Pressure Sensitive Labels

• Premium look: Underlines product quality
• Modern look: Outpaces old-fashioned wet-glue
• No regrets: Solutions for returnable bottles
• Low cost: Compared to direct printing
• Resistant: Even in ice water and direct sunlight
• No limits: To label design and color combinations
• No problem: Up to 15% higher operating efficiency

Specialty Printing Techniques Offered by CCL:

• Subtle and High-Gloss Metallics
• Specialty Varnishes
• Micromotion
• Specialty Substrates
• HD Printing

Digitally printed labels feature excellent print quality. Digital printing is the perfect solution for shorter quantity runs, eliminating the cost of plates, reducing lead time and minimizing waste for shorter ready-to-print times.

Flexographic PSLs are high-quality labels that have been a mainstay in the labeling industry for many years. Flexographic printing is the solution for long runs with lower ink costs and the ability to print at higher speeds.

Pharmaceutical and life science companies spend an absorbent amount of money in research and development to bring their medicines and brands to market, only to be diverted or counterfeited. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the global counterfeit market is worth approximately $461 billion or roughly 2.5% of all global trade.

Developing an effective brand protection strategy will defend against counterfeiting, diversion and obsolescence and maintain brand integrity. CCL Healthcare has protected brands for decades with custom brand security strategies and security solutions. These systems protect the integrity of brands and defend against grey market activities.

CCL is the market leader in brand protection, offering a wide range of options that includes Overt, Covert and Forensics security features, all manufactured under a cGMP process with a specialization in Track and Trace Serialization. Our customers can be assured that CCL Protects!

1. Data Generation: The first step involves generating a database of random numbers that can correspond to NDC or GTIN figures. CCL can provide this randomly generated database or accept a predefined batch of numbers.
2. Variable Printing: Individual numbers from this random database are variably printed onto each individual pharmaceutical package. CCL offers many standard and custom printing options for this unique serialized number depending on the package size, shape and material. It is imperative to synchronize the variable printing method with your distribution network’s scanning technology for compatibility. As we have become a global economy involving imports and exports on a daily basis, there has been an international initiative to harmonize standards to minimize confusion and increase efficiency. For example, the GS1 2D barcode is the most widely used form of serialization, allowing many countries to scan and read the same information.
3. Data Collection and Management: Once leaving a manufacturing facility, each serialized number is scanned and recorded at various stages throughout the supply chain life cycle, producing a digital trail. An internal data management tool tracks all movement made by collecting and recording these serialized figures during scanning, providing their specific location (GPS), time of scan and any other predefined relevant information.
4. Authentication and Brand Protection: Once implemented and synchronized, this track and trace system generates detailed product movements globally and provides a layer of anti-counterfeit and brand protection security. For example, Your distribution facility in Europe scans a pallet of pharmaceuticals manufactured in the US and discovers the serialized numbers do not match any known sets in the predefined database. This illustrates the pallet of pharmaceuticals is most likely not authentic. Your internal data management system flags an issue.
5. Report Generation: With 24/7 online access to your supply chain information via a data management tool, you can easily generate the necessary supply chain information. Confidently provide logistical data to governments worldwide for general reporting should an investigation or product recall arise. Quickly and easily identify supply chain problem areas involving counterfeiting, diversion or tampering and implement a recovery plan accordingly.

Braille can be applied to labels by means of different techniques. You can apply it on the label itself or on a carrier like clear or see-through material. Consequently, integration in design is easy and does not take additional space. We can also apply digitally transferred Braille dots onto an ECL or flat label. 

CCL Braille solutions do not require changes in existing applications or packaging technology, and labels can be applied at the usual speed. CCL can assist you with translating text to Braille dots and producing special material for proofreading.

• Compliance with the new EU Regulations
• Electronic dot count, ensuring security of image
• Up to 300-micron dot height

CCL Label can supply Braille labels for blind people, coordinating with EU regulations.

Our newly developed Braille master technique makes marking pharmaceutical labels flexible and secure for large and small quantities.