Our Commitment

Benchmark Displays’ team is committed to helping take your display project, simple or complex, from a hazy vision to practical reality. We will bring our decades of combined experience and insight together in a focused way to design, develop and produce the display solution best suited to your needs and in a form, which supports your unique image in the marketplace.

24 Hour Prototyping

At Benchmark Displays, the typical collaboration process with our customers and prospects involves a conversation about design and budget objectives, cost estimates for various options and finally an honest to goodness, hold it in your hands, prototype sample. In most cases, we have a nominal charge for this service but in all cases, we refund the cost against a subsequent order. When time is of the essence, we can have a prototype on its way to you in 24 hours.

Plastic Fabrication

Starting with flat plastic sheets, rod and tubing, Benchmark Displays can cut, shape, bend and glue plastic materials. We use, clear and colored acrylic, Plexiglas, polyethylene and PETG material. We turn these materials into a myriad of custom displays for almost any merchandising application or presentation of promotional literature.

Injection Molding and Tool Making

Small to medium size displays involving larger quantities, finer detail and complex geometries lend themselves to the advantages of lower cost and faster production cycles with injection molding. Benchmark Displays can provide a valuable start to finish assist using our worldwide resources for economic and efficient tool design and manufacture, part prototyping, production, decorating and packaging. Thermo-plastic material choices are variable, dictated by part function and appearance. We can also help in the selection of materials.

Vacuum & Thermo Forming

Vacuum forming is an entire science unto itself. For larger scale displays or those requiring weight bearing qualities, faux wood grain or other decorative finishes, vacuum forming is often an answer. Sheet material is heated to soften it, dropped down and drawn over a vacuum forming mandrel, then cut and finished to size by computerized three-dimensional routing equipment. Silkscreen printing can be applied to the finished part or applied before processing.

Die Cutting

Thinner gauge sheet plastic, corrugated or folding carton board can be cut to almost any two dimensional size and shaped using laser cut hardwood backed steel rule dies and associated die cutting machines, either hand fed or automatic.

CNC Routing

CNC or Computer Numerically Controlled routing is the longhand way of saying, “this machine is programmed and controlled digitally to perform and repeat a complex process with perfect consistency and it never calls in sick”. We use CNC for both medium and high production fabrication jobs requiring contours and shapes. Some of our routers have more than one routing head and tool changers that give them the capability of cutting, beveling and drilling parts in several consecutive passes from a single set up.

Laser Cutting

Think of a laser pointer, but 1000 times more focused and intense and you have laser cutting. We use it to cut plastic sheet material with very tight turns and complex shapes while imparting a polished edge to the material. The laser beam travels at the rate of approximately one-inch per second, so it can be more expensive than routing but the work speaks for itself.

Silk Screening

Screen-printing may be one of the oldest printing processing known and uses synthetic fabric rather than silk in today’s applications, nonetheless it remains a workhorse of the plastic fabrication and decorating industry. The process is fast, using relatively inexpensive, water based UV inks that dries immediately upon passing under the curing lamp.

Pad Printing

We use pad printing to imprint irregularly shaped objects. The printing image is transferred from a printing plate (cliché) via a soft, flexible, silicone pad onto the surface to be printed (substrate).

Digital Printing

Full color printing from digital files is a snap with ink jet printing on flat bed presses capable of handling substrates up to 2” in thickness and 8’ across. Throughput speeds are improving and toner is less expensive so costs are coming down.

Dye Transfer Printing

Film duplicates of any full-color image can be produced and physically transferred to a plastic display’s surface. We commonly use this process at our China factories when screen-printing will not suffice.

Wood Milling

Processing natural wood material no longer requires as much laborious hand work with the advent of computer controlled saws and shaping equipment. So, for a more natural effect let us find the perfect wood selection to grace your fancy display or merely protect its floor base from janitorial abuse.

Metal Fabrication

Sheet metal can be cut, bent and formed with hydraulic presses to form a finished display. Di-Bond Aluminum sheet is available in many colors for a special marketing effect. Wire in powder-coated finishes is appropriate for heavy-duty and outdoor applications.

Cardboard and Corrugated Products

Today’s earth-conscious and sustainable product focus has elevated the status of displays that can be recycled when discarded and/or are made of recycled paperboard materials. Add to this component the constantly increasing cost of petroleum based materials such as plastic and it is easy to understand the evolution of such products. Benchmark Displays has many years of experience designing and coordinating the manufacture of folding cartons, shippers and corrugated displays. Let us help you protect the environment while displaying your product to its best advantage.

Assembly and Fulfillment

In many cases, we can assemble and pre-pack your product and associated components together, then drop ship everything to your clients at a fraction of the cost to transport and handle these functions separately. Our Mexico factories are ideally suited for this purpose as hand assembly or other labor-intensive functions capture impressive savings and create a one-time shop for our customers.