A label fails in the field, not on the press. So we classify materials by the environment they must survive — −40 °C freezers, salt spray, engine bays, ice buckets, sterilisation, vibration — and then choose the facestock, adhesive and liner backwards from that.
Every card below links straight to the recommended constructions with full specifications.
Sticks to frost, condensation and curved film at −40 °C, and stays scannable after thawing.
Clean print, oil and moisture resistance, and reliable adhesion on glass, PET and board.
Thermal and paper constructions that stay scannable through a 30-day voyage and rough handling.
Premium sheets that survive the ice bucket, not just the shelf — with foil, emboss and wet strength.
One material logic for intelligent hardware: durable nameplates for appliances, heat-stable asset tags for AI servers and racks, and ultra-light specification labels for drones and robots.
Stable adhesion in cold chain and clean environments, with clean die-cutting and lot traceability.
No-label-look clear films and pearl-white surfaces for premium bottles, jars and squeezable tubes.
VOID, destructible and holographic constructions that make tampering obvious and copying expensive.
Asset tags for servers, racks and edge devices — heat-stable, always scannable, and removable without residue when hardware is redeployed.
Body-wrap films, colourful decals and VIN/tyre labels that bond to painted metal, glass and low-energy plastics through heat, wash and vibration.
Fully waterproof constructions for hulls, containers and offshore equipment — film facestocks and adhesives that hold through salt spray, soaking and UV.
Send us these four answers and we will shortlist two or three constructions, with samples and test data.
Glass, corrugated, PE bottle, painted metal, fabric — surface energy decides the adhesive.
−40 °C freezer, ambient, 80 °C under-hood, or sterilisation — temperature decides the adhesive family.
UV inkjet, Memjet, flexo, offset, laser or Indigo — the press decides the top coating.
Six weeks or ten years, removable or permanent — the service life decides facestock and liner.
Each page lists the constructions we actually supply, the failures we get called about, and the honest limits — including what we do not certify.
The guides linked below are written in English.
Ice buckets, condensation at filling and no-label clear film on PET — why paper fails in the cooler and which BOPP constructions hold.
Lot and expiry coding, DataMatrix grade, VOID tamper evidence — and what we do not publish about compliance documentation.
Direct-thermal topcoat, adhesion to recycled corrugate, cold stores and high-speed applicators.
The guides linked below are written in English.
Surface energy, service temperature and dwell time mapped to acrylic, rubber, hot-melt and speciality systems — including the combinations that look fine in the lab and fail in the field.
What "food safe" has to mean in writing — declarations of compliance, migration limits and the paperwork a brand owner's auditor will ask for.