What fields are self-adhesive labels used in?
Publish Time: 2025-04-21
Self-adhesive labels are now widely used in the daily chemical industry. It is understood that at present, the proportion of domestic daily chemical products using self-adhesive labels as labels exceeds 30%. According to statistics, the self-adhesive labels on the domestic market are still maintaining a rapid growth momentum in the daily chemical industry and are more widely used. Label materials will also develop in a high-level and diversified direction.
Daily chemical products have high added value, so there are many brands and fierce competition. Consumers choose a product from a wide range of commodities. The outer packaging of the product is the key factor to attract consumers, and the most important thing about the outer packaging of daily chemical products is the label. It can be seen that the exquisiteness of the label plays a key role. Self-adhesive labels can perfectly reflect the requirements required for labels.Self-adhesive label pharmaceutical industryWith the promulgation of the GMP certification standard by the state, the pharmaceutical industry has higher requirements for the standardization of drug packaging, and further requirements are being made for both the hygiene and aesthetics of the packaging. Self-adhesive labels can well meet the needs of drug packaging on the premise that the adhesive material meets the hygiene standards. On the one hand, the pharmaceutical industry has relatively high production requirements and fast assembly line operation. Many medicine bottles need to be automatically labeled to meet the requirements when labeling; on the other hand, self-adhesive materials are suitable for various printing methods, with clear graphics, neat and strong adhesive effects, so that self-adhesive labels can meet the market's requirements for drug packaging. During the booming period of OTC, consumers' requirements for drug packaging are definitely getting higher and higher. They hope that the label is not only a description, but also a brand logo. At the same time, pharmaceutical products also attach great importance to anti-counterfeiting. Self-adhesive labels have a variety of materials to choose from, such as fragile paper, font anti-counterfeiting labels, etc.Self-adhesive label industryElectronic devices are now in every corner of people's lives. The further popularization of home appliances and communication tools has made the development of the electronics industry unprecedented.Self-adhesive label supermarkets and logistics industriesWith the development of the market economy and the acceleration of commodity circulation, China's retail industry is developing at an extraordinary speed. According to statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics, there are 1,232 chain enterprises above the limit in China's commercial retail and catering industries, with a total of 34,551 stores. In the future, the market demand for variable information printing labels will increase. For example, fresh food in supermarkets has always been a "battlefield" due to its fast circulation speed and high profits. Thermal labels have therefore had great room for development. Another example is luggage tags, supermarket price tags, storage and transportation labels, etc., which are now widely used. In some European countries with developed logistics, self-adhesive labels used for variable information printing have accounted for more than 40% of the total demand for self-adhesive labels. In China, this market has just started, and the annual per capita consumption is negligible. Foreign-funded retail giants and local private enterprises have taken becoming bigger and stronger as their future development direction. The logistics industry is an emerging industry, and many large and medium-sized cities in China hope to play the role of logistics centers. Using barcodes for production management and logistics management, barcode self-adhesive labels are the most basic needs. While more companies are tasting the benefits of barcode management, it will also bring unlimited business opportunities to the self-adhesive industry. With the rapid development of the logistics industry, the market will have a huge demand for variable information self-adhesive labels.Self-adhesive label anti-counterfeiting industryThe characteristics of self-adhesive labels have the conditions for application in the anti-counterfeiting industry. China's earliest anti-counterfeiting labels appeared in the mid-1980s, and the application fields include alcohol, food, medicine, health products, cosmetics, children's products, toys, clothing tags, shoe labels, computer software and hardware products, sporting goods, auto parts, agricultural materials, etc. The use of self-adhesive anti-counterfeiting labels on commodities has a wide market development space in China.In short, the application characteristics of self-adhesive labels can be used to regard self-adhesive labels as carriers of anti-counterfeiting information, so that its application range is wider, and labels with personalized information have a broader prospect. In particular, some policies and regulations issued by the current state (such as requiring imported products to be affixed with Chinese instructions and origin marks, etc.) provide market space for the application of self-adhesive labels and business opportunities for self-adhesive printing.The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China stipulates that meat products, dairy products, beverages, condiments, frozen foods, instant noodles, biscuits, canned foods, quick-frozen rice and flour foods, puffed foods and other foods have begun to implement the market access system, and must be affixed with the QS mark before they can leave the factory and enter the circulation field. In addition, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China also stipulates that from August 1 this year, 132 kinds of commodities in 19 categories nationwide (involving electronic, home appliances, air conditioners and other products) must implement compulsory certification (i.e. 3C certification), and stipulate that 6 specifications of self-adhesive labels should be used. Any product without the 3C compulsory certification mark is not allowed to leave the factory or enter the circulation field for sale. This regulation also provides business opportunities and markets for self-adhesive companies.Self-adhesive labels are very popular in this field, not only because they can be pasted, printed and designed, but more importantly, electronic products need to use labels to achieve some specific effects. For example, the label is strong and can work well with electrical appliances, or the label can resist corrosion from the external environment and high temperature. Often, several forms of label materials are needed in different parts of an electrical product. The huge development of the electronics industry, especially in South China and East China, has a relatively large proportion of export, and is the main area that drives the consumption of self-adhesive label materials. Like other fields, label materials used in the electronics industry generally have relatively high requirements. Many multinational companies have their own strict testing methods, such as measuring viscosity, scratch resistance, temperature resistance, etc. But generally speaking, many companies have proposed that label materials must have UL certification.At present, the combination of glue, flex, concave, convex, and screen printing equipment has pushed traditional label and trademark products to a new height; while the digital system has opened up a new market for labels and trademarks. At present, the key to the continued in-depth development of the domestic self-adhesive label printing market is not whether the industry copies the "flexographic printing" mainstream in Europe and the United States, or imitates the "embossed printing" mainstream in Japan, but how to combine the national conditions and select or combine a printing process route and corresponding equipment system with high cost performance according to the nature of the product itself. Because, under certain conditions, the quality of self-adhesive labels printed with various modern printing technologies is almost indistinguishable. The difference lies in the adaptability of the process route and the benefits of input and output.
