Self-adhesive labels: new specifications

Defining the parameters for self-adhesive label production: a combined international specification for end users and suppliers. Source. Finat

A new international technical specification of self-adhesive labels (ISO DTS 18614) was published to bring new clarity to the process for ordering and specification between end users and the label supply chain. Its content benefitted from important input from the industry itself, in the form of a collaboration between the label association in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Verband der Hersteller selbstklebender Etiketten und Schmalbahnconverter (VskE), and Finat (the international label association).

Proposed by end users. The original request for such technical specifications came from major self-adhesive label end users (Ericsson and IKEA), who submitted a proposal via the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS). The proposal was accepted and an ISO project workgroup was established as a result of a Europe-wide majority vote.

Free-to-access checklist. A checklist of standards for ordering self-adhesive labels, defined in a specialist label industry workgroup involving users and suppliers and compiled by VskE and Finat, is an important part of the official technical specification.

Appendix A of Finat ISO DTS 18614 and, with Appendix C on end users’ label material specification parameters, are now within the public domain, and may be downloaded free of charge from ISO via the following link: http://standards.iso.org/iso/18614.
The complete ISO Technical Specification (ISO DTS 18614: Packaging - Label Material - Required Information for Ordering and Specifying Self-adhesive Labels) may be ordered from Beuth Verlag at [email protected].