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Custom-engineered labels for demanding applications

CleanMark engineers labels that keep critical information attached, legible, and scannable throughout manufacturing, sterilization, storage, handling, and use.

Whether you are solving an existing labeling problem or developing a new product or process where failure is not an option, we engineer the labeling system around the complete application.

Start with your application

  1. Share your application
  2. Get expert guidance
  3. Move forward with confidence

You do not need to know the exact construction before starting the conversation.

40+ years

Application-driven label experience

ISO 9001:2015 certified

Supporting on-time, in-full, to-spec delivery

U.S.-based engineering + manufacturing

Rapid prototyping and short lead times

Experience across critical industries

Semiconductor · life sciences · medical device · industrial

The right information must stay connected to the right product

A label identifies the product, documents its history, guides how it should be handled, and helps determine what happens next.

When that information remains attached, legible, and accessible, it supports traceability, quality, regulatory compliance, inventory accuracy, automation, patient safety, and operational continuity.

When identification fails, the impact can extend far beyond the label itself—slowing production, delaying research, creating rework, interrupting traceability, and introducing uncertainty into the workflow.

Cleanroom technician handling trays of labeled vials in a controlled manufacturing environment

A label never performs in isolation

Reliable performance depends on five interconnected parts of the application. Change one, and the same label can perform differently.

CleanMark evaluates how the product, label construction, print system, application workflow, and operating environment work together so the labeling system is engineered around real conditions—not assumptions.

Diagram showing five interconnected labeling variables—product and surface, label construction, print system and data, application workflow, and environment and lifecycle—combining to produce reliable identification.

Solutions engineered around the application

Start with what the label must do, where it must perform, and what depends on it.

Proven in practice

Engineering that holds up in real applications

Different failure points. The same approach: engineer around the complete application and evaluate against the conditions that matter.

Blue-gloved technician wiping a labeled stainless-steel chamber cover during IPA cleaning

Cleanroom

Print remained legible through aggressive IPA cleaning

Challenge Heavy IPA cleaning degraded the printed information and required an additional workaround in the manufacturing process.

Engineered solution CleanMark developed and tested a direct-thermal cleanroom label with a durable print treatment designed for repeated IPA exposure.

Result

Critical information remained legible, eliminating the added process step and reducing contamination risk.

Read the cleanroom case study
TSA media bottle with an integrated autoclave indicator label and barcode

Sterilization

Product identity stayed connected through autoclave processing

Challenge Separate indicator tape created an additional application and removal step, while the media still needed to remain identifiable after the primary label was removed.

Engineered solution CleanMark integrated the autoclave indicator into the primary product label and added a permanent, color-matched identifier that remained on the container.

Result

Media identification remained intact while the separate indicator-tape application and removal steps were eliminated.

Read the autoclave case study
Frost-covered shipment container holding human serum sample tubes with a barcode label

Cold chain

Labels stayed attached through global dry-ice shipment

Challenge Labels were separating from temperature-sensitive applicators during overseas shipment packed in dry ice.

Engineered solution CleanMark developed an adhesive construction designed for dry-ice exposure, transportation, handling, and the return to room temperature.

Result

The labels remained attached throughout overseas shipment.

Read the cold-chain case study

Customer result

Faster delivery.
Better print quality.

“They fulfilled on their promise to decrease my delivery time while improving print quality.”

Ernie Schrepfer Associate Director of Quality Access Biologicals
Read the integrated gamma-label case study

Engineering insight for better labeling decisions

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