Export market · Sri Lanka
Self-Adhesive Labels for export to Sri Lanka
Self-Adhesive Labels are among the lines we supply most into Sri Lanka, where food processing and pharmaceuticals make up much of the industrial base.
Self-Adhesive Labels for Sri Lanka
Demand in Sri Lanka is built on food processing, beverage bottling, agri-inputs and pharmaceuticals. Food processing and pharmaceuticals 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. Humidity is the constraint in Sri Lanka. Lamination keeps the print from going soft, and an adhesive rated to 45°C keeps the corner from lifting before the pack reaches a Sri Lanka shelf.
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 Sri Lanka 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 Sri Lanka is food and beverage labels and tea and spice labels, so a self-adhesive labels enquiry from Sri Lanka is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva or Tuticorin to Colombo is the leg it travels, and a humid destination is what the adhesive bond has to be specified against for Sri Lanka.
Where this sits against Sri Lanka rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. The regime your importer works to in Sri Lanka is SLSI standards, Food Act labelling rules, trilingual declarations on many consumer categories — and the pack language is Sinhala, Tamil and English. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy self-adhesive labels, but it is what the rest of your Sri Lanka consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Sri Lanka
Nhava Sheva or Tuticorin to Colombo — 4 to 8 days. A 8-day sea leg is long enough that the container cycles through a full range of temperatures before it is opened. Landing into Sri Lanka’s humid air, board and paper take up moisture fast once the doors open, so self-adhesive labels for Sri Lanka travel shrink-wrapped on the pallet.
In this range
The core pressure-sensitive range — paper, polypropylene, polyester and vinyl — 7 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Sri Lanka
Self-Adhesive Labels elsewhere
All Sri Lanka ranges
Questions
Self-Adhesive Labels in Sri Lanka — questions we are asked
Do you supply self-adhesive labels in Sri Lanka?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva or Tuticorin to Colombo — 4 to 8 days.
What do Sri Lanka customers use self-adhesive labels for?
Food processing and pharmaceuticals mainly. Food and beverage labels, tea and spice labels, pharmaceutical labels, carton labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for self-adhesive labels to Sri Lanka?
No fixed minimum for self-adhesive labels. Sri Lanka consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Sri Lanka run workable. Nhava Sheva or Tuticorin to Colombo — 4 to 8 days.
How do Sri Lanka 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 Sri Lanka 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 Sri Lanka 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.