This covers vinyl tension bracket system in detail. By: Chris Adams
Product Manager | Outdoor Hardware at Formetco
FASTSIGNS in New Jersey took on a project with American Dream Mall & adidas to create several large wallscapes attached to their parking decks and a walk-thru connection bridge, located across from the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, where they’re hosting several of the FIFA World Cup 26™ games.
Lisa Barbosa with FASTSIGNS Upper Saddle River NJ, a leading national visual ideas company that creates a wide variety of comprehensive sign and graphics solutions, contacted Formetco for assistance on several impressively large wallscapes. These are an Out of Home Spectacular in every sense of the definition, with a bridge connector banner at 13’-2” tall by 82’ wide, and three parking deck banners at 40’ tall by 120’ wide — among the largest installations Formetco’s vinyl tension bracket system has ever supported.
Why a Vinyl Tension Bracket System Was the Right Fit
A diagram of one of the layouts is below.
The parkade wallscapes required specialized OOH hardware to appropriately complete the work. After reviewing the scope of the project, Formetco determined it was a perfect match for its vinyl tension bracket system, along with custom 4” decorative trim. Because of the sheer scale of these banners — some stretching 120 feet across a parking deck facade — the installation demanded more fine-tuned adjustment than a typical wallscape, which is exactly what a vinyl tension bracket system is built to provide.
The brackets keep vinyl taut and wrinkle-free across enormous spans, even as temperature swings cause the material to expand and contract throughout the day. Once installed, the banners became a complete hit, visible by everyone around the area. FASTSIGNS was proud to add this to its line of custom banner projects. Click here to learn more about FASTSIGNS.
Vinyl Tension Brackets Aren’t Just for Poles Anymore
Outdoor is no longer exclusively strapped to steel poles or ‘standard’ OOH structures. Buildings and parking decks could be that next iconic asset in your inventory, and a vinyl tension bracket system makes it possible to mount large-format graphics securely to nearly any flat surface, indoors or out.
Formetco’s outdoor hardware work often overlaps with its sports systems business — the same craftsmanship behind these World Cup wallscapes also powers large-scale LED video boards like the ones recently installed at Dell Diamond.
For a perfect look and ease of installation, the Formetco Vinyl Tension Bracket System will assure you success! Like Formetco’s other precision-engineered outdoor hardware, the system is designed for durability and on-site adjustability, helping installers achieve a taut, professional finish even on oversized, building-mounted banners like the ones at MetLife Stadium.
Where Vinyl Tension Bracket Systems Are Used
While this project shows off a vinyl tension bracket system at a massive, stadium-adjacent scale, the same hardware shows up on projects of nearly every size across the outdoor advertising industry. Sign companies and billboard operators reach for tension bracket systems any time a vinyl face needs to stay smooth and secure over a long service life — think traditional bulletin faces, temporary event branding, construction-site wraps, and large building wallscapes like the FASTSIGNS installation above. Because the brackets allow for adjustment after the vinyl is hung, crews can fine-tune tension on site rather than re-cutting or re-hanging material, which saves both labor and material costs on oversized banners.
For sign companies bidding on large-format wallscape or building wrap projects, that adjustability can be the difference between a banner that looks crisp for years and one that starts to sag or wrinkle within a season. It’s also part of why Formetco continues to pair its vinyl tension bracket system with complementary hardware, like the custom decorative trim used on the American Dream Mall installation, to give operators a complete, turnkey solution rather than a single component.
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