Complete packaging for apparel and fashion

Packaging challenges in apparel

For garments, packaging trims are small but numerous. One style may need a main label, a size label, a care and composition label, a hang tag, a barcode sticker and a polybag, multiplied across dozens of sizes and colours. One wrong detail, such as a misprinted size, an off barcode or a warning missing a language, and the whole batch goes back to the finishing line.

These are the problems purchasing and planning teams in garment factories meet every season:

• Labels, hang tags, bags and stickers come from different suppliers, each on its own schedule.
• Size and barcode data must match across labels, stickers and hang tags, but each supplier receives a different file.
• Shipping dates are tight; trims arriving a day late delay the whole order.
• Samples and small top-up orders are hard to place with a printer.

How HQPAK solves it

HQPAK's strength is creative technology: digital, flexo and offset printing combined with varied finishing, to handle a wide range of trim requirements and order sizes, from samples to production orders, to the quality requirements of your brand customers.

HQPAK supplies garment labels and trims as a set for each style. You send the tech pack or trim list; HQPAK cross-checks it and covers the whole set in one quotation:

• Clothing labels: fabric labels printed on satin, taffeta and cotton for main, size, and care and composition labels; woven labels when a brand needs them.
• Point-of-sale identity: hang tags printed to your design, with colours and fonts matched to the labels.
• Packing each product: polybags in PE, OPP and zipper styles, printed with suffocation warnings and style numbers.
• Identification and inspection: size stickers and barcode stickers for bags, cartons and hang tags.
• Shape and scratch protection: thin PE foam sheets as liners and inserts for garments, footwear and accessories.

Samples and small orders are printed digitally for fast turnaround; large production orders run on flexo or offset to keep cost down. Size and barcode data are cross-checked between items before the production run, which is hard to achieve when you order from several suppliers.

For fashion brands, ordering complete clothing labels and trims also keeps the brand consistent from neck label to hang tag to bag: customers recognise the brand whichever factory sewed the order.

Our 5-step process for a packaging set

1. Product survey: product type, size chart, colours, market, and your customer's label and warning requirements. Send the tech pack, design files or samples of previous trims.
2. Set proposal: a trim list for each style, with label material, hang tag specification, bags, stickers and foam liners, and a quotation within 24 hours of receiving full specifications.
3. Samples and approval: proofs or printed samples to approve colour and content, and a test scan of the barcodes.
4. Production: printed by quantity for each size and packed sorted by style, so the line can issue them easily.
5. One shipment: labels, hang tags, bags, stickers and foam liners delivered together. Standard orders ship 3-7 working days after sample approval; export shipment timing is confirmed in the quotation, and lead time for woven labels and PE foam is confirmed when the order is placed.

Why consolidate trims with one supplier

• Fewer suppliers: one contact instead of four or five, and one person following the order from start to finish.
• Consistent branding: labels, hang tags, bags and stickers share brand colours and the same size and style data.
• One shipment: trims arrive complete, so the finishing line does not wait for a missing item.
• One invoice: a single set of documents for the whole trim set, with faster reconciliation.

Serving garment factories across Vietnam and export orders

HQPAK's factory is in Pho Noi A Industrial Park (Hung Yen) and its office is in Gia Lam, Hanoi. Labels, hang tags and stickers are printed at the factory; HQPAK supplies and coordinates the other items in the same order. We serve garment factories and fashion and footwear brands across Vietnam, and export orders for international markets: we support export packing requirements, deliver across Vietnam and coordinate with your logistics provider. Send your tech pack through the quotation request form to receive a trim set proposal.

Shipping garments abroad and need cushioning and carton labels as well? See our export packaging. If your factory also makes devices or electronic accessories, see electronics packaging.