PVC Strip Doors are Perfect for Industrial Applications

When you need to separate certain areas of you commercial or industrial unit, PVC strip doors are a great solution. They provide an effective and insulative curtain for an area of your factory or warehouse but still allow the easy flow of light traffic such as pedestrians and forklifts. The fact that they are made from PVC also confers certain benefits for industrial applications.

The History of PVC

The original polyvinyl chloride (PVC) was accidentally synthesised by Eugen Baumann in 1872. The hard, brittle, white plastic was assumed to be useless until an American company developed a method of plasticising it – by the addition of additives two forms of useful PVC (rigid and flexible) could be obtained. Our strip doors are made from flexible PVC.

The Qualities of PVC

The modern PVC is a material that features the following qualities that make it especially suitable for use in industry:

• Strong. PVC is lightweight, but also strong.
  
• Fire-retardant. Usefully, some of the additives that make PVC flexible also make it flame-retardant.
  
• Chemical-resistant. Many alkalis, acids and salts cannot stain or damage PVC
  
• U.V. resistant. Natural sunlight resistance means that PVC is slower to degrade than some other plastics when exposed to U.V. 
  
• Durable. Its strength and properties of resistance give PVC a longer lifespan than some other plastics.
  
• Non-toxic. PVC meets health and safety standards for non-toxicity.

It’s not just this amazing material that makes our strip doors such a good investment. The doors themselves have some amazing qualities: they allow you to keep temperature controlled areas cold, contain dust and fumes, shield light from arc-welding and prevent pigeons and other pests from gaining easy access to sensitive areas of your unit.

To place an order for our PVC strip doors or any of our industrial doors, call our office on 0800 0180304 or send an email to sales@cooksdoors.co.uk.

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