Category Archives: Elastic

Elastic String for Jewelry Manufacturing

The market for jewelry is finally bouncing back after a long recession, and consumers young and old are eager to sparkle from head to toe. Riding the up-surging jewelry demand wave means being able to fit as many consumers’ jewelry tastes and sizes as possible. Achieving this flexibility involves incorporating elastic string into jewelry and beading en masse to fit today’s demand for both style and flexibility:

  • Big Bracelets—The bling today is big, bold, and needs to fit over a wide assortment of hands and wrists. Jewelry manufacturers are turning to bulk spooled elastic cord, made of polyester in an entire rainbow of colors to fill this demand.
  • Foot Jewelry—There is a growing consumer excitement over anklets and barefoot sandal adornments. Elastic cord on spools is essential for manufacturing designs that can comfortably and durably fit a wide variety of feet.
  • Hair Jewelry—It isn’t just for brides and prom dates anymore; jewelry manufacturers looking for a way to stand out are venturing into hair jewelry. Because heads and hair volumes differ from person to person, stretchy elastic cord for jewelry manufacturing can help your project attract a wider market.
  • Necklaces—Big, sparkly necklaces of all kinds are taking the stage now, but these do not always benefit from being on elastic cord; in this case, twisted rayon cord on spools can better hold up in a wide variety of lengths and bauble weights.

Elastic Connections has a wide variety of spooled elastic for stretchy jewelry manufacturing ranging from 1 mm all the way to 2.4 mm. For more delicate designs, consider our spooled elastic thread or elastic string (often used in the apparel industry) that goes all the way down to 0.5 mm. We also have several widths of twisted rayon cord that may fit many of today’s jewelry manufacturing projects. Contact Elastic Connections today at 847-426-6830 to discuss which elastic string or twisted cord might best fit your needs.

Wow ‘Em with Trade Show Giveaways with Elastic Cord

Sweating over the trade show giveaways for your booth is a time honored tradition—but does it really need to be? With a little elastic and some research, you can generate excitement, gratitude and follow up contacts with smart swag: Inc. magazine recently polled young, up-and-coming, decision-making trade show attendees about their favorite trade show tchotchkes. The overwhelming response came down to this: Enough with the stress balls already! Make it useful! Usefulness generates positive associations with your brand and promotes follow-up responses. Here were some trade show give away favorites:

  1. Notebooks with elastic cord pen keepers—Pens are notorious for getting lost; you can never find one when you need one. Conversely, if you find the pen, then you have to dig around to find the paper. So trade show attendees loved customized notebooks with pockets and elastic cord pen keepers that kept the pens and the paper together and were ready when they needed them most.
  2. Bookmarks with tassels—People are so done with business cards. Bookmarks with attention-getting tassels, on the other hand, were quite popular. They give companies a chance to put their message on a useful item that attendees will see again and again and again.
  3. Care packages—Trade show goers often forget things in their rush to pack. So one of the most popular and useful swag items could be a branded, elastic-secured care bag with little things like lip balm, an individual packet of Ibuprofen, a peanut-free energy bar, juice box, mini flashlight, bandages, moist towelettes, etc.
  4. Convenient Snacks—Lunch can never come soon enough at trade shows where people are on their feet all day. Convenient, packable snacks that come with elastic cord to securely reseal them for later snacking are extremely popular and coveted!

Contact Elastic Connections at 847-426-6830 for the elastic cords that hold together your useful tradeshow swag and be the booth that generates the most excitement this year!

Custom Elastic Thread for Clothing Manufacturers

Does your clothing business need elastic thread manufactured in a specific color or material?  Elastic Connections specializes in the production of spooled custom elastic thread bulk orders that add the perfect finishing touch to your designs.

Elastic Thread for Clothing Production: Custom Colors, Fabrics and Styles

Our easy-to-use system makes placing a custom order a piece of cake. To get started, simply send us a 3’ sample piece of the material that you are currently using. We will analyze the material’s composition and provide you with a quote for an exact reproduction match. Alternatively, if you do not have a piece of material to send, you can also specify the type of material (e.g., rubber gauge, spandex size, yarn type) along with elongation requirements the desired color.

Clothing manufacturers use our elastic thread in a variety of products, including disposable garments like medical apparel and surgical socks. Elastic thread is also durable enough to be used in women’s swimwear waistbands, pants, sleeves and necklines. Depending on your clothing manufacturing needs, you may wish to choose a thread where the yarn is double covering the rubber core for a stronger, more durable hold. Not sure which type of thread is right for your fabric or garment design? Just let us know! Our team is happy to help you select the right material to perfectly match your clothing.

If you have questions about the bulk purchase of custom elastic thread, don’t hesitate to contact our dedicated sales team. Click to chat with us online or fill out our contact form for more information on your orders!

Glass Jar Merchandising with Elastic String Tags

Glass jars—they’re so classic, so simple, so timeless, and so great for merchandising. Many product merchandisers are turning to glass jars for everything from luxury toiletries to bake-in-the-jar cakes to even unconventional ideas like accessory packaging (scarves, gloves, jewelry and even socks) to moonshine! Here are a few reasons products packaged in glass jars with elastic string tags are a great option:

  1. They convey the feeling of “handcrafted” and “homemade” that consumers increasingly crave. Remember those long summer days canning preserves at grandma’s house? Consumers are turning away from anything that says “I’ve been mass-produced” to things that say, “I was crafted with care.” So even if your product is produce on a large scale, glass jars paired with elastic string merchandising tags let customers know that your product is made with love.
  2. Glass jars are earth friendly packaging at its best, and for a lot of reasons. They don’t exude all the chemicals that plastic does, with all of the potential health concerns they may have. This makes glass an excellent choice for food and beverage packaging. Glass jars are recyclable pretty much everywhere, so they don’t end up in landfills. What’s more, there are a lot of consumers who like to wash out and keep glass jars once your product has been consumed and re-purpose them for other things. Glass jar merchandising is a win-win no matter how you look at it.
  3. Glass jars are flexible packaging options. And by flexible, we mean that you can use them for just about anything. All kinds of gourmet food and drink items, all sorts of luxury bath items from sugar scrubs to oils, from powders to candles etc. They all go great in glass jars with elastic string tag labels.

Do glass jars speak to you as a potential product packaging option? If so, contact Elastic Connections today for elastic string tags for your labels at 847-426-6830.

Elastic Hangtags for Bottles

The retail market is competitive, and consumers are inadvertently drawn to products without understanding why. As a manufacturer of any type of bottled product, you know your product must “leap off the shelf” as you have only seconds to grab the attention of the consumer.

Packaging for bottled products – whether for wine, or perfume, or hot sauce – is easily enhanced with hang tags.

Hang tags are usually your customer’s first look at what your product has to offer. Without having to read the entire description on the label of your product, consumers read the most important information about what you have to sell on the hang tag. Those that attract attention, and are easily accessible to the customer will yield the best results.

Get consumers to pick up your product first with attractive, easy to read labeling. Provide information on your merchandise tags that give consumers what they want: information at their fingertips about the product they are considering:

  • What the product is made of
  • Where the product was made
  • How the product is used

Elastic for the hangtags come in a variety of colors and textures to match the style of your product and packaging. With hangtag elastic, your product labels can vary in size. Hangtag elastic is available in diameters ranging from 1mm (.040”) up to 2.4mm (.095”) to accommodate a variety of label material, size and weight. The durability of the hangtag elastics ensures that your product tags will stay in place until the customer chooses to remove them.

With attractive labeling, you can bring your product into the forefront. Inquire about our hangtag elastic sold in bulk either spooled or in pretied elastic pieces.