Working through Clegg Food Projects, Hart Door Systems’ installation at Adams Foods new facility at Leek, Staffordshire, is an excellent example of the range of doors available through this specialist engineering company.

Bridon International, the world leading specialist in the manufacture of wire and rope solutions for the most demanding applications, has ordered a range of HDS door products for its new factory on Neptune Energy Park, walker, Newcastle upon Tyne. These include several Speedor Maxis, the large version of the well-known Speedor range of automatic, high-speed doors, several steel doors and aluminium insulated roller shutters.

An innovative door design for a baggage handling requirement at Heathrow Terminal 5 has been adapted by HDS to deliver a bespoke solution for a new manufacturing process about to be introduced in a major North East manufacturing facility.

Technical director at HDS, Nick Hart, says the client company required a unique door for a new production unit with a factory. "In brief the doors to be supplied needed to give 60-minute fire resistance and be capable of completing up to 400,000 open/close cycles a year.

To coincide with the development of Hart Door Systems’ new website, a broader identity based on a new logo has been introduced.

“The new website has given us an opportunity to examine our image and while I feel the existing style and in particular our Speedor brand has stood the test of time I welcomed the suggestion that we moved with the times,” says HDS managing director, Doug Hart.

Hart Door Systems’ technical director, Nick Hart, raised around £7000 for the Children’s Heart Unit Fund, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne by climbing Europe’s highest mountain, Mont Blanc, recently. He is seen here at altitude with fellow climber Steven Donald holding between them a flag with Hart’s new logo on it.

The award of UL accreditation to Hart Door Systems is an outstanding achievement as it represents the first door manufacturer in Europe to gain this internationally- recognised certification. UL is accredited as an IECEx System Ex Certification Body.

This US accreditation under the IECEx System complements UL's existing IECEx System accreditation for UL International Demko A/S in Europe. For the hazardous locations market, 30 countries across Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America are accepting these standards which broaden our ability to get into new and emerging markets.

Work has started on a 6,000 sq ft office building that will replace existing office accommodation and also provide additional manufacturing space to the adjoining factory.

The two-storey building will be ready for occupation early 2012.

HDS’ managing director, Doug Hart says that new building will improve the use of the site, improving vehicular access, providing better parking and give the company far better office space.

HDS continues to be active in the Middle East with more orders being won by the company for a range of door systems from Speedors to fire shutters.

For an undisclosed location four large Speedors have been installed for the Australian Defence Force, more Speedors have been installed in a tobacco processing plant in Dubai and HDS fire-shutters continue to be supplied to various airports throughout Saudi Arabia.

HDS is supplying 14 galvanised fire shutters for a new baggage handling system for Vladivostok International Airport, Russia. The contract continues Hart’s specialisation in airport fire protection and security.

Georgia-Pacific has chosen Hart Door Systems to provide a services contract for its door systems at its plant in south Wales.

Georgia-Pacific is one of the leading producers of tissue, paper, packaging and building products in the world employing over 40,000 people, working in 300 locations in 23 countries. 

HDS has supplied a variety of electrically operated roller shutters, securigrilles and steel doors for Laing O’Rourke  for its Pallion Health Centre, Sunderland, construction contract.

Hart Door Systems has worked with Laing O’Rourke on many projects such as the Leazes and Claremont Wings being built around the original Victoria Wing development. The new development not only brings state of the art facilities onto the site but addresses many of the traffic and pedestrian flow issues that have arisen over the years.

Hart Door Systems exhibited at the recent manufacturing exhibition, Dubai, and at a similar exhibition in Oman. “This is all part of maintaining our profile in the region,” says HDS export manager, Alan Richardson.

Seen at the recent North East Chamber of Commerce Annual Export Awards were HDS, former award winners, seen here (left to right) Alan Richardson, export manager, HDS, Lord Green, Minister of State for Trade & Industry, guest of honour and Nick Hart, technical director, HDS.

HDS has supplied over 20 doors to NETPark, the North East Technology Park, Sedgefield, Co Durham, one of the fastest growing Science Parks in the UK. The project is supported by County Durham Development Company and County Durham Council among others with occupiers including companies that are developing technology and products in the physical sciences, particularly printable electronics, microelectronics, photonics and nanotechnology, and their application in the fields of energy, defence, and medical-related technologies.

Hart Door Systems has completed a contract to supply a range of doors for a major Tyneside facility that the doors to achieve certain u-values to ensure that building was able to maintain its green credentials. HDS supplied two very large Speedor Maxi doors which are 8m wide x 8m high to enable a production flow through the building to take place immediately adjacent to the river in a very windy environment.

One of Harts latest international orders has achieved a successful outcome.  This door positioned in the Bermuda Emissions Control testing station is now installed and fully functional.

Installation was completed by local contractors on site with help from our technical engineer who flew over to Bermuda to oversee to final details.

Installation is now fully complete with the prospect of further doors to be shipped over in the future.

Another major contract has been won in the Middle East for IFFCO in the UAE. IFFCO is a United Arab Emirates based business house that manufacture and market a well integrated range of mass-market consumer products including food and beverage products. The HDS project involves 32 Speedors and 17 Fire Shutters which are needed for a new production facility in Sharjah for which another two Speedors have been ordered for an existing production area.

With Alan Richardson, contracts manager at Newcastle upon Tyne-based Hart Door Systems (HDS) heading off for the Gulf and Hart’s sales manager Julian Britnell going to South America, it is clear that HDS is taking its export opportunities extremely seriously.

Browns 2000 chooses Hart’s Speedor Hart Door Systems has installed a number of its automatic, high-speed Speedors in a new facility that opened at the Browns 2000 180,000 sq ft factory at Cramlington, Northumberland.

Another major contract has been won in the Middle East for IFFCO in the UAE.

Hart Door Systems has installed three Speedors Minis at the Birmingham plant of Dana UK Axle for its new purpose-built, state-of-the-art facility for Jaguar and Landrover.

Speedor Supers were supplied and installed to a paper shredding area for Iron Mountain.

A Speedor high speed door has been installed at the CLS laundry cleaning depot in Cornwall where an external door, that was in constant use, had mostly been left open affecting internal temperatures and increasing heating costs as a result.