Openings crossed hundreds of times a day
A throughway or dock door in a distribution centre is used continuously. Cycle time, not opening size, is what the building pays for.
Industry
Warehousing & Logistics
Every second an opening stands open is conditioned air and pedestrian risk.
01Industry challenges
What makes these openings hard
The bay is a hole in the building
A docked vehicle without a shelter leaves the opening effectively open for the whole time it is there.
Mixed fleet, one bay
Bed heights vary by vehicle, by suspension and by how much of the load has already come off. One bay has to serve all of them.
Shared vehicle and pedestrian routes
Fast-cycling doors on constrained routes need detection that works for both, not just for vehicles.
02Recommended solutions
Products specified for warehousing & logistics
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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Loading Bay
Dock Levellers
Hydraulic dock levellers with 2000 and 2500 mm platforms, working above and below dock level, on a 14 mm tear plate deck rated from -35 °C to +50 °C.
2 configurations
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Loading Bay
Dock Shelters & Dock Houses
Aluminium alloy dock shelters and dock houses rated above force 10 wind with a 10–20 year service life, for heat retention and weather protection.
3 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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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
Match door cycle time to the actual movement rate at each opening.
- 02
Specify the leveller working range against the full vehicle mix, not the most common truck.
- 03
Seal the bay around the vehicle as well as under it, especially on temperature-controlled sites.
- 04
Plan impact tolerance into openings on forklift routes.
- 05
Interlock doors with dock equipment so a leveller cannot deploy against a closed door.
Typical applications
- Dock doors and dispatch openings
- Internal throughways between zones
- Loading bays with levellers and shelters
- Yard entrance and exit gates
- Staff and contractor access points
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Specifying for a warehousing & logistics site?
Send the opening details and the constraint you are working against, and we will come back with a specification.