About A3
A supplier, a fabrication shop and an install crew — on one contract
A3 Equipment is a commercial kitchen equipment supplier in Surrey, British Columbia. A3 Fabrication Solutions, a division of A3 Trading Ltd., builds the metal that no catalogue sells. Most kitchens need both.
What A3 actually is
A3 Equipment sells commercial kitchen equipment from a warehouse at 107 – 12332 Pattullo Pl in Surrey: 2,680 products across 180 categories, from a single hand sink to a full Rational combi line. That is the store you are on.
A3 Fabrication Solutions is the other half — a division of A3 Trading Ltd. that designs, fabricates and installs. Stainless work tables and sinks cut to a room's real measurements, wall cladding, and commercial exhaust systems built with makers including Fast Hood and CaptiveAire.
Most projects need both, and that is the point. A restaurant fit-out is normally three separate contracts: someone to draw it, someone to fabricate the metal, someone to supply and install the equipment. Here it is one. The reason that matters is not convenience — it is that the gaps between three vendors are where a schedule slips and a budget grows.
The three A’s
The name is not an initial. A3 stands for how the company says it wants to be judged — and each one is easy enough to hold us to.
Authentic
Genuine solutions, offered honestly. In practice that means telling you when a catalogue table fits your space and custom fabrication would be a waste of your money, and saying plainly when a job is not the right fit for this shop.
Affordable
Quality equipment at fair prices, and routes to it when the capital is not there — including financing and Rent-Try-Buy through EconoLease, and a standing clearance list of used and open-box units.
Assured
Reliability and performance, backed after the sale. Nothing is fabricated until the drawing and the quote are agreed, and servicing is available on the equipment A3 supplies.
The company’s own words for it: “Together, these values define who we are and guide us in delivering excellence on every plate.”
The chain, with no gaps in it
This is the part a general contractor asks about first, so here it is as a sequence rather than a list of adjectives.
- 1. DesignLayout planning around your menu and your workflow, before anything is ordered. Design and installation.
- 2. Supply2,680 products across 180 categories — cooking, refrigeration, prep, beverage, warewashing, stainless and storage.
- 3. FabricateThe metal the catalogue does not sell: tables and sinks to measure, wall cladding, exhaust systems. A3 Fabrication Solutions.
- 4. Deliver or collectPickup from the Surrey warehouse, or delivery anywhere in Canada. Delivery is quoted separately on every order.
- 5. InstallOn site in Metro Vancouver, with A3 Equipment and A3 Manpower doing the work rather than subcontracting the critical path out.
- 6. ServiceAfter the sale, on the equipment A3 supplied. Equipment servicing.
Who this is for
Three different buyers walk into this business, and they are not asking the same question.
Restaurant owners and chefs
Opening, expanding, or replacing something that has died mid-service.
- One supplier for the whole kitchen
- Clearance and financing when capital is tight
- Collect same week from Surrey
General contractors
Scheduling around trades and needing the kitchen scope not to be the thing that slips.
- One contract instead of three
- Fabrication and install under the same roof
- Tell us who else is on the job so scopes do not overlap
Consultants and designers
Issuing an equipment schedule and needing it bid accurately.
- Send the schedule or the drawing set
- Custom pieces quoted from your dimensions
- Nothing cut before the drawing is approved
Brands on the floor
The catalogue is built around makers whose parts and service you can still get in five years, not the cheapest unit that clears customs.
A3 also runs Rational training at the Surrey location — the combi ovens on the floor are demonstrated, not just sold.
Where we work
The warehouse is in Surrey and the install work is Metro Vancouver — Surrey, Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, Langley and Coquitlam.
Equipment ships anywhere in Canada. If you are outside the Lower Mainland, say so at the enquiry stage so delivery is priced properly rather than added at the end.
One project, end to end
Reflection Banquet Hall in British Columbia serves 800 to 1,200 guests at a single sitting. A3 rebuilt the entire back-of-house: CaptiveAire ventilation and make-up air, a Vulcan and Rational hot line, custom-fabricated bar stations, and Energy Star warewashing — supplied, fabricated and installed by A3 Equipment and A3 Manpower, with no outside subcontractors on the critical path.
It is the clearest illustration of why the two halves of the company exist. Read the case study.
If you want to see the shop and the warehouse before you commit to anything, call ahead and come to Surrey. It is a reasonable thing to ask of a supplier, and it tells you more than any page will.
Talk to us
Whether it is one piece of equipment or a whole room, the fastest start is a phone call or the form below.
- Phone
- (778) 512-5098
- Toll-free
- +1 833-673-1893
- General enquiries
- Info@a3trading.ca
- Warehouse and pickup
- 107 – 12332 Pattullo Pl
Surrey, BC V3V 8C3, Canada