Everything You Need to Know About BOPP - Leapin' Lizard Labels

07 Jul.,2025

 

Everything You Need to Know About BOPP - Leapin' Lizard Labels

What is BOPP?

Biaxially oriented polypropylene, or BOPP, is a film stretched in both machine and transverse directions, producing molecular chain orientation in two directions. BOPP is our most common material because it holds up to almost everything. Not only is it our most popular label material, but this is also the ideal logo sticker material. It is resistant to water oils and chemicals, making it one of the best overall. You can have many different options when it comes to BOPP.

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BOPP Label & Sticker Materials Offered

WHITE BOPP

White BOPP is excellent for indoor/outdoor use. The base color is white and can be printed with any color you'd like. Add a gloss, matte, or UV laminate depending on your product's look, feel, and use. This material is rugged and long-lasting, making it ideal for Beauty Products, Beer Crowlers, Beard Oil, CBD Products, Logo Stickers, and Lip Balms.

CLEAR BOPP

Clear BOPP is a water, oil, and moisture-resistant polypropylene film. It is excellent when you want to see the underlying products. This is commonly used with toiletries, cosmetics, and candle labels.

SILVER BOPP

Silver BOPP has a brushed steel look. It is recommended for fully metallic labels.

Silver Chrome BOPP

Silver Chrome is a highly reflective, water, oil, and moisture-resistant material. This is the choice if you want a subtle touch of spot metallic* on your label. Unlike Silver BOPP, it is not recommended for fully metallic labels (see Silver BOPP above). *Printing spot metallic requires artwork designed in a vector program such as Adobe Illustrator. For more answers to questions about our materials, check out our FAQ's page.

Why use BOPP for your labels?

Why use BOPP materials for your labels? We’ve listed the key benefits below:

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  • Thin material
  • Durable and strong
  • Great Printability
  • Very Flat Material–easily applied to products of different shapes
  • Low toxicity
  • Product-resistant, oil, water, and moisture-resistant

BOPP offers a quality and professional label that will stand the test of time and your customers!

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Uses and Attributes of BOPP Films – Its Pros and its Cons

Biaxially Oriented PolyPropylene (BOPP Film) is the film that has been stretched both mechanically and also in manually using cross direction technique. Due to its advantages this film has become one of the most popular and highly demanded films all across the globe.

These are the films that have BOPP as the base material. Its unique attributes are:

  1. These films have the density nearer to 0.90 g/m and hence it renders high yield at the same cost as compared to other films viz. polyester films
  2. BOPP films have excellent gloss and high transparency that give it an excellent look and fine finish.
  3. Other polyester films are not resistant to outside pollution whereas BOPP films act as good moisture resistant barrier and have tendency to resist pollution and harmful chemicals.
  4. This film have spectrum of wide range and are easily available viz. Matte, Glossy, Silky matter etc.
  5. Excellent clarity
  6. Best dimensional stability and flatness
  7. Low electro static charge
  8. Acts as good barrier to water vapor
  9. BOPP films exert good and optimum performance on high speeding printing
  10. Apart from resistant to harmful chemicals and pollution, these films act as resistant to oils and grease
  11. Good puncture and flex crack resistance over wide range of temperatures
  12. Also BOPP films are not affected by the moisture and does not wrinkle or shrink with changes in the environment
  13. They are recyclable

BOPP films have great benefits like:

BOPP films have wide range of applications

  1. Grade F1 films are used for packing of food and their sealin
  2. Standard BOPP films are used for electrical applications, printing and lamination
  3. Text book covering
  4. Other applications includes extrusion coating, flower packing, reverse printing and lamination
  5. They are also used as adhesive tapes and pressure sensitive tapes
  6. White and opaque colored film are used for general purposes like printing pouching, cable over wrap, strip packaging for cough drops and heat sealable BOPP films are used for general purpose and over wrapping.

However BOPP lamination films have certain draw backs viz.

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