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Another Pallet of Hospital Doors Leaves Our Factory

July 7, 2020 by spartan_admin

Another pallet of hospital doors leaves our factory for a major healthcare project in Melbourne.

Our customer, a national, tier 1 builder, gave us the go-ahead to manufacture these hospital doors and asked for a very tight delivery timing of only a couple of days. We were able to turnaround, produce, and ship nearly 300 custom fire-rated and non-fire rated hospital doors from our factory in Newcastle to Melbourne ahead of schedule.

The end project is a major aged care development in the Melbourne area. Given the issues surrounding the pandemic, the project has been fast-tracked by the state and local governments and we are proud to have been selected to supply the hospital doors to this critical healthcare infrastructure.

We were pleased to get this quick note from the site manager:

To continue to support the fast turn around of orders like one, we’ve continued to invest in our production capacity despite the current uncertainty in the market. We’ve recently installed a new, 5-axis SCM Morbidelli CNC, an oversized 5 stack heat-press, and a new CNC press brake for the manufacture of pressed metal door frames.

We’re confident our factory has some of the shortest turnaround times in the industry. So, if your project needs quality doors and door frames on tight deadlines please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We’d be delighted to help.

Cyclonic Doors Installation: Two Years On

September 11, 2019 by spartan_admin

We were fortunate enough to be out in Western Australia again for a new, large project that we’re working on there. On our way through Karratha, we visited the Red Earth Arts Precinct where a large number of our cyclonic doors had been installed a couple of years ago.

While the climate out there is extremely harsh, our cyclonic doors seemed to be holding up very, very well.

Karratha is in Region D as categorised by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, which means the area is subject to severe tropical cyclones. These storms can pack winds in excess of 200 km per hour.

cyclone-doors — http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/

Our cyclone rated doors are engineered and manufactured to exceed the requirements of AS1170.2 for regions C and D but can also be used in less severe regions A and B. These doors feature a re-bar matrix that is welded to the door plates. We then pour concrete into the space after installation.

Cyclonic doors come in a variety of finishes and like some of the doors in the pictures above can feature stainless steel kickplates. These doors are frequently used in refineries, substations and, like here in Karratha, public buildings.

For more information on who has to have cyclone doors and why, please check out this linked post.

Switchroom door sets being installed in new substation

August 5, 2019 by spartan_admin

Here are some custom industrial-grade, double and single, 2-hour fire-rated switchroom door sets that are currently being installed in a new transportable substation in NSW.

These pre-hung doors are sheeted and capped in Colorbond Pale Eucalypt with commercial-grade stainless steel hinges, skeleton bolts, closers and locking hardware. Note the closers are mounted on the inside face to increase longevity and reduce the chance of external tampering or vandalisation.

Like most transportable switchroom door sets, all doors are fitted with vision panels for safety. These vision panels allow the door operator to check for obstructions, fire or other personnel before opening the doors.

The frames are fitted with a custom bottom sill with face flange, which helps keep the frame square during installation, negates the need for a threshold plate for sealing and weather resistance, and also improves the appearance of the installed system.

The door sets are supplied as pre-hung systems. In this case, the doors come hung in the powder-coated frame (to match the Colorbond doors) with all of the hardware fitted. This reduces the installation time by a number of days and means fewer specialised trades are needed on site. The wall opening size is finalised at the building design stage and it usually determined by us after we are given a clear opening size that needs to be achieved to allow machinery and personnel access.

Spartan Doors manufacture a wide variety of switchroom and substation door sets. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you think we can assist your current or future projects.

Installing high-security multipoint locking systems

June 4, 2019 by spartan_admin

We recently started using high-security multipoint locking systems from MICO in the UK. The flagship project for the MICO hardware was a number of Bulwark 4000 security doors guarding against vandalism and break-ins at remote, unmanned facilities in the Northern Territory.

These doors and locking systems needed to withstand the harshest environments while being able to withstand sustained potential attacks from would-be intruders with access to heavy tools and levers. Response times from local police were likely to be measured in days, rather than hours or minutes.

MICO have been developing and manufacturing security hardware for over 40 years. Their multipoint locking systems are manufactured of high-grade stainless steel offering the utmost in security even in the harshest of environments.

This project required their 3 point INT Multipoint system with lever egress. They have a number of other options ranging from basic single point locking with key entry, all the way up to multipoint locking with electromechanical integrations allowing for smartphone control or biometric scanning.

These single and multipoint locking systems already come with a number of security, fire, and safety certifications from the UK and we look forward to adding even more safety and security to our range of Bulwark high-security doors for use here in Australia.

If you’re interested in these types of super-secure locking systems please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We’d be happy to help you better secure your business, factory, or warehouse.