Glazed bulk island · twin bays · pale worktop
A long island divided into two glazed bays by a black steel frame, with a pale worktop running over the top. It is the quieter fixture in this category — built for stores where the merchandise is meant to be the loud part.
Two studio angles on white. The frame and glass junction, the curved end, the worktop rail and a glass panel joint are shown below.
The frame does the work here. A black steel structure runs the length of the island and divides the display into two glazed bays, each one enclosed on the long sides by glass panels set into the frame. Above them a pale worktop caps the whole run in one line, which is what stops a twin bay island reading as two fixtures pushed together.
Under the glazing the base is a light timber cabinet run, and one end of the island is radiused with the frame and glass both bent to follow it. The pale worktop against dark frame and light timber is a deliberately low contrast combination: it suits stores merchandising colourful loose goods, where a dark fixture would compete with the product.
A long island divided into two glazed bays by a black steel frame, with a pale worktop running over the top. It is the quieter fixture in this category — built for stores where the merchandise is meant to be the loud part.
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 frame is the whole structural idea of this build, so three of these four are frame junctions: straight run, curve, and panel to panel.
Glass set into welded steel
The glass sits in a channel in the frame rather than being surface fixed. It means a panel can be replaced without disturbing the structure, which matters on a fixture that spends its life with trolleys being pushed into it.
Radiused end, glazed
Both the steel and the glass follow the radius at the end of the island. Curved glass is the expensive part of this build and it is the reason the aisle head looks finished rather than cut off.
Pale top, black edge
The pale worktop is capped by a dark rail along the edge. The contrast is what gives the top a visible line from across the floor, and the rail takes the knocks the worktop edge would otherwise take.
Panel to panel in frame
Where two panels meet they are both carried in the frame rather than butted against each other. It is a small thing that decides whether a long glazed run stays straight after a year on a shop floor.
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.
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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. 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 equipment lists by store size.
Tell us what goes in the bays and we will say whether they want decking, bins or crates.
What goes inside the bays is the open question on this build. Send your range and we will come back with whether decking, bins or crates suit it, drawn against your aisle.
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. The bay is the module and the island is built in multiples of it, so a longer aisle simply gets more bays under the same continuous worktop. Send the run length and the bay count comes back with the drawing.
The glass encloses the long sides rather than the top, so loading is from above and nothing has to be opened. Where a store wants the bays closed off entirely we fit a top as well — but that changes it from a display island into a cabinet, and most stores do not want that here.
It is specified separately, because a worktop takes wear that a vertical facing never does. Stainless steel board goes on any worktop where a scoop or a wet line lands, and that decision is made against what the bays carry.
Yes. Everything is plastic powder coated to any RAL or PANTONE reference, and the reference is held across every category on the same order. A frame matched to your store colour rather than black is a common request on this build.
