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Press Release: Custom ADA Signage at the US Bank Stadium

      

ENCOMPASS SIGNS SYSTEMS CUSTOM ADA SIGNAGE at the US BANK STADIUM – Minneapolis, MN

Golden Valley, MN – Encompass Sign Systems, Inc. manufactured 3,426 ADA-compliant and interior signs for the modernistic U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, home of the Minnesota Vikings.  Encompass was chosen to produce the contemporary sign package largely because they employ a new-age technology for sign-making that allows for unprecedented branding.  The technology is referred to by early-adopters in the design community as thermoforming or compression-molded signage.

Thermoforming technology yields a highly-durable, single-piece sign capable of incorporating brand-rich features. For the U.S. Bank Stadium project, Encompass produced a multi-layered, myriad pattern within the acrylic signage, in both purple and gold versions, to accentuate the brand of the Minnesota Vikings.  

 “Our Encompass Team has produced a number of brand-rich, interior sign packages featuring a wide variety of dimensional items such as perforated aluminum and natural grasses, however, the layered, myriad pattern we produced for the Vikings and U.S.Bank Stadium was unprecedented and ultra-cool. We were honored to have been selected to produce such a stunning sign package using our new-age thermoforming technology”. – Phil Quattrocchi, President

Encompass Sign developed their thermoforming, compression molding process after two years of trial and error to develop nine distinct products.  The US Bank Stadium project documented for the sign industry that highly-branded, thermoformed signs could be mass-produced, in a short time-frame, for a mega-sized Project like U.S. Bank Stadium.

As a wholesale company, Encompass Sign Systems partnered with national sign companies and experiential designers in 2016 to produce over 15,000 ADA signs for Healthcare, Educational, Stadium and Community environments. Encompass is slated to release two new Products in early 2017.  Encompass Sign is a member of ISA, SEGD, FASTSIGNS, ARTS Community and is WBE-certified company.

 

 

To learn more about Encompass

Contact:

Encompass Sign Systems

Isabelle Gomez

2401 Nevada Ave. N | Golden Valley MN 55427

Ph: 855-672-2201

www.EncompassSign.com   isabelleg@EncompassSign.com

 

About Encompass:

Encompass Sign Systems enables the integration of thermoformed ADA-compliant signage with European-based extruded Directional Systems. This combination of rare components yields a cohesive wayfinding system for facility projects of scope while streamlining the architectural and design challenges around integrating such a holistic solution. The ease with which architects and designers can specify an integrated wayfinding solution has led to rapid adoption of Encompass products. Encompass is one of only 23 thermoform sign-makers worldwide and is a wholesale provider to sign shops and designers throughout North America.              

Photos by: Peter McCullough Photo

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A Gold Timex to Photopolymer ADA Signage!

Thanks for your service to industry for the last 25 years. Photopolymer signs have been the predominant choice of designers for tactile ADA signage for a quarter of a century. Thankfully, at the inception of ADA legislation in the late 80’s and early 90’s photopolymer signs provided a standard process and uniform look for ADA signage. 

Without photopolymer ADA signs, designers in the 90’s would have chosen sub-standard, ineffective and random sign designs for their building environments. 

Before Beanie Babies, the World Wide Web, and before anyone understood the importance of branding…. photopolymer signs made it easier to outfit a building with ADA signs.  Even after the Japanese tsunami forced core prices to double, photopolymer signs remained the only good choice for designers. Thankfully, new technology has finally evolved. 

Thermoformed ADA signs give designers the creative latitude and durability that designers need to meet their client’s branding needs, at an appealing price point.  It’s no surprise that according to Dodge Analytics, “Thermoformed ADA signs” saw an increase of 237% in Specifications in 2016. Thermoformed signs are now universally acknowledged in Specs as an “approved equal” to photopolymer signs and that’s a big win for ADA thermoforming manufacturers. Those who really know about the differences between photopolymer ADA signs and thermoformed ADA signs are knocking clients off their feet with new ideas never available until now.

Photopolymer signs are still plenty viable.  There are over 3,000 sign-makers that still maintain their relationship with the two surviving raw material photopolymer providers. Machinery needed to produce these signs still exists and is almost free to get started; it’s the raw photopolymer material price increases to watch out for...  While Father Time and new technology may have caught up to photopolymers signs, their contribution and service to the industry over the last 25 years certainly must be treasured!   

To learn how to use this new thermoforming ADA technology and provide your design team a new design tool belt, durability and scalable branding offering, follow this link http://www.encompasssign.com/gallery/ or simply contact us 855-672-2201

Adam Halverson, Chief Strategist : adamh@encompasssign.com

About Encompass Sign Systems

Encompass Sign Systems specializes in thermoformed tactile signs and leading-edge directional and wayfinding systems. We provide designers and architects with highly scalable wholesale signage that have limitless branding capabilities and unsurpassed durability.