Labeling of tubes with wrap-around labels or flag labels
The tubes in the technical industry, on vehicles or devices and plants must be labeled correctly. This way the tubes can be unambiguously assigned at a later time. For installation, repair and troubleshooting the technicians depend on the information on the tube labels. The wrap-around or flag labels stick to elastic tube material and its difficult structured surface. The wrap-around labels will be completely wrapped around the tube. They must provide high printability for the subsequent thermal transfer printing at the customer’s site. The flag labels will be placed around the tube and the long ends will be agglutinated and offer at the same time plenty of space for text, barcodes or symbols.
The main features of tube labeling
- Reliable adhesion to small and middle-sized radii and rounding
- Labels for tubes are very flexible and soft and smooth
- Wrap-around labels do not have a butterfly effect, due to high adhesive power the detaching in the edge area will be prevented
- Complete close fitting of the label to the substrate, thus no intrusion of chemicals, liquids or dirt. Also solutions for outdoor application available.
- Safe adhesion to difficult substrates like elastic materials and structured surfaces
- Also in larger formats easy to apply manually
- High adhesion to structured, low-energy and slightly oily substrates
- High abrasion resistance with suitable thermal transfer ribbons for the thermal transfer printing
- Suitable for standard-compliant labeling like e.g. UL/CSA, ATEX, FMVSS
- Plain and preprinted labels in individual formats and special forms
Functions and advantages – precisely tailored to the safe identification of tubes
The flag labels and wrap-around labels allow for a safe assignment of cables and have the load capacity of type plates. The information must be reliably placed in a small space. The wrap-around cable labels offer high flexibility in regard of material and will be individually adjusted to the customer specifications. This happens with the help of suitable special materials of leading manufacturers, individual die-cutting forms and premium adhesives. The criteria for material choice are the application temperature, flammability requirements, specifications like e.g. UL- or individual automotive standards and the place of application.
The labels can be delivered directly as required in variable amounts, by that the storage and the management of numerous labels may be reduced or dropped.
Our upscale and accurate processing with most modern die-cutting technologies guarantees the highest precision and reliability for the application of tube labels. Thus even labels with adhesives which are difficult to process can be processed mechanically very well, which increases the user efficiency in the long term.
