Knowledge of Sealing

Knowledge of Sealing

一：the concept

       Seal is the Ministry of Railways industry within the sealing of products of a kind of naming, Shi: implementation, seal: seals, closed, lock: locks.

       In fact, the most common saying is: disposable lock. As long as the use of this so-called Schwarzenegger can not be opened, only to destroy it can be, so it is applied to a very wide range of places, such as customs, electricity, etc., to prevent the second contact by others can be used in Schwarzenegger's place. Each of these seals has a number on it, so that it will not be dropped. In short, the use of the Schloss Seal is to prevent others from contacting the disposable lock.

二：Application

        The products are widely used in railway, port, aviation, post and telecommunications, electricity, petroleum, food, logistics, express transport, various types of containers, tankers and other cargo transport industry. The sealing and locking can be completed at one time, and it has the special functions of anti-counterfeiting, anti-theft, security and insurance.

三：Material

       According to different purposes of use, customers will choose different materials to produce the seal, for example: consider the use of cost factors, will choose to use pure plastic products, if the cost is not to consider the security of better, will choose steel wire seals or high security seals. Wire seals are usually made of zinc alloy or aluminium alloy with a locking head and a steel wire fixed to it. High security seals are made of A3 steel with a locking head and a locking nail, but they are not tensioned and are usually used for sealing containers or trucks. Also for example, power and water companies, they will choose a combination of plastic and fine steel wire rope for special instrument seals.

四：Colour

       The colour is customizable according to different customers for different purposes, while there is no fixed colour.

五. Printing

          Disposable seals printing: laser or stamping Company name, logo, running number, barcode, 2D code (power seals, animal ear tags).

六. Material

       Lock body: different types of products choose different materials to produce, commonly used materials are: zinc alloy, aluminium alloy, plastic, steel wire rope, copper wire.

       Wire rope: galvanised or stainless steel wire rope, the best choice for the wire rope that can be dispersed immediately after cutting.

七： Methods and steps:

1. The marking and coding of the sizing seal should be unique.

       In the process of purchasing seals, many manufacturers tend to be greedy for cheap, choose some think "cheap" products. Although the price of seals is not high, but it is a certain production costs, buy these low-priced products, will inevitably produce a lot of quality problems. In the process of the use of seals, we must pay attention to the uniqueness of the seal code, which is an important guarantee of cargo security. Each seal should have a fixed code, once the code is repeated or fuzzy situation, the safety of goods will be threatened.

2. The person who applies the seal should be stipulated, and there is a fixed person to carry out the record of the seal's code.

       The application of seals has a wide range, in the process of its use, it is likely to pass through a number of ports or terminals, therefore, it is particularly important to do a good job of record-keeping. The procedure for applying seals is very simple and once applied, the product cannot be opened. It is because of the important role and value of seals that specialised personnel should be available to apply seals to the product during its use. After sealing, there should also be a fixed person to record the code of sealing.

3. sealing the use of the process, in addition to special opening personnel, no one else can open the seal.

       The seal has a very good confidentiality function, but in some cases, the seal has to be forced to open. In the process of customs transport, the box must be inspected by customs officers to pass through customs smoothly. However, after opening the seal, the box should be applied another layer of customs seal. The purpose of applying the seal is to let the consignee know that his or her goods have been inspected by customs and are not randomly unsealed by illegal persons.