Nikpol were very proud to have an appreciation night for their customers last month. More than 300 customers attended the first Nikpol Brisbane trade night at the new 10,000m2 facility in Eagle Farm. The event was long overdue, as it had been rescheduled a number of times due to COVID-19, but last month they were finally able to show their appreciation for the incredible support they had received since opening the original Brisbane facility almost two decades ago.

Directors John and Spiro Nikolakakis were in attendance helping to prepare a massive Greek feast. Mark Richards, Logistics Manager QLD/NSW, Kenny Hurford, Sales Manager QLD/NSW and Johnny Burr, National Hardware Category Manager, hosted the exclusive invitation-only event. No one left hungry, and drinks were available all night with an open bar until the early morning.

A feast of roast lamb, roast pork, and chicken kleftiko was made available to all guests, with an emphasis on an ‘all you can eat’ philosophy. The food was prepared in a manner using an Antikristo Cretan BBQ, giving a nod to the founder’s Cretan heritage and roots.

Guests came from as far as wide as Darwin, Perth, Sydney, Alice Springs, Regional NSW/QLD, and Melbourne to help celebrate Nikpol’s opportunity to give something back to the industry and thank its loyal customers.

One of the highlights of the night was a Dale Woods guest appearance, Dale attended the event with his Porsche GT3 cup car and thrilled those in attendance with an explosive fish tail in the car park.

Nikpol opened its newly revamped showroom on the night, displaying its incredible range of products, from the well-known international DTC hardware range of products. This includes Smooth, Dragon Pro, and Magic Move runners to complement the Pivot Star hinges which hold the coveted IF 2017 international design award and the door opening mechanisms Top Stay with single and bi-folding overhead door options.

Inspired by the Interzum 2019 showing in Cologne also on display was the amazing FLYBOX corner hardware solution, which uses the wasted space in dull and dark blind corners via an automatic pully system with a soft closing action. The swing-out and larder pantry solutions are all made in the beautiful Italian town of Trissino in the province of Vicenza.

Nikpol also launched a new sink and tapware range, along with European handles from Metakor in Belgium, which customers didn’t stop talking about.

Inspired by Milan’s Eurocuccina 2022 the new showroom displayed an incredible range of exclusive decorative products. The latest European trends in decors, and inspired colour ranges. A timeless stunning range of authentic timber grains and muted organic colours were on show.

Nikpol featured both their Matt Wood and Meraki range, these proved to be the most popular and versatile colours available in decorative board. Their benchtop colours contain realistic stone designs, woodgrains, and contemporary patterns to inspire Australian designers.

The one thing Nikpol do differently to stand out from the crowd, is focus on colour, on the inside. Just like the Nikpol tagline “Look Inside,” their internal cabinetry is just as important as the external cabinetry, if you want to elevate your joinery, add a colour to the inside of your cabinets. This lifts your interior cabinetry to bespoke furniture. The Essential range by Nikpol is a trendy melamine range that is ideal as carcass to match or contrast with external colours. Instead of using traditional white carcass material add a pop of colour to your internal carcass in turn, creating an element of surprise.

The jewel in the crown is the Blaupunkt kitchen appliance range. This is distributed exclusively by Nikpol throughout Australia and New Zealand. The Blaupunkt brand itself holds a 100-year-old European heritage synonymous with quality, innovation, and value. Nikpol showcased an extensive range of stylish and modern built-in appliances including cooktops, ovens, freestanding cookers, rangehoods, dishwashers, microwaves, combi steam ovens, and warming drawers.

All Blaupunkt products enjoy a market leading six-year warranty and excellent after-sale service support. Nikpol is extremely honoured and proud to offer the quality of German engineering and design to the Australasia market and their trade night was the perfect event to showcase their elegant appliances, especially for guests who experienced the Blaupunkt lifestyle for the first time.

The trade night also provided the Nikpol team with a great opportunity to showcase their state-of-the-art facility and Homag machinery. Consisting of two automatic board and benchtop storage/picking machines, each capable of holding over 5000 sheets of product. Customers were in awe of the new Homag machinery, and the near full capacity of approx. 2000m2 of floor space using the 11m of height to store their bulk packs of product.

To support the needs of all customers their huge stock holdings of hardware and Blaupunkt appliances, were on show, with over 2200 pallet spaces of racking.