Our fleet of Brandcare vehicles have had a makeover in celebration of the launch of our dedicated print division ASPrint!

The vehicles are designed to catch your eye from all angles whether it be while on the road or stationary. The chosen imagery highlights the range of products and brands we specialise in and provides the chance to show off our vinyl application expertise.

Although Albert Smith Signs do not provide vehicle wrapping services, we are proud to house a team of professional vinyl applicators that are skilled at all vinyl application practices.

The Brandcare team are our internal installation and project management specialists!

Running multiple projects from QLD to WA, our team of qualified project managers & installers whether in the office or out on site are fully equipped to get your job done!

Visit our Brandcare Website for more information https://www.brandcare.com.au/

 

The council process in many ways can be a mind field with 537 councils within Australia alone; not only that, but no two councils are the same. Each state & council has their own criteria, documents and processes that need to be addressed before approval can be obtained.

The signage industry is no different and many external signs these days require approval from your local council before it can be installed.

Do we provide Local Authority Application services?

Yes! Albert Smith Signs have a dedicated council application team with years of experience working with councils locally & internationally.

We can provide the service of obtaining Developmental Planning Approvals & Building permit Approvals. (Depending on your state this can be referred under a wide range of different name such as a Construction Certificate or Development Planning Permits)

Our Current Management fees for the base service as of the 07/04/21 as per below:

DA & BA Approvals – $1565.00 + GST

Development Approvals – $1000.00 + GST

Building Approvals – $800.00 + GST

Albert Smith Signs & our dedicated Council Application Administrator can provide you with:

• Pre-lodgment advisory services
• Obtaining the application forms
• Collation of documents – Preparing Site Plan & Signage Montage
• Project Management
• Lodgment of the application forms
• Certain post lodgment advisory services
• Following up Local Authority Status
• Processing Town Planning Applications
• Processing Sign License Applications
• Administration of Public Notice process
• Supply/Installation of Public Notice Display
• Statement of Environmental Effects or SEPP 64 Statements
• Writing Reports Addressing the Council’s Development Control Plan’s
• Building Reports
• Fire Engineering Reports – Engaging our independent fire engineer to provide performance outcome solutions.

Always consider when designing your next signage scope:

• Property zoning and heritage listing
• State controlled road or motorway
• Visually not distracting to motorists
• If the signage is offensive
• Any environmental impacts
• The size of the sign and engineering standards
• Current Fire Regulations & Requirements
• Sign is Illuminated

 

If in doubt contact Albert Smith Signs, where we are happy to provide you with the guidance & Services you will require.

 

Whilst designed for a long life corporate signage can deteriorate in our outdoor environment of sun, rain, wind and pollution and there is a legislated duty of care to protect the public from harm due to structural degradation and potential failure.

Our long term customer Big W, engaged us to conduct safety audits of their signage and branding across 50 sites nationally 

This  involved full site audits and inspections of all external building  signage for any degradation and replacement leading to the gradual upgrade and installation of  Big W’s corporate image and building signage. 

The product elements that we have replaced have all been externally located:

Tenant face panels in the centre pylons – both acrylic and flex face.

External building identification signage of varying sizes – Permasign building letters LED illuminated.

Store entry bulkhead signage .

Flat panel loading dock and ID signage.

Maintenance is about projecting your business, it’s also about safety and public protection!

Contact us for maintenance and site safety audits.

What are your signs saying about your business?

At Albert Smith Signs we pride ourselves on being able to design, manufacture and install Quality signage which will both enhance and add value to your business and brand.

The Quality and reliability of our company’s products and services are the concern and responsibility of every person in our organisation, and runs deep in our company’s DNA – Quality means doing the right things right and is uniquely defined by each individual customer’s needs and Quality is measured by the satisfaction of our customers. Our manufacturing Quality procedure ensures a number of checks on product Quality as it moves from department to department. As each department checks its work a signed Quality sticker is placed on the product before it moves to the next department and the new department cannot accept the product unless it has been Quality checked and sticker applied. At its final packaging department destination a gold Quality sticker is applied and the product is photographed for our customer records.

Whether your branding needs include building signs both internal and external, illuminated LED signs, high level signs, pylon signs, way finding, 3D building  letters, we manufacture and deliver a Quality product. Our total in-house manufacturing facility allows us to achieve the highest Quality and standards for your signage products.

Your site branding reflects on your business and Quality branding delivers a message of a Quality business and should do so for many years.

There is a saying “A picture says a thousand words” and the images below do just that – The corporate branding at Woolworths Ballina was manufactured and installed in 2013 and seven years later, is still a Quality product, and looking looking great and still shines bright!

ALBERT SMITH SIGNS – 100% AUSTRALIAN OWNED, 100% AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING 

        

The journey between BP Australia and Albert Smith Signs began over 50 years ago in 1964, with the refurbishment of a number of BP locations throughout Queensland. Our journey together has continued on from that time with a number of major national brand roll outs.

Our journey with BP continues – Bright Green Beacon (BGB) –includes the manufacture and supply of pylon signs some over 20M in height, new entry portals, directional signs and fascia cladding.

The Northern New South Wales, Ballina Travel Centre is our most recent BP BGB project – BP offered a unique opportunity testing all our in-house skills delivering on such an array of identity products.

The travel centre provides fuel sales, a convenience store, a drive-thru food outlet, two quick service restaurants, outdoor dining and playground, rest areas and a trucker’s lounge.

The standout design element of this project is the suspended under canopy fully illuminated Australian indigenous art installation – Four by eight and a half meters of beautifully coloured combined images, constructed in one piece and the magnificent art created by renowned artist Marcus Ferguson. Face tensioning was with our Albert Smith proprietary Smith Flex system and illumination was with our ASTech LED’s.  We designed and engineered the supporting structure from aluminium and our key design challenge was delivering a minimum depth of 100MM for the art capsule for perfect illumination. Due to the size of the art work it was transported in one piece and required specialised lift installation.

At Albert Smith Signs there are no limits to our capabilities and experience with pylon signs. At BP Ballina the “Can’t be missed” BGB pylons have fully illuminated multi vacuum moulded high impact acrylic heads – our design delivering a shadow and blemish free illuminated beacon. The 12M and 9M in height pylon signs maximise the sites visibility from the Pacific Way.

Other project elements are the Travel Centre Permasign LED building letters, site branding and an array of our speciality crafted external directional signs, internal custom directional & braille signage.

A striking  internal design feature are the internal wall murals, locally themed to capture the ‘essence” of the Northern Rivers and printed in house on 3M egress print media with a matte over laminate for protection.

As an Australian sign manufacturer all product’s for BP Ballina were designed and manufactured in Australia, in house at Albert Smith Signs

We are proud of our journey with BP – it has definitely stood the test of time – over 50 years of quality designs and products!

 

   

  

               

Imagine signage and branding without paint – Paint is what “dresses” your product and brand and makes it look good!

 

At Albert Smith Signs we operate a fully equipped paint shop with an experienced team of 9 painters, spread over two shifts.

Glen Walsh is our paint team leader and has been on our team for around 12 years. Glen learnt his trade at Wattyl Paints over a 20 year period, becoming a paint technician in the manufacturing division – Glen sure knows paint!

With a mixing area and 3 spray booths our paint shop achieves a flawless high quality finish and look for all your signage, branding products and projects.

We have a booth specifically for powder coating with a 6M long racking system in an 8M oven, another for 2 pack wet spray and the third for back spraying acrylic and poly carbonate.

The benefit of powder coat is that it is user and production friendly with a quick turnaround time and provides a great finish and look for your product.

However there are limited standard colours which restricts its use and ACM products cannot be powder coated.

Where it is practical our preference is to powder coat what we can to provide your signage with that great look and finish.

Our two pack wet spray booth has a catalytic oven that uses medium wave infra-red energy to create heat quickly and efficiently for rapid drying, to fully cure the product in around 45minutes.

The benefit of this process is that your product is fully cured with a hard finish and ready to pack so very time efficient with your corporate signage shipping –  as well as an extensive range of available colours

Our back spray booth is for exactly that – back spraying your product for illumination purposes. It delivers fine atomisation of the paint to ensure a smooth finish with no lines ensuring perfect illumination for your branding.

Often a final anti-graffiti coat is applied to products for protection and to ensure a longer life in its environment.

Our paint team have over 50 years of combined experience with all types of paint and are multi skilled over the different methods of application

OUR PAINT SHOP – THE ART OF PAINT!

As Australia begins to recover from the COVID 19 crisis we need to adopt a “buy Australian first” policy.

There is an opportunity for Australia’s business community to take the lead and put policies in place that prioritise genuine Aussie products.

Roy Morgan research shows that three quarters of businesses prefer to purchase Aussie products but only 26% have an official policy in place.

There is increasing awareness of the high quality and safety standards Australian products meet as well as a demonstrable value for money over product life cycles.

Its time – Investing in Australian industry and manufacturing will go a long way to helping Australia and Australian manufacturers such as us bounce back!

WE ARE 100% AUSTRALIAN OWNED, AUSTRALIAN MANAGED, AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURED

Our customer service initiative is now up and running – OUR ZOOM ROOM CUSTOMER COMMUNICATION HUB  

With the current business challenges and changes we face, it is even more important for us to ensure ease of customer communication and service delivery.

Our Zoom Room features and benefits:

The video camera gives us ease of face to face communication with you and the microphone can record the conversation – the recording can then become the minutes of the meeting. How good is that!

Screen sharing allows us both to share any mutual content – quotes, drawings, art work, plans, invoices – whatever we want to view together.

We have a Zoom Room specific mobile phone that we are able to use to take close up’s of any content, which transfers to the screen for you to have a better view. 

The whiteboard gives us the ability to draw and make notes for all to view and can be photographed and emailed to you to retain as your record.  

We will be able to provide any technical support you need   by having the relevant components, products and information in the room for your viewing.

So everything that would normally be achieved in our face to face meeting –we can achieve together in our Zoom Room.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU TO OUR ZOOM ROOM

 

As an Australian manufacturer and sign maker, Albert Smith Signs are proud to have been chosen to manufacture and install the branding elements that identify John Deere Australia’s business units 

John Deere has been a valued long term customer and in recent times we have refurbished their existing metropolitan and regional sites with replacement sign faces and at some locations repositioning of the pylon.

The intricate John Deere logos are VACCUM MOULDED from high impact acrylic and fixed to a flat fabricated aluminium background. The moulding process is an effective manufacturing solution that enables the creation and shape of the unique detail of the custom logo in three dimensions, and enhances the strength of the product, in its outdoor environment. The pylons are illuminated with our ASTEch LED’s delivering shadow and blemish free site identification.  

At Albert Smith Signs there are no limits to our capabilities and experience with VACUUM MOULDING and the design, manufacture and installation of pylon signs 

We pioneered vacuum forming of brand logos in our industry!

JOHN DEERE AUSTRALIA AND ALBERT SMITH SIGNS – WHATEVER YOU NEED TO GET THE JOB DONE!

 

Kennards Self Storage remains a privately owned and family run company that built their first storage spaces in 1973.

As another privately owned and family run company Albert Smith Signs are proud to be chosen to manufacture and install the branding elements that enhance and customise Kennards corporate signage.

Kennards is a long term customer of over 16 years, in 2004 we successfully tendered for Kennards Hire rebranding project of their 32 NSW sites. Today we manufacture 3 standard pylon sign sizes for Kennards Self Storage – 5M, 6M and 8.4M. The pylon signs have an internal steel structure, clad with aluminium panels and the bottom panels have front applied graphics. The pylon top head holds the logo and brand panel –VACUUM MOULDED to enable manufacturing flexibility of the unique design, depth and strength of the 3D padlock from high impact acrylic, sprayed gloss white.

If you’re looking for a powerful statement about your business, pylons should be at the top of your consideration list – At Albert Smith Signs we manufacture pylon signs with innovation in our design, manufacture, and installation methods – we are industry pioneers in Vacuum Moulding .

VACCUM MOULDED PYLON SIGNS ARE OUR SPECIALITY! 

    

KENNARDS SELF STORAGE AND ALBERT SMITH SIGNS – BOTH PROUD AUSTRALIAN FAMILY OWNED COMPANIES!