Bringing Your Product to Life with Custom Nameplates and Branding

What is Branding?

Branding is identifying your product as yours and creating a distinct look and feel during the user experience.

Nameplates & Badging

Available in a wide variety of metals and plastics, highly durable product identification technologies are suitable for harsh environments and ideal for interior and exterior badging and logos.

Decorative Trim and Accents

Improve your product’s aesthetic with decorative trim and accents. Boyd harmonizes design intent for components or complete packages for interior or exterior formats. Achieve your product vision with our material expertise, printing techniques, and custom decorative finish options.

One-stop Shop

A multitude of nameplate options and vertically integrated capabilities enable Boyd to incorporate custom nameplates into user interfaces, enclosures, and more.

Improved Durability and Lifetimes

Leverage durable branding solutions from Boyd to help protect products from harsh usage conditions and environments.

Meet or Exceed Exacting Standards

Leverage Boyds capabilities to produce branding, signage, or decals that meet stringent requirements for automotive, aerospace or consumer applications.

Differentiate Your Product

Stand out from the competition with quality consistent, exacting parts for distinct, stand-out product identification that meet your product vision.

Custom Nameplates

Boyd’s exceptional design support, color-matching, and fabrication methods bring custom product nameplates or badging to life, visually representing your brand in a way that differentiates your company and products. Every custom-made nameplate meets each customer’s specific needs and is adapted to withstand their unique environments. Leverage our wide range of capabilities to design, manufacture, and customize nameplates and badging.

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Nameplates and Badging Product Details

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Nameplates and Badging Materials

Boyd recognizes the importance of choosing a material for your custom nameplate that lasts for years. We often use these materials:

Aluminum: Aluminum nameplates are designed with multiple finishes and are durable and scratch resistant.
Stainless steel: Stainless steel offers a strong, long-lasting nameplate option combined with multiple treatments and finishes.
Acrylic: This clear plastic is durable and withstands moderate wear-and-tear.
Polyester (Mylar): Polyester nameplates are very durable and survive extreme temperatures and chemical environments.
Polycarbonate (Lexan): Polycarbonate nameplates are heat, water, chemical, and scratch resistant. Polycarbonate is a strong, transparent plastic.

Nameplates and Badging Solutions

Nameplate options:

We consider every customer’s unique requirements and develop a custom nameplate solution tailored to their needs. Here we list some of our most popular nameplate capabilities, but it is not an exhaustive list.  With Boyd, your badging and nameplate options are endless.

Metal nameplates

Combined with three-dimensional detailing and custom inks, metal nameplates create distinct branding. Options include:

Thin domed nameplates: Lensclad technology
Domed nameplates: Magni-lens technology
Etched nameplates
Formed nameplates
Coined nameplates
Embossed nameplates
Metalphoto nameplates
Diamond carved nameplates

Plated nameplates:

Plated nameplates showcase the finest detail to accentuate textures and finishes. Options include:

2D electroform nameplates
3D electroform nameplates
ElectraGraphic nameplates

Plastic nameplates

A lighter, often more cost-effective option; plastic nameplates are growing in popularity. We have two featured product options that include:

Flat plastic nameplates: Our cost-effective, lightweight, durable and water-and-chemical resistant flat plastic nameplates are made of polycarbonate (Lexan), polyester, and acrylic with the option of screen, digital, or litho-printing. We provide an endless array of colors, halftones, brushed, matte, and different levels of glossy textures.
Injection-molded plastic nameplates: Our custom injected-molded plastic nameplates are made of polycarbonate (Lexan) and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS). You can choose from hand or robotic spray printing, engraved plastic, and hot or pad stamping. There are many colors and textures available including 3D shapes and custom textures.

Zig Zag textured aluminum nameplate finish

Woven textured aluminum nameplate finish

Hexagonal Lines and oval textured aluminum nameplate finish

aluminum nameplate textured finish black

Aluminum nameplate textured finish

gold and silver diamond textured aluminum

gold colored natural stone textured aluminum nameplate finish

brown colored natural stone textured aluminum nameplate finish

brushed textured aluminum metal nameplate finish

copper colored spin textured aluminum metal nameplate finish

Aluminum Nameplate Finishes and Textures

Aluminum nameplates are one of the most popular nameplate choices because they offer limitless options.  Aluminum nameplates incorporate embossing, die-cut shapes, screen or digital printing, and infinite custom textures and finishes. Visit the gallery to get texture and finish ideas for your next aluminum nameplate.

Electroform Nameplate Finishes and Textures

Electroform nameplates feature crisp edges, fine detail and deep relief used with or without colored inks. With nearly endless texture and finishing options, 2D and 3D electroform nameplates are a premier nameplate option for high-end branding. Scroll through the gallery to see just a few of the many 2D and 3D electroform nameplate finishes available.

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