Commercial Christmas lights and displays
Walk-through arches, animated figures, tunnels and photo-op structures for light attractions, downtowns and parks. We build from your drawing or make one from your sketch, crate the structures to fit the container, and clear them through customs at the other end.
What we build
Every display is made to a drawing, so treat these as starting points. Send a finished drawing and we quote against it. Send a sketch or a photo of something close and we draw it up for your approval.
Entrance and gateway arches, themed with stars, snowflakes or hearts, or cut to a shape of your own.
See Christmas arches
A run of arches or panels that visitors walk or drive through, lit static or chasing.
See Christmas light tunnels
Reindeer, polar bears, even dinosaurs, on a welded frame skinned in plastic mesh or acrylic.
Pieces visitors step into for a photo, like a giant ornament or a walk-in figure.
See giant ornaments
A sleigh with its team of reindeer, or a carriage, built as one set of figures.
Snowflakes and stars that mount on street light poles, for a city's downtown.
See pole-mount decorationsFrom the workshop to your site
At a glance
An installer who takes on shopping-centre, hotel or city work orders these pieces before the bulbs, because each one is drawn and approved first.
A mall's centre court, entrances and photo spot each take a piece drawn to the space, and the management approves the drawing before anything is built.
Price
We do not publish a unit price, because the honest number depends on your configuration, quantity, destination and the duty rate on the day the goods land. We do publish what moves it.
Steel is the largest material line. It also sets the crate size, and the crate size sets the freight.
Pixel-mapped animation costs several times what static string lighting does.
An animated structure needs its own controller, cabling and power supplies, specified per unit.
Powder coat matched to a brand colour costs more than standard black or white.
A knock-down design ships more structures in one container than a frame welded whole.
A lit steel structure classifies under a different tariff line from a bulb. The quote names the line we file under and who carries a change.
Order-by calendar
Enter the date the goods have to be on site. The calendar works back through every stage at the slowest duration we plan for and shows when the order has to be placed.
What goes wrong
Who carries duty, and what happens if the rate changes between quote and landing, is stated on every quote. How that works Add up a landed cost
The record
We do not name customers without written permission, and we do not ask them to be references. What we can show is the paperwork.
Custom display structures and lighting consumables over six seasons, several containers a year, with the customs entry filed by us each time.
Available redacted, on request
Questions
Either. Send a sketch or a reference photo and we return a dimensioned drawing for approval. Send a finished drawing and we quote against it.
It depends on the structure and on the season. The calendar on this page works back from your opening night under the slowest durations we plan for, and the quote confirms the real window for your drawing.
We have built sponsor-branded and licensed structures on customers' own projects before, where the customer held the rights. We do not name those brands.
Not without their written permission, and we do not ask customers to act as references. We can describe the work and show redacted shipment and entry records.
Buyer guides
GuideThe steps from a sketch to a crated, lit steel display, and what the factory needs from you at each one.
Read the guide
GuideThe tariff line, the layers of duty, the freight and the paperwork, with the import-tax line from our own price lists.
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GuideWhen to issue the RFP, what to put in the specification and the price schedule, and clause wording a city can adapt.
Read the guideIn the same category
Replacement and new-install C9 LED bulbs for professional displays. We have shipped them to the same customers season after season, usually with the socket wire and plugs that go with them.
See the C9 bulbsSend it as a sourcing request. Tell us what it is, the quantity and the date, and we will say whether we can get it made, and by when.
Send a requestRequest a quote
Tell us the quantity, the destination and when you need it on site. We return a landed cost that itemises the goods, ocean freight, the customs entry, duty at the line we file under, and delivery.
We take on the orders we can do well, and we will say so if yours isn't one of them.
Now reviewing requests
Either way, we read every request ourselves.
Everything we need for a landed quote.
Just the basics. We go through the rest together.
Private sourcing and tradingWe take on the orders we can do wellMinimum order value (MOV) US$5,000
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