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We are a trading and converting organisation. The quality systems, the coating lines and the certificates belong to the production partners we run with, and every one of them is issued per site and per product. So we do not publish scans on this page. We send the real document — with the issuing body's reference number — against the product and the production site you are actually buying.
A blurry certificate image is worse than no certificate image, and the reason is procedural rather than legal. Compliance approval at any serious buyer runs on a document request: procurement or QA opens a ticket, names the product and the market, and asks for the certificate with the reference number, the validity dates and the scope. A thumbnail on a website cannot enter that workflow. It delays the moment when somebody has to produce the real file, and by then the buyer has already asked twice.
The second reason is that certificates are not property of a brand — they are property of a site and a scope. An ISO 9001 certificate for one coating plant says nothing about another plant, and a REACH declaration for one adhesive system says nothing about a different one. A single generic certificate image on a website is therefore misleading even when the underlying claim is true somewhere in the group. We would rather name the site in the document than blur it out of the picture.
What we do instead is described below: a named list of the documents we can obtain, the lead time for each, and the exact information we need from you to get the right one the first time.
Lead times below are the working days needed to obtain the document from the relevant production site and send it to you. They are not certification timelines.
| Document | What it covers | Issued by | Lead time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical data sheet (TDS) | Facestock, adhesive, liner, caliper, coat weight and measured values for the code | Our coating partner's laboratory | Same day |
| Certificate of analysis (COA) | Measured values for the specific production lot you receive | Production site QC | With shipment |
| ISO 9001 — quality management | The management system of the coating site that runs your order | Accredited certification body | 3–5 days |
| ISO 14001 — environmental management | Environmental management of the same site | Accredited certification body | 3–5 days |
| FSC chain of custody | Paper facestocks and paper liners, where a certified grade is specified | FSC-accredited body, via the mill | 5–10 days |
| REACH / SVHC declaration | Substance declaration for the construction, against the current candidate list | Our supplier, countersigned by us | 3–5 days |
| RoHS declaration | Restricted substances, for labelling of electronics and electrical goods | Our supplier | 3–5 days |
| Food-contact declaration | Indirect food-contact suitability of the construction, for the market you name | Supplier, with the underlying test reports | 5–7 days |
| Migration test report | Overall and specific migration for plastic constructions, against the applicable regulation | Third-party testing laboratory | 10–15 days |
| Halogen-free / heavy-metal declaration | Statement of content limits, where the end customer specifies them | Our supplier | 3–5 days |
| Adhesive system statement | Adhesive chemistry family and coat weight, for customers who specify the system rather than the brand | Our coating partner | Same day |
Anything on this list is supplied as a full document with the reference number, validity dates and scope intact. We do not redact, crop or downscale compliance documents.
Compliance requests fail on missing detail far more often than on missing certificates. Four pieces of information let us pick the correct document immediately:
A code such as FL0204W21 is unambiguous. If you only have a specification, send the facestock, adhesive family and liner — the construction index maps those to codes.
EU, US, Brazil, Gulf and Southeast Asia apply different regimes to the same material. A REACH declaration answers a European question; a food-contact declaration for the US is a different document from the EU one. Naming the market prevents us sending you a file your QA team cannot use.
Direct food contact, indirect food contact and non-food industrial use are three different questions with three different answers. So is the difference between labelling a dry carton and labelling a chilled tray.
Many brand owners and converters have their own supplier declaration form. Send it with the enquiry and we fill in your form rather than ours — it is the same effort and it removes a translation step at your end.
We are explicit about this because it protects the buyers who work with us.
Certificates describe a system. What we control directly is what happens to your order:
Every construction has a written specification held against its code, so a repeat order is coated to the same numbers rather than to a description. Incoming facestock and liner are checked against that specification before the coating run. Release level and adhesion are checked on the finished roll. Slitting tolerance, roll direction and splice count are recorded per roll, because those are what stop a press at three in the morning. A lot-specific certificate of analysis goes out with the shipment, and a retained sample stays with us for the life of the order.
If something does not perform on your line, the retained sample is what makes the conversation short: we compare it against what we shipped, and either the material drifted or the process did. Both answers are useful, and both are only possible if somebody kept the sample.
Small-format die cutting, lot and expiry printing, and the documentation a pharma buyer asks for before the first order.
Ice bucket, condensation and high line speed — where a food-contact declaration and a wet-strength adhesive meet.
Direct thermal versus paper: why a label stops scanning after handling, and what to specify instead.
Which declarations exist, which are supplier statements and which are third-party test reports — and who to ask.
Tell us the code and the destination market; we will say what we can supply today and what needs a supplier request.