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Lanyard materials can mean the different between a great lanyard design with vibrant colours or a lanyard that comes out plain and dull. And does not help promote your business. Choosing the right lanyard material is crucial to getting your lanyard order correct.

Nylon

Nylon lanyards are flat and smooth, they offer a high lustre finish with a sort of shine effect to them. They are a lot tighter woven than other materials and in turn provide a very good printing surface for silk screen printing or heat transfer imprint. This is excellent for highly complex logo designs and small text printing that is often required for brand guidelines.

Polyester

Polyester is by far the most popular material for manufacturing lanyards. Polyester is made from a type of poly ethylene, meaning if the lanyard should be subjected to high heat they simply melt instead of catching fire and burning the wearer. Polyester is a highly durable material that can be screen printed in up to 4 colours. However because of the weave, printing can sometimes appear mottled and many low quality mass produced lanyards can display material actually coming through the print.

Recycled Bamboo Fibre

Bamboo fibre is a material made from recycled bamboo stems, the plants are shredded and then woven into a very smooth, nylon like material. This can be imprinted and then customised in many ways including dyed to any colour and then custom imprinted over the top. Bamboo is highly popular alternative for people wishing to use earth friendly promotional lanyards to promote their organisation.

Recycled PET Lanyards

Again these lanyards manufactured from recycled water bottles & recycled plastic cups have become more popular than using standard polyester material. Recycled PET is a wonderful material that can be customised in many many ways including dye sublimating full photographic images and up to 256 thousand colour designs & gradients. PET dye sublimation offers companies an alternative to the boring old single colour lanyard designs we usually see.

Milk Protein Fibre

I have written about milk protein lanyards before, however I will recap: Milk Protein is a way of recreating the material that spiders use to weave their webs. A fibre made from extracting various proteins from milk and then wet spinning into a material. Milk protein is available in white only because of its make, it does not absorb dye however they are naturally very white unlike many materials that have a yellow faded shade to them.

I will continue this article in the next couple of days and explain the different pro’s and cons of other materials.