We are manufacturers, not resellers. Every door leaving here is cut, rolled and assembled at our own Sandton works in Tarlton, Krugersdorp, to the opening our surveyor measured. Nothing is a stock size trimmed down to fit.
Made to the opening, not to a catalogue
Buildings are not square. Structural openings settle, lintels are rarely level, and a door ordered from a size chart ends up packed out with steel and sealed with foam. That gap becomes the draught, the rust line, and eventually the reason the curtain binds in the guide.
Our process starts with a site survey: the structural opening, the headroom, the side room, the power supply and whatever the door has to clear. The door is then built to those figures.
What we build
The range covers industrial roller shutters for warehouse and factory openings up to roughly eight metres wide, commercial shutters for trade counters and shopfronts, security shutters with reinforced end locks and anti-lift mechanisms, perforated and transparent curtains for retail, insulated aluminium doors for homes and estates, and fire-rated assemblies built to the approved detail and signed off against their rated period.
Materials and finishes
Galvanised steel slat is our default for anything exposed to weather, salt air or washdown, because the zinc is bonded to the steel rather than sprayed over it. Painted steel is available where the opening is dry and sheltered and the colour match matters. Powder coating is to any RAL colour, and coastal sites get marine-grade fixings and sealed bearings as standard rather than as an upgrade.
Why the manufacturer matters
Most roller shutter door manufacturers in South Africa sell through installers, and most installers buy from whoever is cheapest that month. When something fails two years later, nobody owns it. Because we manufacture and install with our own teams, we can tell you the slat gauge, the spring specification and the drive rating of a door we fitted three years ago, and the company that answers your call is the company that built it.
The same applies to spares. As industrial door manufacturers we hold the components for our own doors rather than ordering them in from a supplier who may have discontinued the range.
Lead times
A standard industrial or domestic door runs roughly two to three weeks from accepted quote to installation, with the survey and manufacture taking most of that. Fire-rated assemblies and unusual sizes take longer because components are brought in. Emergency repairs sit in a different queue entirely and are attended the same day where we can reach you.
What happens on the factory floor
Coil steel is roll-formed into slat on our own line, cut to your measured width, and assembled into a curtain with end locks fitted. Guide rails are cut and drilled to the opening height, the barrel is sized and the springs wound to the calculated balance for the finished curtain weight. Powder coating is applied after fabrication rather than to pre-finished stock, which is why a colour match holds across every component of the door rather than just the slat.
Trade supply
We manufacture for other installers as well as supplying and installing direct. Send the opening dimensions, the slat specification and the drive requirement and we will quote on manufacture only, with collection from Tarlton or delivery arranged. Trade customers get the same lead times and the same component availability as our own installation work.
Why buying from the manufacturer changes the aftermath
Most doors in South Africa are sold by installers who buy from whoever is cheapest that month. Two years later, when a spring goes, nobody can say what rating it was. Because the door was built here, we can tell you the slat gauge, the spring specification and the drive rating years afterwards, and we hold the parts for it. That is the practical difference, and it only shows up when something fails.
Common questions
About roller shutter door manufacturing
Roughly eight metres wide, depending on the slat gauge and the drive selected. Height is generally limited by the building rather than the door. Unusual openings are normal work for us — the door is built to your measured opening, not cut down from a stock size.
Yes. Powder coating is available to any RAL colour, and we regularly match centre management or corporate specifications. Galvanised is the default where the opening faces weather, salt air or washdown, because the zinc is bonded to the steel rather than sprayed over it.
Yes, we manufacture for trade as well as supplying and installing direct. Tell us the opening dimensions, slat specification and drive requirement and we will quote on manufacture only.
Two to three weeks from accepted quote for a standard industrial or domestic door, with survey and manufacture taking most of that. Fire-rated assemblies and unusual sizes take longer because components are brought in.
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