Countertop risers, tiered display stands, catalog stands, jewelry display trays, lit showcases and 2 m POP display cabinets — built to a retained colour standard so store 80 matches store 1, and flat-packed so a rollout does not arrive damaged.
Retail buyers rarely choose acrylic for its strength. They choose it because it is clear, it takes a print, and it can be formed into shapes that glass cannot economically match. The problems start when a supplier treats all acrylic as one material.
Cast and extruded sheet behave differently under the same machining. Cast sheet machines cleanly and polishes to a glass-like edge; extruded sheet is cheaper and can be fine for flat, unpolished parts, but it stress-cracks around holes and looks dull next to cast. For a display that a customer will pick up and inspect, we use cast.
The second decision is edge finish. Flame polishing is fast and gives a bright, glassy edge — but it introduces local stress, and on thick sections it can craze months later. Diamond polishing takes longer and costs more, and it leaves an edge that stays clear. For high-traffic fixtures we default to diamond polishing and say so in the quote.
A rollout fails on colour, not on shape. Two batches of the same nominal colour, from two sheet lots, will visibly differ under retail lighting — and a customer walking between two branches will notice.
Our approach is to retain a physical master swatch per project, approved by you, and measure every batch against that swatch rather than against the previous shipment. Target is ΔE ≤ 2 under D65, and ΔE ≤ 1.5 where both sides hold a swatch. The distinction matters: comparing to the last batch lets drift accumulate, comparing to a fixed master resets it every time.
Hardware is the other silent failure. Each flat-pack gets a numbered bag with a printed parts list, so a store fitter with no instructions can still assemble it correctly. Where a fixture ships in more than one carton, the cartons are numbered and packed in assembly order.
A display brief that produces an accurate quote contains five things:
If you have a competitor fixture you like, send a photo with the dimension that matters most marked on it. That single annotated photo often saves a full sample round.
Risers that sag. Thickness scales with span and load. A 250 mm span carrying cosmetics is fine at 5 mm; the same span carrying bottles needs 8 mm or a folded return. We size this before quoting rather than discovering it in the store.
Seams that show. Solvent-bonded joints look invisible at eye level and obvious under grazing light. We move joints away from light-critical angles and polish after bonding, not before.
Edges that yellow. Flame-polished edges and printed surfaces both age faster under UV. For window-facing fixtures we specify UV-stabilised sheet and a sealed print.
Scratches in transit. Every part ships with a protective film on both faces and foam interleave between stacked parts. Film removal is left to the store, not the packing line.
Questions on this line
Ten pieces is the practical floor once a fixture is bent and bonded, because jigs have to be built and set. Flat, laser-cut parts can start from one piece. For a rollout we quote per store and per unit so you can see where the volume break sits.
We match to a physical swatch or a Pantone reference and hold ΔE ≤ 2 under D65, or ΔE ≤ 1.5 if you also retain a swatch. Exact spectral match is not achievable in acrylic because sheet lots vary; what we can promise is that no customer will see two stores side by side and call the colour different.
Flat-packed per store, with numbered hardware bags and a printed parts list in each carton. Multi-carton fixtures are numbered in assembly order. Consolidated pallets are available if you would rather distribute from a warehouse than receive per store.
Dimensioned sketch, a photo of the current fixture with the problem marked, or a STEP file — any of them is enough to quote. We will tell you what thickness and edge finish the job actually needs.
