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Xanita's X-Board , X-Board Kraft and X-Board Plus eco-friendly boards are increasingly specified by sustainability-focused architects and designers working to reduce the environmental footprint of their client's retail stores. Shopping centre owners increasingly attract a better quality tenant through offering them a cleaner built environment. Xanita boards offer numerous solutions in this regard.
Store owners and their designers are able to embrace refits within their stores due to the ease with which lightweight Xanita boards can be fitted, removed and recycled (or re-used) and replaced with minimal impact to trading hours.
Working solutions for bulkheads, furniture, shelving, counter tops, retail display walls and hoardings are but a few examples of where lightweight eco-friendly materials are utilised as an advantage over traditional, heavy weight MDF and particle board, which usually gets dumped after use, as toxic landfill.
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Shown opposite is an example of Woolworths South Africa who engaged an architect and shop fitter to embrace and utilise industrial inkjet printed, pre-cut and pre-manufactured X-Board panels, converting them into slatted timber look-alike, suspended bulkheads.
The biggest compliment to this high quality solution is that this bulkhead was fitted near consumable food products within a Woolworths Food Store in only three hours, without disturbing the trading of the store. A small basket-sized amount of paper waste was removed from the site after the job.
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 Bulkheads above refrigerated food and drink areas often cover the services, piping and wiring to those fridges. Quick and easy access to these services can therefore be difficult and time consuming if traditional timber and gypsum-based products are used.
Shown opposite is an example of a removable printed bulkhead that is fixed onto a lightweight TRIGA aluminium frame for easy removal and replacement within the N1 City Woolworths store in South Africa.
Pre-printed and pre-cut X-Board was used and neatly installed in one on-site application, within three hours, with no dust generation on site or costly disruption to store trading hours.
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 Hoardings within retail centres are increasingly required to be aesthetically appealing during tenant change-over periods.
The branded solution shown opposite is an ideal example of how direct industrial inkjet printed X-Board can add value to hoardings within retail centres. The common way for hoarding was to build with plywood, stick a pre-printed PVC graphic over the wood and then dispose of the structure to landfill after use.
The owners of Cavendish Shopping Centre, Old Mutual Group Property Investments, are now leading campaigns for eco-friendly solutions to hoardings using printed X-Board.
X-Board panels were fixed as the temporary shop front using top hat sections that allowed easy disassembly and re-use of the X-Board sheeting.
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 Shop owners are often challenged by having to move their shelving layouts within their stores to facilitate new product launches.
This task is not as tedious if a lightweight shelving solution made from X-Board Plus is adopted, onto which decorative surfaces such as timber veneer, melamine or high pressure laminates are applied.
The 58mm thick, cantilevered shelves shown opposite are ideally suited to the achieve visually thick aesthetics, are strong and lightweight, and conform to the eco-friendly status of this new giftware store located in Sydney, Australia.
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 Wall stripping "filler" panels made from decorated MDF or particleboard are traditionally not used for displaying graphic-based themes due to them being permanently fixed to the wall until the next major shop fit.
However, direct inkjet printed X-board or 3M Di-Noc Architectural films applied over X-Board Kraft, allow lightweight walls to fill the area between the vertically mounted metal wall strips, without permanently fixing these panels. The result....temporary retail display backdrops with graphics to suit.
These filler panels can be pre-printed and fitted by a single person.
Seasonal themes and graphic opportunities are therefore available in this application (front and back surface) and can be changed as often as required with no store or department closure required.
Need a sample or more information?
To locate a shop fitter or industrial inkjet printer capable of delivering on the above solutions, simply contact your nearest Xanita regional office.
To learn how to convert Xanita's product, click on the appropriate "Our Products" link shown in the main menu.
Don't forget to also view our short videos showing Xanita boards being printed, cut, routed and built into recyclable structures for use across numerous industries.
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