McCafés. “We transformed many McDonalds,” Victor recalls. “Their request was shutting down the restaurant at 11 p.m to start installing and having it ready to open for breakfast at 6 a.m. That was their main goal, and we achieved that goal consistently. We were doing the millwork and the solid surfaces all in one night. As a result of our success, many clients observed what we were capable of. Platinum Millwork’s success on those projects led to the company doing full McDonald’s restaurants – at first in Vancouver, but they ended up travelling beyond Vancouver, all the way to Saskatchewan. From 2009 to 2013, Victor estimates they worked on over 70 McDonald’s locations. Again, he says that experienced earned them the attention of a lot of big general contractors, who started awarding them larger commercial projects. As their projects grew in size, so did the size of the company’s team and the size of their facilities. When Platinum Millwork started, they were just two people working out of that initial 1200-squarefoot shop in New Westminster. Today, they are 22 people working out of a 14,000-square-foot facility in Port Coquitlam, which comprises 2,000 feet of office space and 12,000 feet of shop floor. The shop includes one three-axis CNC machine, one five-axis CNC machine, an automated sander, a digital edge-bander, and two spray booths for deluxe finishes. Platinum Millwork has also expanded in terms of their capabilities. Presently, they have the resources to incorporate various materials into their millwork projects, including solid surfaces, metal, and glass, to name a few – “which results in a seamless service and install for our general contractors and our clients,” Victor says. JULY 2024
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