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Controlling the cost of energy is always a top priority for many companies, and fast action doors can offer very quick payback periods.
High Speed Industrial Doors are designed to open and close rapidly, which minimise the disruption to energy loss and workflow. This also creates leads to reduced costs for your business, a more comfortable working environment and increased productivity thanks to shorter waiting times.
Six Core Benefits of High Speed Industrial Doors for Your Business
Efficiency & Productivity
Faster Opening Cycles: Reduces waiting times for forklifts and personnel.
Optimised Workflow: Eliminates bottlenecks in busy commercial and factory areas.
Energy & Cost Savings
Maximum Climate Control: Limit the amount of heated & cooled air escaping, drastically reducing your energy costs.
Consistent Environment: Helps maintain target temperatures in sensitive facilities.
Safety & Security
Advanced Safety Sensors: Equipped with collision sensors to prevent accidents and protect assets.
Access Control Ready: Seamless integration with existing security and access systems.
Hygiene & Compliance
Contaminant Exclusion: Reduces the entry risk for dust, dirt, pests, and air particulates.
Industry-Grade Design: Essential for food processing, pharmaceuticals, and other industries with strict hygiene standards.
Durability & Resilience
Built for High-Usage: Designed to withstand continuous, demanding environments and high traffic volumes.
Self-Repairing Technology: Many of our Rapid Roll Door models feature self-reinsertion capability upon impact, minimising repair costs.
Versatility & Customisation
Material Options: Available in heavy-duty PVC, insulated panels, and transparent sections.
Flexible Deployment: Suitable for both internal and external installations across various sectors.
What is a High Speed Industrial Door (Rapid Roll Doors)?
Why Early Investment in Rapid Roll Doors Saves Time & Money.
A high-speed industrial door (often called a ‘Rapid Roll’ or ‘High performance door’) is not just a standard door with a bigger motor, it is an entirely different class of door built around three core design principles, those being speed, cycle life and collision resistance.
The core component: The High-Cycle Drive System
The standard gearbox and springs of traditional doors are fundamentally slow and wear out quickly. High speed doors overcome this with a specialised drive system:
- Direct-Drive Motor: Unlike standard doors that use chains, sprockets, and tension springs (which wear out), most high-speed doors use a direct-drive motor and a heavy-duty industrial gearbox. This is the single biggest factor allowing for incredibly fast operation and a massive increase in lifespan.
- Springless Design: By eliminating torsion springs, the door dramatically reduces maintenance needs and increases the operating lifespan from a typical 25,000 cycles to well over 250,000 to 1,000,000+ cycles before major component replacement is required.
- Variable Speed Control (Soft Start/Stop): Sophisticated motor controllers (using VFDs – Variable Frequency Drives) allow the door to ramp up speed quickly and then decelerate smoothly. This reduces stress on the door components, preventing wear and tear while still achieving maximum speed in the middle of the run.
The curtain/panel: Light Weight and High Strength: To achieve those rapid speeds, the door material itself must be lightweight and flexible, yet robust enough for an industrial environment
- Flexible Fabric Doors: The most common type uses a heavy-duty, reinforced PVC fabric (often with viewing windows). This material is lightweight for speed, and flexible for the critical feature mentioned next: impact resistance.
- Rigid/Spiral Doors: For external openings needing greater security or high wind-load resistance, high speed industrial doors are also built thin, in sectional aluminium or steel slats. These coil up into a protective spiral ‘spiral’ or roll-up system, preventing the slats from touching each other, which allows for fast operation with less friction and wear.
Key difference – Collision Avoidance and Self Repair: This is arguably the most valuable feature in a busy logistics environment, minimising costly forklift downtime:
- Breakaway Design: Fabric high speed industrial doors are designed so that they are struck by a forklift, the curtain releases from its side guides (a ‘breakaway’ or ‘knock out’ function) instead of tearing or bending a hard panel.
- Self-Reinsert/Self-Repair: Immediately after the collision, the door is often designed to automatically re-feed the curtain back into the side guides on the next cycle (or via the push of a button), meaning the door is operational again in seconds, not hours or days. This drastically cuts maintenance costs and lost productivity.
Maximising safety and efficiency (sensors and activation)
To handle the high speed industrial door safely and efficiently, they rely on advanced sensors that are rarely standard on traditional doors:
Activation Sensors
Weather resistant industrial doors are designed to withstand harsh conditions
Safety Light Curtains
With robust construction and advanced locking mechanisms, our doors provide exceptional security for your property.
Photo Eyes
Our doors help regulate temperature and reduce energy consumption, leading to lower utility bills.
Visual/Audible Signals
Choose from a variety of materials, colours, and features to tailor your doors to your specific needs.
The Zero Downtime Maintenance Plan For High Speed Industrial Doors
Weather resistant industrial doors are designed to withstand harsh conditions
A high-speed industrial door requires a high-performance service. To keep your employees, the public, and your bottom line safe, proactive maintenance is non-negotiable. We turn maintenance from an unpredictable cost into a controlled investment.
Our comprehensive, bespoke maintenance and repair service is an extension of your doors value because it:
- Protects your staff & customers: Ensures all safety sensors and mechanisms are operating perfectly, protecting you from liability claims.
- Guarantee Compliance ensures you remain compliant with UK legislative requirements and crucially, your building insurance policy
- Keeps your uptime to maximum: Fixes minor adjustments and underlying issues before they spiral into catastrophic, costlier failures.
- Prolongs asset life: Methodical inspections and compliant repairs are aimed at maximising the service life of your high speed industrial doors.
Our Bespoke Maintenance Offer
- Free initial safety and compliance inspection: Call us to arrange a convenient time for our highly trained engineer to complete a FREE site inspection.
- Tailored service schedule: We recommend the minimum number of services per annum based on your unique door usage, UK regulatory requirements, and the manufacturer’s recommendations. We offer competitive, bespoke plans to fit any budget.
- Full compliance documentation: Any and all work carried out is documented in your official yellow door wallet providing a critical proof of service for insurance providers and auditors.
- 24/7 365 days emergency callout: Our emergency team is ready to assists your day or night, even on Bank Holidays, ensuring your operations are never compromised by a breakdown.
Durability
Our durable, weather-resistant industrial doors are designed to withstand harsh conditions.
Security
With robust construction and advanced locking mechanisms, our doors provide exceptional security for your property.
Energy Efficiency
Our doors help regulate temperature and reduce energy consumption, leading to lower utility bills.
Customisability
Choose from a variety of materials, colors, and features to tailor your doors to your specific needs.
See some examples of our work
Protect your business with our high speed doors, designed to save on energy costs and boost your company's productivity.
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Frequently asked questions
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