Perforated Canopy
Across the whole face
The perforation runs across the whole canopy rather than being a vent at the ridge. Air passes through the surface itself, which is the only version of a canopy that does not become a lid over wet produce.
Four sided · perforated pitched canopy · crate slats
A square island shopped from all four sides, with a pitched canopy over it that is perforated rather than solid. The canopy gives the fixture a silhouette; the perforation stops it becoming a lid.
Studio angles on white. The canopy perforation, the crate-slat panel, the frame corner and the base are photographed below.
A pitched canopy over a produce island does two useful things: it gives the fixture a roofline that reads from across the store, and it gives signage and lighting somewhere to live. It also does one harmful thing if it is built solid, which is trap warm still air directly above wet produce. This canopy is perforated across its whole face for exactly that reason.
Below it the island is square and worked from four sides, with panels in a crate-slat pattern set into a black steel frame. Four-sided access means no face is a back, so a store can put this in the middle of the department and let traffic flow around it rather than past it.
A square island shopped from all four sides, with a pitched canopy over it that is perforated rather than solid. The canopy gives the fixture a silhouette; the perforation stops it becoming a lid.
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.
The canopy is the reason to buy this island, so two of these four are the canopy and what it is made of.
Across the whole face
The perforation runs across the whole canopy rather than being a vent at the ridge. Air passes through the surface itself, which is the only version of a canopy that does not become a lid over wet produce.
Timber board, open pattern
The panels are set out in a crate-slat pattern, which reads as market produce packaging rather than as shop fitting. It is also an open panel, so air moves through the body as well as the canopy.
Black powder coated
The uprights and rails meet in a welded corner, coated afterwards so there is no bare edge at the joint. On a four sided island every corner is on show from somewhere.
Clear of the wash-down
The body stops clear of the floor so a wash-down does not stand against the timber. It is the same principle as every fixture in this department, and it is the one that decides how long the panels last.
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.
Shelving bays, produce islands and bulk cabinets travel as panels — uprights, shelves, 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.
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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 with padding on the steel. Nothing waits to be assembled at the store beyond levelling it into the lane, and the crate is the counter plus a margin.
Produce islands ship flat as panels, so the container arithmetic runs on panel count rather than on finished size. Two of the builds in this category carry recorded dimensions — 1200 × 750 × 850 mm for the standard island table and 1200 × 800 × 1300 mm for the tall build — and those two are the reference points a loading plan is worked from. Everything else is cut to your aisle and confirmed on the packing list.
Produce is the wettest, heaviest and fastest turning department in the store, and it rarely arrives on its own. These three categories share the fresh aisle with it.
Where the produce run meets the fish counter, both fixtures want stainless at the contact surfaces and a drain in the same floor.
See ice display tablesLoose dry goods sit alongside loose produce in most store plans, and the two departments are read by shoppers as one open market area.
See bulk food binsProduce is promoted harder than any other department, and a 1000 mm square at the head of the aisle is how a glut gets moved.
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 equipment lists by store size.
Send the floor area and tell us if the canopy carries signage or lighting.
Send the floor area you have for it and tell us whether the canopy needs to carry signage, lighting or both. That is specified before production rather than retrofitted.
The four that come up on nearly every enquiry for this build. If yours is not here, send it with your layout and it is answered alongside the quotation.
It can be built solid, and we would ask what is going underneath first. Over wet or misted produce a solid canopy traps warm still air, which is the opposite of what the department needs. Over packaged lines it is harmless.
Yes, and it is the natural place for it. Lighting is specified per order rather than being part of the standard build, so raise it with the enquiry and the route is drawn in before production.
It is sized to the floor space and to the walking room you want on all four sides, rather than sold in a fixed module. Send the floor area and the footprint comes back on the drawing.
It is if the island sits in open floor where traffic flows around it. Against a wall or at the end of a run it is not, and a single or double sided build costs less and holds the same amount.
