Shopfront perfection With its diverse range of services and extensive experience in the industry, Pacific Shopfitters Pty Ltd is not your average commercial aluminium fabricating and glazing company. Its services include factory entrances, frameless glass shopfronts, aluminium shopfronts, highrise apartments, doors, windows, office partitions and much more. “We do anything to do with commercial glass and aluminium, from the smaller shopfront to the biggest high-rise,” Pacific Shopfitters Director Kon Samartzis explains. “We do virtually everything to do with commercial fabrication.” Together with Kon’s fellow director Jim Kakridas (who has around 40 years’ experience in the window industry), Pacific Shopfitters prides itself on its ability to produce high-quality products for its clients. One of the company’s strengths is its capacity to provide solutions to meet its clients’ needs. Additionally, its 36 staff has more than 30 years’ combined experience in the commercial aluminium fabricating industry. A team of extremely knowledgeable tradesmen as well as the company’s personnel, ensures Pacific Shopfitters has the ability to complete significant projects to specification and with a high standard finish. Its capacity to provide a large variety of quality products is evident through its longWWW.ANCR.COM.AU
standing repeat customers as well as its work on a wide range of major residential and commercial projects.
aluminium sliding doors and windows, automatic sliding doors, bi-fold doors and frameless or framed stackable door systems.
“We’re currently working on Haven Apartments in Richmond, where we’re doing all the external windows, as well as 9 Darling Street in South Yarra, also doing the external windows,” Kon said.
The company also constructs factory entrances. These entrances are designed to meet practical needs as well as aesthetic requirements, including automatic doors, oversized access doors, escape doors and fully frameless shopfronts.
Pacific Shopfitters has extensive experience in high-rise apartment developments. One of these developments was the Guild Apartments in South Melbourne.
The company can even provide old-style shopfronts for a yesteryear look or to meet heritage requirements. Shopfronts and windows can be constructed with stainless steel, brass or copper mouldings.
The project, which required the exact design and installation of more than 700 randomly placed porthole windows on three sides of the 24-storey apartment complex, is testament to Pacific Shopfitters’ stringent attention to detail and quality craftsmanship. As well as designing and installing the portholes — each of which varied in size and colour — Pacific Shopfitters also completed the display shopfronts, external windows and ground floor art display spaces. In addition to the Guild Apartments, Pacific Shopfitters was also contracted to do works on the Tooronga Village Shopping Centre and residential village (now Stockland Tooronga) in Glen Iris. As well as high-rise apartments, the company constructs full frameless glass shopfronts that stand out from the crowd. It also constructs aluminium shopfronts in a vast range of styles. This includes framed
Pacific Shopfitters also fabricates balustrades and pool fences, as well as complete frameless cast balustrades used in a number of high-rise apartments. In addition to being one of the leaders in the glazing and fabrication industry, its staff has a resolute dedication to ensure the company continues to meet each and every one of its project deadlines. A rigorous focus on safety is also critical to Pacific Shopfitters. The company has its own OH&S team that is involved in the planning and supervision of Pacific Shopfitters’ projects.
For more information contact Pacific Shopfitters Pty Ltd, 336-338 Johnson Street Abbotsford VIC 3067, phone 03 9419 2500, fax 03 9419 5688, email sales@pacificshopfitters.com, website www. pacificshopfitters.com ANCR SPECIAL FOCUS
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