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The Megadoor Concept
By Mikael Sandström
Sales Support Engineer
Megadoor AB
The customer needs The Megadoor is designed for customers with special industrial environments where doors are exposed to moisture, cold and dust or where the door opening is very large. Megadoor is an electrically operated vertical folding door consisting of double vinyl-coated polyester sheets with extruded aluminium beams in-between. Megadoor is an increasingly popular door concept in a variety of industries like aircraft hangars, aerospace, heavy mechanical industries, smelters, mineral processing, recycling, food industries, shipyard docks and more.
The Megadoor Challenge in Aerospace
By Mikael Sandström
Sales Support Engineer
Megadoor AB
The challenge in the aerospace industry is to provide doors that can be designed to be very narrow and tall and which will better withstand the extremely high or hurricane force wind conditions. Typically, doors for aerospace installations must be very light weight and must be manufactured to exceptionally high standards, due to the fact that they are used in rocket assembly and payload encapsulation environments.