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Foam promotional keyrings are a fantastic marketing tool for the recreational boat industry. In fact if your company does any business at all with the marine industry foam promotional keyrings should be your first, if not only choice when designing a promotional keyring. The reason is obvious, though it bears repeating. Foam floats, and in an industry segment where most of your products are going to be used on a boat in water it makes sense to supply key chains that also float so that if a customer drops the keys overboard they will not sink to the bottom of the lake, but rather float on the surface.
There are two different foams commonly used in phone promotional keyrings, high density foam, and low-density foam. With high density foam the phone itself becomes the entire look of the promotional keyring. That is to say colored foam pieces are cut out and then glued together to form your final product. In a way home promotional keyrings produced from high density foam look a lot like craft projects that you'd see acts and art fair.
The manufacturing of this type of foam promotional keyring is very simple and can be done in three stages. First you must design your keyring and pick out the appropriate foam. This includes picking the appropriate foam colors as well as the proper foam thickness. Next the foam that you choose for your own promotional keyring will have to be cut using a machine cutter. There are many different cutting processes both using mechanical stamps and lasers and either one will work just as well.
You are now left with several layers of foam. To assemble your foam promotional keyring the manufacturer will now layer the different colored foam shapes in an appropriate order to create the final design. This sounds like a lot of steps for a promotional foam keyring; but it is actually a very quick and inexpensive process. The disadvantage here is that high density foam keyrings do not float nearly as well as their low density counterparts so they are really more decorative than functional.
Producing a low density foam keyring is also quite simple and there are only two components you need to worry about. First you must create the basic shape out of low density foam. For instance if you would like your foam promotional keyring to look like a boat you would have to cut out a boat from low-density foam. Next some sort of skin needs to be applied over the surface of the foam promotional keyring.
This skin is usually vinyl, rubber, or leather. The main advantage to this type of foam promotional keyring is that you are able to print graphics and text directly onto the material being used to cover the foam. The trade-off with low density foam keyrings is that you cannot have any sort of surface relief to give the product more visual appeal.
Foam promotional keyrings are the only option that makes sense when dealing with water or marine-based businesses; and since the materials are so robust there is little holding you back from designing any form imaginable.
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