Acetone-activated aluminium asset tags

The adhesive on the back of the tag is inert when it arrives. You wipe it with acetone at the moment of application, which activates it, and it then bonds into the surface and cures permanently. Until you apply the acetone, the tags can be handled, sorted and stored without any risk of them sticking to anything.

Not intact. That is the entire point of the product. It can be destroyed with a blade and solvent, leaving obvious damage, but it cannot be lifted and re-applied elsewhere. If you need a tag that comes off cleanly at end of life, use self-adhesive instead.

It can. Acetone affects some painted, lacquered and plastic finishes, and this is the one genuine drawback of the product. Always test on an inconspicuous area first, we include test tags in every order specifically for this. On bare or powder-coated metal, anodised surfaces and most engineered polymers there is no issue.

We supply applicators and written application instructions with every order. Acetone itself is widely available locally and inexpensive, and shipping it is more trouble than it is worth. On orders above 1,000 tags we will train your team on site at no charge.

The tag holds immediately on pressing, but allow the full cure before the asset is moved, handled roughly or cleaned. We supply the exact cure time for your order with the application instructions, since it varies slightly with surface and ambient conditions.

KSh 60 against KSh 50 at the 39 × 13 mm base size, and KSh 9.50 per cm² against KSh 8.00 above that. The adhesive system itself costs more, and the tags require different handling in production. For a 1,000-tag order at 50 × 20 mm the difference is KSh 15,000, worth it on high-value assets, arguably not on classroom chairs.

You can, easily. It is a four-step process and takes seconds per tag once someone has done ten. The written instructions cover it, and for larger orders we train your team. Most organisations that buy tags only, without our tagging service, apply them in-house without difficulty.

High-value equipment, anything on an audited register, theft-prone assets, vehicles, and anything where losing the tag means losing the asset's identity permanently. For low-value indoor furniture in a controlled office, standard self-adhesive is adequate and cheaper.

On most engineered polymers, yes. On soft, flexible or low-surface-energy plastics, polypropylene and polyethylene in particular, adhesion is less reliable and acetone may craze the surface. Test first, and if the result is poor use a polyester tag or a riveted tag on a metal part of the same asset.

Yes, and we often recommend it. A single specification across a whole organisation usually means overspending on the furniture or underspending on the plant. Tell us the split and we produce both in one run with continuous numbering across the whole sequence.