Profitable:
Maximum profit – minimum investment
“The Biondan Thin Niche System turned an unusable wall into an immediate revenue center for us, at very little cost.”
Another satisfied mausoleum director, Cemetery Somewhere
Our complete 4″ system, with integral urn, allows you to control your costs. Our “easy-mount” vases and signature plaques allows you to offer an attractive, igh-quality cremation solution that opens up desirable areas of your site without the headache of new construction – giving you maximum profit from a inimum investment.
Simple:
Rapid and easy install – immediate results.
Our modular units makes installation simple and easy for rapid, turn-key solutions.
Unique Solution:
NO Permits, NO Inspector, NO Red Tape
= NO Headache Solution
Turn any wall – indoor or outdoor – into a profitable, simple, cremation solution.
Grow inventory (and revenue) instantly:
The Biondan patented Thin-Niche system allows you to add niche space inventory to your mausoleum instantly. Our simple installation process and complete system (including urn), allows you to offer a cremation solution to your customers in days (or even hours) … expanding your inventory AND revenue painlessly.
You can even grow incrementally, using the revenue from one unit to leverage the cost of additional units – giving you a worry-free path to meeting your customers’ needs while protecting your bottom line.
Modular and expandable:
Our niche system is modular and expandable, you can start with a small unit and grow to an entire cremation centre.
A simple change of shutter (and some hardware) can convert niches to doubles or quads, expanding your offering to various client groups.
Easy Memorialization with our ‘Easy-Install’ Vases :
We offer an array of vases, with our specialty mounting bracket –
which means the vase can be easily added at time of inurnment (no drilling or gluing required).
The vases can be mounted either left or right (bracket rotates 90° for either side). Our genuine bronze niche vases match the full-size units you use in your mausoleum, tying everything together.
“Signature” Memorial Tablets – Personalization Plus:
Our selection of small niche plaques can be personalized with signatures, hand-writing or additional alphabets and emblems. Each one can accept an added photo-ceramic to offer a unique way of memorializing each person.
In addition, we offer emblems, lettering and photo ceramics to complete the memorialization of the niche.
Our ‘Idea’ Gallery
We call our gallery an Idea Gallery because it illustrates various ways in which our Thin Niches can be used… Our modular (and patented) thin-niche system can be outdoor columbaria as well as elegant indoor niches, for placement of cremated remains. The product can be used to enhance a Tribute Garden by being installed along garden walls in a simple and efficient way. This creates a strategy for you to expand your cremation offerings in a very low-cost and, perhaps, even incremental manner – managing your budget while growing your inventory. Over time, we will add photos and illustrations of the various ways – the inventive ways – our clients use these products… enjoy.
Thin-Niches PATENTED – by Biondan North America, Inc.
Why Thin-Niches? The rationale behind the product.
We initiated our patented Thin-Niche program during the discussion on “how to help cemeteries that do not have space for inventory and are being left behind by the switch to cremation that is sweeping the industry?”
Over the past few years, Biondan has invested heavily in the switchover to cremation technology. We have been a strong player in the mausoleum environment and have seen this marketplace change – we have changed with it, to the point where our modular niche (and INOX niche) programs have led to a strong change in our focus. As we go through this change, we realize that we must build products that keep pace with the directions our customers are going. Although the niche program is strong, we realize that we must expand to ways that are not strictly “mausoleum based” – thus the Thin-Niche program.
Modularity and flexibility.
The Thin-Niche product line (a patented system) consists of a framework and shutter system that is only 4” deep. It was designed with the idea that it could be attached to any wall in a cemetery: indoor or out. It was designed to be a complete system that would provide capacity of up to 300 cu. in. The system can be placed on any wall space that permits a 4” depth for the niches (the niches are 12”x12” square).
Multiple and flexible applications.
The shutters, although primarily stone, can be any decorative material (stone, bronze, Kosmolux or even custom wood to match a particular finish). The niches can be made to look classical or modern, depending on the client’s choice. So, any mausoleum, or cemetery or even church space, can be turned into a quality cremation centre, rapidly and inexpensively. This allows cemeteries to recoup the blank walls that are left to permit interments into crypts in prime mausoleum areas, because of the Thin Niches are only 4’’ deep. Walls under porticos can be turned to outdoor niche space. Tribute walls can be created with niches. The possibilities are wide open for cemeteries to recover unused space for cremation burials in a simple and straightforward manner. The system unlocks space that could never be used before.
Thin-Niche Customization and Memorialization.
The Thin-Niche product line covers the market, from low to high. We have initiated the system with two urn options (both 300 cu in capacity) (and will soon be introducing additional choices):
- A high-quality Kosmolux™ urn (with multiple finishes); or
- A standard plastic urn
Each system (each opening) will be provided with the standard (plastic) urn. This makes it possible for the system to be sold as a complete solution in jurisdictions that limit urn sales. The system also permits an easy upgrade to a more quality urn offering (the Kosmolux™ urn). Depending on how the cemetery wants to structure this offering (target market), they can choose what is in the package. In the cemetery, a prime location is very important to the customer. By opening up formerly filled space, this satisfies the need of some customers to be in these locations. Our system permits them to build a program that targets their particular demographic while maintaining the quality and ease of maintenance that they must have. A less-desirable area can be outfitted with standard urns and minimum memorialization that allow it to meet the cost expectations prevalent for that demographic. With the addition of a higher quality shutter and photo-ceramic, or our easily mounted bud vase, bronze lettering and/or even a vigil light program, they can offer premium niches in a premium (unlocked) space in their mausoleums, generating the revenue previously denied them.
Again, because our system is designed for both an indoor and/or outdoor deployment, they can unlock those prime areas for cremation that previously could only be attained from costly renovation or new construction – our Thin-Niche system opens those doors… or shall we say: opens those walls.
