Laboratory Mechanics

The laboratory for mechanical items and engineering is a partner to manufacturers of doors, gates, windows and fittings for doors, gates and windows as well as accessories. The range of services provided by the Mechanical Laboratory covers a wide portfolio and encompasses issues pertaining to security, product safety and long-term mechanical durability.

Services

• Durability tests

• Testing of burglary resistance of building products

• Single tests for hardware and locks

• Smoke control tests

• Corrosion resistance in the form of salt spray as well as sulphur dioxide tests

Products

All kinds of shutters, e.g.

• Doors

• Windows

• Facades

• Industrial doors and gates

• Smoke control doors and shutters

• Power operated industrial doors and gates

• Burglar resistant shutters and suitable retrofit products

Hardware, e.g.

• Locks

• Emergency exit und panic exit devices

• Hinges

• Handle sets

• Protective hardware

• Profile cylinder

• Hardware for windows, doors and gates

• Fold & slide door hardware

• Door closing devices

• Power operated doors and industrial doors and gates

Advantages

• Quick statements on the natural ageing process of a closure with customary use in the form of opening and closing operations.

• Covering all aspects of safety - active (safety of use) as well as passive (burglary resistance).

• Burglar-resistant effect of a component with static, dynamic and manual testing and the ability to remain firmly fixed to the building.

• Standardised determination of the leakage of cold and hot smoke from one side of a closure to the other.