Industrial Door Engineering - Completes Fire Station Upgrades.

Industrial Door Engineering has completed the upgrade of the Appliance Bay automatic doors for the Cheshire Fire Service in the UK.

The £150,000 Contract involved either the complete renewal of the Appliance Bay Doors or alternatively, the upgrade of the automatic control systems. The programme of works commenced in Summer 2009 and was completed in February of 2010.

In total, 24 different fire stations throughout Cheshire County were worked upon. Some like the headquarters in Chester as shown in the attached photograph, were subject to a complete renewal program of doors complete with high speed motor units, LED traffic lights, photocell safety beams and auto-close photo-cells that instruct the doors to close immediately after the fire engine has left the building.

A range of different doors were supplied depending upon the style of buildings and their surroundings. Fully glazed sectionals, as at Chester, were installed at some sites. Standard sectionals or insulated roller shutters were installed at a number of other sites.

Ray Bassett of I.D.E. who co-ordinated the contract said ‘The Cheshire Fire Service are delighted with the upgrade that was carried out on schedule. The control equipment with the high speed motors and the sophisticated safety features is a vast improvement on what was originally fitted on the fire stations, and has helped significantly in the efficiency of the sites, particularly in emergency situations where the response time of the fire engines is critical.’

Cheshire Fire Service have a Service Contract with I.D.E. which means that all the Appliance Bay doors are regularly serviced and maintained to keep them up to the highest standard of operation

IDE have just completed a contract for East Midlands Rail in the UK comprising 8 fast acting insulated roller shutter doors.

The doors are driven by the latest Guthrie Douglas Safedrive motors with in-built invertors giving the fastest speed currently available for this type of product, but also incorporating a soft-start/soft-stop operation for smooth operation and safety.

Ray Bassett, one of IDE’s senior technical representative’s who co-ordinated the contract throughout said ‘The client is absolutely delighted with the products. The fast but incredibly smooth operation is extremely impressive and we have further orders in the pipeline for this high-tech type of door. The doors are almost 5 metres high but take less than 8 seconds to open.

IDE are about to install an identical product on our own factory which will be used for demonstration purpose. The door will also be the main feature on a Company video that IDE are currently working on. It is hoped the video will be available on the IDE website within the next 2 -3 months.