Square island cabinet · glazed cross braced top · four sided
A square island that is shopped from all four sides. The top is glazed and divided by a steel cross brace into four display quarters, and every face below it is a cabinet door, so the whole footprint is storage.
Two studio angles on white. The brace junction, the handles, the frame corner and the timber facing are photographed close up below.
This is the fixture for the middle of a floor rather than the side of it. Being square and shopped from four sides, it does not have a back to waste, and the steel cross brace across the glazed top divides the display into four quarters that can each hold a different line without anything mixing. The brace is structural as well as visual — it is what stops a glazed top this wide flexing under a hand leaning on it.
Underneath, every one of the four faces is a cabinet door on a long black bar handle, in a dark timber with the grain running vertically. That gives a store an unusual amount of closed storage directly under the display it serves, which on a dry goods floor is the difference between restocking from the fixture and restocking from the back room.
A square island that is shopped from all four sides. The top is glazed and divided by a steel cross brace into four display quarters, and every face below it is a cabinet door, so the whole footprint is storage.
Supermarkets, convenience stores, chain retail and speciality stores. Tell us the store format and the floor area and the specification comes back written against them.
On a four sided cabinet every face is a front, so there is nowhere to hide a rough joint. The centre brace is what keeps the square true.
One door per face
Each face carries a full length bar handle rather than a knob. On a four sided island the doors are opened from whichever side the staff member happens to be standing, so the handle has to be findable without looking.
Welded centre, four quarters
The two braces meet and are welded at the centre of the top. That single junction is what holds a square this wide from racking, and it is why the cabinet can be moved on a pallet truck without the doors going out of line.
Black powder coat over steel
The uprights and the top rail meet in a welded corner and are coated afterwards, so there is no bare edge at the joint. A bolted corner would show a fixing here and would be the first place the coating fails.
1.5 to 2.5 mm board
The facing board runs vertically on every panel including the doors, so the grain lines up across a closed face. It is the reason the cabinet reads as one object rather than as four doors bolted to a frame.
Every item on this page is made to order. Send a floor plan, a hand sketch or a photograph of a fixture you like, and we quote against it.
Store fixtures are light for their size, so a container fills up on volume long before it fills up on weight. What decides your freight is not what one unit weighs — it is what shape the goods are in when they go through the container door. Everything we build leaves in one of three shapes, and a bulk island is the one that travels best.
Bulk islands travel as panels — carcase sides, shelves, bin rails, back panels and plinths, strapped flat with bubble wrap on every component. They are built up on the shop floor, so the packing list and the assembly drawings travel with the goods.
This model
Trolleys slide into one another and baskets stack. Past the first unit, each extra one adds only its nesting pitch instead of its full length, so the shipped volume ends up a fraction of what the unit count suggests.
A checkout lane is welded, coated and fitted out as one piece, so it is crated whole. That is the expensive end of the freight scale, and it is the reason a counter order and a bulk order load so differently.
Because this island ships as panels rather than assembled, the container arithmetic runs on panel count instead of on finished size — which is why two islands of the same footprint can load very differently depending on how many compartments each one carries. We do not publish a units-per-container figure for that reason. It is worked out against your actual order and comes back on the packing list together with the case dimensions, once the island size is confirmed.
A bulk island rarely arrives on its own. These three categories share the dry goods aisle with it, and putting them on one order is what lets a single colour reference run across the whole aisle, because it is then one batch of coating rather than three.
Loose grain and loose dry goods almost always share an aisle, and both want stainless wherever a scoop lands. Ordering them together keeps the two halves of the aisle in one timber.
See grain racksThe bays that run behind and alongside a bulk island are what a shopper sees while standing at it, so they carry the same colour and the same board tone.
See shelving baysLoose lines are promoted constantly, and a 1000 mm promotion square at the head of the aisle is the cheapest way to push one without rebuilding the island.
See promotional display tablesHow many of each a store needs is a floor area question rather than a product question, and it is answered store by store on the supermarket layout design page.
Square islands are quoted on footprint, so send the floor area you want it to hold rather than a length.
Send the floor area rather than a length for this one. A square island is sized by how much walking room it leaves on all four sides, which is a different sum from a wall run.
The four that come up on nearly every enquiry for this build. If yours is not here, send it with your aisle drawing and it is answered alongside the quotation.
Yes. A boarded top turns the cabinet into a display platform that will take weight, which is what stores promoting cartoned goods usually want. The cross brace stays either way, because it is doing structural work rather than dividing the glass.
That is set per order. One open interior is simpler to load; four separate compartments are easier to keep tidy when four different lines are stocked above. Tell us which way your staff work and it is built to suit.
It is sized to the floor space rather than sold in a fixed module. Send the floor area and the walking room you want around it, and the footprint comes back on the drawing.
It is a steel frame with board facings, so it is light for its size — that is exactly why fixtures fill a container on volume rather than weight. It ships as flat panels and is built up in position on the shop floor.
