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The Current Situation of Lubricant Labels in Winter
Temperatures are plummeting and the cold air is coming on strong. Every winter, lubricant companies often face label warping, bubbles, or wrinkles, which may lead to the risk of end-user returns.
Labels are not expensive, but lubricant oil and barrels are very expensive, so a return due to a labeling problem is not worth it.
So what are the ways to effectively avoid lubricant labeling winter drop labels, and warped labeling problems?
Before further explaining the solution, let us first understand the basic situation of the lubricant industry.
Basic Situation of the Lubricant Industry
Lubricants are used in various types of automobiles, and mechanical equipment to reduce friction, protect machinery and processing parts of the liquid or semi-solid lubricants, which mainly play a role in lubrication, auxiliary cooling, rust, cleaning, sealing and buffering.
Lubricants are widely used, mainly covering the automotive industry, construction machinery and shipbuilding industry.
With the sustained growth of automobile ownership in recent years, as well as benefiting from the rapid development of the new energy automobile industry, lubricant, as a rigidly demanded product in the automobile industry, is expected to maintain its growth trend in the future.
The Challenges that Lubricant Label Faces
In the field of labeling, labels applied to lubricants are mainly divided into two major types of paper and film, coated paper material with its superior printing performance, favored by many lubricant companies.
However, lubricant drums are usually made of HDPE, which has a large coefficient of expansion and will deform with the ambient temperature.
Coated paper material due to its material itself will not be with the bottle deformation and expansion, which may lead to label wrinkles, warped labels and other issues.
Meanwhile, the adhesive does not resist low temperatures may also lead to winter label drop labeling problems. This is also one of the main reasons for the quality problems of lubricant labels in winter.
At the same time, with the popularization of automation, more and more lubricant companies are adopting the in-line hot-filling process, i.e., labeling and filling at the same time. Bottles usually expand and contract during the filling process, and paper materials that cannot expand and contract are usually not able to meet the processing requirements of the in-line hot-filling process.
Fuming Lubricant Labeling Solutions
In the face of this challenge, Fuming has a lubricant labeling solution that uses PE-based facestocks that follow the deformation of HDPE bottles well enough to meet the requirements of in-line hot-fill processes.
At the same time, with the use of S800 low-temperature adhesive, not only can realize the HDPE low surface energy surface labeling, but at the same time, the minimum labeling temperature is up to -8 ℃, the minimum use temperature is up to -30 ℃.
Even in the northern winter, it can meet most of the lubricant labeling requirements, avoiding labeling quality risks such as labeling drops.
Moreover, PE surface material and HDPE oil drum material are to meet the sustainable development of one recycling concept.
In the subsequent recycling processing link, the label can go into the recycling link together with the lubricant drum without completing the separation of the label and the drum, realizing the goal of sustainable development.
If you have any other questions or requirements abour lubricant label material, please feel free to contact us. We will get back to you as soon as possible.