DOYLabel manufactures custom metal products for brands, promotional projects, uniforms, gifts, and fashion accessories. Our product range includes custom metal badges, commemorative coins, keychains, tie clips, cufflinks, and metal labels with OEM customization.
Popular Metal Products
- Metal brooch/hat clip
- Metal keychain
- Metal commemorative coins (single-sided/double-sided)
- Metal badges
- Tie clip/cufflinks
- Metal labels
- ID cards
Common Materials
- Iron: Stamping / Printing / Photo Etching
- Zinc alloy: Die-casting
- Bronze: Stamping / Printing / Photo Etching
- Stainless steel: Stamping / Printing / Photo Etching
- Aluminum: Printing / Photo Etching
- Lead tin alloy: Low-temperature zinc alloy spin casting
Advantages & Disadvantages of Iron
Advantages：
①: The material is cheap, suitable for badges and promotional products.
②: Convenient post-processing, simple process, can directly place magnet accessories
Disadvantages:
①: Easy to rust, not suitable for long-term storage.
②: The material is too hard, only suitable for small products, generally not more than 2 inches
③: High mold loss.
Thickness requirements:
Within 1 inch (1.2-3.0MM) / Within 1.5 inches (1.5-3.0MM)
Within 1.75 inches (1.8-3.0MM) / Within 2 inches (2.0-3.0MM)
Advantages & Disadvantages of Zinc Alloy
Advantages：
①: The product image has a wide selection, and any style, including three-dimensional, inner hole, and core pulling, can be made.
②: The material is environmentally friendly, has no edge material, and has low loss.
③: The polishing is fast, and electroplating and electrophoresis can be done.
④: The material has a low melting point of 440°, and can be molded one by one or several times according to the size of the product, with low molding cost.
Disadvantages:
①: The heat ratio is very different from that of copper, iron and nickel, so the post-processing product cannot be baked at a temperature exceeding 120°, otherwise the product will bubble and cannot be used.
②: The product is prone to water marks due to mechanical pressure and mold influence during the production process.
③: The product is easy to deform, the semi-finished product has a short shelf life and is prone to aging.
Thickness requirements:
Within 1.5 inches (not less than 1.2MM) / Within 2.25 inches (not less than 1.5MM)
Within 3 inches (not less than 1.8MM) / Within 3.5 inches (not less than 2.0MM)
Process
Filled color / Paint color
- soft enamel
- Hard enamel/Fire enamel
- Unpolished Synthetic enamel
Printing
- UV printing
- Silk screen printing
- Offset printing
- Overprinting
- Pad printing
Laser
Laser color is off-white, can be dyed black, but the cost of dyeing black is expensive and more fuzzy
Epoxy / Resin / Poly / AP (Epoxy)
The Difference Between Soft Enamel & Hard Enamel
Soft Enamel:
▶ Production process: stamping/die-casting → polishing → electroplating/electrophoresis/painting → coloring → packaging
▶ Advantages: low cost of baking paint and long storage time.
▶ Disadvantages: baking paint products are prone to dust and uneven paint, especially for products with larger areas.
Hard Enamel:
▶ Production process: stamping/die-casting → imitation enamel coloring → grinding stone polishing → electroplating → packaging
▶ Advantages: Imitation enamel products have a smooth surface and bright colors.
▶ Disadvantages: Imitation enamel products are prone to rust and oxidation
Electroplating / Electrophoresis / Painting
| Shiny | Antique | Misty/Matt/Satin | Spray paint |
| Gold/Glit | Antique Gold/Glit | Misty Gold | Pantone colors |
| Silver | Antique Silver | Misty Silver | |
| Nickel | Antique Nickel | Misty Nickel | |
| Black nickel | Gun metal | Misty Copper | |
| Brass | Antique Copper | MistyBrass | |
| Copper | Antique Brass | Misty Black Nickel | |
| Chrome | Antique tin | Misty Chrome | |
| Dye black |
