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What are the advantages of an industrial folding door?
Industrial folding doors manufactured in double skin, galvanized steel panels offer so many advantages for the average industrial or commercial building, even with manual operation.
So many mid to larger size external door openings on factories, warehouses, retail shops, processing plants, garages and so on are walked through by staff and other pedestrians all day long, especially in the warmer months of the year. It generally isn’t that frequent that the entire door opening required full access and general pedestrian traffic is most common, unless you are a very busy warehouse or factory in which case your door choice might be far more performance driven.
A steel folding door can incorporate either one complete door leaf to be used as a pedestrian door or a pedestrian door is built into one of the main door panels allowing simple, easy access throughout the opening hours of the building. This door can also be specified to be a fire exit door so you can easily save the need for an additional side door purely acting as a fire exit door to comply.
Folding doors are very easy to operate manually with smooth sliding tracking either at the top or bottom depending on the size and specification. Most folding doors we sell are manual operation simply because they are not going to be opened that often fully.
Main benefits include:
- Easy manual operation
- Built in pedestrian door access options
- Insulated panels
- Minimal maintenance
- Small to medium size windows or fully glazed door options
- Almost silent operation
- Minimal headroom required
- Partial opening and multiple options with panel arrangements to suit.
