Australia’s First Clear Base Polymer Braille Signage Manufacturing

02-May-2011

For sign makers there’s few things more disheartening than seeing the signage you created for a client destroyed by vandals or succumbing to the weather. Now however, a new signage and Braille manufacturing method has just been introduced to Australia by Queensland based company Braille Options, that is set to change all that and make Braille and other forms of signage far more resistant to vandalism and the weather.

The system is known as Clear Base Polymer Signage. It uses photo-sensitive synthetic compound that hardens when exposed to and ultraviolet light source. The materials are available in liquid and sheet form. It has a number of applications that span a multitude of industries. The reason it is so applicable for signage and Braille systems is that it is so much more resistant to typical vandalism and natural elements. Durability, flexibility and adaptability are key traits to this new technology.

According to Braille Options stock signs are available in sizes of 150x150mm and 210x150mm in aluminium and Ultramarine Blue (or similar). These designs are also available in 180x180mm and 260x180 other sizes on order. What demonstrates the products flexibility is that it can also be produced using luminescent material.

Clear Base Polymer Braille Signage has been brought to Australia by Braille Options a company created by Jim, Val and Rick Tapscott from JRT Industries, Bundaberg Queensland, the same people who invented the Patented Braille OZ automated Braille bead inserter.