Entrance Automation
Automatic Sliding Glass Doors
Sensor-operated sliding glass door systems for lobbies, retail and healthcare entrances, in single-leaf and bi-parting arrangements with defined egress behaviour.
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Hermetic & Cleanroom Doors
An opening that can hold a pressure differential and a classification.
Entrance AutomationKey specifications
- Sealing
- All four edges on closing
- Operation
- Automatic sliding, hands-free
- Airlocks
- Interlockable pairs
- Specification
- Configured per room at survey
* Final specification depends on door dimensions, configuration, operating environment and project requirements.
01Overview
About Hermetic & Cleanroom Doors
A hermetic door seals against its frame on all four edges as it closes, rather than simply meeting a stop. That is what allows the opening to sit in a wall separating two classified areas without breaking the pressure cascade that keeps the cleaner side clean.
Operating method
03Variants
Available configurations
The same product, built for a different job. Where a specification depends on opening dimensions, selected profile, operating duty or site conditions, the final configuration is confirmed during technical assessment.
Single leaf
The standard arrangement for gowning rooms and personnel access between classified areas.
Bi-parting
Two leaves for wider openings such as material and equipment transfer.
Airlock interlocked pair
Two doors electrically interlocked so both are never open at once, with override defined against the escape strategy.
Shielded
Lead-lined leaf where the room also requires radiation shielding, coordinated with the room shielding design.
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Hermetic & Cleanroom Doors in detail
04Technical specifications
Specification, features and ordering
Technical data is shown first; features, applications, compatibility, installation, safety, ordering and downloads are a click away.
Dimensions6 fields
- Maximum clear width
- Typically 700–1,800 mm single leaf and up to about 2,000 mm bi-parting, depending on the manufacturer
- Maximum clear height
- Set by the leaf construction; confirmed per project
- Minimum headroom required
- The operator header above the opening; depth and height depend on the operator
- Minimum side room required
- Side room equal to the leaf width for the leaf to park against the wall; confirmed per project
- Header depth and height
- Operator dependent; the header carries the drive and the descending track that seals the leaf
- Maximum leaf weight
- Typically up to about 150 kg per leaf, depending on the operator
Clear opening between finished reveals.
Space above the opening for the barrel, stack or track.
Per side, for guides and drive.
Cycle performance4 fields
- Opening speed
- Adjustable on the operator; typically in the same range as a standard sliding door operator
- Closing speed
- Adjustable on the operator, with a slowed final travel as the leaf seals
- Hold-open time
- Adjustable on the operator; set to suit trolley and bed movement
- Rated daily cycles
- Continuous duty; operators are endurance tested by their manufacturers
Construction5 fields
- Leaf arrangement
- Single or bi-parting sliding leaves, sealing on all four edges when closed
- Glazing
- Flush vision panel, double glazed and set level with the leaf face for cleaning; full-glass leaves available
- Frame and track
- Aluminium header with a track that drops the leaf onto its seals in the final travel; flush guide at the floor
- Threshold detail
- Flush threshold with a drop seal on the leaf; no floor rail across the opening
- Finish
- Antibacterial HPL laminate, stainless steel or lacquered aluminium leaf faces; lead-lined leaves for radiology
Single, bi-parting or telescopic.
Drive5 fields
- Operator type
- Electromechanical sliding door operator with a DC motor driving a toothed belt
- Rated motor power
- Operator dependent; low-voltage DC drive
- Supply voltage
- 230 V AC single phase 50 Hz to the operator
- Duty rating
- Continuous automatic operation
- Manual override
- Leaf can be moved by hand on power failure
Control5 fields
- Mode selector
- Programme switch with automatic, permanent open, one-way and off modes
- Activation sensors
- Touchless wave sensors, elbow or foot switches, push buttons or access control; radar detectors where hands-free approach opening is wanted
- Presence sensors
- Safety detectors covering the opening and the closing path of the leaf
- Part-open width
- Reduced opening width mode, set on commissioning
- Interfaces
- Volt-free inputs and outputs for access control, interlocking with an adjacent door, fire alarm and building management
Safety and egress4 fields
- Behaviour on power failure
- Leaf free to move by hand; battery backup for automatic opening on operators fitted with it
- Break-out leaves
- Not normally fitted; the sealed leaf is opened by hand on power failure
- Presence detection in the threshold
- Safety detectors hold the leaf open while a person or trolley is in the opening
- Escape route compliance
- Where the door is on an escape route the operator and its backup opening are specified for that use; the supplied operator's declaration applies
EN 16005.
Compliance3 fields
- Product standard
- Power-operated pedestrian doorsets fall under EN 16005; air permeability is tested by the door manufacturer to EN 1026 and classed to EN 12207, and the supplied doorset's own test documentation applies
- Conformity marking
- As applicable to the supplied doorset and market
- Certificate reference
- Door manufacturer's air-permeability test report and operator type-test documentation for the supplied model; available on request
EN 16005 applies to power-operated pedestrian doorsets.
| Maximum clear widthClear opening between finished reveals. | Typically 700–1,800 mm single leaf and up to about 2,000 mm bi-parting, depending on the manufacturer |
|---|---|
| Maximum clear height | Set by the leaf construction; confirmed per project |
| Minimum headroom requiredSpace above the opening for the barrel, stack or track. | The operator header above the opening; depth and height depend on the operator |
| Minimum side room requiredPer side, for guides and drive. | Side room equal to the leaf width for the leaf to park against the wall; confirmed per project |
| Header depth and height | Operator dependent; the header carries the drive and the descending track that seals the leaf |
| Maximum leaf weight | Typically up to about 150 kg per leaf, depending on the operator |
| Opening speed | Adjustable on the operator; typically in the same range as a standard sliding door operator |
|---|---|
| Closing speed | Adjustable on the operator, with a slowed final travel as the leaf seals |
| Hold-open time | Adjustable on the operator; set to suit trolley and bed movement |
| Rated daily cycles | Continuous duty; operators are endurance tested by their manufacturers |
| Leaf arrangementSingle, bi-parting or telescopic. | Single or bi-parting sliding leaves, sealing on all four edges when closed |
|---|---|
| Glazing | Flush vision panel, double glazed and set level with the leaf face for cleaning; full-glass leaves available |
| Frame and track | Aluminium header with a track that drops the leaf onto its seals in the final travel; flush guide at the floor |
| Threshold detail | Flush threshold with a drop seal on the leaf; no floor rail across the opening |
| Finish | Antibacterial HPL laminate, stainless steel or lacquered aluminium leaf faces; lead-lined leaves for radiology |
| Operator type | Electromechanical sliding door operator with a DC motor driving a toothed belt |
|---|---|
| Rated motor power | Operator dependent; low-voltage DC drive |
| Supply voltage | 230 V AC single phase 50 Hz to the operator |
| Duty rating | Continuous automatic operation |
| Manual override | Leaf can be moved by hand on power failure |
| Mode selector | Programme switch with automatic, permanent open, one-way and off modes |
|---|---|
| Activation sensors | Touchless wave sensors, elbow or foot switches, push buttons or access control; radar detectors where hands-free approach opening is wanted |
| Presence sensors | Safety detectors covering the opening and the closing path of the leaf |
| Part-open width | Reduced opening width mode, set on commissioning |
| Interfaces | Volt-free inputs and outputs for access control, interlocking with an adjacent door, fire alarm and building management |
| Behaviour on power failure | Leaf free to move by hand; battery backup for automatic opening on operators fitted with it |
|---|---|
| Break-out leaves | Not normally fitted; the sealed leaf is opened by hand on power failure |
| Presence detection in the threshold | Safety detectors hold the leaf open while a person or trolley is in the opening |
| Escape route complianceEN 16005. | Where the door is on an escape route the operator and its backup opening are specified for that use; the supplied operator's declaration applies |
| Product standardEN 16005 applies to power-operated pedestrian doorsets. | Power-operated pedestrian doorsets fall under EN 16005; air permeability is tested by the door manufacturer to EN 1026 and classed to EN 12207, and the supplied doorset's own test documentation applies |
|---|---|
| Conformity marking | As applicable to the supplied doorset and market |
| Certificate reference | Door manufacturer's air-permeability test report and operator type-test documentation for the supplied model; available on request |
Final specification depends on door dimensions, configuration, operating environment and project requirements.
FAQ
Questions we are actually asked
- What makes a door hermetic?
- It seals against its frame on all four edges as it closes, rather than simply meeting a stop. That is what lets the opening sit in a wall between two classified areas without breaking the pressure cascade.
- Can these doors be interlocked as an airlock?
- Yes. Paired doors are electrically interlocked so both are never open together, with the override behaviour on alarm agreed against the escape strategy.
- Which classification can you achieve?
- Classification is a property of the room and its air handling, not of the door alone. We specify the door to suit the classification the cleanroom designer has set, and we will not quote a class for a door in isolation.
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