Secure door specialist aiming at new markets

With its product portfolio set to grow significantly in the next few months with the addition of several new door variants, a new factory having begun manufacture in late 2016, and a new showroom just completed at its Pavenham headquarters near Bedford, the company is, however, keen both to expand its customer base, and to build awareness of its products in both the mental healthcare and the acute health sectors, as The Network’s editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.

The Healthcare and Education Sector Projects manager at Stafford Bridge, Clive Seakens – who only joined the company in January, but has spent many years in the doorset and associated security sector – began by explaining when I met him at the Pavenham office and production facility that the business has a ‘long-standing blast and ballistics background’, having supplied robust doorsets for the Ministry of Defence for some years. He said: “That, in turn, led us on to working with large organisations including London Underground and Network Rail. We can supply a range of sites requiring robust blast and ballistic-resistant doors and windows with purpose-designed products tailored to their needs.” Over the past 5-10 years, he explained, the company had also developed a range of robust seclusion room doors for mental healthcare settings, and now supplies many of the UK’s mental health Trusts and private mental healthcare providers with such doorsets – most notably perhaps in the latter case, St Andrew’s Healthcare. Such doors incorporate features such as a choice of hardwood veneer, antibacterial impact protection sheet, or high impact laminate finish, robust morticed mechanical multi-point locking mechanisms, access control systems for remote locking and unlocking, hardware designed to comply with the Door and Hardware Federation’s TS 001:2013 B4 anti-ligature standard, high density 800 kg/m3 hardwood cores, full-length continuous hinges with anti-ligature tips – again tested to the DHF TS 001 standard, and a range of user-specifiable vision panels. 

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