Category: Steel Industry

Craneway Doors Made in The USA for Steel Mills and Foundries

MAXDoor combines years of door expertise when custom designing a craneway door for your steel mill or foundry.  Used in heavy industries where overhead cranes transport large and heavy materials within or out of a building, MAXDoor custom designs a craneway door that allows the crane and its load to pass through a building opening.  Crane Way doors help maximize environment separation and assists the air handling equipment.

MAXDoor has several different Crane Door designs for new and existing steel producing facilities. A craneway door design and installation require expertise to coordinate the architectural and structural design to match the specific door requirements and meet the customer’s needs.

Craneway doors are a perfect solution for industries such as steel mills and foundries.  With minimal downtime and a long service life, the MAXDoor maintains strength and dependability even in exceptionally large door openings.

It is important to also consider interior craneway doors when environmental separation is required.  Inside a facility, overhead cranes can easily pass through a building while providing better air filtration and improved energy efficiency.

How MAXDoor Craneway Doors are Built

  • Head Member, Side Frames, and Door Guides use common steel components.
  • Horizontal Beams are manufactured from high strength structural aluminum rectangle tube.
  • Horizontal Beams are sized and spaced to provide the highest wind load resistance.
  • One or Two Motor Systems depending on door size.
  • Custom Door Controls for any application or environment.

MAXDoor Craneway Door Features

  • Strength – Custom wind loads are available; structural steel head members; side frames and door guides
  • Speed – 6-12 inches per second
  • Safety – Lifting belts with redundant lift belts, manual hoist with cut off safety switch
  • Manual Brake Release
  • Auxiliary hoist brake system

By design, a craneway MAXDoor provides a custom fit around the crane rail. When not in use, the doors can be closed, protecting your workspace and employees from the elements and maximizing your building’s energy efficiency.

Whether your door need is unique or standard, we can design a craneway door to meet your specific crane and building dimensions.  Other industries that use the MAXDoor craneway door are warehouses, airplane hangars, military bases, fire stations, recycling facilities and mining operations.

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Steel Mills Need Strong and Dependable Industrial Doors

The steel industry has evolved by leaps and bounds.  All aspects of construction and manufacturing today would come to a standstill if steel production should suffer in any way.  Dependable industrial size doors on steel mills are critical to production. Budgets demand doors with Low Operating and Maintenance Cost. MAXDoor is an American company that has been manufacturing Vertical Lift Fabric Doors for the Steel and Mining Industry for years. MAXDOOR is a cost- effective solution for door openings in the tough steel industry environment.

Strong and durable industrial doors, MAXDoors, are needed at steel factories to protect materials and workers from harsh environments both inside and outside of the facilities.  MAXDoors are designed to be installed on the interior or exterior side of a wall and can be self-supporting resulting in no additional load on a building structure.

Let’s see why MAXDoor is the ideal solution for your steel factory, plant or warehouse.

  • Today the manufacturing process of steel is extremely energy-efficient so having the right industrial door at the entrance can reduce costs as much as 50%.  With a MAXDoor, you have a strong, durable and energy efficient door at the door opening that provides excellent environment separation. The MAXDOOR control panel can be designed to minimize the amount of heat or cooling air loss at the door opening.
  • MAXDoors are vertical lift fabric doors that are designed and built for a high wind load resistance.  A variety of beam sizes, spacing and material guarantees maximum strength in the harshest of environments.
  • MAXDoors maintain their strength in small (10 FT) and very large (up to 100 FT) wide door openings.  Structural steel components provide superior overall strength, and the horizontal beam design proves to be significantly stronger than the competitors.
  • MAXDoors are low maintenance and improve safety at the door opening.  A malfunctioning door can be a catastrophe at a steel processing factory resulting in expensive downtime. When collisions occur at the door site, the MAXDoor traveling horizontal beams are designed to flex and give way when hit.  The horizontal beams are easily put back into the door guides resulting in minimal downtime and expensive door repairs.   Eliminating expensive door repairs and downtime result in significant cost savings.
  • Safety is always first and foremost at the steel mill and with MAXDoor.  The multiple lifting belt and horizontal beam design greatly improves safety when real life collisions occur.

MAXDoor provides many options:

  • Automatic or System Integrated Controls
  • Collision Avoidance Controls for High Traffic
  • Light Communication for Rail Door Opens
  • Manual door for locations with limited or no power
  • Multiple Fabric choices; Tough Cut, High or Low Temperature
  • Variety of cycle operations

MAXDoors are made in the USA.  To achieve the maximum for your door investment, contact us today to engineer your industrial door solution.

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MAXDoor Is The Right Fit for the Steel and Aluminum Industry

The steel and aluminum industries have evolved by leaps and bounds.  All aspects of construction today would come to a standstill if steel and aluminum production should suffer in any way.

Strong and durable industrial doors, MAXDoors, are needed at steel and aluminum factories to protect materials and workers from harsh environments both inside and outside of the facilities.  MAXDoors are designed to be installed on the interior or exterior side of a wall and are self-supporting resulting in no additional load on a building structure.

Let’s see why MAXDoor is the ideal solution for your steel or aluminum factory, plant or warehouse.

  • Today the manufacturing process of steel and aluminum is extremely energy-efficient so having the right industrial door at the entrance can reduce costs as much as 50%.  With a MAXDoor, you have a strong, durable and energy efficient door at the loading dock or large industrial doorway that controls the amount of heat or cool air loss at the door opening.
  • MAXDoors are vertical lift fabric doors designed and built for a maintained wind load of 150 MPH.  A variety of beam size, spacing and material guarantees maximum strength in the harshest of environments.
  • MAXDoors maintain their strength in small (10 FT) and very large (up to 100 FT) door openings.  Structural steel components provide superior overall strength, and the horizontal beam design proves to be significantly stronger than the competitors.
  • MAXDoors are low maintenance and improves safety at the door opening.  A malfunctioning door can be a catastrophe at a steel or aluminum processing facility resulting in expensive downtime. When collisions occur at the door site, the MAXDoor traveling horizontal beams are designed to flex and give way when hit.  The horizontal beams are easily put back into the door guides without damage resulting in minimal downtime and expensive door repairs.   Eliminating expensive door repairs results in significant cost savings.

MAXDoor provides many options:

  • Adjustable high-speed opening with controlled acceleration
  • Independent adjustable closing speed with controlled deceleration
  • Manual door for locations with limited or no power
  • Multiple Fabric choices; dual layer fabric; Fire retardant, etc.
  • Variety of cycle operations

MAXDoors are made in the USA.  To achieve the maximum for your door investment, contact us today to engineer your industrial door solution.