Features
Ideal for Walk-in closets,
hidden shop storage,
restaurant or ballroom bars
as well as partition office doors.
Door is fully flush with walls when closed, Unique movement for a compact and Door opens in front of the contiguous wall or cabinet, giving a full
allowing for a flowing design. extremely smooth opening of the door. access from all directions.
Product lineup
Ideal for Walk-in
2980
2980
Door size :
NEW
min.
max.
closet, hidden shop
*Inside cabinet
storage, restaurant or
ballroom bars as well
2400
2400
as partition office
2420
2400
NEW
2400
doors.
1600
1600
1000
600
650
600
260
750
LIN-X1000
Door
750
1100
[90kg]
LIN-X800H
[40kg]
750
850
LIN-X800
[40kg]
850
550
LIN-X600
Wardrobe
Doors. They open, they close - what else
is there to say? Most of the time, we don’t
even think about how they move. The
options seem limited and obvious. Push or
pull, everything happening in a defined arc,
swing out, swing in.
The only time we are likely to think about
how our doors open and close is when the
standard options are either impractical or
undesirable. What happens, for example,
when you have cupboard and cabinet
doors in tight spaces and they cannot open
fully because other objects block the way?
What about cases where, for safety as
well as aesthetic reasons, you would like
to have doors that can be left open but
tucked neatly out of the way, rather than
intruding out into the space in front?
For decades, Sugatsune has specialised in
applying the finest traditions of Japanese
precision engineering to solving everyday
practical problems like these. From a me-
chanical point of view, doors swing out
and in on a rotational pivot because that
is the simplest way to design a hinge. But
Sugatsune has never been satisfied with
simple. In our view, doors need not be
limited to opening with one motion. All you
need to do is reimagine how hinges work.
650
[24kg]
500
FAD-20
Kitchen
550
[20kg]
400
LIN-X450
500
[17kg]
270 350
FAD-5
[5kg]
Bathroom
The result of this way of thinking is our
premium range of lateral opening door hin-
ges. Developed and honed over a period
of years, the range now offers solutions
for everything from lightweight bathroom
cabinets to full length walk-in wardrobes,
providing lateral opening to doors with a
maximum load of 5kg all the way up to
90kg. signed for walk-in closets, office partitions
and other full-length doors up to 2.9m
in height and weighing up to 90kg, won
awards for the way we reengineered the
lateral hinge concept to cope with the
extra weight. The latest addition to our
range, the Lin-X800, applies the same
mechanism for use on slightly smaller
wardrobe doors.
The key benefit of lateral opening hinges is
the space you save. With a smaller opening
radius than standard pivot hinges, it means
you can enable full opening of cabinets in
even the tightest kitchens and bathrooms.
With open doors sat flush to the adjacent
surface, neatly tucked out of the way, you
get better access and less of a risk of
bumps and trips. This applies equally to
corner configurations as it does to cabinets
set next to each other horizontally. With
corner cupboards in kitchens, for example,
lateral hinges mean you can open both
cupboards fully at once. All of our lateral hinges also deliver excep-
tional smooth motion and soft close as
standard. Our FAD-20 hinge, for example,
makes use of a gas spring to minimise
resistance when opening and closing, and
holds doors firmly in place in open and
closed positions. Built-in dampers on all
of our lateral hinges ensure the motion of
every door is slowed as it closes, mini-
mising the risk of slamming and trapped
fingers.
While the core of our range was originally
designed for bathroom and kitchen cabi-
nets, we also recognised the benefits of
lateral opening for larger cupboard and
wardrobe doors - especially in situations
where installing tracks for a sliding door
is impractical. Our Lin-X1000 model, de-
Finally, while most of our lateral hinges are
designed to pull doors open, the MFU-
1000 offers something different again.
Incorporating a track system, the MFU-
1000 operates with the door pushed
inwards and then slid to the side. One
intriguing use of this mechanism is its
suitability for ‘hidden doors’, as the push
operation means you don’t need any
handle to pull on.