Shaped Paper Clips


Shaped Paper Clips,are the bent metal wires in short distances made into different shapes:animals,Christmas,vehicles etc.These custom paper clips have multiple uses for not only your home environment,school,library,party,wedding…but also the business purpose as the promotional gifts to show the uniqueness and distinctiveness,and finally keep your business brand out in this crowded market.

 

Also these cute paper clips can be made into a variety of different colors and sizes.They are not only the cute stationery and creative bookmarks for decoration as decorative paper clips,but also the unique gifts for your next promotion,or show your affection.

 


Material

The wires of  shaped paper clips are PVC/vinyl coat wrapped iron wire,or galvanized iron wire.

The galvanized or bare iron wire are usually easy to rust,so usually the manufacturers wrap a PVC coat around the wire.Also PVC coat could have a lot of colors via plastic color-matching.The accomplishment could be done by using the pigments and color master batches.

Using pigments is just to put it into the plastic which need to be colored,and stir them.

Using color master batch is a very prevalent coloring method in the plastic production craftwork via injection moulding.Before the production of injecting,it would need you to put the articles of color master batches into the plastic material to stir.

Compared with the pigments,comparatively using color master batches will be more well-distributed and environmental than pigments.The production process of color master batch particles is to put the pigment into the resin carrier,at the meantime,adding some dispersing agents to increase the flow-ability and dispersing ability,and some other additive agents to improve the product quality.

The wire material in different diameters are for different usage of products.

In normal circumstance,in the permission of facilities,iron wires can be made into any wire gauges according to the requests,both in thick,or in thin.But normally it would be more than1 mm,smaller than 6 mm.

Iron wires are pulled to be made of low-carbon steel.Roll the molten plantchet into steel bars in the thickness of6.5 mm,and pulled into the wires in different diameters in the wire-drawing device,and gradually decrease the hole diameter of the wire-drawing tray,and finally pull to make them into linear iron end product,classify them into many gauges based on the thickness.

Under the conduction of wire drawing machine drum,the steel wire rods have to be through husking, phosphorization, saponification,pass through the wire drawing hole (This is to get rid of the iron oxidized tablets and rustiness to phosphatize,and saponify which will help for the next drawing) which leads to the decrease of the section configuration to get the dimensions,shapes and function as planned.Wire-pulling usually need to proceed many times.The area reduction is about 10%-40%.

For traditional and conventional paper clips,we usually use the iron wire in the diameter of 1.0-1.2 mm. With this thickness of wire,the size of paper clips are usually more than20 mm at least,and mostly smaller than50 mm.With the increasing of the wire diameters,the sizes could be bigger and bigger.And the clip strength would be stronger and stronger. 

For jumbo paper clips,or hat clips,then we would have to use thicker wires such as 1.40,1.60mm,or more.This is an incredible business idea for marketing because we have seldom seen the similar products of a kind.Just the costs of the materials and technologies are different.

 

Technology

Machine or hand made.

As we can find out,spring machine can make a lot of regular shapes,such as pentacle,rectangle,square,triangle,and any simple animals,fishes,vehicles etc.For some complicated shaped paper clips,usually they are made of octopus machines with computer control.The machine-made paper clips are fairly flat,durable neat,pretty,stylish and fast,efficient to be made.

Also,for some very complicated ones,we also could make them by hand,we make a certain quantity of molds upon the artwork design of the custom paper clips as customers request.then organize a teamwork to finish the work of orders.Hand-made technology can accomplish to make some very complicated shapes because hands are more flexible and adjustable while machines are usually kind of mechanical.

 

Colors

The technology of making colors includes:

Polyethylene(PE) colors


Paint-sprey colors


Vinyl coated colors


Electroplated colors (silver,gold,rose gold,red,black...etc)


Electrophoretic colors

Oxidized colors


The default material we use for paperclips is Polyethylene(PE) wire if customers have no special requests on.

Besides the standard colors(red,yellow,blue,black,orange,green,pink…) in our stock,they also could be made into any custom PMS colors of Pantone with a certain quantity. But the minimum quantities are different for different technologies of these wire paper clips.

The minimum quantity for paint-sprey paper clips with PMS colors are usually about 30 000-50 000 pieces per shape per color.But the shortcoming is: paint-sprey colors are easily brushed off.The manufacturer has to make the shaped paper clips first in galvanized or bare iron wires first,then sprey the colored paint around the wires according to the requests of customers,put them on the wire netting with tiny pores,and have them baked in coal-scuttles to make the paint fasten around the iron wire.

(1)   As for the PMS colors of PVC/vinyl coated iron wire,the minimum quantity will be much bigger.It would be about 100 000 pieces per shape per color. The diversification of vinyl colors offers a possibility to make the paper clips more colorful and beautiful,while the convential paper clips usually follow the same patten-eletroplated silver.With the application of these colored material,they are more and more used for decoration as decorative paper clips.The color-making are usually done via using pigments and color master batches as mentioned above,under the section of “Material”.Most of people probably do not want that much except for really heavy hitters,companies of promotional gifts,or big professional importer in the field of stationery,art and craft.The flexible way is to use our standard colors.Try to choose a color as similar as possible to what you expect to get.By this way,you could get the custom shaped paper clips in small quantities.You could contact us to get what colors we presently in stock,then choose one,or some of them from the color chart. Presently we usually using vinyl coated colors for the convenience and cost saving.

(2)   If you are looking for the glossy colors,then the electroplated colors would be a perfect choice which usually have a nice luster. Electroplated colors usually includes:gold,silver,antique brass,antique copper,bronze,black,rose gold,violet,white zinc,blue zinc,claret(wine red),gun metal...etc.From the electroplating technology,it could be divided into rack plating,barrel plating for the paper clips as far as I learn.Surely there are also brush plating,pulse plating,elctroless plating…but not sure they works for wire paper clips yet.And nowadays the cost of electroplating is also terribly high,especiall the costs of gold electroplating is more expensive than these novelty paper clips themselves!

(3)   Electrophoretic color textures have sub-gloss,gloss.The colors usually depend on the electrophoretic paints.Basically it has red,green,yellow,blue,black.We presently seldom use electrophoretic colors for these custom shaped paper clips.

(4)   Oxidized colors we usually fill include grass green,red,black etc.They are also not the frequently-used colors for the wire paper clips.They sometimes are used for the flat aluminum bookmarks.


Order Process of Custom Paper Clips

For the inquiry and order process of custom projects,it is usually will be:

1. The buyer have to provide by sending us the order details.

It usually includes an image to show what shape the buyer would expect, quantity, color, and the packaging request if there’s any. If any suitable shapes work, then we could recommend one based on what we agree on. 

Take the Cinderella image for example:


2. We make the mock-up according to the image as follows based on the customer confirmed, providing the relevant information such as size, color, price, delivery time, payment method etc.


If you use our stocked paperclip designs, then you could forget, and skip this step.

if the paper clip order is for some special or urgent event, then you’d better confirm with us in advance,so that we make sure to catch up with your schedule. After that, usually there will be an invoice sent in a proforma way or by Paypal in which it includes all the details and trade terms we agreed on.

 4. A full or partial payment would be done before the mass production.

For the stocked shaped paper clips, you can directly buy from our website. The remittance will be automatically linked to the Paypal account to complete the payment.

For the orders in big amount of payment, we could allow customers pay 30 percent firstly as deposit, after the order is finished, usually the balance would be paid upon the confirmation of order status then it’s ready to ship.

For the small orders, usually it usually would be paid once for all upon the confirmation of all the order details.

 

5. We proceed to the production of the orders.

If customer asks for a sampling before mass production, then it would need take 7-10 days for the sampling additionally. And there will be a surcharge for this job.

For those orders in standard quantities such as thousands, or ten thousands, usually we proceed to the production directly which would usually need take about 12-15 days, and confirm the status of order's completion with high -resolutions photos before delivery. 


6. The buyer completes the payment upon the photos, or the copy of B/L.

7. We arrange the shipping, provide the tracking number. With that number, you could check the shipping status online any time.

8. Close the deal if all is OK.


Multiple Uses

Compared with the conventional paper clips,shaped paper clips look more beautiful and colorful,they are incredibly fun,cute,durable,and awesome with its’ free,unlimited designs and optional colors.and they have more multiple uses: 

They could be the custom stationery,the cute bookmarks for school and office works and for the use of any other organizations in which there are a lot of books and papers such as bookstores,stationery shops,libraries,archives etc.They are totally different with the traditional paper clips with incredible,unique designs and custom optional colors.They are perfect for the use of big organizations,companies,associations as the creative stationery.If you create a series of number paper clips,you could use them to number the pages,label the sequences.If you are working for some animal protection society,then the animal shaped paper clips would be nice helpmate for the daily work.

They also could be the perfect promotional gifts for advertising to promote the individuality of your business,enhace the visibility and awareness of your brand.They are much better than the traditional flyers and postcards for which there’s usually no much love from people.I met some people from schools,colleges purchased to use it for recruitments of students with cute creative zipper-locked packages in small sizes..Even churches start to use these little gifts to interest people while getting your ideas across.So animal protection society could use the animal paper clips for some special events.Fish paper clips could be for aquariums.The Christmas paper clips could be also used for holiday promotions.heart paper clips could be used for Valentine’s Day,or Thanksgiving Day and so forth.

They also could be the perfect decorative accessories to any notebooks,greeting cards,invitation cards,or for a party.It is a great idea to use the paper clips on the cards or books for the decoration and beautification.You also could use these cute paper clips as the unique ornaments to make some stylish leaflets and picture posters besides the use of complimentary gifts to give away.Also,they also could be used for home environment as ornamental accessories such as family parties for decoration,or weddings as wedding paper clips.

It could be also the teaching tools for the kids of kindergarten to recognize the things,or a pretty small prize for the students for the debates,games,or competitions in class.When teachers instruct kids numbers,animals,fishes,vehicles,a great idea is to clip the number paper clips,letter paper clips,animal paper clips,fish paper clips,vehicle paper clips on the paper,and tell them what they are.Some people from music schools purchase note paper clips as little gifts for the students,also for the decoration of evening parties.

The jumbo paper clips also could be one of the categories of shaped paper clips.The jumbo clips look extremely cool,amazing,stylish,more awesome than the regular paper clips in ordinary iron wire materials.The clip strength is also much bigger than the common ones.So they are more rigid,and can clip more paper with the thicker iron wire.Besides the uses as we mentioned above:personalized stationery,creative bookmarks,promotional gifts,they also could be the wire hat clips.This is absolutely a potential business idea for the untapped market.There are also a lot of other uses of these novelty paper clips. Some people use many of these paper clips to make an incredible curtain,or a paperclip necklace!

 

Stocked Categories of Shaped Paper Clips:

Animal Paper Clips

Dinosaur                        Fish            

Insect                            

BodyParts,People Paper Clips 

Cartoon Paper Clips

Christmas Paper Clips

Clothese Paper Clips

Food Drink Paper Clips

Geometry,Special Symbols Paper Clips

Currency Signs

Houseware Paper Clips 

Tools

Shaped Paper Clips | Letters&Numbers

Letters                         Numbers

Weapons Paper Clips

Music Paper Clips

Nature Paper Clips

Plants Paper Clips

Sports Paper Clips

Vehicle Paper Clips


 

Packing Materials

For the packaging materials,we usually have these in our collection:

1.polybags

2,paper boxes

3.cardboard boxes

4.tins

5.blister cards

You also could check the category of PACKAGES to view all the details

 

Custom Projects

It is more convenient to order these colored paper clips with the stocked designs from our selection in different themes.But,If there is none comes into your approval,and you want to work out a solution of personalized paper clips for your own.Nowadays custom projects are certainly the most favorable solution,especially for those who purchase them for a special event.For instance,the logo paper clips they purchase for their next promotions as the advertising gifts to have their business brand out in the crowed market.It's also a perfect way to show the uniqueness and visibility of your business and brand.

We would be happy to invite you discussing any custom jobs.You could just drop us a line by E-mail to keep us know anything you could count on us.

noveltyclip@yahoo.com       Phone +86-575-83353700;       86-15267511098

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