Asset Labels, tags or stickers are used to identify and trace equipment in a wide range of organisations. From international companies to primary schools, asset labels are used every day. What does an asset label need? A quality asset tag will have a clear unique...
After months of speculation and teaser trailers, details of the Xbox Series X have now finally been released. The ‘next-gen’ console is twice as powerful as the Xbox One, with 8 CPU cores and 16 threads, delivered via 2 quad core units; this gives a peak 3.8 GHz...
At Custom Labels Ltd we offer hard-hat labels that can be fully customised to your specification. This means that they can be any size that you require, along with the ability to be any shape that you desire – our most popular shapes are rectangular and circular. We...
Last Thursday (12th March) Glastonbury Festival’s Emily Eavis announced the long-awaited full festival line up for 2020. She announced it via her Instagram account and as usual, all the acts were listed on a branded poster. This time though, all the names were listed...
Glastonbury Festival is one of the world biggest events and will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Over 200,000 people are expected to attend the five-day festival in Pilton, Somerset. This year’s event will take place from Wednesday 24th June to Sunday...
A Victorian candy shop in Guernsey has had its manager decide to step down following a dispute over efforts to place barcodes on the shops products. Elizabeth Lihou, who managed all aspects of the Victorian Shop and Parlour for over 10 years, described the National...
A couple of weeks ago, an interesting video turned into a viral sensation. Ei Wada, aka Crab Feet is a Japanese musician/artist who takes time to rebuild old and unwanted electronic appliances and then turns them into musical instruments. He has worked with various...
If you require a label or tag for a harsh environment but want an outstanding visual appearance, under-surface printing offers that versatility. Under-surface printing refers to printing applied to the underside of the surface of a substrate. With the right material...
George Laurer, the engineer who helped develop the barcode has died aged 94. Laurer worked as an electrical engineer with IBM in the early 1970s when he led the development of the Universal Product Code or barcode. The barcode is composed of black bars and up to a...
Pioneer project HolyGrail aims to speed up the transition to a circular economy for plastics by focusing on an important pillar to increase recycling rates, namely to improve the sorting of post-consumer packaging with the help of infrared tracers and digital codings...
We know that many of the labels we produce are applied to assets in some very testing environments for labels. That’s why Custom Labels are the obvious choice when it comes to selecting a company to help with supplying the right type of asset labels to use....
On very rare occasions, we hear from one of our customers that their labels are not adhering properly to an asset. There are several reasons this may happen, but here we’ll go through a few reasons this may occur and some quick tips on how to ensure your labels best...
First, you place your order and supply us with your design specification or appropriate artwork unless it is a repeat order. In the case of receiving art files, our Design Team must then review every supplied design file. The amount of time taken to complete this...
In a move to help boost recycled packaging the UK’s four largest supermarkets including Morrisons have announced a new labelling scheme which promotes customers to return any qualifying packaging to their store to be recycled. The new scheme uses a new labelling...
As with most of our labelling products, the unit price drops as the quantity of the order goes up. So, ordering 1,000 labels may cost you 15 pence per label dependant upon on the label size and choice of material. However, if the order quantity is increased to 3,000...
More and more these days drivers are being urged think about the journeys they take and its impact on the environment. In a move to help educate drivers on the benefits of Biofuels, the Department for Transport launched the ‘Know Your Fuel’ campaign. The scheme will...
Belfast City Airport has recently completed work on upgrades to a new luxury departure lounge. The work includes improvements to the main halls including new ergonomic furniture which is commonly seen in workspaces. Hubs have also be installed with digital device...
Nearly 50,000 school children in Glasgow are to get their own iPad to help with lessons. The project will see every pupil from primary school year 6 up to the last year of secondary school given their own device to keep, while all other pupils will have shared access...
Food is usually seen as healthy or unhealthy and good for you or bad. Many companies promote this to their advantage in the style and content of their branding and packaging. Suggesting that their products are healthy, it may be more complicated than that. Food...
The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashed into the moon during a failed landing attempt on April 11. In doing so, it may have strewn the lunar surface with thousands of dehydrated tardigrades. The Israeli spacecraft was a robotic lander. Though it didn’t...
A warehouse is such an important function for any trading business, therefore using up to date and reliable products is vital in ensuring efficient logistics. With most warehouses coming under rigorous demand, equipment and products must be able to survive this...
The smartphone repair market has enjoyed dramatic growth in previous years and even though it is not growing as much as it has, the figures continue to improve year on year. Businesses have a huge target market from all ages and genders, with a high demand – this is...
Custom Labels UK is currently producing several equipment tags for Mantech Safety Solutions which is an independent engineering company with a focus on safety systems, including access ladder systems, fall restraint and rescue, barrier systems and walkaways. Due to...
The plant hire firm Selwood has begun testing on a QR code labelling system which will be applied to each item plant equipment. The system will allow the user to scan a unique QR via a smartphone or tablet giving access to a range of supporting documents. These...
The Aerospace and Transport company Bombardier has entered an agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to sell the CRJ regional aircraft program for a reported $550 million. Under the agreement, the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will acquire maintenance, support,...
Bizarre new EU food labelling regulations have been approved by the EU parliaments agriculture committee that could see veggie alternative foods rebranded as discs, tubes and slabs in place of the traditional burger, sausage and steak. Vegan campaign groups see this...
Major building work on the passenger terminal at Jersey Airport is on course to begin in early Autumn this year. The work will include a new 30-metre zone which is needed to ensure that the terminal follows other UK airports guidelines, following a terrorist...
The hassle of looking for spare change in stores, petrol stations and many other outlets may be over – a company in Australia called NPP (New Payments Platform) are working closely with banks and merchants to provide a scan-to-pay (via a QR code) service in its...
The SGC 250 a ring-based heavy lift crane boasting a maximum lifting moment of 250,000 tonne/metres was christened ‘Big Carl’ at Sarens’ manufacturing facility in Belgium in November 2018. Once delivery of the crane has been finalised it will undertake heavy-duty...
Technology provider OAL Connected has created a working solution to read the newly implemented inline data barcodes. Tesco supermarkets has recently implemented these data embedded barcodes on all of its meat products in its Jack’s stores, with plans to introduce this...
In a UK first, Sainsbury’s supermarket is trialling new scan, pay and go technology that will allow customers in a London Clapham convenience store to pay for products in-store using their smartphone. The pilot reflects consumers’ desire for convenience, time-saving...
The food ordering company Zomato has introduced a new 100% tamper-proof packaging to add an extra layer of security to their food deliveries. The company has piloted the ‘Zomato Security Sealed’ initiative in Delhi, Mumbai and six other major cities within India....
Metallised labels are labels can be produced from metal or aluminium foil and applied to a product to provide information related to the product. Polypropylene and polyester labels with a Metallised finish are self-adhesive and are also known as Metallised labels....
In August 2017 two HP computers were sent up to the International Space Station, as part of an experiment. Three months after their intended return they have still not came back to Earth, as they were supposed to. The experiment was to test the durability of the...
School security guidance -a guide for preventing crime in schools by Greater Manchester Police, recommends the use of anti-tamper stickers. Anti-tamper stickers can already be found in many UK schools and are also known as tamper-evident stickers or ultra-destruct...
A new labelling system has been developed that is 100% accurate in analysing whether a product is fake. The system assigns individual items with a label, called a tag, that corresponds with a unique fingerprint. Many buyers may purchase a new designer watch or handbag...
Whenever you make your next purchase at a retail outlet, take a close look at the cash till. There’s a good chance is that it has a label on it with an asset number for example Asset #12345678 or something similar. And, if you were able to look at the stores managers...
The kilogram as we’ve known since 1889 has a very simple definition: It’s the mass of a platinum-iridium alloy that’s been kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sèvres, France. The weight is called the International Prototype Kilogram a.k.a. Big...
The simplest way to ensure cables can be identified as compliant will be with a CPR label. The label became a legal requirement for companies on 1st July 2017. All electrical professionals must understand and be able to quickly identify the legal product requirements...
The quality of health data is essential to providing high standards of support to patients and that quality relies on a company’s hardware assets and the health of the equipment. The NHS lose an estimated £13m every year because of stolen and lost equipment. A...
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