Aluminium Badges & Stainless Steel Nameplates

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Our aluminium badges & stainless steel nameplates are one of Diametric's most popular products and we have a number of exclusive finishes and surface treatments to increase the visual impact of your brand. Aluminium badges and labels are ideal for commercial nameplates, instrument panels, rating panels and product badges.

Stainless Steel Badges

Stainless Steel is a tough and durable material and ideal for harsh environments i.e. marine, automotive, oil and gas or simply for its durable and solid appearance. It can be chemically etched, machine engraved, paint in-filled, screen printed, punched and machined and we can work to gauges from 0.10mm to 3.0mm thick.

We have spent time developing 3D nameplates made of aluminium by using advanced etching and embossing techniques to make sure our products are the best solutions on the market. We can also add a protective Tuffcoat lacquer that is often seen on automotive emblems. For a really detailed, quality finish we use bright plated diamond cutting and/or printed colours to raised areas of a die-cast badge.  

Here are a number of features of our aluminium badges and stainless steel nameplates:

• We can fix badges using mechanical or self-adhesive fixings.
• We can use standard dye colours for anodising or colour matched inks for embossed badges. We can sequentially number each nameplate.
• Stainless Steel can have a number of decorative surface finishes including brushed, spun, matt or polished and can be used for tread plates, front panels, identification plates and plaques etc.

Aluminium Badge Process

Aluminium is such a versatile material to work with and can be adapted to so many applications. Our aluminium nameplates are produced by printing dye-based inks onto a porous surface of high purity aluminium. We then seal this beneath a hard anodic layer, which produces a durable matt or gloss finish.

We can enhance our nameplates using our unique Alu-Etch process. This form of etching aluminium creates a pleasing contrast between the slightly raised gloss areas and the etched matt areas.

To improve the visual impact even more we can silkscreen printed inks onto the aluminium and add embossed detail to the nameplate. For full 3D nameplates we use Die Cast metal badges, which are created by injecting molten alloy into a steel female cavity tool.