chromo labels for Singapore travel shrink-wrapped on the pallet.
In this range
The economical chromo paper workhorse, gummed or self-adhesive — 2 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Singapore
Chromo Labels elsewhere
All Singapore ranges
Questions
Chromo Labels in Singapore — questions we are asked
Do you supply chromo labels in Singapore?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Singapore — 6 to 9 days.
What do Singapore customers use chromo labels for?
Food processing and retail mainly. Food and beverage labels, cosmetic labels, electronics and asset labels, barcode media — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for chromo labels to Singapore?
No fixed minimum for chromo labels. Singapore consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Singapore run workable. Nhava Sheva to Singapore — 6 to 9 days.
How do Singapore 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 Singapore 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 Singapore 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.