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Dorma adds finesse to access control

Leading door control specialist Dorma is poised for a strong year ahead with its wide range of access control systems.

01 March 2007

While doors are often taken for granted by users, for architects and manufacturers they constitute an important element and Dorma says it has always risen to the challenge.

“Aesthetic elegance, functionality, durability and preventive fire protection are just some of the parameters to which we apply our innovative efforts and expertise,” says a spokesman of the company.
The firm knows doors and it knows the market and understands its needs, applying a high level of competence to meet the requirements of the industry, and offering an unparalleled range of products and services that would be expected from a competent solutions provider.
Under the door control umbrella, Dorma caters to the sub-segments of door closers and door control systems, door furniture and fittings and locks, providing comprehensive capabilities that truly circle the door.
“Dorma Door Control is thus able to offer a reliable single-source solution in architectural door hardware as a project partner. We can provide support right around the world to give shape to creative ideas – with technically sophisticated and cost-effective solutions and specifications, combined with significant scope for design variation,” says the spokesman.
“Whatever the demands made on doors, Dorma is able to satisfy them with a broad spectrum of door closers and door control systems. Moreover, the Dorma portfolio allows not just one solution but rather a number of equally viable alternatives.
Its door closers and door control systems set the standards in terms of technological excellence, range of functions, design elegance and installation flexibility, enhanced by wide-ranging adjustment possibilities. The outstanding functional reliability and service life of these systems are underpinned by a certified and regularly audited quality management system to ISO 9001, the spokesman points out.
Dorma door control systems ensure optimum visual harmony, offer extended scope for enhanced aesthetic elegance and transform doors into contributory design elements. The company’s products also excel in terms of their reliability, extensive functionality and ease of operation.
“The proven quality of Dorma door control systems is apparent from their outstanding longevity despite daily heavy-duty usage,” he says. “Depending on the application, various requirements relating to fire and smoke protection or sound and thermal insulation also need to be properly satisfied. And here again Dorma is able to offers its extensive services as a reliable partner and product supplier.”
The door hardware section comprises overhead door closers, floor springs, transom-concealed closers and accessories.
The Ogro door furniture and fittings section comprises lever handles, pull handles, security fittings and accessories. As different as Ogro hinges, levers and pull handles may appear, they nevertheless also have a number of major common attributes. All are designed to resist the wear and tear of daily usage, each is made exclusively from high-quality materials and every item is carefully crafted, he points out. The result is an impressive portfolio of round bar and bespoke lever handle models complemented by a range of narrow-stile door fittings manufactured to the same high standards.
Dorma locks offer compelling benefits, thanks to assured high quality and functional integrity combined with long service life-times. With high-grade materials, careful manufacturing and a comprehensive quality management system, these products are able to satisfy virtually all the technical requirements ever likely to arise. Dorma locks offer unbeatable performance, safety and security, the spokesman claims.
This apart, reliability and engineering excellence will be included as standard, he adds.

Emergency exit doors
The Dorma panic hardware system offers an extensive range of high-quality panic hardware fittings with horizontal and vertical locking for use on emergency exit doors where security, reliability and aesthetic elegance are crucial requirements. Dorma PHA, PHB and PHT products fully meet the demands that are made on fittings used in public buildings, universities and schools, concert halls, shopping centres, hotels and offices.
Dorma’s five divisions – door control, automatic, glass fittings and accessories, security/time and access (STA) and movable walls – are co-ordinated with one another in such a way that they provide architects and planners with greater design freedom in methodical project planning and realization – with innovations taking the lead and a focus on the harmonious interaction of functionality and design, the spokesman concludes.