Why Your Labels Keep Falling Off Wood Parts and What To Do About It

Label residue left behind on cabinet parts is the #1 complaint we hear about labeling in the woodworking industry. But there's a close second... and it's the complete opposite problem.

Labels falling off.

We hear it often. 

"Our removable labels don't stick."

"Our labels are falling off and getting lost, meaning we're mixing cabinet parts up and don't know where they go."

"We're trying to use permanent labels even though we need them to remove clean."

When you're cutting and sorting hundreds or even thousands of parts per day, you can't be losing labels. Plain and simple. It's a costly issue. 

 

There are a few reasons your removable labels may not be sticking hard enough and falling off.

1. A label designed to work across dozens of different surfaces isn't necessarily optimized for the specific demands of woodworking. 

Many label providers create labels for a wide range of materials instead of specifically for your wood substrates. They have customers that are labeling glass, metal, folders, and other surfaces. The fact that their labels are used on multiple kinds of surfaces may sound like a benefit, but have you ever heard the phrase, "jack of all trades, master of none"? There's a reason why those general removable labels aren't performing flawlessly on your wood parts. The supplier didn't engineer them for the demands of your wood manufacturing plant. 

2. The label wasn't applied with enough pressure.

This one's easy. Did you press down firmly on all four corners of the label when you applied it? Pressure matters. The whole label needs to be down so that the adhesive can do its job and stay put through sorting and assembly.

3. There was sawdust or debris on the wood part where the label needs to stick. 

Labels perform best when placed on a clean surface. If your removable labels aren't sticking, check to see how clean the cabinet part was before the label was applied.

 

RiseUp Label is the answer to your labeling challenges. 

Unlike general-purpose label providers, RiseUp Label focuses specifically on the woodworking industry. That focus allowed us to engineer the RiseClean Removable Label around the real-world demands of cabinet manufacturers, closet makers, architectural millwork firms, and other woodworking operations. The RiseClean label sticks to wood and removes like it should... staying on through sorting and peeling clean when it's no longer needed! 

BONUS benefit: The RiseClean label is repositionable, meaning that if you need to remove the label and place it back down for any reason, it will stick again and still not fall off. We have one customer who told us that they needed to be able to remove and re-stick their labels a total of six times. After testing RiseClean against competitor labels, they chose to move forward with ours. 

We've even had customers report that our labels stick despite having leftover sawdust on the cabinet door. We don't recommend applying labels to dirty surfaces, but this feedback was a testament to the years we spent engineering RiseClean for the realities of woodworking environments.

Summary: If you're losing labels, you're losing money. RiseClean will stay on when it needs to and remove cleanly when you're ready. 

Get in touch with us today and let's talk labeling!