Export market · Vietnam
Barcode Solutions for export to Vietnam
Barcode Solutions are among the lines we supply most into Vietnam, where FMCG and electronics make up much of the industrial base.
Barcode Solutions for Vietnam
Demand in Vietnam is built on food processing, FMCG, garments and electronics. FMCG and electronics 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 Vietnam. Lamination keeps the print from going soft, and an adhesive rated to 45°C keeps the corner from lifting before the pack reaches a Vietnam 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 Vietnam 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 Vietnam is food and FMCG labels and garment care labels, so a barcode solutions enquiry from Vietnam is normally priced and consolidated alongside those. Nhava Sheva to Hai Phong or Cat Lai is the leg it travels, and a humid destination is what the adhesive bond has to be specified against for Vietnam.
Where this sits against Vietnam 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 Vietnam is Decree 43 on goods labelling, Ministry of Health registration for food and cosmetics, origin and responsible-importer declarations — and the pack language is Vietnamese mandatory. None of that is what you are specifying when you buy barcode solutions, but it is what the rest of your Vietnam consignment travels under, so it is worth knowing which of your items it catches and which it does not.
Getting it to Vietnam
Nhava Sheva to Hai Phong or Cat Lai — 10 to 14 days. A 14-day sea leg is long enough that the container cycles through a full range of temperatures before it is opened. Landing into Vietnam’s humid air, board and paper take up moisture fast once the doors open, so barcode solutions for Vietnam 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 Vietnam
Barcode Solutions elsewhere
All Vietnam ranges
Questions
Barcode Solutions in Vietnam — questions we are asked
Do you supply barcode solutions in Vietnam?
Yes. Everything is manufactured at our own works in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi and despatched from there. Nhava Sheva to Hai Phong or Cat Lai — 10 to 14 days.
What do Vietnam customers use barcode solutions for?
FMCG and electronics mainly. Food and FMCG labels, garment care labels, electronics labels, carton labels — this range covers the part of that list it applies to.
Is there a minimum order for barcode solutions to Vietnam?
No fixed minimum for barcode solutions. Vietnam consignments are quoted per job and usually consolidated with the other lines going the same way, which is what makes a smaller Vietnam run workable. Nhava Sheva to Hai Phong or Cat Lai — 10 to 14 days.
How do Vietnam 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 Vietnam 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 Vietnam 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.