The Unibox Brand Book : a 104 page book detailing everything Unibox can create in their headquarters in Manchester.

1. www.unibox.co.uk
info@unibox.co.uk
unibox.
co.uk
Made in the United Kingdom
Greenside Way
Middleton, Manchester, M24 1SW
+44 (0) 845 277 6000

2. Hello.
This is our book of
who we are, how we
do things and what
we make.
Enjoy.
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3. Contents
Who We Are
Pages 4-5
A little about us
Pages 6-11
Our DNA
Pages 12-13
Retail Display
Pages 14-31
16-19
20-23
24-25
26-27
28-29
30-31
Bespoke Design and Build
In-Mall Retail
Standard Cabinets, Showcases
& Counter Islands
Special Items
Shop-in-Shop
Shelving Systems
Exhibition
& Events
Pages 32-51
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36-43
44-45
46-47
48-49
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Stand Construction System
Stands
Curved Tension Fabric System
Tension Fabric Stands
Supercar Launch
Pit Garages
Graphic Display
& Point of Sale
Pages 52-61
54-55 Graphic Display & Point of Sale
Systems
56-57 Bespoke Security Signage & POS
58-59 Bespoke Point of Sale Graphic
Display & Totems
60-61 Metro System
Graphic Illumination
& Signage
Pages 62-67
64-65 Illuminated Signage Solutions
66-67 Edge-lit Illuminated Graphic Displays
Museum & Heritage
Pages 68-71
70-71 Tom Dixon - Royal Academy of Arts,
Tobermory & HMS Raleigh
Workspace Solutions
Pages 72-77
74-75 Office PODs
76-77 Privacy Screening
Lumenal Lighting
Systems
Pages 78-83
Refrigeration Units
Pages 84-87
Services and
Accreditations
Pages 88-89
Our Home
Pages 90-101
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4. Who
We Are
We’re Unibox.
We’re based in Manchester, England, and for over
20 years we’ve worked with designers, architects,
retailers, OEM’s and trade clients to create brilliant
retail, stunning exhibition and intelligent graphic
display systems.
Sometimes our projects are straightforward, whilst
others call for a bit more of our well known ingenuity,
experience and expertise. Regardless of the size
or complexity of a project, we’ve found that our
collaborative approach, can-do spirit and keen eye
for detail, keeps our customers coming back for more.
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5. What
We Make
We make bespoke solutions for retail display,
exhibitions, promotions, graphic display, commercial
interiors, commercial lighting and refrigeration
industries all over the world.
Tesco, Morrisons, Tom Dixon, Carphone Warehouse,
River Island and Sony (to name but a few) have all
designed and implemented some truly innovative
sales environments utilising our products.
We thrive on a challenge and because every project
is different, the process of evolving our products to
meet the changing needs of our clients, means every
day at Unibox is a learning day.
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6. Pretty
Good Stuff
We love aluminium. It’s difficult not to.
For a start, it lasts and lasts.
Over 70% of all aluminium ever produced is still in
use today, and every single profile in our Modular
System can be recycled with no degradation.
But, perhaps more importantly, aluminium is
lightweight, durable and resists corrosion. This keeps
transportation costs down, environmental impact low,
and means the solutions we offer will last longer than
any other of their type.
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7. Unibox Modular
System
It all starts here with our aluminium profiles.
To some they might not appear very special, but
to us they’re incredible. The simplicity and strength
in every precision engineered curve and angle is a
masterpiece of modular design.
Combined with our connectors and accessories,
they allow complex, challenging and contemporary
structures to be simply created.
We call this the Unibox Modular System and it’s at
the heart of most of the things you’ll see in this book.
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8. It’s in our DNA
One system. Countless possibilities.
One of the main benefits of the Unibox Modular System
is that it allows us to collaborate in many different ways.
Some customers know exactly what they want in terms
of parts, profiles, connectors and accessories. Others
require whole kits for a specific design, but more often
than not we work closely with our customers to create a
bespoke solution. It’s that simple.
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9. Retail Display
Twenty years ago, internet shopping didn’t exist.
Retailers told us how and when we were going
to buy. Now, more than at any point in history,
consumers have a choice.
The result? High Street retail environments that
create engaging, on-brand customer experiences.
The following pages show examples of how we
work with retailers to achieve beautiful, functional
and engaging display solutions.
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20-23
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Bespoke Design and Build
In-Mall Retail
Standard Cabinets, Showcases
& Counter Islands
Special Items
Shop-in-Shop
Shelving Systems
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10. Unibox Retail
Bespoke Design & Build
Combine our Modular System with bonded glass,
joinery and laminate finishes, creating a look and
style which is unique to your brand.
Frameless, modular and reconfigurable
UV-bonded glass cubes and plinths.
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UV-bonded glass shelving combined with
custom made plinths featuring high gloss
laminate finish and concealed edge LED
lighting.
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11. The same primary profile system,
used to dramatic effect to
create two very distinct display
environments.
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Painted and clear UV-bonded glass
combined with tactical LED in-cabinet
lighting.
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12. Unibox Retail
In-Mall Retail
The Retail Merchandising Unit (RMU) is a familiar sight in shopping
malls and airports. They are also a perfect example of how 20+ years
of Unibox design and development has perfected the balance between
form and function as we continue to consult with and design for clients,
both nationally and internationally.
Halo RMU.
Kiosks.
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Contemporary RMU Design.
Freestanding catering unit, incorporating
functional storage, LED accent lighting and
multi-surface graphics.
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13. Standard Unibox Halo RMU featuring LED lighting,
glass display shelving and secure storage facility.
In-mall kiosk constructed from Unibox system,
incorporating aluminium slatwall feature (right).
Custom designed RMU, configured with
contemporary glass, directional LED lighting
and laminate-faced block structure. Also
incorporates secure, lockable storage.
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14. Unibox Retail
Standard Showcases, Cabinets and Counter Islands
Not every budget or environment requires a bespoke display
solution. That’s why Unibox offers a range of standard displays
which can be individually specified to create an almost endless
variety of finishes and configurations.
Display case featuring adjustable glass
shelving combined with joinery made
lockable storage cabinets.
One single system used to create multiple
options of size, format and finish is shown
above, including both coloured and clear
glass, acrylics and integral LED lighting.
The ‘Edge’ range of showcases,
counters and cabinets:
Flexible, easily customised and reconfigurable.
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15. Unibox Retail
Special Items
Displays built with Unibox Modular System, with material finishes
including real wood veneers, digital graphics, tempered glass
and LED lighting, creating stunning designs.
Showcase lighting.
Flexible retail shelving:
Reconfigurable cabinets supported off an aluminium rail integrated
into the backwall.
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16. Unibox Retail
Shop-in-Shop
Where brand and functionality meet. Engaging, practical and versatile
concession areas which can be adapted and configured to almost any retail
situation, particularly where floor space is at a premium.
Custom colour-matched aluminium profile, branded
lightboxes, adjustable glass shelving (right) and
customer-specified leather infill.
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Mix of freestanding display cabinets, graphic
displays and joinery units for an optical retail area.
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17. Unibox Retail
Shelving Systems
Combine shelving and storage with Unibox Modular System
and LED lighting to create flexible, robust, product-specific
display opportunities.
Backlit display using adjustable
glass shelving within a custom fit
framework.
Aluminium upright profile sections,
incorporating suspended shelving
and low level storage.
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18. Exhibition
& Events
Unibox collaborates with prominent exhibition
designers, stand builders and event companies
to maximise the exhibitor’s opportunity to really
stand out.
Our trusted, easy-to-use, world class system is
the first choice for exhibition structures, from
modular solutions right through to bespoke
custom-built stands.
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Stand Construction System
Stands
Curved Tension Fabric System
Tension Fabric Stands
Supercar Launch
Pit Garages
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19. Unibox Exhibition & Event
Combine the Unibox Stand Construction System with our
specialist, in-house fabrication techniques; add a terrific range
of profiles and accessories and the result is an almost limitless
infrastructure of exhibition space design possibilities.
Louvre wall created by linking aero
profiles to upright posts.
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20. Unibox Exhibition & Event Structures
Designed and realised in conjunction with design agency
Viable London, the Unibox System was configured in
a honeycomb structure and clad with acrylic petals to
create a stunning central bar area at London’s 100%
Design exhibition.
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21. Unibox Exhibition & Event
Jam Design London tasked us to deliver this concept as part of an events
roadshow for their client - one of France’s premier champagne houses.
The design incorporates bespoke aluminium extrusions and laser-cut acrylic
for a stunning, unique piece of brand expression.
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22. Unibox Exhibition & Event Structures
In response to an ever more demanding consumer world, our
design and product development teams are continually exploring
new opportunities to evolve and enhance our Modular System,
components and accessories, to ensure our clients remain ahead
of the game.
Demonstration unit with integral Lumenal LED lighting.
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Feature wall using printed
glass on ‘Spider clamps.’
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23. Designed in CAD and downloaded
to our CNC rolling machine to create
accurately curved profiles.
Bespoke modular display
featuring AV stands.
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24. Unibox Exhibition & Event
Curved Tension Fabric System
This clever, lightweight Unibox innovation creates an organic feel to an
exhibition, event space or in-house collaboration area. The fabrics can be left
as minimal as desired - or they can become a flood of colour and brand, with
stunning results.
Eye bolt:
Securely fixed into Unibox
channel detail to create a
suspension point.
Ceiling-hung curved TFS frames.
Curved and ceiling-hung TFS screens,
enhanced by Lumenal LED up-lighting.
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25. Unibox Exhibition & Event
Tension Fabric Stands
Create a major impact at events with
curved TFS structures.
Event break out pods.
TFS Archway with AV screens
and promotion displays.
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26. Unibox Exhibition & Event
Backdrop Graphics
TFS can be utilised in open space environments to
create large backdrop displays spanning widths of up
to 50 metres.
Seamless transition from flat to
curved graphic wall.
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27. Unibox Exhibition & Event
Pit Garages
Bespoke graphics, colour-coded accessories and durable
finishes ensure that this demountable and transportable system
delivers in a space where performance means everything.
Unibox create bespoke, branded motorsport solutions for Suzuki,
Kawasaki, Honda and other teams throughout the world.
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28. Graphic Display
& Point of Sale
The days of ‘standard’ are over.
Branded retail, exhibition and commercial
environments demand more than just a ‘big poster’.
Because every element of our modular display
systems are designed and manufactured
in-house, we can customise every dimension,
shape and configuration of your display.
54-55 Graphic Display & Point of Sale
Systems
56-57 Bespoke Security Signage & POS
58-59 Bespoke Point of Sale Graphic
& Totems
Display
60-61 Metro System
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29. Unibox Graphic Display & Point Of Sale Systems
We manufacture an extensive range of pre-configured kits which can be
supplied as either portable or semi-permanent versions. The kits comprise
all the accessories required to create an on-brand customer experience.
Single freestanding Metrolite
graphic display system.
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POS incorporating ‘Blade’ aluminium uprights, solid, lightweight,
coloured infill panels, aluminium slatwall, and selected colour-coded
accessories.
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30. Literature display.
Selected profiles combine with bespoke heavy duty bases
to house a graphics system for security signage in major
UK airports.
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Merchandised POS stand with Tension
Fabric LED Lightbox.
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31. POS counter incorporating
custom manufactured product
merchandising system and audio
visual point, constructed using
system profiles and bespoke
cabinetry.
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Freestanding totem graphic/POS display using an
aluminium framework.
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32. Unibox Graphic Display & Point Of Sale Systems
Metro System
A flexible and robust graphic display system which
is the perfect choice for a multitude of venues and
applications.
Full exhibtion event using the metro system:
HMS Raleigh Shore Training Establishment &
Tobermory Harbour Marine Visitor Centre.
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Metro display system incorporating AV, magnetic graphic
display and feature colour-coded acrylic end caps.
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33. Graphic Illumination
& Signage
We have developed a range of stunning LED
illuminated graphic display options for retail,
events, corporate and commercial environments.
Using removable or fixed graphics, our slimline
designs incorporate a variety of materials to create
highly engaging areas of graphic display and
messaging.
64-65 Illuminated Signage Solutions
66-67 Edge-lit Illuminated Graphic Displays
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34. Unibox Graphic Illumination
Dramatic, lightweight illuminated displays featuring easy to
change, digitally printed graphics utilising high quality, energy
efficient LED lighting technology.
7 metre long Tension
Fabric LED lightbox.
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Laser-cut, LED illuminated signage developed for a
retail design consultancy and installed across the
UK within a leading high street electronics retailer.
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35. Edge-lit Illuminated Graphic Displays
Our most advanced slimline lightboxes include high-quality, flexible
LEDs to illuminate laser-etched acrylic panels, featuring a bespoke
dot matrix pattern.
Slimlite TFS panel:
Ultra-slim illuminated display for
Tension Fabric System graphics.
Slimlite solid panel:
By combining sleek Unibox aluminium extrusions
with an edge-lit LED light guide plate, the printed
graphic is permanently set and sits flush with the
edge of its housing, creating a frameless effect.
Using cast acrylic, high resolution photo quality
media, this display has been developed for when
permanent graphics are required.
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36. Museum &
Heritage
We work with designers and specifiers to create
bespoke museum & heritage displays, many of
which have been featured in various high profile
projects.
We take this as a ringing endorsement, not only
of our Modular System’s versatility, but of our
materials knowledge and design expertise.
Only from understanding and sharing a client’s
vision can we then begin to realise it.
70-71 Tom Dixon - Royal Academy of Arts,
Tobermory & HMS Raleigh
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37. Unibox Museum & Heritage Displays
Unibox has contributed to a number of high profile projects in
the museum and heritage space - crafting bespoke exhibition
and signage displays, as well as secure display showcases for
valuable artefacts.
Bespoke Metro graphic display
system:
HMS Raleigh Shore Training
Establishment, Cornwall.
Bespoke, secure display
showcases:
Designed in collaboration with
the Tom Dixon interiors project
for the Oliver Peyton restaurant
at The Royal Academy of Arts.
Metro & AV Graphic Displays:
Created for the Tobermory Harbour Marine
Visitor Centre.
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38. Workspace
Solutions
Our pods and privacy screens are designed to
be as practical and functional as they are sleek
and understated, with the same attention to
detail and engineering precision as all of our
products.
As you would expect, our systems encourage
clients to incorporate bespoke graphics,
materials and finishes resulting in contemporary
working environments.
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76-77 Privacy Screening
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39. Office Pods
We’ve developed a new range of modular meeting pods.
Contemporary and flexible, with unrivalled acoustic
qualities, our pods provide complete privacy. We also
offer bespoke design & branding possibilities to suit your
working environment or even create a new one.
Integration of accessories and hardware.
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40. Privacy Screening
We’ve worked with interior designers to develop and produce bespoke partitions and privacy
screening for high profile clients in the the automotive, finance and retail sectors.
Media AV units.
Designed to accept a wide variety of panel finishes
and substrates.
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41. Lumenal Lighting
Systems
Lumenal are UK-based manufacturers of modular
LED lighting solutions for retail, point of sale,
exhibitions and galleries.
Constant innovation implemented by the Lumenal
team, means we offer intelligently designed and
highly engineered LED lighting products creating
more energy-efficient, intelligent solutions.
With over 20 years manufacturing experience,
we understand that our clients want products that
function perfectly, look fantastic and offer a great
return on investment.
Our technical expertise and manufacturing
capability, combined with extensive experience
of display, enables us to meet the business
needs of our seriously high profile client base.
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42. Lumenal
We manufacture all of our linear, spot, track and edge-lit lighting solutions in-house,
and while we won’t blind you with the science around LED lighting, our products
are market-leading thanks to the constant innovation implemented by the Lumenal
team, constantly creating more energy-efficient, intelligently designed products.
Our client base is testament to our dedication, working with the likes of Tesco,
River Island, Tom Dixon and other high profile end-users, specifiers and
designers.
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43. Under-shelf lighting:
Morrisons supermarket.
‘Neutral’ and ‘warm’ white diodes are combined to
enhance the colour properties in a mixed jewellery
display.
Edge-lit acrylic panels and linear display
lighting in Carphone Warehouse.
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44. Refrigeration
Units
Our long-standing association with the refrigeration
industry has resulted in the development and
manufacture, here at our premises in Manchester,
of a wide range of products including chiller
cabinets and cassettes, glass door systems and
lineside equipment.
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45. Unibox Refigeration Units
We’ve worked in the refrigeration and temperature
controlled environment market since 1993 and are a
recognised, leading specialist manufacturer of chiller
units for the rail industry.
We design, manufacture and install refrigerated display cabinets and chiller units for
companies such as Alstom Engineering and Bombardier. In addition, we offer a range
of glass door systems, electrochromically heated panels and clean room environment
construction systems.
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Kitchen chiller evaporator matrix.
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46. Services
and
Accreditations
welding
bespoke
extrusions
WEEE
ROHS
cnc-machining
cutting
aluminium
composite
fabrication
bending
laminating
cnc-routing
uv
bonding
pcb
design
deburring
laser-cutting
ISO 14001
ISO 9001
punching
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laser-etching
solidworks
technical
design
joinery
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47. Our
Home
We are proud of where we live. It is the perfect
home for producing the products we love to
make for you, our clients and partners.
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48. Attention to detail.
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49. Our people.
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50. The smaller details.
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51. It all fits together.
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53. Website
www.unibox.co.uk
www.uniboxsystem.co.uk
www.unitedaluminium.co.uk
www.lumenal.co.uk
Email
brandbook@unibox.co.uk
info@unibox.co.uk
Phone
+44 (0) 845 277 6000
Fax
+44 (0) 845 277 6001
Address
Unibox, United Aluminium
Greenside Way
Middleton
Manchester
M24 1SW
Unibox World, The Marketing Works
47 Queens Road
Weybridge
Surrey
KT14 9UH