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Typhoons, also known as tropical cyclones or hurricanes, are intense circular storms that originate over warm tropical oceans posing great risk to life and property damage.   They are one of the most destructive and frightening weather phenomena.

With a history of developing its own range of advanced industrial doors such as its Speedor high-speed doors, demand from South East Asia has led Hart Doors to develop a new version of its Typhoon security shutters range which can withstand wind speeds of circa 165mph.

Hart Door Systems has completed the installation of five steel shutters on a major Northumberland grain silo which had suffered significant damage on its existing shutters caused by storm Arwen.

Hart Doors has completed an installation of five Speedor Minis, the high-performance interior roller door that delivers higher operating speeds than traditional sectional doors or roller shutters. The client is an international manufacturer of helicopters.

Glasgow’s COP26 conference did much to remind us of the issue of Climate Change. However well-intentioned the debate over two weeks by the global audience was followed by a real, live, reminder that the Earth is very much on the edge with dramatic storms, flooding, forest fires, continuing rising sea levels and melting ice caps. 

Working for a major online retailer, Hart Door Systems has installed seven of its successful Speedor Storm doors at a high-volume distribution facility.

We have recently installed a pair of high-speed Speedor Storm doors at a major manufacturing/recycling plant in the Midlands. The plant, which annually supplies over 275,000 tonnes of polythene products, also recycles over 95,000 tonnes of UK waste from industrial, commercial, agricultural and domestic sources.

Hart Door Systems, the Westerhope-based specialist engineering company, has won multi-door orders for export to Russia, Hong Kong and Kuwait.

These large Speedors, designed and manufactured by Hart Door Systems of Newcastle upon Tyne, are part of a comprehensive, multi-unit, door installation for an internationally operating feed company that offers total feed solutions for conventional and organic livestock producers.

Hart Doors has received its largest order for its Typhoon shutters following on from a successful installation of similar shutters at Hong Kong’s International airport’s Terminal One’s mid-field baggage hall.

Ineos, the global chemicals company, has had five new Hart industrials doors installed at its Newton Aycliffe, Co Durham, site in a project being carried out by Hawkins Construction.

Working for a leading environmental solutions company, Hart Doors has completed the installation of nine rollers shutters at a major facility at Farnborough, Hampshire.

Hart Doors has made two senior appointments in its sales team with David Mason as UK Sales Manager and Brian Woodcock as Sales Executive for the Midlands and South West. 

On the 22nd and 23rd September we will be exhibiting at the UK’s largest Recycling and Waste Management event the RWM Exhibition, NEC, Birmingham

After 34 years of operation a Hart Speedor Super high-speed door, is being replaced by Hart’s latest version, a Speedor Storm.

A WIND-RESISTANT HIGH-SPEED INDUSTRIAL DOOR IS READY FOR ANYTHING: THE SPEEDOR STORM

High-performance industrial door specialist Hart Door Systems has teamed up with Sir Robert McAlpine to deliver a range of doors as part of a £4 million new build warehouse and distribution centre. The new facility is for a Yorkshire-based independent tea and coffee company.

Hart Doors, the Newcastle-based designer and manufacturer of industrial door systems including high speed roller doors and commercial roller shutters, has completed the installation of its first Speedor Lite, a new variant of its famous Speedor range of high-speed doors.

Hart Doors has completed another contract at the Wimbledon Traincare depot, the traction maintenance depot servicing South Western Railway.

Hart has completed a major contract for a range of doors and shutters at Nissan Manufacturing UK’s car plant, Sunderland.
Working with Unipress and Sir Robert McAlpine, the contract involved installing new doors and shutters and removing other doors in what was an active manufacturing environment.

We’re delighted to announce that we have been commissioned to supply Moscow’s second energy from waste (EFW) facility.

Carl Crossman, project manager on Moscow 2 talks through the development…  

Our association with many major manufacturing sectors through our wide range of door products is widely acknowledged. One sector includes the UK’s biggest sector, the £100 bn Food and Drink industry which employs over 4m people.

These two Hart Speedors, the high-speed environmental doors, are the latest to be installed at the Bakhresa Group’s Buguruni flour mill, Dar es Salaam,Tanzania, Africa’s largest flour mill.

Newcastle International Airport links the North East not only to the UK but the rest of the world. Airports are a crucial part of the UK’s infrastructure regionally, nationally and internationally. As a business, this connection is crucial but we have also supplied to over 40 airports worldwide so their survival is important to us.

Working for a major transnational company active in water and waste management as well as energy services, Hart Door Systems has installed three Speedor Storms at an in-vessel composting facility capable of processing 60,000 tonnes of kitchen and green garden waste each year.

We have expanded our range of contactless door activators to support businesses in providing safe, secure and hygienic working environments.  

Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, we have a longstanding heritage stretching back to 1946. We are known for our consultative approach that enables us to deliver reliable doors designed for safety, fire, and security. 

Working through Southern Industrial Roofing Hart has completed a contract to supply seven insulated shutters and one high-speed Speedor Storm at the Dundee and Angus Energy from Waste facility at Baldovie, north east of Dundee.

Hart Door Systems has completed the installation of a major contract comprising Speedor Cleanrooms, Speedor Storms and a Firebrand fire shutter for a leading UK manufacturer and supplier of flavourings, extracts and essences.

Working for a haulage company specialising in waste disposal, Hart Door Systems has completed the installation of two Speedor Storms at a Midlands facility.

We wish to announce that Alan Richardson, who has worked at Hart for 31 years, will retire at the end of the year. We wish Alan the very best for the future and a long, healthy retirement. Take a brief look at Alan’s story below or download here

We are happy to announce that we have received our first order from Finland for our fast-action, security baggage-handling doors.

Hart Door Systems has strengthened its international presence after signing a distribution agreement with AUB Ltd, providing specialist door access solutions in Hong Kong and Macau.

Despite the difficulties in the last year, 2020 was the best year for exports in our 75 years history.

Working with Vanderlande, the market’s largest original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and supplier of logistic process automation for airports, Hart Doors has won a contract to supply 60 high-speed screens for a new baggage handling system a major UK International airport.     

The impact of Covid19 is clear for all to see – escalating death tolls, Governments across the world striving to protect their populations and to keep their respective economies functioning against a background of considerable uncertainty.

Here at Hart we have ceated a series of short films to highlight our successes over the years.

The installation of a three-tonne insulated roller shutter manufactured by Hart Door Systems completed a work package which has seen a total of 40 doors installed over the last year for Taylors of Harrogate, the independent family tea and coffee company.

We have appointed John Rafferty, an experienced production manager, to strengthen manufacturing processes.

In the 74 years of trading, Hart Door Systems has never experienced the challenges presented by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic and the implications it is having on many businesses, it is certainly a historical moment for us all.

We’re delighted to announce that Nick Hart has been appointed as Managing Director, taking over the role from his father, Doug Hart.

Hart’s Terror Screen, the security roller shutter to standard LPS 1175 SR4 and with full third party certification from BRE/LPC, is hitting the mark with customers seeking additional on-site security.

Hart Door Systems has recently begun work on its first order from Oman for four highly specialist ‘ATEX’ shutters for compliance with regulations relating to environments with a risk of explosion.

Hart Doors, the leading designer and manufacturer of both commercial and industrial doors, has completed the installation of a Speedor Mini at Durham Box’s 70,000 sq ft factory,  Bishop Auckland, where in excess of 20 million packaging products per year are produced principally for the FMCG sector.

Hart is in the process of installing more of its steel doors and roller shutters on a number of security contracts across the country for companies within the water infrastructure sector.

Hart Doors Systems has completed the installation of two Speedor ‘Storms’ at a recently opened packing and distribution facility for a major online retailer.

Hart Door Systems is installing a number of Speedor Cleanrooms for a major Midlands-based company that specialises in fuel containment systems, sealing solutions and advanced composites. The order was placed by a third party company which provides a full building solution service for its clients.

RWM will transform Birmingham’s NEC into the focal point of the global resource management industry when the show returns on 11 & 12 September, 2019.

Hart Door Systems’ (Hart) expertise in the Energy from Waste sector is fast being acknowledged with more contracts for its Speedor Storm doors just announced.

Hart Door Systems, the leading designer and manufacturer of both commercial doors and industrial doors, has completed another contract for Sir Robert McAlpine at Nissan Manufacturing UK’s car plant, Sunderland.

Hart Door Systems has published a new corporate brochure covering its product range and project profiles.

With the waste handling industry growing yearly, control can only be satisfied by increased investment in design, infrastructure and efficiency including the application of door systems says Doug Hart, chairman, Hart Door Systems.

These eight Speedor Storm doors are part of a mixed installation on a Scottish Energy from Waste (EfW) plant which, as well as the Speedors, also includes 15 Hart Firebrand fire and security shutters.

Hart Door Systems is seeking an outstanding Sales Executive

Hart will be exhibiting at the NDA Estate Supply Chain Event which is the biggest networking event in Europe for nuclear decommissioning.

Alan and John return from a very successful airport show in Dubai.  The show itself had over 350 exhibitors from 60 countries with a large number of  dedicated pavilions covering Europe, US and Asia. 

Welcome to Hart’s re-designed web which has been upgraded to deliver information about our industrial door products and systems as well as news about the company and its services.

Working with Gatwick Airport and the Beumer Group, which provides fully integrated automated high-speed airport baggage handling systems for small, medium, and large airports world-wide, Hart Door Systems has created a unique solution to sealing a fire shutter around the conveyor without a break in the belt system.

Found in over 35 countries world-wide Hart’s range of industrial door applications are a common sight. But there has to be a first and it is found one mile underground. 

This Speedor, manufactured and installed by Hart Door Systems, has been fitted in a pharmaceuticals production facility in Cambridge.

Working at King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Hart Door Systems completed an order for 177 fire and security shutters for the baggage conveyor handling system. Hart was responsible for providing a two-hour fire seal on openings in the firewalls within the terminal.

Hart is also supplying 13 doors at the Templeborough Biomass power plant,  Rotherham. This plant will recycle 260,000 tonnes of waste timber per year and will generate 41mw of electricity which is enough to supply 78,000 homes.

Working with Port of Tyne, Hart Door Systems’ Speedor Storms, the Speedor variant with wind resistance up to Class 5, that is over 90 mph, have been installed on a mobile hopper system which is a key part of the port’s ship unloading procedure. 

Quality and innovation go hand in hand at Hart Door Systems

Bolton Aerospace, the aerospace, defence, marine, oil & gas and general engineering company which specialises in aluminium bronzes, cast and wrought phosphor & leaded bronzes, special alloys and special high tensile brasses & bronzes has chosen Hart Door Systems’ Speedor Super, the high-speed, automatic door for its ‘goods out’ area to retain heat and reduce the in-flow of cold air to the shopfloor.