Forbes Custom Products

The Custom Manufacturing Process

Connect – Create – Innovate : Custom Manufacturing Have you ever stopped to think about how your presentation materials are manufactured? Forbes Custom Products offers you a broad range of vinyl envelopes, sleeves, folders, custom binders and presentation materials. Your presentation materials are a representation of your organization, and as your supplier of choice, we [...]

Why Choose Forbes Custom Products?

Every Impression Counts. We thrive off of Customer Service and strive for Customer Satisfaction. Our staff is knowledgeable and we work as a TEAM we are here to help you. We will make you feel comfortable working with our team and we are just a phone call or email away. We are able to produce [...]

Hurricane Sandy – Update

Even the best laid plans are subject to Mother Nature’s fury. Nestled here in Western New York, we rarely consider ourselves “East Coasters” and even rarer still, do we worry about hurricanes and tropical storms. (Western New York in October is ANYTHING but tropical.) That is, until now.  As our region prepares for this curious weather pattern, [...]

Custom is Our Middle Name

You’re looking for that something… that one thing that will steal the show at the conference, catch the eye of your customers and make the brand stick. You’ll know it when you see it, but until then, the options are overwhelming and you’re not sure where to begin. Do not despair! We’ve been there before [...]

Customer Service as a Manufacturer

Great customer service is a company’s best competitive advantage and as important as the products they offer. The real meaning of great customer service is forming a lasting relationship with your customer. A “warm fuzzy” that makes the customer in turn want to establish and maintain a relationship with your company. And more importantly spread [...]

How To Specify a Ring Binder

Here are the important features you will need to consider when quoting a ring binder. Construction Type Turned Edge Paper or bookcloth cover material glued around the interior board. Can be screened, foil stamped, blank stamped or printed 4 color process and film laminated. These binders have square corners and your choice of flat spine [...]

Design, Beauty, Binders and Packaging

The other day I watched with fascination as Richard Seymour of seymourpowell, a design firm in London, England dissected beauty in design in his TED talk.  If you’re not familiar with TED, it’s essentially a collection of subject matter experts discussing the things they know best.  More information is available at TED.com. I highly recommend the series, [...]

Hygienic Anti-Microbial Ring Binders

Why Anti-Microbial ring binders? Preserving hygiene and holding infectious germs at bay is on the minds of many in society today.  Objects, surfaces, and even Ring Binders can be touched and handled frequently and become a gathering area for germs.  The use of Anti-Microbials is one weapon in the arsenal to fight the spread of germs [...]

Global Sourcing

Why Source Overseas? It is becoming more and more important for businesses to keep costs low, especially in our fragile economy. Many overseas countries offer a lower cost of living, and subsequently, lower labor costs. As a result, it can be significantly cheaper to source information packaging products overseas, in countries like China. U.S. buyers [...]

Stuff Everyone Uses but Doesn’t Think About

No matter what business you’re in, Every Impression Counts. Forbes makes all sorts of products that we use or see in everyday life, but seldom give much thought to – until you need it for yourself. For example, you’ve decided to renovate the kitchen. With a mix of excitement and trepidation you head off to the home [...]

Client Spotlight – Zleevez Coffee Cup Sleeves

To order your Zleevez, go here: Order Zleevez Online. Did you know that 500,000 coffee sleeves are trashed every day? Every day, folks stop in coffee shops for some personalized fuel. Many times, their orders are written on a sleeve that will only get tossed after they’ve enjoyed their coffee.

Clearview or Custom Binder?

In this economy many companies are looking for ways to cut costs on marketing materials and binders are a natural place to take a look. On the surface, the clearview binder (a binder with clear vinyl pockets to insert printed sheets on the cover, spine and back) may seem like a money saving idea. Certainly [...]

Poly Basics

What is it?  The generic term “poly”, as used in information/presentation packaging, usually refers to polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP). What’s the difference?  The practical difference is PE is usually extruded in colors and “natural”.  Natural has the clarity of a gallon milk jug.  PP is essentially clear or has a tint added to it.  [...]

Binder Program Management

Does your company have an ongoing client program that you not only need a product for, but also need someone to fulfill that program?   It seems that in today’s economy, businesses can save money by outsourcing some key operations that require a lot of repetitive, custom, detail management.