Equipping an escape, fire or emergency exit with cost-efficient, effective electronic security can be a challenge, particularly where a door is already in place. The Security Door Closer from ASSA ABLOY offers an intelligent, flexible solution. Its innovative product design is also suited to controlling access through interior doors, maintaining aesthetics while enhancing barrier-free door use.
Emergency exits and escape doors must always offer a fast, reliable route for people inside a building to leave it quickly. However, they should not create a weakness in building security – an easy path for unauthorized access or building misuse. Unfortunately, such doors can be difficult to fit with effective digital access control and other door security devices.
The Security Door Closer from ASSA ABLOY provides an answer. Its combined door closer function with integrated escape door strike easily retrofits doors with automated closing and electronic locking, without any need to wire the door leaf.
A single cable connects the device with power. The installer reuses existing drill holes for door closers to DIN EN 1154 (Supplement 1:2003-11). Without drilling, milling, filing or grinding, the door leaf itself remains physically unchanged, which preserves door integrity and aesthetics. Damage-free fitting is also a critical advantage when retrofitting a fire door with access control: simply reusing these existing DIN drill holes can preserve fire certification status*.
Accessibility and barrier-free door opening
The Security Door Closer offers the benefits of ASSA ABLOY’s innovative Cam-Motion® technology: it opens easily and closes reliably behind everyone who passes through the door**. Installers can set separate latch and closing speeds, giving the best possible closing time combined with secure closing, making the door closer suited for use on important interior doors such as the main reception.
Opening force is low for accessibility, compliance and user comfort, keeping the building barrier-free. Yet closing force remains high enough to ensure reliable, secure shutting in all conditions.
In every ASSA ABLOY Cam-Motion device, including the Security Door Closer, independent valves enable this configuration. These valves have metal heads and are thermo-resistant: Once door speeds are set, they stay set until intentionally modified – even under adverse conditions.
“This innovative door closer has already been recognized in winning Product of the Year*** award from a prestigious German security magazine,” says Andreas Gmelin, Product Management and Business Development Director Door Closers at ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions EMEIA. “It impressed a jury of experts with its combination of utility, value, design and digitalization potential.”
“Our Security Door Closer comes in three product variants to ensure you’re covered for a range of situations. You can install it on the hinge side, the non-hinge side or on double doors,” he adds. “And compared with an equivalent magnetic solution, it is much more energy efficient.”
To learn more about the benefits of an ASSA ABLOY Security Door Closer, visit https://www.assaabloy.com/group/emeia/solutions/topics/door-closers/technologies/security-door-closers.
