Our security tote boxes, otherwise known as ALC's (attached lid containers), and plug seals are the perfect solution for the secure storage and transport of many kinds of bulk items, inventory and documents for archive. Our ALC tote boxes are available in a range of colour and size options, including popular 28ltr, 43lt, 55ltr and 80ltr sizes. Our plug seals (also known as 'tote box seals', 'arrow lock seals' and 'crate seals') are available from UK stocks in multiple colours with/without security barcode numbering, or alternatively can be customised with your own information. Security tote seals are often used in the pharmaceutical sector to protect hazardous or dangerous substances, and in the retail sector for the protection and storage of merchandise.

Plastic pull-through seals (AKA "anti-tamper", "tamper-evident" or "tamperproof" seals) provide protection against unauthorised tampering of sealed enclosures. As part of the broader category of security seals, including bolt seals and metal security seals, they play a crucial role in safeguarding assets and cargo. The seal's tail 'pulls through' the locking chamber and 'pulls tight' around the enclosure; especially for sealing the neck of cash, mail or waste sacks to prevent interference. Pull-tight seals are by their nature lower strength "indicative" seals (as opposed to barrier seals which delay intrusion). A tampered indicative seal can 'indicate' interference in your supply chain, allowing you to take action.

Indicative seals suit applications such as fire extinguishers, first aid boxes and crates; all the way up to securing commercial cargo sealed behind truck and trailer doors, oil tankers and air cargo... whatever the application, Universeal has the right tamper-evident seal to suit the application. Our anti tamper seals are available in many different pull strengths & configurations, including all-in-one moulded seals, metal insert seals, tear-line and easy-break security seals.  We supply many of our tamper seals from stock sequentially numbered in popular colours, or custom printed with logos, barcoding or bespoke numbering.

Types of Security Seal    Choosing the Best Security Seal

Truck and trailer fixed-length security seals or 'ring seals' (due to the fixed loop they form when sealed) are ideal for a range of transport operations - including road and rail. Ring seals are also referred to as truck seals and trailer door seals, as their main purpose is for use as an anti-tamper security seal on HGV trailer door locking hasps and curtain sider buckles... Truck seals are also suitable as an indicative security solution for petrol / bulk food / liquid tankers and shipping containers. Our ring seals are designed to be easily applied and removed without the need for tools, as they break by hand with a sharp tug. Fixed length seals also include a range of specialised seals for sealing of attached lid containers and barrels, such as plug seals and drum seals.

Guide to truck security seals

Padlock seals (as part of the broader class of security seals) provide identification and tamper-evidence for many smaller applications, including key cabinets, airline trolleys, first aid kits and more. Their small and light-weight design, coupled for easy and quick application, makes them ideal for confined spaces such as cabinets and trolleys. Padlock security seals range from very strong metal hasp designs which require a cutting tool to remove, to easy-break UniFlex D padlock seals which can be easily removed from emergency kits/ medical cases for quick access.

Our UniPad S padlock seal is particularly suited as a key tag for use with key cabinets, which control access to keys in many industries, including car dealerships, construction sites, and property agencies. A key and a retention peg can be threaded through the metal hasp of the padlock seal, and securely sealed. This allows for secure key tracking - each key's retention peg is placed in a key cabinet, and can only be removed with a user's own identification peg.

Types of Security Seal

High-Security Container Bolt seals are the most popular type of barrier security seals for the secure transportation of shipping containers, trucks and trailers during customs movements, including the customs border between the UK and EU post-Brexit. Locktainer bolt seals are ISO17712 'H' High Security certified and C-TPAT compliant, offering the highest protection for cargo security across the world. Our barrier seals are accepted by UK, US and EU custom authorities, and are regularly retested for compliance with ISO17712 certification standards. The Locktainer 2020 bolt seal has SSTA certification and is accepted by HMRC in the UK as a Group 1 customs trader barrier seal. We can supply sequentially numbered items from our UK warehouse, or can offer you a bespoke marked barrier seal with your own organisation requirements, including company logo, bespoke numbering and/or barcoding, and bespoke colours.

Guide to Shipping Container Security.  Choosing the Best Security Seal

Cable Seals are strong, flexible tamper security seals used for sealing of trailer doors, shipping containers, air cargo containers and railcars. Metal cable seals are also used for securing plastic distribution boxes during import and export processes. Their metal wire cable construction provides increased robustness over indicative plastic seals. Cable seals are removed with cutting tools - they are therefore known as "barrier seals" which delay intrusion into sealed containers, providing a "barrier" to entry.

The Flexigrip 150M cable seal is certified by the Security Seal Testing Authority (SSTA) as an accepted HMRC customs seal, and for international shipping containers sent by sea freight, our Flexigrip 325M & Flexigrip 500M seals are ISO17712 'H' High Security Classification and C-TPAT compliant - accepted by customs agencies worldwide, including US customs. We offer the largest range of cable seals in the UK, with plastic and metal bodied seals, 1.5mm to 5mm cable diameters, custom cable lengths, bespoke security markings and up to 12 available colour shades.

Guide to Cable Seals

Metal Strip Security Seals provide a strong security solution for many logistics and haulage applications. They are stronger than plastic indicative seals, having pulling strengths between 40 and 70 KgF, and require snips/cutters to remove. Their narrow thickness are effective when used in conjunction with TIR cables around curtain-sides of truck / trailers.

Globe metal strip security seals have SSTA certification as an accepted HMRC Group 3 customs seal, ideal for cargo transiting the customs border between the UK and EU post-Brexit. Our metal strip security seals are available from our secure UK warehouse for quick despatch.

Types of Security Seal

Our range of wire security seals are the most suitable seal for meter security – for use with electricity meters, gas meters, water meters and many other industrial meter applications. We supply many types – including our ferrules, flag ferrules, lead seals, plastic meter seals, Twister seals and anchor seals – each with their own unique benefits and uses in particular applications. Our connection locks can also be used in conjunction with our meter seals to prevent access to safety-critical valves and connectors. We also supply a range of suitable sealing wire, including galvanised, stainless steel, copper and PVC-coated types, as well as sealing pliers for use with lead seals.

Clinical waste bag security seals and numbered cable ties are used to securely seal and trace bags of infectious or offensive clinical waste generated in NHS hospitals and other clinical environments. Each clinical waste seal can be custom-printed and sequentially numbered with identifiers such as hospital, ward, department or postcode information, for tracing items of clinical waste back to their source. Our clinical waste seals are available in range of colours to provide quick verification of waste stream types, and we can also accommodate special requirements such as barcoding, white write-on surfaces and bespoke packaging for your particular ward dispensing requirements. We also supply a range of other specialist security seals and asset tags suitable for niche applications within healthcare environments, such as crash trolleys, first aid kits, emergency kit bags, and patient lifting slings.

Custom printed cable ties, sometimes known as printed zip ties, are commonly used across medical, electrical and industrial applications. Our nylon printed cable ties are fully customisable with company name, sequential numbering and barcoding to suit your requirements, and are an ideal solution for the sealing and identification of clinical waste bags, moveable assets and equipment. We custom print popular 4.8mm width x 200mm, 300mm and 370mm lengths in a range of upto eight colours. We also supply a wide range of plain and specialist cable ties, from small miniature 100x2.5mm to heavy-duty 1030x12.7mm sizes, commonly used used for electrical wire bundling and asset identification. Cable ties are available in many colours and suitable for many industries. 

Our range of equipment inspection and maintenance tags, ties, labels and security seals provide comprehensive tagging solutions for many sectors, including pipeline construction, oil & gas offshore industries, as well as general industrial and construction environments. Our product range comprises highly-durable 500 micron polypropylene tags, lighter-weight 200 micron PET tags, flexible cable and marker tie tags, rubberised/shatterproof periodic inspection tags, easy-access equipment and kit inspection seals, as well as heavy-duty plastic and metal security seals.

Our tags can be used for a wide variety of inspection, maintenance, warning, lock-out, isolation and returns procedures in a wide of industrial, manufacturing and construction settings. They are used to identify a range of equipment including valves, flanges, drains, slings, shackles, gas cylinder tanks and other equipment. They are ideal for periodic inspection tagging of plant and equipment to ensure appropriate safety and inspection regimes are maintained - ensuring compliance with Health and Safety legislation, including LOLER, PUWER and Working at Height regulations. Our rubberised inspection tags are also well suited to identify Safe Working Loads (SWL's), next inspection dates and expiration periods for all types of safety-critical lifting equipment, including lifting shackles, slings, safety nets, safety valves and so on.

We provide a range of metal detectable cable ties and tags suitable for use in the food industry, as well pharmaceuticals. Our range of metal, plastic and paper identification ties and tags are detectable by conventional metal detection systems, and are manufactured to be food-safe, using food-contact approved materials under relevant FDA and EU Regulations. Ties and tags can either be supplied plain, or can be printed or hand-written with important information to improve operational efficiencies within the food industry.

Our range of asset labels are available in many materials to suit your asset identification requirements, ranging from inexpensive vinyl and polypropylene options, to more durable over-laminated 3M polyester and anodised aluminium asset labels for harsh environments. Asset labels are available in many sizes, colour and customisation options, allowing you to identify and keep track of all manner of equipment, moveable property (e.g. laptops), industrial components and parts. All of our asset labels are manufactured and customised in the UK for your quick delivery.

Our security envelopes, pouches and bags are available in both single-use and re-useable variations. Single use security bags are manufactured in polythene, with platinum tamper-evident adhesive seal, printed with sequential numbering and with a tear-off receipt for control - a full guide to our customised security bags is available here. Our re-usable secure mail bags and pouches are manufactured in durable PVC and incorporate a number of tamper-evident features to ensure the secure transportation of high-value or confidential contents. The use of tamper-evident seals to lock the zip ensures the integrity of the contents as well as well acting as a deterrent to unauthorised access.

Security bags have a wide range of uses, including as secure mailing bags (for the sending of sensitive or confidential documents, such as examination papers); cash deposit and transport bags (AKA cash-in-transit bags), evidence bags for police and forensic use, and many other applications. Secure, tamperproof bags and envelopes reduce the risk of transporting many types of valuables; for example, providing an additional layer of security as a courier security bag. They can also be used for controlled storage of personal possessions, for example, for event security or prisoner property.

Our secure transport packaging products help to provide safe and secure transit of your goods, ensuring that valuable cargo arrives at its destination in pristine condition free from damage which can be caused in international freight movements. Our wide range of solutions can provide cargo protection across many types of consignments, including secure transit and shipment of individual items such as clothing garments, parcels, crates, pallets, tote boxes and shipping containers. This includes protection from exposure to moisture with our container desiccant bags; protection from mishandling with our shock and tilt indicator labels; well as the supply of dunnage bags which help to keep cargo securely stowed in shipping containers and HGV trailers.

Our security tote boxes, otherwise known as ALC's (attached lid containers), and plug seals are the perfect solution for the secure storage and transport of many kinds of bulk items, inventory and documents for archive. Our ALC tote boxes are available in a range of colour and size options, including popular 28ltr, 43lt, 55ltr and 80ltr sizes. Our plug seals (also known as 'tote box seals', 'arrow lock seals' and 'crate seals') are available from UK stocks in multiple colours with/without security barcode numbering, or alternatively can be customised with your own information. Security tote seals are often used in the pharmaceutical sector to protect hazardous or dangerous substances, and in the retail sector for the protection and storage of merchandise.