Custom Corporate Awards Offerings
Just got back from vacation and had a potential CNCROi.com client asks me about my corporate award offerings, they asked me to send images with a price list. I told them we make things on-demand here and their price point dictates what offerings we can design and build for them… they were surprised! They told us we are the ONLY shop to ever ask them what THEY wanted instead of having them pick from countless generic awards they’ve given out in the past.
INVENTORY IS A KILLER!
I had the absolute privilege to work at Evright.com for almost two years before returning to Canada mid last year to start CNCROi.com and it really opened my eyes about the amount of stock that a company has to keep on-hand at all times to quickly and efficiently fulfill. Evright.com is a well-known Australian brand in the corporate awards and trophy business and I couldn’t have asked for a better “mentor” regarding insight in the personal recognition business.
What I quickly realized is that I do not want to be in the business of holding onto inventory, I want, instead, to be able to produce everything on-demand using our CNC equipment. This does cost a bit more money up-front as you need more tools but in the long run, the savings from not having to sit on inventory more than make-up for it. The added bonus… WE CAN DESIGN AND BUILD ANYTHING!
It’s way more satisfying to me to be able to design and build something for a client than to get a shipment from abroad, repackage it, stick it in the laser to engrave it then ship it out again.
Acrylic
Acrylic is a wonderful material, probably one of the best to use with our Trotec Speedy 400 flexx Austrian CNC laser, why is that? Well, it produces a beautiful flame polished edge and is available in endless opacities and colours. Essentially, anything you see in trophy store fronts made out of glass or acrylic, we can replicate (and make better!) and then take things one step further by further customizing the shape. We also keep a healthy amount of mirrored acrylic in our shop, it’s a wonderful material to add more WOW to an award!
Metal
We are slowly building-up a name for ourselves with our metal offerings, from stock metal tags to customized stamping solutions with powder coatings. What some clients may not realize is that we can also make corporate awards out of metal, they do cost more than acrylic ones but it’s tough to beat the esthetics and weight that metal provides. It can be something as “simple” as a metal plate annealed with contents that’s custom cut out of 1/4 inch 304 stainless steel with a few cutouts to something more elaborate with bends and curves forming a 3D metal object.
Wood
Depending on the design, wood can be mixed-in with metal and acrylic quite easily, benefiting from the strength that metal provides to the color diversity of acrylic and the easy-to-work-with wood. It’s quite incredible how much “corporate award diversity” can be created using only these three elements! The additional benefit of wood is that it can be painted in endless colors and has a nice weight to it as well.
Laminate
Next to the diversity acrylic, laminates make a wonderful addition to the right corporate award – their price point is lower than metal or some acrylics and they are wonderful for plaques and other recognition products that are both free-standing or mounted onto a wall. The advantage of laminates is that they are very lightweight, so they can be engraved and cut to your exact specifications and glued onto metal, wood or acrylic quite easily.
CNCROi.com Corporate Award Offerings
Whether you require one or thousands of custom corporate awards, CNCROi.com is here to provide to you a custom solution that will truly be something worth awarding or giving to clients or employees. We have an incredible production capacity thanks to our equipment and build knowledge, take advantage of it and give me a call so we can get the ball rolling together!
