Custom Years of Service Awards and Work Anniversary Awards

A years of service award is a recognition piece given to an employee at a set work anniversary, such as 5, 10 or 25 years, and it names both the person and the number of years. Most are engraved in crystal, acrylic or stone, with the milestone number treated as the main design element rather than a line of text. Companies hand them out at an annual recognition event or at the anniversary date itself.

Pick one design family first, then order the matching piece at each milestone as staff reach it. The Starfire crystal hexagon runs from 5 years to 50 years in the same shape, three sizes and four crystal colors, so awards handed out years apart still match on a shelf. Because minimums on many of these pieces are a single unit, you can order one at a time as anniversaries come up instead of forecasting a year of them in advance.

Five year steps are the common pattern, starting at 5 years and running through 10, 15, 20 and 25 years, with 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50 added for long careers. The hexagon crystal ladder on this page covers all ten of those steps, and the black granite block and the sculpted number crystal cover 5 through 25. For a first year or an off cycle number such as 3 or 7, the milestone number awards take any figure from 0 to 999.

Sizes here run from a 3 1/4 inch by 4 inch acrylic desk piece up to crystal standing 11 inches tall. The hexagon crystal awards come in three sizes between 7" x 6.5" x 3" and 9.25" x 8.5" x 3", and the acrylic and optical crystal number awards run 5" x 8.5" x 1.5", 8" x 8.5" x 1.5" and 11" x 8.5" x 1.5". Buyers often use a larger size for the longer milestones and a smaller one for the early years.

Starfire crystal and optical crystal cover most of this page, with acrylic, polished black granite, marble and aluminum used on the rest. Starfire glass is used at 3/8 inch thickness on several uprights and stays clear rather than showing a green edge. Lucite acrylic keeps the weight down for a desk piece, and granite adds weight for a presentation piece.

Deep etching, laser engraving and full color digital printing are the three methods used across these pieces, and some items accept more than one on the same face. One color fill is included with the etching on the polished black granite block, and several pieces accept a full color imprint in a single location. Etching areas vary by item, from about 1.875" x 1.25" on a small panel up to 5.5" x 1.5" on a wider one.

Put the number of years first, then the recipient name, then the company name and the date. The number is already the largest element on most of these designs, so the engraved text under it works best as a name and a short line such as the department or role. Several pieces offer second, third and fourth engraving positions if a team name or a project has to appear as well, and we send a visual proof of the layout before anything is cut.

Yes on many items here, including the Cambio Years of Service Award and the Leominster Years of Service Award, which are both quoted from one piece. That matters for a service award program, because anniversaries arrive one at a time rather than in a batch. Production on several of these pieces runs about five working days from artwork approval, so a single award can still be ready for a set ceremony date.