Export market · Thailand
Barcode Solutions for export to Thailand
Barcode Solutions are among the lines we supply most into Thailand, where FMCG and retail make up much of the industrial base.
Barcode Solutions for Thailand
Demand in Thailand is built on food processing, beverage bottling, FMCG and retail. FMCG 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 barcode solutions the question is always scan rate on the customer’s own surface, and ribbon matched to facestock. Humidity is the constraint in Thailand. Lamination keeps the print from going soft, and an adhesive rated to 45°C keeps the corner from lifting before the pack reaches a Thailand shelf.
Retail scanning is unforgiving about symbol size and quiet zone, and the usual cause of a no-read is not print quality but a label shrunk to fit a space it was never sized for.
A Thailand order for barcode solutions arrives in long runs with frequent small variants, which is why the base plate stays on file and only the variable panel changes. What already moves from our floor to Thailand is food and beverage labels and cosmetic labels, so a barcode solutions enquiry from Thailand is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Laem Chabang is the leg it travels, and a humid destination is what the adhesive bond has to be specified against for Thailand.
Where this sits against Thailand 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 Thailand is Thai FDA registration and labelling, Thai-language declarations, nutrition labelling rules for packaged food — and the pack language is Thai mandatory on consumer goods. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy barcode solutions, but it is what the rest of your Thailand consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Thailand
Nhava Sheva to Laem Chabang — 9 to 13 days. A 13-day sea leg is long enough that the container cycles through a full range of temperatures before it is opened. Landing into Thailand’s humid air, board and paper take up moisture fast once the doors open, so barcode solutions for Thailand travel shrink-wrapped on the pallet.
In this range
Label stock, thermal ribbons and the printers and scanners that run them — 3 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Thailand
Barcode Solutions elsewhere
All Thailand ranges
Questions
Barcode Solutions in Thailand — questions we are asked
Do you supply barcode solutions in Thailand?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Laem Chabang — 9 to 13 days.
What do Thailand customers use barcode solutions for?
FMCG and retail mainly. Food and beverage labels, cosmetic labels, packaging labels, barcode media — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for barcode solutions to Thailand?
No fixed minimum for barcode solutions. Thailand consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Thailand run workable. Nhava Sheva to Laem Chabang — 9 to 13 days.
How do Thailand buyers usually order barcode solutions?
In long runs with frequent small variants, which is why the base plate stays on file and only the variable panel changes — that is the pattern across most of our Thailand 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 Thailand 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.