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BioAd Cookie Cutters

21 Dec

BIOAD CHRISTMAS TREE COOKIE CUTTER

For as long as I can remember my mother has had a group of cookie cutters that come out about this time each year as holiday baking gets underway.

I am guessing that most families have a similar stash of holiday cookie cutters, and with the risk of bringing more commercialism to the season, I would like to suggest that for companies looking to market at this time of year, the branding of holiday cookie cutters is a really good idea.

“From our family to your family” and other seasonal themed messaging could easily follow a branded cookie cutter that is included in the annual holiday card or other year end thank you program to clients or employees. Cookie cutters make great gift items for year-end charity solicitation letters as well. They sure beat even more envelope labels.

To that end Quickpoint offers a nice collection of Made in the USA cookie cutters in their biodegradable BioAd plastic. BioAd products will biodegrade naturally over a period of one to five years in a standard landfill environment, while Quickpoint attests that products from BioAd will last a lifetime under normal use.

The natural process of breaking down only happens when the cookie cutters reach a landfill. And, as well as being biodegradable, all Quickpoint BioAd items are also FDA approved and Proposition 65 compliant for our friends in California.

BIOAD BEAR COOKIE CUTTER

BioAd cookie cutters come in eight shapes – Apple, Bear, Christmas Tree, Heart, House, Ribbon, Snowman, and Star – and six colors – brown, green, pink, red, white, and yellow. Average imprint areas on these items is around 1/2″ x 2in”, and varies by cutter shape. Amazingly the BioAd cookie cutters are part of both the Quickpoint Three Day, and the Quickpoint Next Day production programs, which is great for those last minute holiday shoppers.

If you are a promotional items distributor looking for more information on BioAd items from Quickpoint, contact Duane Mayer. (You can also catch Tina in the BioAd video on Youtube.) If you are interested in these items to promote your own business contact your local promotional items vendor or email info@proformagreen.com for information and pricing.

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QuickPoint Eco Trifecta

20 Jul

QuickPoint is currently marketing not one, not two, but three eco-friendly plastic product solutions, allowing the marketing professional a material choice that best fits their audience. And all three solutions come from U.S. grown materials.

The most famous of the three QuickPoint green lines is likely their NatureAd line. These are popular plastic items like the Eco-Logic Mug and Corn Mug Koffee Keg manufactured with all natural plastic based on renewable U.S. grown corn. Yes corn. Good to 140 degrees of your morning coffee, microwave safe, good old U.S.A Corn.

Using corn produces a product that is biodegradable over time (best results on decomposition found at municipal composting facilities), sturdy and cost effective. All items carry the MADE FROM 100% U.S. CORN PLASTIC seal. As a “is green more expensive metric,” pricing on the Corn Mug Koffee Keg is EQP $4.35. So quality to quality, the answer is no.

The second material in the QuickPoint lineup are items made with BioAd, which is a petroleum based plastic with the Bio Ad agent added to help the biodegrading process once items are placed in a landfill.  It takes longer to biodegrade (5 years)  because it is not all natural like the plant based products.  The Bio Ad ingredient is FDA approved and Prop 65 compliant and USA made.  Top sellers are items like the Pet Bowls and Trekker Mugs. The 22 oz. capacity BioAd Trekker Mugs is on year-long sale at EQP $2.89.

These products can take a lifetime of normal use, with the bio-degrading process only beginning when the products reach a landfill setting. Keep that difference in mind, NatureAd composting facility for best results, BioAd landfill setting for best results. If a client is concerned with end of life-cycle issues, these distinctions will matter.

Rounding out the Quickpoint green line is the ECOAd group of products. ECOAd items are also made from bio-polymers like the NatureAd line, but in this case the source material is soy proteins and starches from items like potatoes, wheat, tapioca, or beets.

These mugs and pens (currently there are only 4 items in this line – the Natural Plastic Koffee Keg, Natural Plastic Commuter, Eco grip pen and ECOAd Pen) are all made in the U.S.A and are 100% biodegradable (75% for pens) per ASTM standards. The commute friendly design of the Natural Plastic Commuter makes this item very popular with corporate programs, which I think is ironic as the communter is best suited to a car cup holder. The Natural Plastic Commuter runs EQP $4.99 until the end of 2010.

If you are a promotional items distributor looking for more information on QuickPoint items contact Duane Mayer. (You can also catch Tina in the BioAd video on Youtube.) If you are interested in these items to promote your own business contact your local promotional items vendor or email info@proformagreen.com for information and pricing.

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