Custom Plaques & Award Shields — Engraved to Last

Our MOQ is 50 pieces per design. For one-off retirement or memorial plaques, we also accept single custom pieces with a setup fee.

Yes. We offer variable-data laser engraving for per-piece names, dates, and messages — ideal for annual award ceremonies and team recognition.

Stainless steel or brass with a protective coating is best for outdoor and memorial use. Crystal and acrylic are suited to indoor display.

Yes, every plaque includes the appropriate wall-mount hardware or display stand, and we can package in presentation boxes.

Yes. We archive your design files and production setup, so a reorder uses the same layout, lettering and finish with no new setup fee and consistent batch-to-batch results — ideal for annual award programs and matching sets.

Design proof within 24 hours, sample in 7-10 days, and bulk production in 7-15 days. A standard order runs about 3-4 weeks; express production can start in as little as 7 days, plus 3-7 days by air or sea freight. We ship to 50+ countries with full customs documentation included.

Our factory is ISO 9001 certified and audited to BSCI and Sedex social-compliance standards. Materials are Reach and RoHS compliant, and we are an approved Disney supplier — so plaques are safe for corporate, school and public recognition programs.

Send your text, logo, and quantity through our contact page. We respond within 24 hours with a free design proof and quote.

For die-cast metal plaques we work to a minimum wall thickness of 2 mm, with a minimum relief depth of 0.4 mm and a minimum line width of 0.3 mm so fine lettering stays sharp. Crystal, acrylic and wood thickness is specified to the format you choose — send us the size and we will confirm the specification together with the matching mounting hardware.

Each plaque ships with the mounting kit that suits its format: display stands or easel backs for desk pieces, keyhole slots with screws for standard wall plaques, and standoff bolts or concealed fixings for large dedication and donor-wall panels. Tell us the wall surface when you order and we will match the fixings.

Yes. Variable-data laser engraving lets us change the name, date or serial number on each individual piece inside the same order. Send us a spreadsheet and we will typeset, proof and engrave it — no plate fee and no minimum run per name.

New customers work on T/T with a 30% deposit and 70% balance before shipment. Long-term partners can apply for Net 30 or Net 60 terms, which suits annual recognition programmes that reorder every year.

Send vector artwork in AI, EPS or PDF wherever you have it, with fonts converted to outlines plus a plain-text copy of every name, date and title so we can proof the wording. Add the overall width and height, a Pantone reference for each colour area and a note on which elements are raised, recessed or printed. If the design is not finished, a clear labelled sketch is enough to start — our design team returns a free proof within 24 hours.

Dust plated metal with a soft dry cloth and avoid abrasive pads or solvent cleaners, which strip the sealing oil applied after plating. Wipe printed faces gently, keep crystal and acrylic indoors, and check outdoor fixings once a year so the corrosion-resistant surface stays unbroken. Full care notes by material are listed above.

Die-cast zinc is the route when the logo needs real 3D relief, cut-outs or cast-in fixing points: we cast it on an 88-tonne machine at 385 C, to a 2 mm minimum wall thickness, 0.4 mm minimum relief depth and 0.3 mm minimum line width. Stamped brass gives a denser, flatter and more traditional face, but becomes difficult to press above 3 mm. Etched stainless or aluminium suits large flat panels where the wording matters more than the relief, and aluminium at 2.7 g/cm3 keeps a big donor panel light. Send the artwork and we will quote the route that holds your detail — the materials guide compares the base metals side by side.

The standard route is photo and video confirmation: we shoot the casting, plating, colour filling and reverse from several angles and you approve from those images, which is how most orders are cleared and the fastest way into mass production. If your compliance process needs a piece in hand, we can courier a physical sample instead — the sample itself takes 7-10 days and the freight is at your cost, with transit added in both directions.

Yes. We work to Pantone references, so send the code for each colour area together with a colour map that separates printed areas from enamel-filled areas and from exposed metal. Specifying the same Pantone set across your plaques, medals and pins is what keeps a recognition programme visually consistent year after year. Enamel needs area to hold — soft enamel fills from 0.3 mm and imitation hard enamel from 0.5 mm — so detail finer than that is printed rather than filled.

Plated metal leaves our line through a 9-step sequence ending in oil sealing, which is applied to gold and copper tones to slow oxidation, with tunnel-oven drying at 100 C for 40 minutes beforehand. Stainless steel and aluminium resist corrosion on their own. Enamel colour is held inside the recess rather than printed on top, and imitation hard enamel is polished flush with the metal lines, so it wears with the plaque instead of lifting off it. Compare the finishes in our plating comparison, and dust plated and filled faces with a soft dry cloth — solvents strip the sealing oil.

The MOQ of 100 pieces applies per design, so a mixed order works when each separate size, material or finish counts as its own design against that minimum. Sharing one artwork across the variants is what keeps it economical — the same logo and Pantone set on a large wall plaque and a smaller desk version, for example — because the artwork is prepared once. Separate die-cast tools are still cut for each distinct shape. Send the full list of variants with your enquiry and we will tell you which ones share tooling and which need their own.

We do not quote a fixed number of years, because outdoor life depends on the site — exposure, salt air, pollution and how often the surface is cleaned all move it. What we control is the finish the piece leaves the line with: plating runs a 9-step sequence ending in oil sealing, stainless steel and aluminium resist corrosion without a coating, and painted work is baked in two stages so the film is fully cured. Fixings are supplied with the plaque, and we match them to the wall you name when you order — masonry anchors for brick and blockwork, standoff bolts for large panels, screws for timber. Tell us the wall surface and the exposure and we will specify both together.

If the plaque itself is unchanged and only the wording moves, there is no new tooling charge: we archive your design files and production setup, and variable-data laser engraving carries no plate fee, so a reorder is quoted as the unit price plus the engraving. The name list is locked before engraving starts, because a late change costs more than a material upgrade. Where the plaque uses separate engraved plates or slip-in strips, only those parts are reordered. A change to the shape, size or material is a new tool and is quoted as a new design.

Yes. If you want to hold the material before committing, we can send a blank or generic sample piece showing the metal, plating tone, colour fill and mounting hardware you are considering — the sample itself takes 7-10 days and the courier freight is at your cost. Once your artwork is approved we make a pre-production piece of your actual design, which is confirmed from multi-angle photo and video as standard, or couriered to you where your compliance process needs a piece in hand.