The Companies to Watch awards program was developed by the Edward Lowe Foundation in recognition of those companies that are enriching communities and creating jobs and opportunities for many Colorado families.

We are honored to be recognized with this distinction and look forward to serving the members of our community.

Signage is a means to an end. It is one of many technologies and processes that solve practical design problems in understanding your environment. Where am I? Where can I go? How should I feel about my environment? These are common questions that signage helps answer. As a manufacturer, we pay close attention to the challenges that designers face and the technologies and methods at that are available. This allows us to develop products and services that support the many sign companies that we work with and to enable them to support the needs of the design community.

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169 Standard Colors

Best Now offers 169 standard colors. This includes over 100 Matthews paint colors, including metallic colors - 20 standard material colors and 38 ink colors for select product raised characters and graphics. Matthews is widely recognized as the leading paint provider to the signage industry for its’ quality, stability and low impact on the environment. Using Matthews paints and color systems, Best can accurately match any PMS or custom color.

These new color charts will not be available until May, 2009. Please fill out the request below to reserve yours now.

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We’re continually optimizing our product portfolio to make our offerings easier to specify. Our new pricing system clearly defines each product or process’ matrix of choices. Each product may be configured and priced in an easy step-by-step process.

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We are pleased to announce the release of our new Graphic Blast brochure. If you are a designer or specifier, you’ll appreciate the simplicity in selecting the right Best product for your target facility based on design, performance and flexibility. Graphic Blast, our flagship product, has been widely specified in Schools, Hospitals and Public environments for more than 20 years. Although economical, there is no sacrificing design capabilities or performance. Virtually any material can be etched to reveal ada compliant raised characters and graphics with our proven, proprietary blasting process. Our Graphic Blast offering is now organized by materials including: MP, Fiberglass, Wood and other custom materials.

Please download a PDF version of our brochure today.

Green Product Benefits

Graphic Blast - Greenguard Indoor Air Quality Certified

Best Sign Systems is committed to products and manufacturing processes that address green construction requirements and contribute to a more sustainable future. Over 50% of Best Sign Systems’ sold products are composed of recycled and rapidly renewable materials. We invite you to consider our Graphic Blast MP product when specifying a LEED building.

About LEED

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System ® provides a national standard for what constitutes a “green building.”  Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, it is used as a measurable tool to improve occupant well being and environmental sustainability.

LEED Rating Systems classify entire building projects and are based on numerous categories including Sustainable Sites, Water Efficiency, and Energy & Atmosphere. Individual building materials may contribute to categories such as Materials & Resources, Environmental Quality, and Innovation & Design.  High-pressure laminates used by BEST Sign Systems can contribute to the following credits under the LEED Rating System, Version 2.1 and the LEED Rating System for Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI).

Materials and Resources:

Resource Reuse - Credit 3.1 and 3.2 (2 points possible)
Due to their durability and long life cycle, the solid phenolic laminates and high -pressure decorative laminate components can be salvaged and reused in new construction or building renovation.

Local/Regional Materials - Credit 5.1 and 5.2 (2 points possible)
Building products “manufactured” within a 500-mile radius of a project meet this requirement.  “Manufacturing” is defined as the place of final assembly.  Since the high-pressure laminates must be fabricated and/or assembled, they will likely qualify as a local/regional material.

Rapidly Renewable Materials - Credit 6 (1 point possible)
High-pressure laminates are engineered to perform successfully in component panels manufactured with rapidly renewable substrates including wheatboards and strawboards.

Indoor Environmental Quality

Low Emitting Materials - Credit 4.5 (1 point possible)
The high-pressure decorative laminates are GREENGUARD INDOOR AIR QUALITY CERTIFIED products that have demonstrated low chemical and particulate emissions.

Raw Materials

• The construction of the laminate product is composed chiefly of resin and paper products
• Raw material suppliers maximize postindustrial recycled materials in their processes.  For instance, our suppliers only use renewable forest products and are actively planting more trees than are harvested to create the paper pulp.  No rain forest timber or tropical hardwoods are used in laminate.
• In the supplied paper products, there is approximately 40% recovered paper by weight.
• Many suppliers are involved in programs to certify that their supplied products are environmentally responsible.  For instance, Westvaco (supplier of kraft paper) has been awarded the National Geographic Society’s Chairman’s Award for Resource Conservation and Education.
• Our products do not contain, nor are they manufactured with, ozone-depleting substances.

Manufacturing

• Most solid wastes that can be recycled are sold to other industries and used off site.
• Water used in manufacturing for cooling purposes is recycled.
• Heat from the incineration of laminate dust (from sanding) and the incineration of fumes released during resin treatment of paper are used to produce steam for the manufacturing plant that has substantially reduced energy use.

Best Sign Systems is now offering a free Architect’s Sample Pack of its new ada-sign product “Lucent” to Architects, Environmental Graphic Designers and other specifying or purchasing agents. The new Architect’s Pack provides a tactile “hands-on” means of experiencing and appreciating the design subtleties and quality of this highly sought after technology in a convenient marketing kit. The Architect’s Sample Pack includes a Lucent Sample and brochure with comprehensive information about the features and configuration options of the product.

To request a sample now, just fill out our convenient online form and a pack will be shipped to you within the next 10 business days.

In August, Best will debut a new feature offering complimentary samples direct from our website for Architects and Specifiers. Please stay tuned.