Corflute Signs

Corflute is one of the most widely used sign substrates in Australia. Its unbeatable combination of low cost, weather resistance, and lightweight handling makes it the first choice for temporary and semi-permanent applications. With over 6,500 completed signage projects, we've supplied Corflute panels for:

• Real estate & property signage — for sale/lease boards, open home signs, directional arrows
• Construction & development sites — site identification, safety reminders, project branding
• Events & festivals — wayfinding, sponsor boards, information panels, temporary barriers
• Political & election campaigns — roadside signs, polling station signage, campaign boards
• Retail & hospitality promotions — sale signs, menu boards, footpath signs, window displays
• Agriculture & rural signage — farm gate signs, livestock directions, property identification

How Corflute Compares to Other Sign Materials

Corflute owns the budget / short-term end of the rigid sign market — nothing else ships a usable outdoor sign at Corflute's per-square-metre cost. It's lighter than every alternative, waterproof, and genuinely recyclable (resin code 5 polypropylene). The print typically lasts 12–18 months in outdoor UV before visible fade. For permanent or longer-term outdoor signage, ACM, aluminium, or acrylic may be a better fit. Here's how the common substrates compare:

Corflute Sign Sizes — The Formats Australians Order Most

Corflute signs are cut to order, so you are not restricted to a catalogue size. Enter any dimensions from 100mm up to a full sheet at 2440 x 1220mm in the configurator above and the price updates as you type, in portrait or landscape. That said, four formats account for most of the corrugated plastic signage ordered in Australia, and they exist for good reasons:

• 600 x 450mm — open-home directional arrows, footpath signs, shelf and point-of-sale cards, and the usual A-frame insert size
• 900 x 600mm — the default real estate sign in Australia: for-sale and for-lease boards, agent photo boards, auction signage
• 1200 x 900mm — construction site signage, project and development boards, larger commercial for-lease panels, site safety notices
• 2440 x 1220mm — the full sheet: hoarding panels, temporary fence signage, large-format event and sponsor boards

If your signs sit in an existing frame, stand or fence panel, measure the visible aperture rather than the frame and order to that size. Corflute is easy to trim on site with a sharp blade, but a factory-cut edge is square, sealed and far cleaner on a customer-facing sign.

Corflute Printing — 3mm or 5mm, Single or Double Sided

Two decisions drive the cost and the performance of a corflute printing order: sheet thickness and whether you print one face or both. 3mm corflute is the lighter, lower-cost option and it is the right pick for high-volume runs that are installed once and retired at the end of a campaign — election signs, open-home arrows, indoor promotions and point-of-sale displays. 5mm corflute is noticeably stiffer, resists wind flex and edge buckling, and holds its shape through repeated install-and-remove cycles. Anything larger than about 900mm on its long edge, anything mounted on stakes in an exposed position, and anything a real estate agency will reuse week after week should be 5mm.

Double-sided printing is worth the surcharge whenever the sign is approached from two directions: footpath and A-frame signage, roadside election signs, corner blocks, and wayfinding at events. Where the back of the panel faces a wall or a fence, single-sided is the sensible choice. Both options print the same way — UV-stable inks applied directly to the polypropylene surface, so the graphic is part of the panel rather than a vinyl layer that can lift at the edges.

Mounting Corflute Signs — Stakes, Ties & Fence Fixing

Corflute's biggest advantage over rigid alternatives is how easily your own team can put it up. We supply the printed panels; the fixing method is yours to choose. For real estate signs and election signs, wire H-frame stakes push into soft ground in seconds — no tools and no drilling. For fence-line work (construction site signage, hoarding, event wayfinding), cable ties through corner eyelets are the standard method. Order your Corflute signs with metal eyelets and every panel arrives ready to tie, rope or hook straight onto a fence, scaffold or barrier. Stakes, ties and A-frame stands are widely available from hardware and sign-supply retailers — tell us the stand or frame you are using and we will cut the panel to suit it.

• Wire H-frame stakes: push-in ground stakes for lawns, nature strips and soft soil — the standard method for real estate and election signs
• Cable ties: the fastest fence, scaffold and temporary-fence fixing; thread through eyelets or the corrugated flutes
• Metal eyelets (grommets): choose 2, 4 or 6 eyelets in the configurator above and your panels arrive pre-punched and reinforced
• Adhesive foam pads: for indoor and point-of-sale displays where no fixing should be visible
• A-frame inserts: Corflute is the standard A-frame insert substrate — give us the frame size and we cut the panel to fit

Care, Reuse & End-of-Life

Corflute needs essentially zero maintenance for its intended short lifespan. If the print is still sharp and you want to extend use, a wipe-down with warm water removes dust and road grime. Corflute is fully recyclable as polypropylene (resin code 5). For election and real-estate runs where hundreds of signs retire at once, talk to our team about arranging bulk collection and recycling through our waste partners. The wire stakes are steel and separately recyclable (or reusable for multiple sign cycles).

Real Estate, Election and Construction Site Signage

Three sectors buy the overwhelming majority of corflute signs in Australia, and each has its own working pattern. Real estate signs run on templates: a 900 x 600mm agency board, a matching set of open-home arrows, and a photo board refreshed per listing. Once your template is on file with us, repeat orders are a quantity change rather than a new design job, and colour stays consistent from batch to batch.

Election signs are the classic corflute application: large quantities, double-sided, mounted on wire stakes along roadsides and outside polling places, then retired the day after the count. Order quantities up to 1,000 panels are priced automatically in the configurator above. Check your electoral commission's current authorisation requirements before you submit artwork — the authorisation statement has to be part of the printed design, and reprinting a campaign run because the line was omitted is an expensive lesson.

Construction site signage covers site identification, principal contractor boards, mandatory PPE and safety messaging, project renders and developer branding, usually cable-tied to temporary fencing. Corflute suits this perfectly: the panels survive a build programme, cost little enough to replace when a hoarding is reconfigured, and are light enough for one person to fix a full run of fence panels without lifting gear.

Ordering Corflute Signs in Sydney and Australia-wide

Every corflute sign we sell is printed and cut in our own Sydney factory and shipped from there, so you are buying direct from the manufacturer rather than through a reseller. Sydney orders reach most metro addresses quickly, and we deliver corrugated plastic signage Australia-wide — Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart, Darwin, Newcastle, Wollongong and regional centres.

The process is deliberately short: configure the size, thickness, sides and eyelets above to get an instant price, place the order, and upload your artwork. Our prepress team checks resolution, bleed and colour before anything goes to print, and comes back to you if a file will not reproduce cleanly. Agencies, builders, event companies and print resellers ordering corflute regularly can apply for a trade account with pricing and repeat-order templates held on file.

Why Australian Businesses Choose Platinum Signs for Corflute

Every Corflute sign is printed, cut, and dispatched from our own factory. We stock 3mm and 5mm Corflute in the full 2440 x 1220mm sheet format, so standard real-estate and election orders ship within 2–3 business days to dispatch after artwork approval with no supplier-lead-time risk. Our roll-fed press UV inkjet handles up to 1600mm print width with automatic colour calibration, so repeat real-estate template orders stay consistent batch-to-batch. For agencies rolling weekly open-home signage or political campaigns with 500+ sign runs, we set up trade accounts with repeat-order templates held on file to speed every future job.