Industry solution

Labels for Food Marking that carries from the batch to the shelf

From the jar on the shelf through counter weighing to the pallet in cold storage: in the food industry every label carries a batch identity and mandatory information. We manufacture to your specification and transfer your approved data faithfully into print.

Bottles on a filling line in food production
Continuous forms with sprocket margins

Labels and printed documents

What gets marked in the food industry

From the retail jar to the pallet, and the right document for every batch.

Packaging and product labels
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Packaging and product labels

For jars, bottles, cups, trays and cartons. Mandatory information, nutrition values and allergens are reproduced faithfully from your approved layout. Which material conformity is required depends on contact type and filling.

Weight, price and best-before labels
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Weight, price and best-before labels

For meat, cheese, bakery and variable retail goods. Direct thermal at the scale, with changing weight, price and date. At the service counter these labels often run linerless, without a backing web, and are applied straight onto the butcher's bag. Moisture and refrigeration decide readability.

Cold chain and deep freeze labels
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Cold chain and deep freeze labels

For frozen packaging, chilled containers, trays and bags. Whether a construction holds in the freezer depends on substrate, condensation and the moment of application. We sample on the actual packaging.

Batch and production labels
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Batch and production labels

For raw material containers, intermediates, retained samples and finished goods. Variable batch and status data from your system, printed in your production sequence.

SSCC and pallet labels
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SSCC and pallet labels

For shipping, mixed and logistics units to the GS1 specification of your trading partner. We grade the code to ISO/IEC 15416 and hand over the measurement report.

HACCP and production records
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HACCP and production records

Batch records, CCP control sheets, temperature and cleaning logs, allergen releases and hold tags. As numbered single sheets, continuous sets or carbonless sets to your template.

Matching products

Products for the food industry

What we produce for this industry, sorted by product area. Each card leads to the product page with materials and versions.

Technical basis

What we discuss before choosing the material

A material recommendation without packaging, filling, temperature profile and contact type is guesswork. We clarify these four points with you.

Substrate
  • Glass, PET, board and flexible films each take adhesive differently
  • Condensation on chilled packaging decides whether clean application is possible at all
  • On reusable containers what matters is what may remain of the label after washing
Contact and conformity
  • Direct and indirect food contact are two different cases with different evidence
  • The declaration of conformity applies to the material and article, not to every construction
  • Fat, oil and moisture are tested on the actual filling rather than on the data sheet
Temperature
  • Application and service temperature are two different values, and both belong in the specification
  • For chilled and frozen goods there are material codes rated from −25 °C application to −60 °C service
  • Pasteurising, hot filling and blast freezing each stress the construction differently
Readability in retail
  • The trading partner sets the grade for the code, not the printer
  • Moisture, frost and film creases are the most common causes of read failures
  • We grade printed codes to ISO/IEC 15416 and hand over the measurement report

Mandatory information

How your data reaches the label

Responsibility for recipe, allergens and mandatory information stays with the food business operator. What we take on is the faithful transfer of your approved data into print and code.

  • Mandatory information and allergens reproduced faithfully from your approved layout
  • Batch, best-before and SSCC data from number range management and master data
  • Repeat orders with a documented material code and a recorded layout version
More mandatory text on a small area.. Pull the corner, like a multi-layer label on a jar.. Ingredients and nutrition in several languages. The label area stays small. Open and close again

hummel360°

When the problem is not the label but the process before it

Recipe, batch and trade data already sit in your ERP, PIM or MES. With hummel360° we map how they turn into ordering, print data and traceable processes. Built around your production, not off the shelf.

Diagram of the hummel360° process chain with ordering, production, stock, shipping, users and reporting
  • Call up approved layouts under control

    Articles, markets and language versions sit in a protected ordering workflow, and every site sees only what is approved for it. You decide who may do what.

  • Batch data without retyping

    Batch, best-before and SSCC arrive as a file or through an interface and become print data by rule. Mapping your fields is set up in the project.

  • Stock per plant and warehouse in view

    Reorder levels, alerts and a complete movement journal show what is where and when to reorder. Postings are made by scanning a barcode with a phone.

Quality you can verify

Our certifications & partnerships

  • EcoVadisSilver rating · Top 15% (September 2026)
  • ClimatePartnerClimate contribution available per order
  • ISO 9001Quality management
  • ISO 14001:2015Environmental management (QAS International) · Certificate no. GMEN1114
  • VskE memberlabels association
  • FSC® C006747Responsible forestry
  • EN 16247-1Energy audit

Let us talk about your marking

Send us the packaging, filling, temperature profile and contact type, and we will sample the matching construction.

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