Polypropylene is a plastic-based material which provides many advantages over paper. It’s waterproof, weatherproof, UV resistant, tear-resistant and more durable overall than paper.
It’s perfect for months of outdoor use, harsher environmental applications or where tensile strength is important.
Polypropylene is particularly suitable for use as promotional labels for advertising outdoors, as well as product labels which need to withstand scuffs and/or possible contamination from liquids in drinks, food items, cosmetic products, oil-based products and cleaning agents.
Polypropylene is environmentally safe, and in combination with our FDA-approved toner, is safe for use on drink and food products providing that the label is placed on the outside of any external packaging. If you’ll be placing labels where food or drink might come into contact with them, or where complete food-safety is vital (i.e. children’s toys), then paper is a better solution. If in doubt, give us a call and we can advise you further.
The adhesive of our polypropylene labels will apply to most items and has a very strong adhesion, but due to its tear-resistant nature, it can be peeled off with ease without leaving any residue behind. This is in contrast to paper which is likely to rip if there’s an attempt to remove it.
Our polypropylene material has a transparent acrylic based adhesive that can withstand temperatures of -30 °C to +80 °C (up to +95 °C for short periods). Once applied the adhesive is not sensitive to humidity and features strong resistance to light, heat and aging. All of the ingredients of the adhesive comply with recommendations BfR XIV or FDA 21 CFR 175.105.