Colored Rubber Bands
Colored rubber bands have many useful applications. For one, they make it fast and easy for customers to identify or code files, inventory, shipments, and other items, making business and home management more efficient. Businesses, charities, and other organizations may choose to use colored rubber bands for promotional purposes. Kids particularly enjoy wearing them on their wrists or in their hair to make fashion statements.
When buying colored rubber bands, you will want to make sure that you get high quality product that doesn’t break easily or disintegrate over time. They must be durable enough to withstand the applications and environments in which you plan to use them. For example, if you plan to use them for outdoor work such as gardening, they must be temperature resistant. High quality rubber bands will be able to withstand a broad temperature range, as high as three hundred degrees Fahrenheit and as low as sixty degrees Fahrenheit for example. Good colored rubber bands will also maintain rich color when exposed to the elements, such as the sun, rain, and snow. If you are using colored rubber bands for commercial uses, you want to ensure that they can withstand exposure to chemicals such as alkalies, acids, detergents, and glycols.
Main stream office supply stores will sell colored rubber bands in the most common colors, such as red, blue, yellow, green, orange, white and black. However, some of the lesser known or smaller outfits that specialize in rubber bands will offer more colors, such as pink, purple, turquoise, gray, brown, glow in the dark, and multi colored rubber bands. You can have your rubber bands made in solid hues or with some translucence. If you were looking to promote your business, charity, or other things important to you, some companies have the ability to create custom printed rubber bands with the text and illustrations of your choice, in an embossed, debossed, or engraved fashion, on one or both sides.
Large colored rubber bands are designed for big, industrial scale jobs, such as holding in place drum liners, or securing cargo and inventory on pallets. If your business has a warehouse or plant unit, you may find that rubber bands are more economical than traditional strapping, twine, shrink wrap, stretch wrap, films, and tape, as they are priced fairly, and can be stretched or wound to multiple dimensions, often two to three times larger or smaller than their relaxed length. Most importantly, they can be used over and over gain, whereas traditional materials often have to be discarded after use. This is more environmentally friendly as you will significantly reduce the amount of waste produced. Using large rubber bands is more efficient, as traditional materials take lots of time and special equipment, and more than one worker to apply. Properly sized, one or a few rubber bands will enable one worker to secure a load by hand in mere seconds, which ultimately increases productivity. Using large colored rubber bands is safer for your precious inventory and cargo. Their elasticity ensures that the load is gently, yet securely held. Strapping and tape on the other hand, tends to cut through or tear boxes and similar materials used for packaging. Shrink wrap presents the problem of blocking access to the load in emergencies, such as during a fire, whereas rubber bands will make it easier for workers to access and extinguish a fire. For cargo or inventory that needs to be kept at a cool temperature, using rubber bands is preferred because they allow for better air flow, reducing damaging condensation and keeping the load evenly cooled. You can expect large colored rubber bands to be wide, ranging between sizes such as one quarter of an inch to over on inch in width. The standard gauge for large rubber bands is about one sixteenth of an inch. The typical circumference of large rubber bands will range from 50 inches to 130 inches.
Medium and small colored rubber bands are used for a wide range of every day applications in the business and residential sectors. These applications can range from simple bundling of stationary items to a complex organization system of medical records. Several sizes will be available through the various merchants. There are three standard thicknesses, quoted in inches, 1/32, 1/16, and 1/8. Rubber bands with a gauge of 1/32 are rather thin and are recommended for light work. Rubber bands with a gauge of 1/8 are thicker and are better suited for heavier work. Standard lengths (measured end to end when the rubber band is pressed down completely) will range from 7/8 of an inch to 9 inches. Standard band widths will range from 1/16 of an inch to 5/8 of an inch. As you can see, will all the different measurements available, it is possible to have hundreds of rubber bands with their own unique dimensions. The perfect size will depend on your various needs. However, a good universal size for light and medium duty applications would be 4.5″ x 1/8″ x 1/16″. Or, for more versatility you can buy two different sets of colored rubber bands, one at 3″ x 1/8″ x 1/16″ and another at 6″ x 1/8″ x 1/16″.
Prices of colored rubber bands will vary greatly as there are several factors involved in the pricing per unit. Pricing per unit will depend on quantity ordered, size, customization, and the merchant from which you buy. Small rubber bands will cost any where between two cents and five cents per unit. Larger, industrial sized rubber bands will cost anywhere between four dollars and five dollars per unit. Most merchants will sell colored rubber bands in bundles of a couple dozen to a couple thousand units. Large orders usually result in a ten percent to twenty percent discount on the merchandise price. Alternatively, instead of a price, some merchants will choose to give the buyer free shipping.
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