Hanson Sign Companies

Hanson Sign Companies, a member of the International Sign Association, is a wholesale manufacturer of custom signs based in Falconer, NY. We are located about an hour and a half southwest of Buffalo in the beautiful Chautauqua Lake region. Founded as a two-man sign shop by Bob Hanson in 1949, Hanson Sign was acquired by Gene Aversa in 1986. Gene grew the company rapidly through further acquisition and a focused sales effort, transforming Hanson into a Wholesale Sign provider by 1992. In June of 2016 Gene retired and sold the company to Ed Sullivan, the current CEO and his business partner. Today, Hanson Sign Companies employs over 40 people and supplies the Sign Industry across the United States and internationally.

Hanson Sign Companies tagline is “expanding your capabilities”. Our customers are retail sign companies, contractors, marketing agencies, developers and national account programs. We expand their ability to seamlessly offer a wide range of beautiful, custom made sign types from a single, reliable partner regardless of their in-house capability or capacity.

Hanson Sign Companies of Falconer, NY produces the following:

1.) Cedar, HDU and Extira signs that are either V-Groove Routed or Sandblasted or both. We offer gold leaf and we hand paint all lettering and graphics.
2.) Illuminated Cabinets - also sometimes called light boxes. LED lit cabinets, monuments, pole mounts etc. single or double sided, shapes available
3.) Post and Panel and Blade Signs
4.) Channel letters - front lit, trimless, halos (reverse lit)
5.) Routed letters - Acrylic, PVC, Aluminum, HDU
6.) Laser Cutting any metal
7.) Plastic faces (lexan polycarbonate) - painted, digitally printed or vinyl applied
8.) Vacuum Formed Faces - Smooth pans or embossed - back spray painted
9.) Digital flatbed printing direct to substrate on vinyl, lexan, aluminum or wood up to 3/4" thick.
10.) Screen printing
11.) Edge lit acrylic
12.) Faux Neon signs - LED Neon

We primarily use sign comp extrusion, Principal LED's and Matthews Paints.

We have a full EPA and New York DEC complaint down draft spray booth, 3 CAD Routers, a fiber laser for cutting metal, vacuum forming, multiple channel benders, Cannon OCE digital flatbed printer, and 4 welding stations.