Introducing Badge Wave: Where Century-Old Expertise Meets Modern Event Solutions

We're thrilled to announce the launch of Badge Wave, a dedicated event ticketing and badge printing service powered by Soabar Label Solutions. Born from over a century of printing excellence and refined through years of delivering for some of the world's biggest events, Badge Wave represents our commitment to making high-quality event credentials accessible, affordable, and effortless for every event organiser.

Soabar Ltd has been supplying labels and associated machinery at our Whetstone, Leicester site since the 1970s, but our story begins over 100 years ago. We began serving the apparel markets in the United States, before relocating to the UK, investing in versatile equipment and seeing our reputation grow on a global scale. Over the decades since, we've expanded our expertise across numerous industries, earning recognition as one of the leading label solution suppliers for a diverse range of sectors.

This heritage matters because printing excellence isn't built overnight—it's cultivated through generations of refinement, problem-solving, and unwavering commitment to quality.

The Bobst Mouvent LB702-UV is a powerhouse digital label press that brings industrial-scale capabilities to event printing. Its UV inkjet technology delivers vibrant, pin-sharp images with exceptional colour accuracy, ensuring your branding looks exactly as intended. The instant UV curing means badges come off the press completely dry and ready for immediate finishing—crucial when you're working to tight event deadlines. With impressive printing speeds and the ability to handle variable data seamlessly, the LB702-UV excels at producing large volumes of personalised badges without sacrificing quality or consistency.

The Konica Minolta AccurioLabel 230 complements our capabilities with its remarkable versatility and precision. This digital press combines exceptional image quality with the flexibility to handle shorter runs and last-minute orders with equal efficiency. Its advanced colour management ensures consistent, accurate reproduction of brand colours across every single badge, while its ability to print on a wide range of materials gives us the flexibility to create exactly the right solution for each event's unique needs. The AccurioLabel 230's reliability means we can confidently commit to tight turnarounds, knowing we'll deliver on time, every time.

Together, these systems allow us to serve events of any size—from intimate conferences to massive international exhibitions—with the same commitment to quality and speed.

And now we’re launching Badge Wave. We're combining our 100+ years of experience in the label industry with our recent proven success and reliability in event badge printing to create something special—a dedicated platform where event organisers can come to receive high-quality badges that are printed and powered by great people who know their stuff.

Badge Wave isn't just a website or a service; it's the culmination of everything we've learned about printing excellence, customer service, and the specific demands of the events industry. It's a place built on expertise, powered by state-of-the-art technology, and driven by people who genuinely care about making your event successful.

When you order from Badge Wave, you're not just getting tickets and badges—you're partnering with a team that has spent decades perfecting the art of printing, that understands the pressure and pace of event planning, and that has the proven track record and infrastructure to deliver exceptional results, every single time.