A bottle label fails in ways a carton label never meets. The bottle may arrive at the labeller cold and wet with condensation; its surface may be HDPE or PP, plastics whose low surface energy makes adhesives bead rather than spread; and the line runs fast enough that the adhesive has a fraction of a second to grab. The manufacturer's documented bottle labelling page is written for exactly this case: its stated application characteristics are fast setting on high-speed bottle lines, tolerance of cold, condensation-covered bottles (the listing names 4°C cold bottles), and wetting of low-surface-energy plastics including HDPE and PP.
Those three characteristics define the grade discussion. Fast setting protects the label position before the bottle leaves the labeller. Condensation tolerance decides whether the plant must add bottle drying or can label through the moisture film. Wetting on low-energy plastic decides whether the label edge stays down on the container's curve. A buyer comparing grades should test all three on their own bottles, at their own line speed, filled and chilled the way production actually runs — a room-temperature hand application test will pass grades that the line will reject.
What Is Documented for This Direction
The manufacturer's bottle labelling page documents this direction by behaviour rather than by a parameter table: fast setting on high-speed lines, work on cold, condensation-covered bottles (the listing names 4°C cold bottles), and wetting of low-surface-energy plastics including HDPE and PP. No viscosity, softening point or block table is published for this listing. For your quotation, send the bottle material and finish, the line speed, the cold-fill or cold-chain sequence and the label size: the grade's confirmed values come with its quotation and sample, because bottle work is the case where line conditions move the answer most.
What to Send With a Bottle Labelling Enquiry
- Bottle material and shape — HDPE, PP, PET or glass, and the label's wrap and diameter.
- Line conditions — bottles per hour, bottle temperature at labelling, and whether condensation is present.
- Label construction — face stock (paper or film), label size and the overlap or seam design.
- Service conditions — refrigeration, ice-bucket exposure, pasteurisation or hot filling after labelling.
With those four points, the grade recommendation can be specific rather than generic, and the sample can be evaluated against the conditions that actually cause failures. If the bottles also need cap sealing, the same catalogue carries a documented bottle cap grade — see the bottle cap page — and plants often source the two together.
How to Specify This Adhesive
A useful enquiry names five things: the substrate or material being bonded, the application method and equipment, the coat weight in grams per square metre where it is known, the temperature the bond must withstand in service, and the test standard your customer applies. Those five points are the same starting points the manufacturer's own customisation process uses when it opens a new formulation brief, and they let the laboratory match an existing grade before anyone talks about developing a new one.
If you are replacing an adhesive already in production, send its current grade name or a sample description — viscosity behaviour, colour and the failure you are trying to fix (edge lifting, ooze, stringing, cold failure) narrow the choice faster than a catalogue number. Samples are part of the documented route: free samples are listed on many product pages, and the freight arrangement for your sample is confirmed in the reply.
Supply, Packing and Samples
The documented minimum order on product listings is 1,000 kg, consistent with the 1-tonne minimum stated in the manufacturer's published frequently asked questions, and the documented production cycle is 7–15 days. Packing follows the listing for the grade — film-wrapped blocks are the standard form, with carton packing stated per product — and can be confirmed against your handling requirements in the quotation. Nothing on this page promises a grade's availability before the quotation confirms it for your specification.
Does the grade work on wet bottles?
The documented bottle labelling direction is characterised for cold bottles with condensation, naming 4°C cold bottles. Your own bottles and line remain the deciding test, run with a sample at production speed.
Paper or film labels for bottles?
Both are used; the family documents film label grades separately. For wet service, the face stock choice and the adhesive are decided together — describe both in the enquiry.
Is this the same adhesive as the carton label grade?
No. Bottle labelling is a documented direction of its own because of condensation and low-energy plastics; a carton grade is not a substitute.
Send the application, substrate, application method and the quantity you need — the grade, sample route and price are confirmed per product in the written quotation.
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