"Thank you for your patience. It's been a pleasure working with you and your team on this sign. You get things done when you say you are and are infinitely patient with the many changes my tenants wanted. You are now my only source of signs and I'll refer anyone who needs a sign to you."
Thu Nguyen, Bluebonnet Plaza
Signs Manufacturing™, a Watson Family
owned and managed corporation, has been building quality
signs and shipping them worldwide since 1979.
Signs Manufacturing™, as used in this website, refers equally or individually to Signs Manufacturing Corporation, Signs Manufacturing and Maintenance Corporation, or Sunburst LED Displays, LP.
Most male Family members are licensed
electricians (two are Masters), each with over 30 years experience in every
phase of the business. One member holds both Master Sign Electrician and Master Electrician licenses.
Every adult member of the Family has a University business degree. Our education and experience causes us to look at the sign business differently.
The
principal owner of Signs Manufacturing™ formed several
successful businesses for large and small corporations and
was heavily involved in the marketing and advertising
necessary to make a business successful prior to starting
Signs Manufacturing™ with the Family.
He saw an opportunity to build a sign
company serving local and regional businesses that
understood marketing issues, a huge void even today, to
help customers become successful.
We understand what it takes to make a
business successful, so we develop "looks" and processes
that benefit our customers by giving them continuously
better, more productive signs at continuously lower
prices.
Trembler™ Signs,
PinLights™, Sunburst LED Displays™,
LetterLites™ and SpectraLites™ Channel Letters, and solar powered signs, are current examples.
Underwriter's Laboratory has evaluated our sister products PinLights™ and LetterLites™ and they have been approved for use in outdoor, damp and wet location signs.
UL Approval #E345252.
They are the only approved individual LED first-surface lighting products.
As the manufacturer we are very proud of this.
Signs Manufacturing™ has always been a
leader in the development of new technologies for the sign
industry.
"We will
definitely recommend you and Signs Manufacturing™ to anyone looking for a
quality product and great service."
- Crystal,
Art Smart Art School (in a letter to her Sign Consultant)
Our family's manufacturing, electrical, electronic,
computer programming, and IT backgrounds often prove
invaluable to our customers, particularly those with or
desiring Electronic-Message-Centers. We can write/modify computer programs
in many languages.
The people at Signs Manufacturing™ are
proud that we were the first (and remain the most)
automated channel letter production facility IN THE WORLD.
Signs Manufacturing™ helped design the equipment that every
very large sign company now uses to produce channel
letters.
We have manufactured illuminated
channel letters from 7 inches to 25 feet tall (the largest
channel letter ever made, we are told!)
Our
suppliers tell us that we are the largest custom sign
company in North Texas.
We have an extremely loyal workforce.
All of our key artisans have been with us for at least 10
years; some 30 years!
Signs
we have created has been featured in several national
magazines, as well as newspapers, movies and commercials.
We are also proud that we have
repeatedly been chosen to conduct training seminars for
Cities Sign Inspectors.
Several generations of the Watson
family are directly involved in the everyday management of
the Company. Our "Senior" Watson has over 45 years
experience in sign and electrical design and manufacturing
management.
We are virtually the only sign
company in any of the 97 "Metroplex" cities multi-licensed
to manufacture and install signs as well as provide
electrical service.
Signs Manufacturing™ can be totally responsible for installing, wiring, and maintaining your signs and lighting if you choose.
If there is a problem, our modern, radio-dispatched service
vehicles, cranes, and ladder trucks keep signs and lighting working and
advertising for you.
Signs Manufacturing™ is the only
company in the Metroplex regularly inspected by
both Underwriter's Laboratory and Intertek, and approved for the
manufacturing of UL or ETL listed signs - meeting the highest
design, structural manufacturing, electrical, and
installation standards in the world.
Signs Manufacturing and Maintenance Corporation is a Veteran-owned business.
"We bought our sign from a great guy. Unfortunately he died, and now our warranty is worthless because his business closed. No family to continue the tradition. Fix our sign."
Maurice Feldman, Pine Creek Cleaners
The Importance of 30+ Years in the Sign Business
Why is it important to you that Signs Manufacturing™ has been in business under consistent management for 30+ years?
Over the many years we made mistakes, and had to correct them. We heard about and observed a lot of mistakes made by others, and learned from them.
Very importantly, because of the Family's educational, technical, and electrical backgrounds, we tested and evaluated thousands of metals, sign components, plastics, and coatings, and selected the best to use in making specific signs that will look better, last longer, and use less energy. This website explains in detail the results of this testing.
We also selected the best, most accurate, construction techniques and equipment. We even helped invent newer, more accurate ones.
Do you want your sign made by someone who learned from 30+ years of making signs, or from someone who still has to learn?
Products We've Introduced to Use on Signage
"All sign companies do the same thing!" Our customers say that other sign companies use this line a lot when asked to explain what they do differently to make their signs superior.
Through years of research we have introduced many quality products to use on signage. Most remain unused by other sign companies because they have no idea where to obtain them. Some of these products are:
Vacuum Ceramic Microsphere Coatings
Waterproof Whole-sign Interior Coatings to Protect Electronic Components and Wiring
Flame Suppression Coating Systems
Spray-On Metal Coatings
Optical Brighteners for Plastics
UV Protective Coatings for Plastics
Self-Cleaning Sign-Face Coatings for Plastics
Vandal Resistant Coatings
Pinlights™
Letterlites™
Full-Service
Facility
Our modern 1.2 acre (under roof)
production facility, with both high and low dock doors, is
located on a 3 acre concrete pad; the additional area
being used for parking and "clean" outside storage.
One-half acre is planted greenbelt.
Signs Manufacturing Corporation's Four-building Manufacturing Campus prior to our 7,500 sq. ft. expansion (2001 Photo courtesy of Bing.)
Weekend photo showing Signs Manufacturing Corporation's 2004 Building Expansion, taken during our 2009 re-roofing project (Courtesy of Google Earth.)
Free Factory Tour
Come and see the array of equipment
and tools, and the facility dedicated to making good
signs.
Contact William Watson to arrange a
plant tour, or just stop by. Click our "Contact
Us" tab to the left for location and contact
details.
State Licensed Sign Installation and Sign Service
We are a full-service sign company.
We
provide
sign site surveys,
sign permits,
sign installation
and
sign maintenance
services for electrical and non-electrical signs for our customers as well as other sign
companies. We
provide this work in Dallas, Fort Worth (DFW), and ALL of
North Texas and Northeast Texas.
State Sign and Electrical License Numbers: TECL17503, TSCL18015, TSCL18016.
Our technicians are also
Quality Certified Signs™ certified. (Click the "Installation
& Service" tab for details.)
"Thank you for your patience. It's been a pleasure working with you and your team on this sign. You get things done when you say you are and are infinitely patient with the many changes my tenants wanted. You are now my only source of signs and I'll refer anyone who needs a sign to you."
Signs Manufacturing™ can be totally responsible for installing, wiring, and maintaining your signs and lighting if you choose.
Why is it important to you that Signs Manufacturing™ has been in business under consistent management for 30+ years?
Signs Manufacturing™ & Maintenance Corp.