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STX relies on doors from Champion Door The STX shipyard in Rauma decided to purchase a fold up door from Champion Door a few years ago. On a shipyard scale, the door was small, 6.7 meters wide and 5.1 meters high. “W e studied different door manufacturer alternatives and the Champion Door price-quality ratio seemed great. After the delivery and installation had been carried out very accurately and professionally, we have purchased additional Champion Door doors for the shipyard, said Mr Juha Rosten”, Maintenance Manager. The most recent purchase was a NK 280 Double, with a width of 15 meters and a height of a little over 21 meters. At the shipyard, we are satisfied with the stability and precise usability of the Champion Door doors. The doors facing the sea are at times under very high wind loads. The door materials also withstand the corrosive attacks of the salty sea winds. The big doors are not opened all the way up daily, simply by According to Juha Rosten, a door of 300 m2 takes a lot of stress and pressure when an autumn storm blows from the sea. But a Champion Door is designed and built to withstand the extreme conditions of the North. raising the lower edge four meters is enough to work on smaller ibility and after sales marketing. Even though the doors do not ship parts. Opening the door partially during high winds and cold need much maintenance or service, Champion Door has proven weather do not cause excess worries because the structure of the the high quality also in the installation and service professionalism doors are designed to withstand the strain of extreme conditions. as well as in short response times. When we can rely on the func- According to Juha Rosten, the door itself is naturally of high tionality of the door and the expertise of the after sales marketing, quality, also as important are the door suppliers punctuality, flex- the maintenance of the shipyard can focus on other matters. Light Signal Column with up-to dated technic AUTROSAFE Oy has started to produce 2012 again Light Signal Column with up-to dated technic. I n this Light Signal Column all symbol covers are illuminated with LED’S. Each LED PC board is equipped with two separate 2 x 1W led circuits. Light Signal Column is available as 24 VDC and 230 VAC versions. Column can be equipped with one, two or three Led or Zenon tube flash light and electrical sound- man acknowledge button in selected light signal column and lamp ers can be installed on the column test push buttons in each column. Symbols are according to the or they can be installed separate- standards or customer can get also special symbols on request. ly according to the customer wish. Customer can select also if they want to have column with dead More information: [email protected], www.autrosafe.fi seatec 1/2013 37