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Fabrico Mattress Law Tags
Provide Security for Both
Manufacturer and Consumer
Fabrico, the leader in design and manufacturing services for flexible materials and advanced assembly,
now offers laser and thermal transfer printable law tag solutions for the mattress manufacturing
industry. Fabrico’s skilled design engineers can choose the best label material for their application, cut
it into the proper shape, and allow OEMs to use their own office laser or thermal transfer printers to
make their law tags, or Fabrico can create the desired label from start to finish.
Printed law tags provide critical information
for mattress manufacturers and consumers
What is a Mattress Law Tag?
The purpose of the law tag is to inform the consumer of the hidden contents, or “filling materials” inside
bedding & furniture products. Today’s consumers have become quite familiar with the sight of law tags
attached to their mattresses, pillows and other household items and most of them will never question
these products designed to inform and protect them. However, manufacturers know they must attach a
durable, legible tag or run afoul of the law, risking costly penalties and manufacturing delays.
Fabrico Offers High Strength Thermal
Transfer Print Law Tag Labels
Fabrico produces both laser and thermal transfer printable law tags. For manufacturers requiring
thermal transfer printable tags, Fabrico offers a Polylith® synthetic tag that provides an excellent product
choice for sew-in law label applications. Polylith® synthetic material combines the durability of plastic
with excellent printability making them far stronger and more durable than conventional paper. These
Fabrico produces both
laser and thermal transfer
print style labels for use
as mattress law tags.
Law tags are necessary
to meet compliance
regulations for mattress
calendared, matte-finished products are calcium carbonate-filled for extra whiteness and increased opacity.
production and Fabrico
With its smooth finish, thermal transfer print quality outperforms many competing products. This
can fabricate these labels to
attribute helps eliminate bar code scan failures (and corresponding retailer penalties), increasing
efficiencies and reducing costs. High resolution bar codes with crisp graphics and fonts are no problem
for this tag. Ease of sewing ensures existing manufacturing equipment will be compatible with
this material, while high tear strength and print durability give peace of mind that tags will remain
attached and legible throughout processing and delivery to the consumer. With a competitive price that
complements its exceptional performance, Fabrico Polylith® synthetic tags offer a superb value
for law label applications.
meet the most demanding
production requirements
Fabrico Laser Printable Law Tags
Provide Convenience and Durability
Selecting the Right Converter
Laser printable law tags for mattresses or other bedding are produced from a
specific requirements, select the best materials and adhesives, and choose the
substrate of laser print compatible material stock that have sufficient tear resistance to
label type, such as pressure-sensitive, that works best for their application and
comply with requirements for a law tags on bedding. These labels must work well in
environment. With the proper combination of those factors, markings and labels can
automatic sewing machine production, offer good press printability, and perforation
last for decades even in the harshest conditions, such as chemical exposure, oily or
capabilities. Laser law tag labels can be printed on two types of unique material – an
slick surfaces, and wet or humid conditions. Through the use of Fabrico’s extensive
uncoated paper/film/paper construction or a cloth-like latex saturated nylon. The
printing and labeling experience, customers can ensure their markings and labels will
uncoated paper/film/paper construction is highly durable and delivers the toughness
have high bonding strength and durability on a variety of surfaces, including metals,
of a synthetic sheet with the benefit of an uncoated paper printing surface. The latex
inert plastic, epoxy, ceramic, etc. With more than 30 years of materials experience,
saturated nylon material provides a cloth-like feel, offers exceptional edge tear, tensile
Fabrico engineers understand the impact a material selection can have on the
and bursting strength, and can be grommeted and sewn. Both of these materials
overall manufacturing process, therefore, material systems are designed to optimize
have superior folding endurance, the water and tear resistance properties of synthetic
production efficiency and improve overall cost-effectiveness.
Fabrico offers their design engineering expertise to help customers determine the
paper, and print with the ease of conventional paper.
Law Tag Printing and
Processing Techniques
Typically, the tags are perforated, cut into sheets, and sent to the mattress
manufacturer for laser printing. Once printed, the sheets are then separated along
their perforations, bar codes on the work tabs are separated from the sheets and
scanned, and finally the law tags are sewn onto mattresses. Fabrico can perforate the
sheets into any desired format and even add color “stripes” to indicate a day of the
week, shift or customer.
Quality Control
With a fully equipped test lab, Fabrico ensures that customer materials meet
About Fabrico
designed-in specs before they leave the factory floor, often eliminating the need
Fabrico is the market leader in design and manufacturing services for flexible materials.
to test materials on the customer end. Fabrico uses its laboratory to test adhesion,
Fabrico has developed a track record of solving unique challenges and providing
tensile, and dielectric strengths, as well as coat weight, resistance, capacitance, and
sound customer solutions. The company offers a wide range of custom fabrication
voltage measurements. Fabrico’s test and measurement equipment is calibrated
services including product engineering, material sourcing, prototyping, converting,
annually per the ISO standard.
laminating, complex printing, custom die-cutting, rotary die-cutting, water jet cutting,
laser cutting, assembly, and performance packaging. Fabrico’s Advanced Assembly
capabilities apply design-for-manufacturing principles to complex, high-value
projects in demanding markets that include electrical/electronics, medical, military/
aerospace, power generation, renewable energy, and transportation. Fabrico is located
in Kennesaw, GA, USA and is a division of EIS. More information is available at www.
fabrico.com or by calling (800)-351-8273. Fabrico is a trademark of EIS, Inc.
Headquarters
4175 Royal Drive, Suite 800 • Kennesaw, GA 30144
Phone: 844-FABRICO • Fax: 678-202-2702
Toll Free: 800-351-8273 • E-mail: info@fabrico.com
www.fabrico.com
Fabrico is a trademark of EIS, Inc. 3M is a trademark of 3M Company.