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With new student orientation quickly approaching, we often see Colleges, Universities, and High Schools sprucing up their campuses and preparing to "Welcome" new and returning students. One extremely effective way to spruce up the grounds, and facilitate school pride, is to add light pole banners. A splash of color with the college or universities logo, or this year's tag line, quickly enhances campus grounds. 

Street pole banners are a staple in many communities. They can be seen lining the streets with a holiday theme, welcoming residents and visitors to the community, or showing college pride in the area around a city or town's college campus. In this post we will look at three of the most popular reasons for displaying street pole banners.

A lot of cities and towns are marked by street pole banners that line the streets in their neighborhoods. Whether it be a seasonal or holiday theme, a way to welcome residents and visitors alike to their town, or showing high school or college pride – Kalamazoo Banner Works Banners held up by BannerFlex banner bracket hardware can be found adorning towns all over. In this post, we will discuss three popular reasons KBW street pole banners are displayed in many communities. 

In order to ensure absolute quality, BannerFlex, in 1984, decided to contract with the GM Aeronautical Laboratory in Detroit. At this high tech laboratory facility data is collected and used to guarantee that BannerFlex’s banners and banner bracket hardware and other equipment is where it needs to be in strength and durability. Since we did our first test in 1984, we have done three more tests as technology has improved and new ideas have developed. We combine the data obtained from these tests with computer modeling and the data we acquire from strength testing that is done on our manufacturing site. This compiled data has made it possible for us to create our completely unique Wind Force Calculator Program that is available on our website. 

Consort Display Group was the first banner company to design light pole brackets specifically with performance in mind. Prior to this, brackets consisted of steel pipe arms, welded to steel collars, that were then bolted to light poles. The steel would bend in the wind, collars were rarely tight enough on the varying-sized poles, and banding would often loosen during wind storms. As the BannerFlex D3 brackets became more and more popular, and the industry standard, manufacturers began to imitate the product. How can you tell the difference between the innovators and the imitators?

We're very proud to be the first company to use fiberglass arms for light pole banner mounting. Not only were we the first, we changed the industry as a whole. If you're walking down the street and look up at a vertical street banner, check out the hardware that is holding the banner on the pole, chances are it will be a white or off-white pultruded fiberglass rod. This technology, that we developed over 30 years ago, is used by almost every bracket manufacturers.

We are known for our outstanding customer service, and a big part of that is being able to answer our customer and potential customer’s questions. We have implemented a Guided Purchasing program, a Hardware Banding Guidelines Chart, as well as a live chat feature on our website in order to better serve our customers. In this post, we will go over three questions we are most frequently asked. 

There are many things to consider when deciding on proper wall mounting techniques for exterior vertical banners. You must take into account the dimensions of the banners, how high up the mounting will be, what material the wall surface is made of, and what surrounding environmental conditions could play a role in the wind load on the banner.

If you’re considering buying BannerFlex light pole banners for your next promotion or project, you have probably wished there were a way to see just what they will look like once they’re printed and installed. To better serve our customers, the BannerFlex art department will digitally edit a photo of the area where you wish to put up your light pole banners. If you didn’t know that it was an edited photo, you would think your banners were already in place! 

Our site's visitors often ask us, "What is the best option for me, screen-printed or digitally-printed banners?" While it's a great question, there is – unfortunately – no easy answer. Personally, we prefer screen-printed banners, as they offer more vibrant inks and can be applied to durable, marine acrylic fabrics. It's possible that we're biased, though, since screen-printed banners were our very first product line back in 1983 and, over the years, we've become really good at it!