The most popular pin manufacturing process used today. An excellent and less expensive alternative to Traditional Hard Enamel, Century Hard Enamel uses a resin paste to achieve an authentic, hard, glasslike appearance.
In place of enamel colors, add elegance to your pins using stamped metal to express your message with simplicity. A variety of plating, finishes and textures can be incorporated for added style and identity.
Your design is photo etched into a bronze base metal, creating thin and shallow recessed areas. Enamel colors are then injected into the areas, creating fine color-between-the-lines detail - not possible with other metal processed.
Your design is stamped into a copper base metal creating deep, recessed areas. Enamels are then injected into the areas about 3/4 full, achieving a dimensional effect of higher metal walls with your design.
An art developed over 6,000 years ago in China. Each design is stamped into metal. The recessed areas are filled with a glass paste, (in limited colors), and individually hard fired at 1,400-degree temperatures.