Openings that are also process boundaries
A production hall is a set of areas that have to stay different from each other — cleaner, cooler, quieter — connected by openings that are crossed constantly. The door is what holds that difference.
Industry
Manufacturing
Separating processes without slowing the material flow between them.
01Industry challenges
What makes these openings hard
Duty cycle nobody counted
Openings inside a plant are used far more than anyone estimates at design stage. Drives sized on leaf weight alone overheat within months.
Compartment lines through production
Fire strategy usually puts a rated wall straight through the middle of a building that needs material to move across it.
Impact is routine
Where forklifts and doors share a route, contact is a matter of when. The question is whether it takes the opening out of service.
02Recommended solutions
Products specified for manufacturing
High Speed Doors
High Speed Roll-Up Door
Flexible PVC curtain rolling onto a drum above the opening, up to 5,000 × 5,000 mm, opening at 0.8–2.5 m/s under PLC, inverter and encoder control.
3 configurations
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High Speed Doors
High Speed Self-Repairing Door
Flexible reinforced PVC curtain that leaves its guides on impact and re-enters them automatically, for openings where forklift contact is routine.
2 configurations
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High Speed Doors
High Speed Rigid / Insulated Door
Double-skin insulated rigid panels up to 5,000 × 7,500 mm, opening at approximately 1.2–1.5 m/s under PLC, inverter and encoder control.
2 configurations
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Industrial Doors
Industrial Sectional Overhead Doors
Insulated sectional doors in aluminium or galvanized steel with a PUF core, 40–50 mm thick, spanning up to 10 m, in manual and motorised configurations.
6 configurations
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Fire & Safety
Fire Rated Rolling Shutters
Galvanised double-wall, silicon-insulated shutters in 75 and 100 mm profiles with a stated 21 dB sound reduction, for openings in fire-rated walls.
2 configurations
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Automatic Gates
Automatic Sliding Gates
Motorised sliding gates for factory, warehouse and campus entrances, running on a floor track or cantilevered clear of the driveway.
2 configurations
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03Engineering considerations
What to settle before you order
- 01
Count the cycles per day on each opening before sizing anything.
- 02
Decide what each opening actually has to separate — temperature, dust, noise, or nothing.
- 03
Identify which openings sit on a fire compartment line and treat those as a separate specification.
- 04
Check the traffic route against the guide positions: impact tolerance is cheaper than downtime.
- 05
Agree the manual release arrangement for every powered opening on the plant.
Typical applications
- Production hall separations
- Internal throughways between process areas
- Dispatch and goods-in openings
- Fire compartment openings through production
- Plant perimeter and main gate
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