Acedoors worked closely with Haydn & Rollett Construction to manufacture and install a range of product at the AIAL Company development at Percival Gull.

The architect had detailed specific non-standard designs for this development.

Hushshutters, Duradoors, Bollards and Downpipe Protectors were all manufactured in accordance with the architect's specifications and design.

The dock equipment enables Halls Transport to get the most out of their new Christchurch site. Unlike standard dock levellers, which are installed in a deep concrete pit, vertical dock levellers are installed along the edge of a continuous shelf that runs the full length of the loading dock. The shelf configuration simplifies architectural design and construction and is the easiest application to clean and maintain, which is a benefit Halls embraced fully. “We use verticals,” says Grant Madill, "because by eliminating the pit, keeping the dock area clean is easy”.

The new Star 5 Frigo 3 high speed freezer door has been installed at Tegel Foods. The Star 5 Frigo 3 is a new high speed productivity door from Nergeco in France. Nergeco pride themselves in R&D and new product development. With 5% of turnover is invested back into R&D, 55 original patents and a turnover in excess of 30 million Euros, Nergeco supplies over 4500 customers worldwide, either directly or through appointed agents such as Acedoors.

Market Basket, a New England-based supermarket chain, found themselves tight on dock space at their new store in Wilmington, MA. They solved their space constraint issues by installing a versatile, cost-effective Kelley® HULK® Hydraulic Dock Lift to help them accommodate a variety of vehicle sizes for loading and unloading.

Market Basket is well known throughout New Hampshire and Massachusetts for their winning combination of low prices and well-merchandised stores that offer a large selection of products.

And thanks to this combination, the chain has been on an aggressive growth track over the past few years, opening up to five stores annually, with one of their more recent stores opening in Wilmington, MA.

Although the location was ideal for the new store because it was part of an existing shopping plaza, the property footprint was not optimal for shipping and receiving. The store was able to accommodate a loading dock for both dry grocery and frozen foods on its northern end, but not a
dairy dock at the southern section.

For over 50 years, GS Hall has been supplying and blending ingredients to some of NZ's leading food manufacturers. In June 2012, they moved into their new building at Mt Wellington, Auckland. Hygiene and quality control is critically important for GS Hall and their new facility reflects this requirement.

Acedoors are proud to have supplied and installed a range of commerical doors for the new facility.

Most high speed doors are made from steel. Nergeco realised that for high speed doors, superior materials were available. They began making doors from the latest multi-composite materials in 2002, having determined that as far as doors were concerned these were superior in most properties to steel.

These multicomposites are also used as the material for challenging and corrosive applications such as train side panels, offshore oil rig support tethers, wind turbine blades, sailing masts, underground mining as wall reinforcement rods, the wastewater industry as manhole covers, ladders, bottom scrapers and bridge structures.

Acedoors installed our first multi-composite speed doors in 2007 at the new Bidvest Fresh facility in Avondale, Auckland. Since then Acedoors have installed many more Multi-composite doors. We ask Bidvest what they think of the doors 4 1/2 years later.

Bidvest is the largest food distributor in New Zealand. With over 1000 staff and 300 trucks, they operate specialist temperature controlled distribution facilities nationwide to service the commercial food industry. Food safety is paramount to Bidvest, so temperature control within their facilities is critical to the operation.

In June 2011, Ace Doors installed two Nergeco Frigo 3 fast acting freezer doors in Bidvest's Albany site.

For carparks, aluminium roller grilles are often used to secure the carpark entry. This was the case for this inner city Auckland apartment complex. The roller grille allowed 24 hour access to the underground carpark, while maintaining security by remaining closed except when the swipe card was used for entry.

Unfortunately theft from vehicles was occurring even with the roller grille in place. Attempts were made to secure the grille with magnetic locks at the bottom, but the thefts continued.

The loading dock is the central hub of activity for a warehouse. The efficient on-loading and off-loading of goods represents the life flow of a company and anything that impedes that activity or threatens to disrupt it is a threat to the company’s well-being.

The choice of an interface between delivery trucks and the dock itself is crucial. Failure to choose the best leveller for a dock application can jeopardize the safety of workers. It can lead to work stoppages and even damages to expensive equipment. Companies need to learn how to assess their docks; the product they are interacting with and what types of levellers will best suit their particular applications.

In addition, cleanliness is a major concern for food distributors and dock doors are major thoroughfare for dirt and debris.

“One of the reasons that we ended up switching to vertical dock levellers in our facility is cleanliness”, says Chris Wilmoth, Auckland Coolstore Manager for Foodstuffs Limited.

Toll Holdings and The Auckland Airport Company have built a new warehouse and office building at the Auckland airport. The building will be Toll Global Forwarding's new head office.

After being recommended by the architects, the Hushshutter was evaluated and approved by the Auckland Airport company for use in this project. Eight Hushshutters™, measuring 7.0m wide x 5.5m high, have been installed in the building.

Rudnev™ are proud that these successful ambitious businesses have acknowledged the benefits that the innovative Hushshutter™ offers.

Elim Christian College's new Junior campus welcomed its first students in February 2012. The new school is modern and colourful, and it incorporates flexible teaching spaces. The school hall is multipurpose, catering for assemblies, performances and sports. The design of the hall required two glazed sectional doors that could be opened to allow flow the adjacent courtyard.

Watercare's Ardmore plant purifies and treats drinking water. The Ardmore facility is the largest in New Zealand, treating 330,000 cubic litres per day which is 60% of Auckland's drinking water.

In 2011, Watercare upgraded the chlorine dosing system at Ardmore. A new building required 4 roller shutters specifically designed to allow a gantry crane to pass through the roller shutter guides.

In Oct 2004 the Pak N Save store on Lincoln Rd in Henderson, Auckland opened its doors. It is the busiest Pak N Save supermarket in NZ.

Ace Door Systems installed a Nergeco Forum Star 2 fast acting door between the shop and back storeroom. Measuring 3m x 3m, the Forum Star 2 allows efficient stock and personnel movement to the retail area while maintaining separation to the store areas behind. By opening and closing quickly, the Forum Star 2 keeps wind and dust from the retail area as well as visually shielding the behind-the-scenes areas from shoppers.

Ballance Agri-Nutrients is one of NZ's leading fertiliser and animal nutrition suppliers. In addition to manufacturing facilities, Ballance operates numerous distribution facilities throughout the country.

The quality and cleanliness of the product is critical so when presented with Rudnev's Hushshutter™ roller shutter, Ballance specified Hushshutters for upgrades to its facilities in Tirau, Gisborne, Rolleston, and Te Kuiti.

Standard roller shutter guides require regular greasing, which is not ideal for areas where powders and dust can get caught in the grease and be difficult to clean. This is particularly important for food and food related industries. Before the Hushshutter™, food companies had to request food grade grease for their roller shutters.