Aluminium

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It is safe to say that is the standard for the industry today, it is a versatile and pliant metal that when combined with heavy-duty plastics, create a great signage composite.

As well as the flexibility of the material, are a great substrate to place onto, as you can see here in the picture.

Archive for January, 2008, page 1

Dentistry Standards

A question was posed by a member of the management, and over the weekend I have had time to give it a bit of thought.

Strange question though it may be, it was one that gets you thinking and brings all sorts of different problems to mind.

Is desperation for dentists causing us as a nation to get substandard treatments from practicising professionals not from the UK?

The thing is here, none of us really like going to the dentist. I won’t use the analogy “it’s like pulling teeth” but it is close. Most of us only really go when we absolutely have to, desperation in another sense pushing us to pick up the phone or walk to the dentist’s surgery. I hate going, but two years ago I had to, had a tooth fixed and three pulled (ouch). But afterwards I felt like it was seemingly nothing, no problems whatsoever. The anaesthetic numbed any pain (thank goodness!) and it was a doddle, in and out in a few hours altogether. It felt weird having the teeth pulled though, you could “feel” the roots coming out, hear it too, but there was no pain.

And yes, it was a foreign dentist, swedish I believe. Quite good care I must say, very professional.

Does it matter whether the dentist is “english” or say, “polish,” or “lithuanian”? Are their standards lower than our own? For that matter, are our standards higher than theirs? For all we know they may have excellent dentistry standards that put ours to shame (I feel most nations’ health services, at least in dentistry, put ours to shame).

The poll’s question is – are the dentists from other nations as good as “english” dentists?

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20 Years Anniversary

2008 Jan 31

GRS Sign Company Ltd would like to thank all its various customers over the years that have helped make GRS the company it is now. It has been 20 years since the company was founded, and has grown steadily over the years to what it is, and where it is, now.

Originally starting in GRS Electrical in Northgate, Louth, it then moved to the industrial estate. From there a purpose-built building was constructed in 2004, where we are now.

Growing over the years from a one-man operation to what it is now, nearly 20 employees, there have been momentous changes in the sign and label business. Computers back then for example, were about as powerful as a calculator is now. Design was not done on a computer in the sense that we know it now.

The materials have changed quite a bit although there are some that are still used in the traditional way they were back 20 years ago (engraving laminate, labels and so on).

Here’s to another 20 years making quality signs for loyal customers!

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Newington Health Care Centre, Hospital Sign

Hospital Sign 22

Hospital Sign 22

As you might imagine, hospital signs to tend to be popular, with health programs being high on a government’s list. This particular is constructed using a framework over which sheets are placed. The go on last, with a heavy duty vinyl laminate over the top. The whole structure is held in place by large heavy-duty aluminium poles.

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“Toxic” Safety Sign Sticker

If there is ever a symbol that tells you bluntly what it means – it has to be the Toxic symbol.

GRS produces a wide range of safety sign stickers but one of the most straightforward in any language has to be the Toxic Safety Sign Sticker. The skull and crossbones tells you exactly what you need to know – warning: this area is toxic.

Most people understand that a yellow safety sign sticker is a warning, but having a skull grinning at you means some serious danger lies beyond.

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No Swimming Safety Sign Sticker

There are many different styles of safety sign sticker, but as we are nearly drowning in the UK from all the rain and bad weather we have been having, we thought that a would be appropriate to put on the blog.

Using the familiar pictorial image of a man swimming these prohibition safety sign stickers are clear to view, easy to figure out what they mean, and come in sheets of 6 (an order comprises 5 sheets).

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Competitive Pricing

To remain competitive in the business world you need to be on top of your game. Not just that though, you need to hit your target market in such a way that they look at you first for your product, and not a rival. To achieve this you need:

  • :to be able to give an efficient service
  • :to be competitively (not necessarily the lowest however) priced
  • :o ffer the best product
  • :to be able to sell your product

Simple rules to follow right? With prices rising rapidly though, that is a little bit difficult to attain and sustain.

One example is the price of postmix, recently driven upwards 40p per bag. Quite a lot really when you consider they were just over £3 a bag, so that’s a 10%+ rise in price. Should this be passed onto the customer as is or should a small amount be added to account for time, storage, use and so on?

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No Mobile Phones Safety Sign Stickers

This is more of a modern style of safety sign sticker – . As you might imagine with layer upon layer of technology these days, there are places where you can’t use mobile phones, and in fact might be asked to either shut them off or surrender them temporarily. That’s where these safety sign stickers would come in handy.

Made to look like a modern clamshell mobile phone, they are easy to understand and large enough to see at a distance (100mm x 100mm). Easy to apply, and printed in sheets of 6 (you get 5 sheets in 1 order), they are straightforward to use. See for yourself – No Mobile Phones Safety Sign Stickers.

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Fuel Prices & Plastics

2008 Jan 14

Having just written an article regarding the effect of fuel prices on the business I thought about something that very few people consider: plastics are made from oil. So, if fuel prices rise, that means oil prices are rising (at least when you talk about heating oil and petrol), which actually means that plastics prices will also be rising.

Very few people realise that plastics are created from treating oil. From our point of view, we have the following products that directly contain a plastic of one sort or another: vinyl signs, wide format print(ing) (-ed vinyls), aluminium composite signs (they contain a filler layer of plastic), and . Then, to make that worse, ALL of our products are based on those, and other products we buy in. So fuel prices have a really deep impact on our business, and probably many other businesses.

And then, there is also the printing inks we use, which are highly complex organic chemicals specially designed for their purpose to stick to a substrate, for the solvent to evaporate quickly under the influence of heat, and for their ‘staying’ power on the actual substrate once applied. These are refined from oil at the very earliest point, and altered using other refined hydrocarbons.

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