Clearview National February 2015 - Issue 159 | Page 52

slidingdoors

Fold N Slide
Hardware
UK based, Folding Sliding Door
Company has been specialising in the
design, manufacture and distribution
of folding sliding doors worldwide.

Cornering the
Sliding Door Market
»»Glazed sliding
doors have always been popular
in residential and high rise
residential properties as they
take up little room and are cost
effective to manufacture and
install.
Today’s lift and slide doors
offer high thermal performance
and excellent weathering
capabilities complete with a
low threshold detail. Aluprof
now ‘corners’ the market with
their aluminium lift and slide
door, the MB-77HS, which
now offers the option of a 90°
installation configuration.
Already specified and
being installed on several new
commercial high rise projects,
the new detail allows for the
door to be installed at the
corner of a building or balcony
whilst still taking up little
room and maintaining the high
weathering capabilities and high
insulation required in high rise
applications.
Equally at home in the
residential home improvement
market, the new 90° lift and
slide door from Aluprof is a cost
effective option to a 90° sliding
folding door with arguably
a longer, trouble free life
expectancy. The MB-77HS is
configured in an “ST” or “HI”,

‘a longer,
trouble free life
expectancy’
standard or highly insulated,
option and can be glazed with
wide DG units, including triple
glazing. Thermal insulation,
‘Uf ’, from 1.4 W/m2K can be
achieved.
In keeping with today’s
automation requirements,
the MB-77HS can be fully
automated and used with a wide
range of control systems. MB77HS shares components with
the MB-86 system which creates
an aesthetic combination of
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