Export market · Sri Lanka
Thermal Labels & Ribbons for export to Sri Lanka
Thermal Labels & Ribbons are among the lines we supply most into Sri Lanka, where food processing and pharmaceuticals make up much of the industrial base.
Thermal Labels & Ribbons 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 thermal labels & ribbons the question is always direct thermal for short life, thermal transfer for anything that has to last. Humidity is the constraint in Sri Lanka. Thermal coatings absorb moisture and grey off, so rolls for Sri Lanka ship shrink-wrapped and should stay sealed until the machine needs them.
Thermal transfer rather than direct thermal, wherever the print has to still be readable at the end of a shelf life. Direct thermal fades with heat and light and was never meant to last.
A Sri Lanka order for thermal labels & ribbons 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 thermal labels & ribbons 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 coating and the core have to be specified against for Sri Lanka.
Where this sits against Sri Lanka rules
These are consumables rather than labelled products, so the destination’s consumer labelling rules do not apply to them. 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 thermal labels & ribbons, 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 thermal labels & ribbons for Sri Lanka travel shrink-wrapped on the pallet.
In this range
Direct thermal label stock and wax-resin transfer ribbons — 2 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Sri Lanka
Thermal Labels & Ribbons elsewhere
All Sri Lanka ranges
Questions
Thermal Labels & Ribbons in Sri Lanka — questions we are asked
Do you supply thermal labels & ribbons 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 thermal labels & ribbons 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 thermal labels & ribbons to Sri Lanka?
No fixed minimum for thermal labels & ribbons. 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 thermal labels & ribbons?
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.