Gate & door drive units

Gilgen door drive mechanisms are high quality and reliable with low maintenance. The automatic door drive mechanisms slide, fold, revolve or tip your doors. Designed to suit your specific requirements and perfectly adapted to the prevailing architecture and space available.

Industrial swing gate

These drive units are specially designed to cope with limited spaces and high-frequency usage. A wide range of available functions allows doors and gates to be individually automated, while conforming to applicable standards.
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Outdoor swing gate

Drive straight into your home – regardless of rain, snow, ice, or darkness – without having to stop or get out of your vehicle. The Gilgen gate-drive mechanism lets you finish your journey directly in the safety and dryness of your garage or car port, while denying access to any unwanted visitors.
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Outdoor sliding gate

Whatever the wind or weather conditions, Gilgen gate/door-drive mechanisms smoothly open both lightweight and heavy outdoor gates. Our powerful drive mechanisms are designed for universal application, and are ideal for high-frequency and heavy-duty use. On private property or corporate sites.
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Industrial Sliding door

Automatic sliding doors are recommendable above all for use in covered car-parks, aircraft hangars and industrial units with frequent opening and closing, Sliding doors from Gilgen Door Systems offer functional convenience and corresponding safety and security in this respect.
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Industrial Folding leaf door

Space-saving, automatic, folding-leaf doors are the optimum choice for large door openings with vertical profiles, and where there is a preponderance of glazed elements or an aesthetically-demanding frontage design. Advanced innovation allows doors of this type to make full and efficient use of available space.
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Industrial Sliding & folding door

When the design of a building and its usage-characteristics call for maximum opening widths, sliding/folding doors offer an especially good solution. The robust design of the door structure, with drive technology to match, offers maximum flexibility when it comes to choosing the door’s filling material.
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Up-and-over door

Automatic up-and-over doors simplify authorised access to places such as covered car-parks. They are ideal for constant use and high-frequency operation. The low-noise drive mechanism ensures smooth opening and unobstructed access.
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Low maintenance and reliable
Gilgen door drive mechanisms excel in their durability and sturdy construction. From lightweight sliding doors and up-and-over doors to heavy outdoor sliding gates – door and gate drive mechanisms from Gilgen Door Systems are powerful and reliable, whatever the weather. What’s more, the different door systems naturally make use of different drive mechanisms that are ideally suited to your requirements. So even high rates of opening, as with sliding door drive mechanisms, are no problem at all. Even the speed of the door drive mechanisms can be adapted to your requirements.

Door opener and hand-held transmitter
Different systems are available for opening the doors and can be used in day-to-day operations together with our door drive mechanisms. Hand-held transmitters are of course another option for opening doors. And other systems can also be installed, such as automatic opening when passing through a light barrier. At Gilgen, you choose which door, drive mechanism and door opener you want.

What does an electric door drive mechanism cost?
That depends entirely on the type of door you choose and on your specific project. For more information, please contact our excellent service team!

With Gilgen Door Systems, you have an established manufacturer of door drive mechanisms on hand to help you with doors and gates to suit your specific building project.

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