Export market · Thailand
Offset Printing for export to Thailand
Offset Printing are among the lines we supply most into Thailand, where food processing, FMCG and retail make up much of the industrial base.
Offset Printing for Thailand
Demand in Thailand is built on food processing, beverage bottling, FMCG and retail. Food processing, 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 offset printing the question is always registration held across a long run, and colour read against an approved target. Humidity is the constraint in Thailand. Board takes up moisture and loses stiffness, so cartons going to Thailand are run on a heavier caliper than the same job for a dry market.
On consumer cartons the colour has to match across every SKU in the family and across reprints months apart, which is a proofing and ink-management discipline rather than a press one.
A Thailand order for offset printing 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 Thailand is food and beverage labels and cosmetic labels, so a offset printing 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 board and the ink film have to be specified against for Thailand.
Where this sits against Thailand rules
Which rules apply depends on what the label goes onto. 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 offset printing, 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 offset printing for Thailand travel shrink-wrapped on the pallet.
In this range
Posters, catalogues, brochures and printed folding cartons — 4 product lines in all.
Also supplied to Thailand
Offset Printing elsewhere
All Thailand ranges
Questions
Offset Printing in Thailand — questions we are asked
Do you supply offset printing 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 offset printing for?
Food processing, 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 offset printing to Thailand?
No fixed minimum for offset printing. 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 offset printing?
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 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.