Unisto Ltd

Founded as Stoffel and Co. in Horn Switzerland, in 1926, Unisto specialises in solutions that guarantee the security and authenticity of products and brands from manufacturing origin to point of sale.

An international company, Unisto has a reputation for innovative design. Close collaboration with customers and industry specialists drives the introduction of unique products in response to identified market needs, using the latest materials and technology.

Highly sophisticated manufacturing facilities backed by the design skills and applications experience of our in-house teams allow us to be flexible in meeting wide-ranging customer requirements and to offer total solutions based on quality and maximum cost-effectiveness. 

The Unisto name is a symbol of originality and authenticity around the world, assisting our clients to:

  • Clearly identify and enhance the image of their products and company
  • Protect goods, premises and sensitive equipment or information against tampering and theft 

Single Use Security Seals

Single use security seals provide a simple cost-effective and highly visible integrity check to help detect theft or contamination, indicating unauthorised access to restricted items including bags, boxes, cases, cabinets or specialist equipment (such as fire extinguishers or first aid kit boxes).

Unisto manufacture and supply single use security seals to cover all sealing applications. Security seals are produced in various materials; plastic, metal or a combination and security labels.

Unisto seals are designed with innovative tamper-evident features and can be branded for enhanced security control. Sequential numbering ensures each seal is unique. Optional barcoding provides an efficient means of data capture and supplies an audit trail for effective monitoring. 

We've just launched a new, dedicated, security seals website - https://www.security-seals.org.uk/

Single Use Security Seals

Reusable Electronic Security Seals

Originally pioneered by Encrypta Electronics, Unisto electronic seals provided the earliest effective re-usable security seals for trucks, trailers and containers. Today over 70,000 trucks, trailers and vans worldwide rely on the increased security and operational efficiency provided by our electronic seals. From our roots in transport security, we have extended our expertise to include RFID and infrared technology creating solutions to meet the needs of modern distribution and logistics operators.  

We've just launched a new, dedicated, reusable electronic security seals website - https://www.reusable-seals.org.uk

Reusable Electronic Security Seals

Name Badges

When your staff interface with customers, name badges are an essential link in your organisation's presentation. Unisto helps companies develop badges that communicate professionally and with style, leaving a lasting impression of quality.

Unisto badges come in every possible variation. Through our advanced manufacturing capabilities and design expertise, we assist our clients to create effective and stylish solutions to suit diverse needs including identification or uniform badges, conference badges, banqueting and training events, promotions and special awards badges.

With a combination of graphics and text options available, allied to an impressive range of materials and finishes, the only limit is your imagination! 

We've just launched a new, dedicated, Name Badges website, www.name-badges.org.uk

Name Badges

Brand Identification

In a competitive sales environment, effective brand identification is vital to market success. The right product labelling can help personalise and position products at point of sale.

Your brand is unique, the outward expression of a personality and a guarantee of authenticity that forms the basis of customer loyalty.

Unisto has extensive experience gained over many years in product labelling techniques and a wide knowledge of diverse retail markets ranging from haute couture and fashion accessories to high tech electrical goods.

We work in close collaboration with clients to develop individual and unique solutions that add presence and prestige, while helping to protect goods unobtrusively with the addition of modern sensor technology.
 

We've just launched a new website showcasing our Brand Identification products in more detail, please visit www.brand-tag.org.uk

Brand Identification

Brand Premiumisation

Creative and innovative brand premiumisation solutions in plastic or metal, printed or embossed with a vast variety of surface finishes to choose from.

Specialist manufacturers of high performance decoration and application solutions for the drinks industry. 

We've just launched a new, dedicated, Brand Premiumisation website, https://www.unisto.co.uk/.

Brand Premiumisation

Branded Seals & Tags

Unisto has extensive experience gained over many years in product labelling techniques and a wide knowledge of diverse retail markets ranging from haute couture and fashion accessories to high tech electrical goods.

We work in close collaboration with clients to develop individual and unique solutions that add presence and prestige, while helping to protect goods unobtrusively with the addition of modern sensor technology.  

We've just launched a new Brand Tags & Display website, please check it out at www.brand-tag.org.uk

Branded seals can be found at https://www.brand-tag.org.uk/Branded-Seals

Branded Seals & Tags

Watch Holders (C-Clips)

Unisto supply a range of watch holders, also known as c-clips, to suit all watch display purposes. Available in transparent shatter resistant plastic or plastic coated steel with a black or beige colouring, Unisto watch holders come in men's and women's sizes, vertical or horizontal orientation, and in gloss or matte finish In addition to the watch holder itself we have available a range of accessories available, such as fixing adaptors, price labelling systems, tickets and tags. 

We've just launched a new website which cover C Clips amongst other Brand Identification solutions: www.brand-tag.org.uk

The C Clip section can be seen directly at this link: https://www.brand-tag.org.uk/Watch-Holders-C-Clips/

Watch Holders (C-Clips)

Point of Sale Branding

At Unisto we produce articles that attract attention to your brand at point of sale. Having extensive experience of point of sale labelling and displays for diverse retail markets, we work with clients to develop creative solutions to add that extra something to enhance customer appeal. 

Please see our newly launched website, dedicated to branded tags and point of sale branding at www.brand-tag.org.uk

Point of Sale Branding

Decorative Seals

As an integral part of the overall product design or packaging, decorative seals not only provide a guarantee of origin and authenticity, they also add distinction and aid brand recognition.

Over many decades, Unisto has worked with some of the most celebrated and famous names in the world including Coca-Cola,
J & B Whisky and Burberry, among others.  

More information on our Decorative Seals can be found by visiting https://www.brand-tag.org.uk/Branded-Seals-and-Tags/

Decorative Seals

Seal & Swing Tickets

Unisto designs and manufactures sealing tags to assist with the management of Outsourced Manufacture Quality Assurance Systems.

Formatting larger amounts of information best suits our Seal and Swing Ticket as used by several of the UK's largest retailers. Our swing tickets are printed on tear resistant material for durability and can be supplied with logo and formatted to suit your needs.

Please see our newly launched Brand Identification website for the dedicated seal & swing ticket section: https://www.brand-tag.org.uk/Swing-Tickets/

Seal & Swing Tickets

Quality Control System Tags

Unisto designs and manufactures sealing tags to assist with the management of Outsourced Manufacture Quality Assurance Systems.

Our Large Oval Ticket Seals are the most popular of our swing ticket and tags. Available in a wide variety of colours with either aluminium or plastic bodies and fitted with white cardboard inserts that can be written on. These discs can be printed with logo or formatted to suit your needs.  

Quality Control System Tags

Food Tagging System

The tagging system uses small plastic arrow tags which are attached to the product by means of a pneumatic gun. It is ideal for use on pork, poultry and red meat. The tags are pre printed with brand and other marketing information but vital batch numbers, production or use by dates can be printed on at the time of application. The applicator guns are easy to use and only require a 6 bar compressed air supply in order to operate.

The tags are available in three different sizes

Food Tagging System

Promotional Items

From one-off events to themed promotions, Unisto is able to offer an individual service, combining creative flair and brand expertise to provide maximum impact and recall.

Every design is individual. The products shown here are just a sample of the many items we have developed for customers. The options are unlimited: in addition to standard items such as name badges, luggage tags and key fobs, with our worldwide manufacturing resources we are able to meet practically any requirement from puzzles and swizzle sticks to office accessories and novelty items.  

Promotional Items

Enamel Button Badge

Highly attractive, Unisto's enamel button badges are ideal for identifying key personnel with a designated role or special skills eg qualified first aiders, tour guides and customer advisers. 

Enamel Button Badge

Special Award/Occasion Badges

Excellence in manufacturing and a high quality finish make Unisto badges a highly sought-after item. Working with Kettering Hospital, Unisto developed a range of embossed enamel badges to reward long service, as a means of boosting staff retention by helping long-serving employees feel valued. Other applications could include commemorative badges for special occasions & professional achievement. All enamel badges can be supplied together with presentation case.     

Special Award/Occasion Badges

Lapel Pin Badges

The Unisto lapel pin, seen here as developed for the NHS, leaves a lasting impression of quality. Lapel badges provide a convenient and economic way to project a professional image whilst providing reassurance of personnel identity, especially important when dealing with members of the public.  

Lapel Pin Badges

Padlock Seals

Whether you're looking for single use plastic padlock security seals, or heavy duty tamper resistant padlocks, Unisto have a solution.

Padlock security seals are designed to ease fitting and have similar attributes to fixed length seals whilst tending to be more user friendly. 

We've just launched a new, dedicated, security seals website - https://www.security-seals.org.uk 

Padlock seals can be found at https://www.security-seals.org.uk/Padlock-Seals/

Padlock Seals

Pull Tight (Variable Length) Seals

Variable length security seals are commonly known as "pull tight seals". This offers an instruction to the user, as a loose pull tight seal provides the opportunity of tampering to the dishonest employee. Pull tight security seals should be used on applications that do not flex excessively in transit or if they do, the tension exerted is insufficient to break the seal. Choice of material is important too depending upon your application.

Recommended uses for pull tight seals: sacks, bags, cages (including roll cages), tote boxes, polling bins, IBCs, valve cabinets, ATM cassettes, pouches, first aid kits, fire extinguishers. Generally pull tight security seals should not be used on vehicle roller-shutter or barn doors as the continuous flex when the vehicle is in motion will cause a seal under tension to break. 

We've just launched a new, dedicated, security seals website - https://www.security-seals.org.uk/

Pull tight (Variable length) seals can be found at https://www.security-seals.org.uk/Variable-Length-Seals/

Pull Tight (Variable Length) Seals

Fixed Length Seals

Unisto's fixed length security seals can be used on a variety of applications and are expertly manufactured. This type of single use plastic security seal is highly tamper resistant.

A fixed length security seal is perfect for most transport applications; truck, trailers etc, where a security seal under tension on a roller shutter or barn door latch would break due to the flexing of the rear doors in transit.

One of the most important security features of a fixed length seal is that the built in weak point is situated outside the locking mechanism housing but close enough to prevent pliers being used on the strap or ribbon to prise the seal open. Another important feature is some free movement of the seal inside the housing, which demonstrates it has not been tampered and glued back in place.

We've just launched a new, dedicated, security seals website - https://www.security-seals.org.uk/

Fixed length seals can be found at https://www.security-seals.org.uk/Fixed-Length-Seals/   

Fixed Length Seals

Metal Clip Seals

Unisto's metal clip seals are used for their durability and reliability, securely sealing in conjunction with either sealing wire or even simply with string. With their unique design and strength they're suitable for unusual sealing applications where a plastic seal would fail, such aS sealing hot engine parts where a metal clip seal with wire can perform.

With easy single-hand fastening, metal clip seals can provide an effective solution for sealing utility meters, which are often found in confined spaces.

We've just launched a new, dedicated, security seals website - https://www.security-seals.org.uk/

Clip seals can be found at https://www.security-seals.org.uk/Clip-Seals/

Metal Clip Seals

Push Fit Closures

Push-fit seals and closures are generally used to secure tote boxes and drum spring clamps. Unisto offer a number of push-fit products designed to close a wide range of such applications (a few of the products can be seen below).

Unisto offers a free fitting service in the UK to ensure you choose the right seal for the tote box you are working with. 

We've just launched a new, dedicated, security seals website - https://www.security-seals.org.uk/

Push fit closures/seals can be found at https://www.security-seals.org.uk/Push-Fit-ClosuresSeals/

Push Fit Closures

Barrier Seals

Barrier security seals prevent opportunistic theft and are ideal to be used when a container of high value goods is left unattended for a period of time.

To break the security seal requires cutters or snips so the thief will need to go pre-prepared.

The best barrier security seals on the market also have some additional tamper evident features as strength alone is not sufficient.

The most common use for barrier security seals is intermodal or sea containers, sealing duty free trolleys on airlines or tobacco, liquor or ICT transport.   

We've just launched a new, dedicated, security seals website - https://www.security-seals.org.uk/

Barrier seals can be found at https://www.security-seals.org.uk/Barrier-seals

Barrier Seals

Tool Closing Seals

Single use security seals requiring a specialist tool to seal. Coupled with sealing wire and crimping pliers, the P8 & P10 seals are the perfect solution for sealing meters and valves, and an ideal environmentally sound alternative to lead seals. For the sealing of cartons, pallet, ALCs and more, the Straplock security seal system (pictured with electric tool) provides both immediate clear tamper evidence, as well as being a theft deterrent. Available now with manual and electric tool options. 

We've just launched a new, dedicated, security seals website - https://www.security-seals.org.uk/

Tool closing seals can be found at https://www.security-seals.org.uk/Tool-Closing-Seals/

Tool Closing Seals

Intermediate Bulk Container Seals

IBC's come in a variety of sizes and types, transporting many different types of goods such as powder, some food products, soap and glue.

Unisto have two seals which are ideal for the sealing of these containers, the Medio and the Compact seals. Both have a high security level, thin diameter ribbon and variable length. The high security level is indicative of the advanced tamper evident features of both seals, and upto 24kg break strength means these seals will withstand bumps and knocks in transit. Thin ribbon diameter makes them suitable for the small eyelet size available on most IBC's.

Intermediate Bulk Container Seals

Meter Seals

Unisto have many years experience in the design, manufacture and supply of meter seals for a variety of meter sealing purposes worldwide.

Gas and electricity companies use security seals in order to prevent tampering of the meters and therefore illegal extraction or, in the case of water suppliers, contamination. 

Pictured here are some of our P8 and P10 S9 security seals with a set of crimping pliers. We can supply these pliers with your own logo which stamps into the seal itself for easy and clear identification. 

We've just launched a new, dedicated, security seals website - https://www.security-seals.org.uk/

Meter seals can be found at https://www.security-seals.org.uk/Meter-Seals/

Meter Seals

Exit Security Seals

Unisto offer two emergency exit sealing solutions; one designed for public areas, one for staff areas.

Both solutions provide tamper evidence with a trackable access log system, with different levels of security depending on the application needed. 

The emergency exit padlock and sleeve is most suitable for staff areas, as it adds strength and security, and with the permanently embedded key it is still able to be opened fast in an emergency. The emergency seal and sash (pictured) was developed for public areas and is a perfect solution for push bar fire door systems. 

We've just launched a new, dedicated, security seals website - https://www.security-seals.org.uk/

Emergency exit seals can be found at https://www.security-seals.org.uk/Emergency-Exit-Seals/

Exit Security Seals

Tote Box Seals

Tote boxes come in a variety of shapes and sizes, with various closing options. Unisto offer a complete range of tote box sealing solutions for all requirements, from simply shutting the box to having a high security, tamper evident, fully auditable solution. 

We've just launched a new, dedicated, security seals website - https://www.security-seals.org.uk/

Fixed length seals can be found at https://www.security-seals.org.uk/Tote-Box-Sealing/

Tote Box Seals

Tamper Evident VOID Labels

Tamper evident labels can be used for a multitude of purposes, and come in a variety of types, and can be used for security sealing applications where a plastic seal would not be suitable - sealing retail packaging for electronic equipment, or sealing the rear doors of a van where there are no seal fixing points. 

We've just launched a new, dedicated, security seals website - https://www.security-seals.org.uk/

Security labels can be found at https://www.security-seals.org.uk/Security-Labels/

Tamper Evident VOID Labels

Cutters, Snips & Sealing Wire

Some security seals require sealing wire to seal or cutters to remove, Unisto can supply everything you need for your security sealing requirements, from safety knives to remove plastic seals, to heavy duty bolt cutters to cut the Hi-Genius bolt seals. 

We've just launched a new, dedicated, security seals website - https://www.security-seals.org.uk/

Accessories such as cutters, snips and sealing wire can be found at https://www.security-seals.org.uk/Accessories/

Cutters, Snips & Sealing Wire

Tote Boxes

We supply a range of tote boxes (attached lidded containers, ALCs) from 6 litre to 64 litre, to cover all common sizes. We have security seals and box closures to match each size, whether you require a highly tamper evident, barcoded and numbered solution, or simply a closure, we have the tote box and seal package to meet your requirements.

Tote Boxes

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