Why this kitchen canopie earns its place
Getting extraction right usually means a design visit, a bespoke fabrication run, and a lead time to match. Lincat's SmartVent range is built to skip most of that: a stainless steel canopy engineered as a standard product rather than a one-off, so a kitchen gets proper extraction coverage without commissioning a bespoke system from scratch.
At 2000mm wide, 1200mm deep and 740mm high, the GJ632-CH is sized to sit over a run of cooking equipment rather than a single appliance — the kind of coverage a line of ranges, fryers or griddles needs to actually pull heat, steam and grease-laden air out of the working area instead of into the rest of the kitchen. It's built in stainless steel throughout, finished silver, which is what you want directly over cooking equipment: a surface that copes with heat and grease and cleans down without pitting or staining.
At 101kg it's a proper installed fixture rather than something to be manhandled into place casually — this is a job for a fit-out team who'll site it correctly over the equipment run and tie it into the wider ventilation and make-up air system. Lincat backs it with 2 years parts & labour, which covers the canopy as a piece of engineered kitchen infrastructure rather than a disposable fitting.
Check the narrowest clear opening, then every corner, landing, step and lift from the kerb to the room.
Stated machine geometry while kept upright. Allow handling room and confirm the complete route.
Measure the clear opening
Enter the usable gap with the door fully open.
This checks straight stated geometry only.
