Add a glass-front niche, and add more ROI to your business.

With the world turning to cremation, are they turning to you?

Did you know that glass-front niches typically command the highest return on investment and revenue potential in virtually any space you can imagine? Glass-fronted niches are the fastest growing category of cremation product in the industry today. And CMC has made more considerable, industry-leading innovations in glass-front niches than any other company.

Whether you want to add glass-fronted niches to a currently non-revenue-generating area of an existing mausoleum, chapel or other edifice, or renovate a storage or mixed-use space into a glass front niche columbarium, or even design-build an elegant Columbarium Suite™, CMC is the leader in innovation and overall value.

The right planning, from start to niche.

Glass-front niches require intricate planning and execution to look beautiful and capture the attention of your customers. That’s why at CMC, we plan every niche with a commitment to quality. Our philosophies are simple:

Every design decision must be scrupulously analyzed and reviewed.

Glass front niches should be seamlessly integrated into the space with marble trim work.

Every construction material must be held to the highest building standards and codes.

Every custom designed columbarium system, layout or unit must be structurally secure to surpass even the most stringent of building codes, standards and seismic regulations.

Installation must be performed by experienced craftsmen.

CMC offers premium bronze accessories that can be supplied and installed in one mobilization, resulting in unmatched savings and value. With pre-installation, you’ll see ROI as quickly as possible.

We’ll even provide color renderings and sales maps to assist your sales team.

There are no limitations on the sizes or configurations of niches.

When all steps are accomplished, properly installed Glass Front Niches need to look like they’ve always been there and not an afterthought. Because when you deal with a quality designed product and premium materials that are installed by true craftsmen, you get the ROI you want.

Built to last a lifetime and beyond.

At CMC, we use industry-leading materials to assure material durability and long-term value. That’s why we use anodized architectural aluminum for the structure of our Glass Front Niches and Stone-front Niche systems. Anodizing is an environmentally friendly, electrochemical process that creates a controlled protective oxide coating on an aluminum substrate – resulting in a finish that’s long-lasting and weather resistant. Anodized architectural aluminum is incredibly durable with an extremely long lifespan, offers excellent resistance to corrosion and color stability, easily maintained and cleaned, naturally beautiful, and offers lower initial cost plus lower maintenance cost for a greater long-term value.
We offer the following range of colors and bronze finishes:

Satin

Architectural Bronze

Light Bronze

Gold

Beauty that's much more than just skin-deep.

Rosettes are essential to secure the fronts to the niche façade while creating a richly textured surface that enhances the overall look of a columbarium. Our functionally-detailed rosettes receive 4 coats of spray-applied lacquer to achieve a superior, even and durable finish. This process creates a durable, shiny luster to the metal and prevents blemish and corrosion for many years to come. And our tamper resistant screws provide you and your family a higher level of security. We offer various designs:

Signature Floral Rosette for Glass Front Niches

CMC's Signature Floral Rosette

Pyramidal Rosette

We also offer a multitude of other rosette design options for stone-front niches. Contact us to learn more.

Now is the time to get a jump on cremation and invest in the museum-quality glass-front niches your customers want. Ready to get started? Simply contact us today.

Look to CMC for all your glass-front niche needs:

Curved Glass Niches
We’re the leading manufacturer of glass front niches, and have the right experience to create the custom curved/bent glass. As the first columbarium supplier to develop a glass-front niche system that can accommodate curved/bent glass, CMC has since designed, fabricated and installed more curved glass niches than any other company in the world.
Island Columbarium
Turn your unused space into a revenue opportunity. Island Columbaria by CMC are a viable, attractive and profitable way of adding inventory to the often-overlooked space in atriums, courtyards, hallways, corridors, annexes, rooms, utility rooms, storage rooms and more. Whether you’re building or adding to an interior columbarium or Columbarium Suite, or simply looking for additional glass-front niche inventory, turn to CMC to design you an Island Columbarium. We design-build all of these units ourselves. Our team of structural engineers, columbarium designers and installers will ensure that no details are overlooked for items such as: floor load-capacity lateral load support and structural integrity. We install each unit so it complements your existing environment — considering existing marble or stone colors, flooring materials, and any other trim-work to seamlessly integrate it into your space.
Columbarium Suites™
Columbarium Suites™ (or Niche Buildings) give you a leading edge in the fast-growing cremation market. These structures can incorporate both interior and exterior cremation niche inventory, glass front niches, and climate-control, these dedicated, standalone structures are the ultimate place for cremation memorialization, celebration and remembrance. Just like an indoor community mausoleum provides an exclusive, protected environment for entombment, Columbarium Suites offer the same level of focus and sanctity for your cremation customers.
Marble-Tech Niches™
We are the first company to design an economical, all-aluminum alternative to natural marble in columbaria. Marble-tech niches are proprietary paint applications to our standard aluminum niches and available in several different faux-marble patterns and colors. Our specialty paint application mimics the look of natural marble — capturing the colors, veining and visual textures. Many of CMC’s curved glass niches utilize (or incorporate) marble shelves and dividers, which is where the marble-tech niches can provide a viable, beautiful and economical substitute. CMC’s marble-tech niches can be included in all types of niches.
Marble Alcove Niches
Incorporating a marble alcove into your glass-front niche columbarium is a great way of creating a premium feature that can include a statuary. Marble alcoves can even be incorporated (or converted) as a large family estate cremation niche. Marble alcove features typically create premium inventory by increasing the value of the niches surrounding it. If designed as a large estate niche, or converted into one, it becomes an unparalleled cremation niche with terrific memorialization opportunities and immense value. Consider designing your next glass-front niche project to include marble alcoves or family estates, and let us help with additional features.
Corner Glass Niches
Corner glass niches are a great way of finishing off the sides of your columbarium. Instead of using a solid material such as aluminum panels or marble trim work to block the entire side of the corner niches, we choose glass panels for the corner — giving a full view into the niche from both the front and the side. Corner glass niches typically have a much higher demand than standard glass niches because they’re on the corner, boast better view into the niche and are typically better lit as more light can enter the niche highlighting the urn and all of the personal mementos.
Curved Triple Niche Layout
CMC is the first and only columbarium manufacturer and supplier to design and incorporate three columns of curved glass niches in a row — creating a beautiful focal point for the glass front niche columbarium. It breaks the rectilinear feel of any columbarium creating truly unique, premium inventory.
Premium Corner Niches
We can configure a space to utilize one column of premium corner niches, transforming it into a highly sought-after destination. Now, families can directly face their loved ones’ niche, and you can face a greater ROI.
Pyramid "V" Niches
As an alternative to curved glass niches, the pyramid “V” niches are a terrific way to create columns of premium niches as well as break up the rectilinear feel of a columbarium. It’s a proprietary CMC innovation with dramatic results and a jaw-dropping look.
LED Lighting
LED lighting by CMC looks better, lasts longer, is more efficient, and is much easier to install and maintain. We utilize easy-to-change, long-lasting and bright-shining LED lighting strips that operate independently of one another for higher overall quality. LED lighting by CMC must be added at the time you order your columbarium.
Beveled Glass
Available for glass-front niches. The beveled panels add a terrific visual appeal to the look of the columbarium, highlighting both the niches and reflective glass surfaces. Flat glass is also available at a lower cost.
Marble Trims on the top and bottom
Marble trim complements existing colors and textures and ties the look of a columbaria into its environment, while eliminating unsightly gaps. It’s just more proof that at CMC, we pride ourselves on our installation teams’ craftsmanship and finish out.
Bronze Accessories (e.g. Bronze Vases, Lamps, Emblems, etc.)
We have a full portfolio of bronze products for cremation niches, mausoleum crypts and even funerary monuments. This includes bronze lettering (font), appliqués, emblems, flower vases, lamps, frames, bronze statuary, Kosmolux products, cremation urns for estate niches and more.