Why Sunshade

Our Story

We’ve been making shade sails, structures, and screens for New Zealand conditions for around 30 years, so at Sunshade, you are talking to the experts.

Our mission is to bring you a specialist product experience and installation, taking care of the details for a high-quality result.

Everything is fabricated by our Hawke’s Bay team and expertly installed by our awesome network of Local Experts.

OUR LOCAL EXPERTS

Our network are a group of driven, down-to-earth NZ business owners and operators who have made it their passion to create outdoor spaces for people to enjoy. Collectively we have got pretty good at it over the years, winning awards and honing our craft with each project. Each of us is a specialist in our field, each with strong experience in the trade.

Find your local expert and get your project started.

Find your Local Expert

SUNSHADE HQ

At Sunshade head office in the awesome Hawke’s Bay, NZ, we are a 100% family-owned New Zealand fabrication business with a grass-roots history.

Our team is led by fabricators with decades of experience in the trade, bringing a distinct eye for detail in every shade sail and outdoor blind that we create.

Our workshop is purpose-designed, offering our people a generous space to lay out the shade cloth and custom fabricate the screens. We have a team of on-site fabricators who really know their stuff, and a centralised location for quality-control of the whole process.

Our workshop operates under a Lean management system of continuous improvement, and we have a high product quality record which we measure and monitor daily.

INDUSTRY EXCELLENCE

The industry we work in is a highly supportive one, which we stay abreast with as members of the Advanced Textiles Association of New Zealand (ATA NZ), and the international Advanced Textiles Association (ATA).

Our work (and that of our network of local experts) has won several national awards over the years, which you can check out on their individual profiles.

Additionally, several of our apprentices have won or achieved high commendations at the ATA NZ Apprentice of the Year Awards from the 90’s to today, and we continue to support new craftspeople to come up through the industrial textiles trade and ensure this valuable skillset is passing on and thriving.

OUR VALUES

QUALITY – SERVICE – INTEGRITY

At Sunshade Group we believe in community values within our industry as well as in our personal lives and helping each other out where we can.

As a collective we enjoy creating high quality products that will be enjoyed across the country, produced with long-term enjoyment and protection in mind.

We are interested in sustainability and continue to find ways to incorporate this into our practical working lives.

Technology and developments in the outdoor fabrics industry and our supply chains continue to evolve and we enjoy adopting these as we all learn and grow.

Contact us today and get your project started.

AT SUNSHADE, WE ARE THE SHADE + SCREEN SPECIALISTS.

Sunshade Group is proudly 100% New Zealand owned and operated, a family-owned brand with a strong group of kiwi family-owned businesses at its back.