Laser Marking: Plastic Placards and Tags
Great for electrical panels and other factory equipment.
We use our CO2 laser and RowMark acrylic to produce many sizes of faceplate plates and placards to go on the face of electrical and mechanical enclosures/devices. RowMark is a brand of acrylic material that is very familiar to most people. This material is seen far and widely used for door nameplates and badges.
The factory environment is extremely hard on originally installed sheet and plastic signage. Over the years, the safety and running instructions often get worn or fall off of the equipment and need replacing. Hence, these types of tags are made by the hundreds to be used on electrical panels and other factory equipment.
Examples of our past work include:
- Putting a quality laser mark on plastic tags for a residential power panel for a local electrician.
- Replacing the identification tags on motors used in military vehicles
- Assisting an entrepreneur who needed faceplates for an electronics enclosure targeted at the music industry.
- Fiber lasering black permanent markings into the translucent material of a colored pushbutton.
- Marking hundreds of labels for electrical installations in cruise ships.
- Reverse engraving and paint filling nameplates for an industrial boiler manufacturer.
Additionally, these types of tags can be made on reverse engraved materials to protect their readability from the dirt and chemicals that are typically present in a manufacturing facility.
Laser Marking: Anodized and Bare Aluminum
Contrast marks on enclosures up to 32" x 20" x 13"
The largest percentage of our time is spent making contrast marks on either bare or anodized aluminum. Small or large faceplates (up to 30”x20”) or small to medium enclosures (typically no larger than 12”x18”x6”, though accommodations can be made for up to 32”x20”x13”.
A CO2 laser makes a silver to white mark on the surface of colored or clear anodized aluminum, either type 2 or type 3.
Examples of our past work includes:
- Providing a quality mark for an archery equipment supplier. The mark was placed on a piece of custom-machined aluminum.
- Marking 500 parts for a machine shop that was working with the restaurant industry.
- Supporting a fabricator who needed marks on Type 3 anodized faceplates for an enclosure that held medical laser components.
- A small entrepreneur sent us 1000 pieces to brand for their high-end art installation effort.
- An instrument marking effort for a dental equipment manufacturer.
- Marking equipment enclosures for the aviation industry.
- Marking thousands of heat sinks of various sizes for circuit boards.
Laser Marking: Stainless Steel
Parts, Enclosures, Placards and Tags
Stainless steel parts, enclosures, placards, and faceplates are a few of several areas we focus on for engraving services.
Examples of our past work include:
- Adding parts numbers and serialization to stainless steel plates for a fabricator.
- Laser Marking 1,000 stainless steel tags for an industrial installation.
- A diesel engine manufacturer who ordered 12 stainless steel plates for instrument boards, all of which needed a quality mark.
- Putting a mark on hundreds of vibration monitor plates for a bagging machine sold by a food industry equipment manufacturer.
- Adding a mark to thousands of stainless steel plates for an Oregon brewery manufacturer.
- Marking stainless steel doors (16 inches by 16 inches) for the precision measurement equipment industry.
- Part numbering for an aircraft manufacturer.
- Marking thousands of fabrication pieces for a hydraulic line manufacturer.
We have local material suppliers that can produce custom size pieces with proper hole positions. We then use either our Fiber laser to make a contrasting mark that penetrates the surface .001-.002” or our Co2 laser using a spray-on chemical (CerMark) to produce a more surface but slightly blacker mark. We have used both processes for placards which are then placed in unclean areas such as diesel engines, breweries, or medical conditions.