The beginning of the end. Durable Pipe red carded in Asbestos’ last Materials Cup Final

At this time of the season, when your team may be scrapping for every point, either aiming for promotion, or, God forbid, to avoid the trapdoor, all genuine supporters should spare a thought for the fall from grace of the all conquering Team Asbestos.

The rise of Asbestos was unprecedented, with regular promotions, championships and cup success. Asbestos established a formidable reputation, based on solid performance in all weather conditions. Their style was based on sound and fire proof keeping by Sound Absorption; a corrosive resistant defence (marshalled by the ever reliable Insulation); a versatile and creative midfield centred on the interplay of Linings and Coatings (with an uncanny knack of losing their markers); and a lethal combination upfront of Pipe, Trough and Roofing.

However, at the height of their power, reports started to circulate of tapes of illegal payments and rule infringements, and the hierarchy at Asbestos was labelled dangerous and poisonous, and this shook the very fabric of Asbestos. The tabloids, governing bodies and pundits turned on their former darlings. Asbestos reeled from the bad publicity leading to a loss of sponsorship contracts, diverse legal and medical claims, a failure to adapt to new rules, and a drift in support. The signs were not good, with loss of form leading to a slide down the divisions. Fair weather fans failed to tag along with their hardcore supporters, as crowd levels plummeted.

To demonstrate your duty of care, and to inform all lovers of the beautiful game of the risks associated from the fall of Asbestos, show your support by using our stickers, labels, markers, tapes, tags and signs to remind you of this former giant.

Recently, our range of high visibility, polypropylene tags have been used by a number of organisations to mark diseased trees in woodlands.

These tags are produced in 0.5mm polypropylene, a tear resistant, shatterproof plastic, which can be easily affixed by nailing or stapling. Infected tree species, suffering from ranges of bacterial or viral infections or fungal decay can be identified by using these colour coded tags.

The most popular ranges are the circular tags, particularly the 42mm diameter and 55mm diameter versions. These have been used in the Royal Parks, and by tree husbandry, tree care or arboricultural companies to identified diseased tree species including ash, oak, elm, spruce and horse chestnut.

To reinforce our position as a leading supplier of labels, signs, tapes and tags to the National Health Service, Label Source has subscribed to Peto’s online product directory. This will enable easy visual access to our range of over 15,000 standard products.

We have a lengthy tradition of supplying the NHS and the healthcare industry, not only with the standard ranges, but also we offer a custom print facility to provide print solutions, and a technical advice service to create appropriate products to suit your needs.

Label Source has supplied numerous NHS Trusts will labels and signs for medical electronics, medical physics and clinical engineering, building, facilities and estates (including environmental and traffic control), nuclear medicine, radiology, transplant services, and biochemistry.

For further information, contact Label Source by e-mail to sales@labelsource.co.uk or by telephone on 0800 3761693.

To assist our customers based outside the United Kingdom, we have introduced payments to be accepted, in both US Dollars and Euros, for online orders using most major credit cards.

By selecting the appropriate flag symbol at the top of our home page, the prices for both goods and carriage will be converted into the appropriate currency, and customers will be charged in that currency, thus avoiding any uncertainty in currency transactions.

In November 2013, the sales and distribution departments of Label Source re-located to a new site on the Treforest Industrial Estate, in Pontypridd.

This move was planned to respond to the increasing customer demands on both departments, and the space limitations at our Bedwas site prevented the necessary expansion required.

The new location enables the company to increase the stock holding capability for our standard ranges of our labels, signs, tapes and tags, as well as being able to house additional members of staff.

Our administrative office, and freephones numbers remain unchanged, but the new sales telephone office number is +00 (0) 1443 842769 , and the new sales fax number is +00 (0) 1443 844616.