HARDWARE & SECURITY
Reinvented
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SEEMINGLY UNCHALLENGED, BIfolding or fold and slide doors have been the headline product in the industry for the last ten years.
Fully meeting consumer and commercial demand for large areas of glass to deliver the maximum amount of natural light and the sense that the inside and the outside of a building are almost one, it is little surprise that their popularity has grown so rapidly.
But now, an old industry favourite is making a comeback. The Lift and Slide Patio Door has been reinvented, with outstandingly innovative technical gearing providing benefits to the customer hardly possible even on the most advanced bi-folding door.
General Manager at Siegenia Adrian Vicker takes up the story“ The Siegenia
Portal HS Lift and Slide Patio gearing is truly outstanding”.
“ It encapsulates everything you would expect from German engineering and has been designed to be the most complete system imaginable. It provides a real opportunity for large Lift and Slide Patio doors with an opening width of up to 12 metres- for so long a real favourite in the industry to enjoy a real resurgence and to take back market share from bi-folding doors”.
“ Individual sashes on PVCu, Timber or Aluminium Doors up-to twelve metres wide gives the fabricator something completely new to think about and offer the end user – a single operation of a handle to open up a complete façade of their building with the utmost ease”.
“ Such is the advanced level of technology designed into the product that it has a soft close damper built in to it – as you might have on a kitchen drawer for example- meaning that the door even at its largest size simply slides gently back into the locking position and all of this from a single movement of the handle”.
“ There are other great features too – sashes up to 400kg and available with a barrier free low level threshold- the ECO PASS which allows you to just manufacture the“ goal posts”.
“ The gearing is available in optimum production modules to help the fabricator avoid waste during the production process; it has night ventilation built in and handles are available in a vast range of colours including white, cream, brown, black, bronze, silver and titanium”.
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