About Stylmark

For five decades, Stylmark has been a leading manufacturer of aluminum and steel products for retail, hospitality, entertainment and other commercial environments.

Whether your expertise lies in design, planning, manufacturing or contracting, you can rely on Stylmark to collaborate with you in designing, integrating, and delivering the best possible solution to ensure your business needs and objectives are met. As part of an employee-owned company, each Stylmark employee understands the importance of maintaining our reputation as an organization that delivers on its commitments to you, our customer.

New Name, Same Great Service

You may have heard by now that Clearr Corporation has been acquired by Stylmark. While change can sometimes be unsettling, we want to assure you that you will continue to receive the same excellent products and service you’ve come to expect from Clearr Corporation…and so much more.

Clearr Corporation’s product line is a perfect compliment to the wide range of solutions that Stylmark offers. We share the same intrinsic belief that our first and foremost responsibility is to our customers.

Our intention is to have a seamless transition that will go unnoticed by our customers. Behind the scenes Stylmark and Clearr Corporation will be working tirelessly in unison to put our customers at ease. To quote Michael Caine, we will “be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”

If you have an order in progress, we will meet the specified lead time. If you wish to reorder the products that you’ve been buying from Clearr Corporation for years, you can expect the same great product, quick lead time, and friendly customer service with Stylmark.

You can be confident that we will continue to foster the relationship that you built with Clearr Corporation and hope to exceed all of your expectations.

Posted by Ryan Lester

Stylmark Announces Acquisition of Clearr Corporation

Stylmark adds lighted signage products & graphic displays to their capabilities

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. – September 22, 2010 – Stylmark, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of aluminum, steel and lighting products for retail and commercial environments, today announced that it has acquired the assets of privately-held Clearr Corporation.

Founded in 1959, Clearr Corporation is an established world leader in the field of high-impact graphic display products. Clearr’s product line includes a broad offering of backlit displays and lightboxes, poster frames, edgelit displays, and frameless fabric displays.

“Clearr Corporation has been an innovative leader of high-impact graphic display solutions and the acquisition supports Stylmark’s growth objectives,” said Stylmark Chairman David Brink. “The acquisition provides Stylmark additional product lines that will allow us to expand our customer base in our core retail market as well as our developmental markets,” added Brink.

Stylmark and Clearr will continue operations in both Stylmark’s 160,000 sq. foot facility in Fridley and Clearr Corporation’s 40,000 sq. foot facility in Golden Valley and will operate under the Stylmark corporate name.

Recent Product Developments

Clearr Corporation has several recent developments in LED displays that are innovative, exciting, and very environmentally friendly.

In the middle rear is our proprietary laser-etched light-guide panel, which is now standard in our Vantage^® and PlaneLight™ products.

On the right side in the photo are curved LED light-guide panels, one concave and one convex. In the middle front is our EdgeLite^®, which we have offered for many years, but it now has new life due to the increased brightness and energy efficiency provided by the LED's.

The two units on the left side are our light-guide panels placed in EdgeLite^® fixtures, which for the first time allow backlit graphics to be displayed in a "blade" configuration, with only 1/4" thickness!! See the photo below for a closer view, and an explanation follows beneath:


The unit on the left contains only the panel with no graphic. It is in our recessed fixture, which contains the LED driver, and can be recessed into a fixture or table, or into a wall or ceiling, with only the thin cover plate and the panel being visible.

The unit on the right has a graphic attached, and is in our triangular fixture. Small units like this can sit on a counter without additional mounting hardware. Units on counters that are larger, and/or need to be attached to the counter, take a mounting plate extrusion, which slides onto the bottom, extends slightly forward and back from the base, and can have mounting holes.

This fixture also contains the LED driver, and can be mounted so the panels extend up from tables or counters, out from walls, or down from ceilings. We also have a circular extrusion that accommodates the driver. In addition, we have much smaller and more elegant extrusions available for these purposes, if the user is able to mount remote drivers elsewhere, such as inside store fixtures or behind walls.

I am particularly excited about the "blade" concept. These displays can be up to 2' in height (panel height, not including the base), and unlimited in length, except for small seams every 10-14 feet, due to the limits of materials size, as well as for handling reasons. They can be used as very high-end wayfinding signs, complete with background graphics.

They can also be used to display decorative graphics. One example is as a continuous array of fruits, vegetables, or any other topical items in an upscale supermarket, either overhead or extending from walls, or both. The number of uses is endless.

Posted by Andy Steinfeldt, Clearr Corporation

Overstock Closeout Spotlight: MovingPix Scrolling Backlit Displays

Clearr Corporation has a variety of overstock items available, for a limited time, at a very special 50% discount. Among the offering are light boxes, poster frames, 3-message prismatic displays, and scrolling backlit displays. Click here to access the Overstock Sale.

Included are three 48" x 96" mega-sized MovingPix™ scrolling backlit displays. They feature an elegant satin-anodized aluminum finish. Their brilliant illumination, smooth image transition, and sheer size are sure to command viewers' attention.


Best of all, they are available right now. You don't have to wait for them to be built. Simply place the order, at an unprecedented 50 percent discount, and we'll ship immediately.


If you purchase all three, we'll extend an additional 2% discount off the net price. They are available on a first come, first served basis.


Posted by Ryan Lester, Clearr Corporation