Lapel Pins

According to historical records, the word enamel comes from the ancient Chinese Tang Dynasty when the names fu Lin. Cloisonné appears sound is made after the turn blue, then the enamel pins.
Now the industry often says that the enamel lapel pins, and the original nature of the enamel is quite different. In today’s high-tech advanced society, modern enamel colors modulation, providing people with a different color visual senses. Enamel lapel pins are high-grade lapel pin.
Enamel lapel pins production process is as follows:
1, the pattern: According to the drawings, production mold, the mold is now mostly machine carving, because it is fully automatic machine carved, carved out of animals, portraits, landscapes, vivid, vivid, three-dimensional effect for the increase in lapel pin a lot of luster.
2, system of embryos: The moment a good mold, the pressing need for the copper embryos, are generally made with a copper billet. Sometimes also necessary, well need to use silver soldering parts, such as safety pins or needle puncture what horse, and then acid, then the next step.
3, point paint: According to lapel pin design drawings, prepared a good colorful paint, the thickness generally higher than the metal frame, and then into the hot oven for baking, so the paint has fully cured, up to certain hardness.
4, polished: General with metallographic grinding wheel, polished surface of the paint, as well as the entire metal frame all exposed, all smooth painted surfaces, if acts of injustice, need to re-point paint and baking, grind, to the next phase of the process.
5, polishing: First rough polishing, further fine polishing, paraffin and other lubrication in which the added material, so that the surface smooth and delicate, polished good product, smooth surface like a mirror, crystal refined, highly ornamental.
6, gold-plated: finish good product, and then after pickling, plating can be carried out, and plating can be described as colorful. Plating a good product, after fresh water to clean, dry and you’re done. 
After more than a few procedure, a carefully worked out, ethereal, beautiful and unique cloisonne pins are displayed in your eyes, and bring you not just the visual impact, even more so with a sense of achievement to watch an art.
Enamel lapel pins are popular till today, because of its complicated production process, product availability and collection of or namental, has excellent reputation, the higher the required places and products, will use the enamel process.

Shanghai really a lot of large and small, lapel pin factory, and they also started from the production of metal lapel pins .he so-called metal lapel pins includes a variety of lapel pins, medals, and coin and so on. Saying this custom lapel pins production is the Late Qing Dynasty from the West into China.
20 In the early 20th century, some cloisonné artists in Beijing and Tianjin to Shanghai for the production of cloisonné lapel pins to make a living, which are more representative to Shanghai earlier artists Huashan Feng, 1920 and studied the inn Street (now near Fang Bang Zhong Road in the vicinity ) to open new factory BAUER lapel pins. This time, the Shanghai part of the artist carved in silver jewelry industry shift lapel pins. To 1925, Shanghai has become Sentai lapel pins workshops, and other big benefit 8, are mainly hand-made, poorly equipped, low yields. In 1926, Choi Sang bronze factory staff is carefully studying and soon mastered the technique of metal Die struck version, and improved, making the lapel pins are cheap and much better than by hand, gradually in the market place. 1932 Shanghai production facility has 18 lapel pinss. In the same year, developed by the Electric Factory Huaxing lapel pins lapel pins engraved painting success, not only reduces production costs, and expanded use. Until the eve of the founding of the city more than 90 factories producing lapel pins, within the same industry according to the different products and processes into steel, blank, enamel and spray paint electric carving Group 4.
In July 1950, after the Association of reconstruction, lapel pins factory develop to 135, and in more than other cities. The early 50s, the industry has to undertake the liberation of the Northeast, the arrival of victory and the Korean War medal, People’s Liberation Army, “August 1″ lapel pins, as well as advanced, model workers, and many other tasks medal. High tide of socialist transformation in 1956, the Shanghai center lapel pins industry plant located 17, 1959 Joint lapel pins factory in Shanghai exclusive lapel pins of professional plant production, plant in technical innovation, the development of the aluminum oxide filled paint process to succeed, Lapel pins substantial increase in output, costs. .
“Cultural Revolution” period, the Shanghai United lapel pins factory to produce mainly of Chairman Mao lapel pins. Be stopped production in 1970.
August 1972, re-renamed and resume production. 1977, lapel pins be need more with the national development of sports and tourism, various mass organizations and professional groups
But in the 80′s, a significant decline in domestic metal lapel pins Xuqiu order to adapt to market changes, Shanghai lapel pins factory has imported advanced tooling, stamping equipment and surface treatment for the lapel pins of high saturation, high transparent resin infusion of new technology PV to improve the product grade lapel pinss. One from the factory with new equipment, new technology made of metal medal, medals preferred, was designated as one of the National Medal of production.
Until today, making Shanghai lapel pins factory is still a major manufacturer of high quality lapel pins one, and led the development and progress of the entire industry.

At present, Shanghai, kunshan and taicang ,have many lapel pins factory,long-term demand for the world supply.

Cloisonné (often called hard enamel) – first choice  for custom lapel pins
Cloisonné lapel pins is used the traditional Chinese cloisonné pin making process. Since most of the pins (so I hear) is manufactured in China, in a sense, this lapel pin of the production process, only to come to their place of origin system for the elections.
The main characteristics of cloisonné brooch vibrant color, smooth surface. If cloisonné add the Epoxy on the surface, then add a layer, pins will be more dazzling, but also as a general crystal jewelry. Such pins are really superb in Need. But because the color enamel material is limited, so now the market is generally used instead of color paste liquid enamel imitation enamel material, do the effects come out with cloisonné is the same. 
soft enamel – Runner-up
If you do not have the first process, then soft enamel is a very good choice, and it  use is very extensive. This pin is very strong three-dimensional surface is uneven, sunken Department is filled Pantone pigment to highlight the protruding wire, make pins more sense contours. 
die struck – third
The first two of these pins and insignia do not need to enter the main difference is the color material. Convex or a fine metal wire, concave groove Department of the original coloring is used in place of discharge or frosted effect. Make them look neater. Many highly collectible pins are to do with stamping out, but usually gold or silver material like.
Silkscreen printing – Cheapest option
Usually your economic budget not too high, or more complex designs will choose this process. This process is like the same photos printed on pin logo to the surface, for the protection of designs will add a layer of transparent resin, pin slight muster.
All in all there are several types of pins, select the types of processes entirely up to you. Of course, you can also go to those professional lapel pins site up for reference, choose the most appropriate emblem.

Custom lapel pins are useful for raising social awareness and understanding of business performance, And it often trading in minor league baseball and softball games . A little pin have a variety of different styles at the material, price, color, craft , but be sure will use it in many places.
The pin is a high quality cloisonné pin. According to this type of pin designs to produce the first mold, out of rough metal, enamel powder particle material filled cavities, baked at high temperatures to ensure that colors do not penetrate each other, the final manual polishing and electroplating. As the complexity of the production process, so cloisonné pin is the most expensive type of pin for the business community, it is highly collectible, with very little in the sports world.
Imitation enamel’s surface looks like the cloisonné, but it is more affordable alternative, the production is carried out with the imitation enamel color paste into color. Produced imitation enamel , you can add a layer of its surface, transparent resin, that is epoxy, to protect the patterns and colors, and more durable. Such pin  is often used in sport. 
Soft enamel is die stamping out metal material blank, and then one by one by hand coloring, (Pantone color). These pins are very bright colors, the surface is uneven. 
Photo etched production system in the single-plate (making film negatives) in the corrosion solution in the corrosion of the metal plate designs, this article is made by fine metal wire, add epoxy on the surface to improve the pin durability.
Print pins  is a gradient for some, there is a shadow of complex patterns, like patterns, like a photo printed directly up fine, so this type of pin is very bright and clean smooth surface. Such pins are also proposes to add a layer of epoxy . 
Die struck is mold in stamping out the blank metal materials, no coloring, make it smooth and shiny plating, recesses for discharge, such as granulated matte effect.

imitation enamel and Cloisonne

• Meterials: copper for cloisonne and imitation enamel use copper, bronze, iron and alloys.
• Imitation enamel is more colourful than clisonne.
• Cloisonne are colourful glas powders, imitation enamel are one of paints.
• The source of imitation enamel is more smooth than cliosonn’s
• Cloisonne has a little dome, but imitation enamel not.

imitation enamel and soft enamel

• Imitation enamel surface is smooth and flat, soft enamel pins has recessed and raised areas.
• In many cases, soft enamel will have a epoxy finish. it’s shining.

soft enamel and photo etched

• Lines would be more delicate for photo etched.
• Soft enamel pins have the recessed area with coloring.
• 1.2mm for soft enamel pins and 0.8mm for photo etched

die struck and soft enamel

• soft enamel has colors, but diestruck no, only the metal color(i.e., gold, silver).

printed pins with others

• The most significant difference is that a variety of colors or other lapel pins are the lines between the metal lines to separate the printed pins does not require any metal lines, the same directly with the printing products can be directly printed.