Areas of Use

Protection against the spread of fire and smoke

Fire doors are intended to protect openings in fire-retardant or fire-resistant walls against the penetration of fire. TORMAX automatic fire doors provide convenience in normal operations – and a plus point in terms of safety in an emergency because of their sustained resistance to fire and smoke.

Fire doors must always be self-closing and must not be held open by wedges or other means. The closing impulse can be triggered manually via a button or a connection to a smoke alarm or building management system.

People escaping from the fire must always be able to open the door manually; the drive closes the door again safely when they have passed through.

Legislation on fire and smoke protection continues to be at a national level. We therefore recommend that you obtain information from your local TORMAX partner about suitable solutions for your requirement in your country.

Compatible Door Systems

• Automatic Sliding Doors Multi-functional

Safe emergency exits

If it is necessary to escape from a building people must always be able to reach the open air or a safe area. In this special situation automatic doors take over important tasks. While offering the convenience of an automatic door in normal situations, in the event of an emergency, fire doors must make an escape route available in a matter of seconds. Therefore during normal operating times the fire doors in a building may not ordinarily be locked; they must also be easy to open by means of a handle.

TORMAX offers both mechanical and electrical solutions for rescue and escape routes.

• Mechanical solution: Break-out: door leaves can be manually opened and pushed together
• Electronic solution: two independent redundant monitored systems for emergency opening

Compatible Door Systems

• Automatic Sliding Doors Linear
• Automatic Sliding Doors Telescope

Effective protection against burglary and vandalism

Automatic doors open and invite people into the building at pre-defined times. But at other times they should deny access.

With its doors tested to resistance levels 2 and 3 of EN1627, TORMAX offers solutions which make burglaries practically impossible, thus not only protecting valuables but effectively restricting vandalism.

WK2=   resistance time 3 minutes: the opportunist criminal attempts to break open the locked and bolted door with simple tools such as a screw-driver, pliers and wedge.

WK3=   resistance time 5 minutes: the professional criminal attempts to break open the locked and bolted door with a broader screw-driver and a crowbar.

Compatible Door Systems

• Automatic Sliding Doors Multi-functional

Automatic doors to rooms subject to unusual environments, for example aggressive vapours or salt-laden air, or to rooms in hygienically sensitive areas need a door drive with special protection. The corrosion-free, water and dust-tight drive solution from TORMAX significantly extends the working life of automatic doors.

Compatible Door Systems

• Automatic Sliding Doors Linear

Hermetic doors are doors equipped with a circumferential hermetic sealing system and are used for example in laboratories, operating theatres, clean-room production or in the pharmaceutical industry. They prevent the exchange of the external and internal air. The doors are sound-proof as well as air and water-tight and also meet stringent requirements for enhanced noise insulation or protection against radio-active radiation.

All doors of a building – or just a defined group of doors – can be centrally monitored and controlled. It is possible to steer efficiently the flow of individuals throughout several buildings. The condition of each door is visible any time.

TORMAX doors are compatible with any building control system.