Imagine a World Where You Never Have to Paint a Park Sign Again...

Outdoor signs are, well, outdoors in the sweltering sun or freezing cold weather. Your outdoor signage needs to be tough enough to handle Mother Nature as well as teenagers (I’ll talk about graffiti in another post).

Whether the signs are for the park entrance, trail marker, or parking, your park signage has to withstand the constant exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays. Recycled plastic signs made from unprotected high density polyethylene (HDPE) will begin to breakdown with the exposure to UV rays. This results in chalking and fading of the park sign. The best way to increase the longevity of the recycled plastic signs is to protect it from damaging sunlight by having UV stabilizers incorporated throughout the HDPE board.

To protect our HDPE boards we use a hindered amine light stabilizer (HALS). It is very effective at preventing degradation of the HDPE. Another benefit of using HALS is simply the way it works because as the HALS stabilizes the high density polyethylene from UV exposure, HALS are regenerated.

Long story short...you don’t have to worry about your recycled plastic park signs fading or chalking.

Since our recycled plastic boards are made with the UV stabilizers, pigments, and raw HDPE blended together during the production process the UV stabilizers and color is consistent throughout the entire board. This means that you won’t have to worry about fading or chalking of park signs with routed words and images. (You can’t say that about routed wood signs that require scraping, sanding, painting, and sealing every spring.)

Park signs created from HDPE using the right pigments mixed with the proper UV stabilizers will last at least 50 years—that’s one less item on your annual to-do list for the rest of your career.

Park-Signs Happy Customer:

“We have put new park signs up next to signs that have been out in the field for years and haven’t seen a noticeable difference even when they are side-by-side. There is no difference in color, size, or anything. That’s even with the older sign being exposed to the elements.” Todd Younkin, deputy director, Preservation Parks of Delaware County, Ohio.