Silicone Badge Information & Examples
Why Silicone?
Silicone is the prefect material for the construction of branded labels and accessories. There are a number of reasons for this:
- Environmentally safe
- Biodegradable
- Modern, high-end appearance
- Super lightweight
- Chemical, chlorine & seawater resistant
- Skin friendly
- Soft feeling
- Water repellent
- Resistant from -120°C - 250°C
- Vary in hardness from A0 to A90 Shore
- Electrical insulator
- Can be dry cleaned
- Industrial washable
- No colour bleeding
- Extremely fine detail
- Pantone matched colour
- Good colourfastness
- Transparency available in all colours
How Are Silicone Badges Made?
We can create a silicone badge to your specification using silicone, PVC and TPU. They are placed on microfibre base (suede, felt or brushed nylon) to create the perfect base to get the maximum out of the silicone giving a stunning 3D visual and textural effect.
The silicone itself in an environmentally safe, bio-degradable rubber and is certified 'Food Grade' by the Food & Drug Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The colouring dyes are PU based, which are also environmentally friendly.
They contain no heavy metals, no Azo dyes or other banned materials. It has inherent water-proof, static-proof and thermal barrier properties.
All in all they are an affordable, attractive, different and versatile way of branding any apparel from shirts to bags to shoes.
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