Alpha Labels offers creative solutions to customer needs and provides complete services from design to printing and production of the finished product. The company offers creative solutions for the needs of your products and provides complete services, from research and design, to printing and production of the fin product.
Interview with Gerasimos Mitsouras, Technical & Operation Manager at Alpha Labels.
A brief description of the company and its activities
Gerasimos Mitsouras: At Alpha Labels we continue our successful course in the industry of production & printing of self-adhesive and non-self-adhesive labels, from roll to roll, with a sense of responsibility towards our partners.
Member of the Hellenic Association of Label Makers (ELSET), cooperating member of the international organization GS1, with a certified quality management system according to the ISO 9001:2015 standard.
Registered in the Electronic Waste Register (EMA, the electronic service of the Ministry of Environment, Energy & Climate Change that supports the registration of our activities (Facilities and Collection-Transport activities) in combination with the declaration of the waste that we manage and the permits documenting it).
With materials certified according to the sustainable forest management standard (FSC, PEFC) and low migration inks, suitable for contact with medicines and food.
Through our many years of experience, our know-how, our appropriate equipment and the variety of materials (paper, plastic, wine paper, gummed, etc.), we offer creative solutions in response to the needs of our customer products.
What are the main areas of activity of the company?
G.M: At Alpha Labels we create innovative ideas by visualizing the information that is necessary for the product.
Based on our expertise, we are able to produce pharmaceuticals labels, safety stickers, cosmetics, food, olive oil, wine, beverage labels, using printing methods and materials fully harmonized with these sensitive sectors.
From the design of the mock-up, in which your idea is realized and visually captured, to pre-printing, where the mock-up is identified with the technical and quality specifications of the final product, aiming for its excellence.
From the production of the labels, meeting all the necessary specifications, to quality control, ensuring the requirements of each product and providing all the appropriate certificates of the production process and the materials used to print them.
We are constantly looking for new challenges through interesting partnerships.
What’s the news about new products / services?
G.M: Now more than ever, it’s time for all the industrial facilities to focus on the environment.
The same applies to the label printing industry.
All the materials that are used are eco-friendly, recycled or FSC and focus on sustainability.
Most of the raw material suppliers are working on providing new linerless options, that intend to eliminate the waste material upon application, reducing the consumption of materials, fossil fuels and energy as well as lowering the related carbon emissions in the production of the raw material and across the supply chain.
Many of our customers as well, focus on minimizing the waste of their products packaging, by adding all the necessary information on the label using multiple side, booklet or peel-off labels.
What are the ranges of products/services?
G.M: Due to our years of experience, it’s safe to say that we can perform successfully on all the range of label roll products.
Our main client base is from the pharmaceutical industry, because of the high-quality system that we have created and follow, providing not only the requested final product, but also the total of services from the initial communication to the delivery of the final goods and the after sales support.
In addition to that, we provide labels for drinks, wine, olive oil, cosmetic products using a combination of digital or analog printing and screen printing, that achieves the well requested eye-catching effects that make the product to stand out.
Last but not least, we produce labels for food, beverage, logistic etc., using the suitable inks, techniques and materials that ensures the long-lasting performance of the label.
What is the state of the market where you are currently active?
G.M: As mentioned previously, our area of expertise is the pharmaceutical sector.
Greece is a country with many pharmaceutical companies, that produce and export their products all over the word.
It’s a very demanding, but constantly growing sector that we are very proud, we are a part of.
What can you tell us about market trends?
G.M: Many companies have established a “go green” philosophy and focus on environmentally friendly materials.
We receive daily many requests for recycled or FSC materials.
Also, there is a big increase in double sided, peel-off and booklet label printing that intend to maximize the use of the label on a product reducing the need for further packaging materials such as instruction document.
What are the most innovative products/services marketed?
G.M: As a part of our production equipment, we have a screen-printing label machine that has given us many awards in competitions over the years and this is our go to for innovating products.
We have performed many successful experiments using special screen-printing inks.
Some of the techniques that stand out are glow in the dark varnishes, thermochromic inks that activate on a specific temperature, sand touch varnishes, scratch off inks, relief varnish and 3D foil, that combined with the appropriate design can convert a label to a piece of art.
What estimations do you have for the rest of 2024?
G.M: Our estimations for the rest of 2024 are a steadily increase on printed label, with a big increase in tamper evident labels due to recent changes in E.U. regulations in our country.