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DORMA – The Total Package Around The Door

DORMA offers the total package around the door. From door hardware to glass fittings, from automatic doors to security products, all backed up by service and maintenance. These modular products and services can be tailored to your needs, ensuring together we make the difference.

In the UK DORMA is made up of five specialist divisions covering:

• Door Controls

• Automatic Doors

• Glass Systems and Fittings

• Door Service and Maintenance

• Movable Walls

The five product offerings have a modular approach to design, which allows us to meet your needs with a totally co-ordinated solution. Whatever door strategy you are planning we can offer the total package around the door. This gives DORMA a unique position in the marketplace, with the knowledge, experience and product range to ensure that every project is served by the best possible combination of products and services.

DORMA RIBA Approved CPD Seminars

DORMA have a range of RIBA approved CPD seminars and can organise a CPD at your premises. Topics include the new generation of accessible doors and the Disability Discrimination Act, toughened glass doors and assemblies, automatic doors and safety and modern door controls.

Automatics – setting the standard

DORMA offers automatic sliding doors and swing doors, and if operating space is a problem, then our folding or space-saving doors provide the perfect solution. DORMA revolving doors create an impressive entrance to a building that is ideal for high traffic areas.

As part of our supply and fix service we offer the complete door package, ensuring that all relevant safety standards are met. Sliding doors – Our sliding doors provide an inviting and friendly entrance to any building with their fast, smooth motion and ease of use.

Swing doors - Where aesthetics are important the ED 200i is the ideal automatic swing door operator since it fits almost invisibly into the transom above the doors.

Low energy swing doors – The ED800 offers increased access for disabled people and helps ensure compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. The ED 800 does not require additional safety equipment, unlike traditional automatic swing door operators, and thereby offers inexpensive assisted access on both existing and new doors.

Revolving doors – DORMA offers automatics an revolving doors which combine appeal with robust practicality, making them ideal for shopping centres, supermarkets, hotels, offices and airports. The doors can be supplied in a variety of materials including all glass.

Door Hardware – Not just door closers

In the door controls and ironmongery industry DORMA is justifiably renowned as the market leader creating new standards for innovation. Our door closers, locks, fire protection systems and panic hardware set the benchmark in terms of quality and reliability.

Door Closers - DORMA’s innovative and unique heart shaped cam action door closers significantly increases the ease of opening for users and is especially suitable for children, the elderly and people with disabilities. Concealed door closers such as the ITS96 and floor springs like the BTS80, ensure that the door aesthetics do not have to be compromised.

Panic Hardware - DORMA also offers a full range of panic exit devices such as the AD4000 series touchbar for virtually any emergency exit installation where security, reliability and appearance are considerations.

Locks – DORMA locks are designed so that all the internal workings are contained in a new revolutionary cassette to give maximum functionality and reliability.

Glass Fittings – The benefits are clearly visible

DORMA offers a comprehensive range of fittings, through a nationwide network of distributors, for the construction of toughened glass door assemblies.

Manet Architectural Glass System - For a modern, individual design, the DORMA Manet system allows for complete versatility for creating unique interiors with crystal clear transparency. It is equally suitable for fixing to floors, ceilings or walls, and as the load bearing structure is reduced to an absolute minimum, the aesthetic effect of large areas of smooth, flat glass is maintained.

Patch Fittings - DORMA Universal and Arcos patch fittings are market leading in terms of quality and design and give complete freedom in designing with glass. Designers have a variety of options for both sliding and pivoting glass door systems for use both internally or externally.

Shower and Bathroom Solutions - DORMA glass shower hinges, toughened glass screens and cubicles provide a variety of benefits in design and installation. Our salesforce will provide consultancy and advice on the full range backed up by our in-house technical support.

Movable Walls – Boundless freedom

Today it is possible to adapt rooms of widely different proportions to a much broader range of requirements. DORMA is a world leader in movable walls offering a solution for virtually every requirement: from movable, sound- insulated partitions for auditoriums and halls within large buildings to sliding glass panel frontages and divider systems for shopping malls and banks. Operation may be automatic, semi-automatic or manual as required.

Service – All the back up you need

The DORMA package offers coordinated design backed up with lifelong reliability through our service division. DORMA UK Limited, Service Division offers a range of maintenance programmes and 24-hour emergency cover through our nationwide network of fully trained engineers.

DORMA

Wilbury Way

Hitchin

Herts SG4 0AB Tel: 01462 477600

Fax: 01462 477601

E-mail: info@dorma-uk.co.uk

Internet: www.dorma-uk.co.uk


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