On the first page of this site, we made the claim that Aztec Signs is uniquely versatile. The information on this page explains how.
Sign Materials and Fabrication
Our experience in the sign industry has taught us how to design, fabricate, and install a very wide variety of signage, from the smallest to the largest.
We use the same supply houses and manufacturers as the larger sign companies in order to provide high quality signage to our customers.
Here are some of them; click their logos to see their websites:
ABC Sign Products, Ft. Collins, Colorado has been a wholesale sign manufacturer for over 60 years, manufacturing sign cabinet extrusions, cabinet kits, and assembled sign cabinets with or without faces. Many of our projects have been built with materials from ABC, ranging from aluminum directory signage, to large monument signs.
Ackelson Sheet Metal, Altoona, Iowa carries one of the largest, if not the largest variety of raw aluminum sheets and shapes in Iowa. While we have a 36" metal brake we use for forming channel letters and bent sign panels, Ackelson has helped us many times with both aluminum materials and precision metal forming.
Direct Sign Wholesale, Denver, Colorado specializes in the wholesale manufacturing of aluminum channel letters illuminated with neon and LED's.
Esco Manufacturing, Watertown, South Dakota is a wholesale-only sign manufacturer which does manufacturing for sign companies all over North America. From the specifications we furnished them, Esco manufactured several of the blank sign faces, UL-wired sign cabinets, and UL-wired channel letters that appear on this website.
Fellers, Tulsa, Oklahoma is one of the largest wholesale suppliers of vinyl and other commercial sign materials in the world. Although we buy materials from several wholesale sign supply houses in the metro area, the Fellers facility located only 15 minutes away in Urbandale provides most of the materials needed for our day-to-day operation.
Gemini Inc, Cannon Falls, Minnesota has been a supplier to the world sign industry for over 40 years. They are the largest wholesale-only manufacturer in the world of plastic and metal sign letters and plaques, and all their products are guaranteed for life. Their factory in Decorah, Iowa contributes greatly to Decorah's and Iowa's economies.
Gill Studios, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, founded in 1934, is the premier wholesale printer of decals, labels, and a myriad of other imprinted promotional products. Products we commonly produce through them include car dealer tags, labels, decals, and security signs.
Quality Manufacturing Inc, St. Paul, Minnesota, has been a wholesale manufacturer of signs and plastic sign faces since 1959. Like all the other manufacturers in this list, there are many of this company's products installed in not just the Des Moines metro area, but all over the country.
Sign Installation and Repair
The partners listed above make it possible to provide the best signage available anywhere to our customers. If you can't get it installed and working without dropping it, breaking it, our ruining your good work in many other scenarios possible, you are in serious trouble. Times when things just don't fit like the did on the drawing board are often the rule, not the exception, so the choice of sign installers and repair technicians is very important.
Aerial Sign & Lighting, Des Moines, Iowa has been our choice for sign installation and repair in the Des Moines metro area for a long time, for pole signs, channel letters, and other building signage. Gary Shannon, the owner, ranks among the best of the best sign installers and repair technicians around.
Luellen Brothers Inc, Dallas Center, Iowa is our choice for sign installations and sign service closer to the Dallas Center area. The Luellen crew welded up the poles and installed the Raccoon Valley Bank pole sign (highway 44 in Dallas Center) for us, and wired the circuits for the illuminated awnings we installed for The Coffee Cup in Waukee. They also installed the pole sign for Lake Lumber in Panora, Iowa.
Sign Industry News & Inspiration
We continually learn about new products and materials, and improve our techniques with information provided by our suppliers, sign community forums on the Internet, and sign trade magazines. Two of the magazines are online and are linked below.
Sign Builder Illustrated
SignCraft