Door Industry Journal - Spring 2018

Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk 57 THE door industry journal spring 2018 Domestic Garage Doors Feature Teckentrup offers a ‘one size fits all’ solution with its new drive range Paul Doyle, Teckentrup’s Sales Manager, spoke to us about Teckentrup’s recently introduced door drive solution – CarTeck DRIVE: “The addition of a motorised opener to a sectional garage door is an established, almost essential part of a garage door specialist’s sale. Teckentrup recognises this and has made remote control, central to its product offer. We’ve even called our range of sectional garage doors ‘CarTeck Automatic’ to put automated solutions front and centre. Carteck DRIVE ranges’ prime function of opening and closing a garage door with reliability, safety and durability can be taken as a given, but at Teckentrup we wanted to give garage door specialist customers the opportunity to build up the value of a sale with a considered range of enhancement packs. Before I talk about the range in detail, it makes sense to talk about the standout design difference - there’s plenty of other good stuff going on out of sight, but the big visual difference is what I mean here - the travelling motor. Traditional boom type openers use a fixed motor that drives a belt or chain loop, a design that can be prone to loss of tension and wear over time. The fixed chain and travelling motor design of Carteck DRIVE means it is wear and maintenance free – very clever!” What’s in the range? “Well, there are 4 models: • Carteck DRIVE 500Nm • Carteck DRIVE 600Nm • Carteck DRIVE PRO 500Nm • Carteck DRIVE PRO 600Nm Each of the four DRIVE models can lift all sizes of Carteck Insulated Sectional garage doors. What’s the point of that? Is a sensible question here and the answer is straightforward - rather than the size of door dictating which opener a customer has, it’s what the customer wants the opener to do that guides the choice”. So why do you have 500Nm and 600Nm versions? “A few good reasons……firstly speed – the 600Nm DRIVE is 33% quicker at 240mm/s than the 500Nm DRIVE at 180mm/s so a 2m high door will open around 3 seconds faster.