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Custom Pad Printing Services
ISO 9001:2015 Contract Pad Printing & Product Decorating Services
Why is the ISO 9001:2015 Certification Important for Pad Printing on Plastic?
Unique Assembly & Decorating is the leading provider of rigid substrate printing and custom product decorating services for plastic, glass, metal, ceramics, and wooden products. We are committed to providing the highest quality in pad printing services, screen printing, industrial digital inkjet printing, hot stamping, foil banding, and heat transfer decal decorating. Our highly trained staff will work with you to determine the best, most cost-effective printing or decorating solution for your unique project.
As an ISO 9001:2015 certified company, we provide cost-effective, contracted standard, and automated solutions. We have partnered with molders, manufacturers, distributors to take on both small and high volume projects -- producing millions of parts for a variety of industries including automotive, medical, plastic injection molders, electrical component manufacturers, CBD and cannabis components and packaging, health and beauty, and promotional items. Contact us today to learn how you can utilize our custom pad printing services and our custom product decorating services.
Explore Other Decorating Services
Our highly trained staff will work with you to find the best, most cost-effective printing or decorating solution for your unique project.
What is Colorization & Hologramming?
Unique Assembly & Decorating works closely with the collectible industry, providing coin colorization services and holographic coin decorating for US and foreign coins and medallions of precious and non-precious materials. We also provide colorization for paper currency.
What is Industrial Digital Inkjet Printing?
Unique Assembly & Decorating now offers industrial digital inkjet product decorating and printing! This cutting-edge product decorating technology is a direct-to-substrate digital inkjet process that features high precision four-color process printing plus white for plastic, glass, wood and metal substrates.
What is Laser Marking?
Laser marking is the latest product decorating option that we have added to our list of product decorating capabilities. With the decorating process, we can mark plastic, metal, and painted flat surfaces. For example, we have laser-marked painted metal keychains as a promotional item and metal bottle openers as a promotional item for the restaurant and bar industry.
What is Custom Foil Banding?
With foil banding services, we can apply a band on virtually any shaped plastic cap, closure, collar or dispenser shroud with an impressive, high-end appearing reflective metallic foil or a high gloss opaque colored foil which is not achievable with pad printing or screen printing inks.
What is Heat Transfer Decal Decorating?
A cost-effective alternative to multicolor pad printing or screen printing for plastic parts, depending on the required image size and the total quantity for the project. We can offer this service for medium, high volume and bulk orders. Heat transfer decals can be applied to many plastic materials such as polypropylene, polyethylene, PVC and acrylic.
Our precision fixtures are designed to position each part accurately, ensuring exact imprint repeatability and tight registration for multicolor jobs. These tools range from cast and poured epoxy and urethane fixtures to CNC machined aluminum fixtures.
By using laser etching, with this laser plate maker, we can create pad printing plates directly from the digital file which eliminates the film required for the traditional method of making pad printing plates.
We have in-house color matching capabilities to specific PMS colors, and we can custom color match when provided color chips or swatches. With screen printing, we can typically match any PMS or custom color regardless of the part color in one-pass.
To achieve the best results, we require vector images for most of our printing and decorating processes - pad printing, screen printing, hot stamping, and laser engraving.
For pretreating polypropylene and polyethylene parts, we have the option of plasma treating. Plasma is a gas that has the capacity to conduct electricity.
Flame treating lowers the surface tension of the plastic to allow for proper ink adhesion. We have custom-built flame treating equipment for both flat parts such as polypropylene caps for CBD products and cylindrical polyethylene bottles for the health and beauty industry.
To achieve proper ink adhesion, the printing or decorating surface must be free of all surface contaminates. Common surface contaminates are dust, mold release, and hand oils from parts being handled without gloves.
For both plastic and metal parts, post-treatment is sometimes required to achieve maximum ink adhesion. And for glass parts, post-treatment is almost always required for maximum ink adhesion.
Project Gallery
Unique Assembly is able to print or decorate nearly any rigid surface – flat or cylindrical, concave or convex, raised or recessed, and painted or coated surfaces.
Shorter Lead Times for your Industry
Our varied customer base has allowed us continuous growth and success year after year. Today, we are pleased to have active customers from a wide range of industries.
Automotive
Automotive
We have successfully taken on a variety of high-volume automotive projects - plastic parts and components for Ford, GM, and Honda, to name a few.
CBD / Cannabis Components
CBD / Cannabis Components
Unique proudly serves the cannabis and CBD packaging industries, for a variety of packaging for medicinal cannabis, CBD oils, & other products.
Medical
Medical
Unique Assembly maintains the highest level of process control and white room cleanliness to ensure the integrity of each medical device printing project.
Electrical Components
Electrical Components
We work closely with electrical component manufacturers and distributors on a variety of pad printing, screen printing and hot stamping projects.
Surface Types and Irregular Shapes
Unique Assembly is able to print or decorate nearly any rigid surface – flat or cylindrical, concave or convex, raised or recessed, and painted or coated surfaces.
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We have the capabilities to work with companies across the US and are excited to work with you on your upcoming project!
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Unique Assembly & Decorating, Inc.
2550 Wisconsin Ave,
Downers Grove, IL 60515