Feature Loading bays & doors High speed door for Honda
sara Loading Bay Specialists supplied a high-speed, high-efficiency roller shutter door to a leading European Honda dealership
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ith its ‘Hate Something, Change Something’ and ‘Power of Dreams’ advertis- ing campaigns, Honda has made a bold statement that its corpo- rate image is one of efficiency and aes- thetics. When Crown Honda, one of Europe’s leading Honda approved dealerships, needed a new external door it was important that the product reflected Honda’s corporate ideals. Fortunately sara LBS was able to supply and install a high-speed Sprint 3000 roller shutter door which met all of the dealerships requirements. The Crown Honda showroom and servicing centre in Hendon, UK, is one of the leading authorised Honda deal- erships in Europe. The company has previously won Dealership of the Year at the Motor Industry Awards and regu- larly receives visits from other dealers
sara Loading Bay Specialists have supplied a high-speed, efficiency roller shutter door solution for a European Honda dealership
across Europe as it is seen to perfectly represent Honda’s Corporate Image; efficiency, reliability and aesthetics. To help it maintain its reputation it is vital that the building looked modern and runs as efficiently as possible. A key concern to meeting these requirements was the external doors, which provide access to the servicing centre for both cars and people. They need to offer complete reliability in
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terms of operation and overnight secu- rity, while also matching the styling of the rest of the building and helping to keep the overall building efficiency and temperature as high as possible. When the dealership’s owners started to feel that the original door wasn’t performing to these expectations they turned to sara LBS for a solution. Lee Monahan, joint managing direc- tor for Crown Honda, comments: “We have previously installed sara LBS doors at one of our other servicing cen- tres which have proven to be extremely reliable. When it was decided that the servicing centre door here was too slow and unreliable we spoke to our contact at sara to see if he was able to offer a solution which would be suitable. From the moment he came for the initial site inspection he understood both our aesthetic and mechanical requirements and was able to specify a door which is fast, reliable and modern looking.”
The Sprint 3000 roller shutter door is constructed from galvanised steel frames and aluminium profile curtains which offer wind resistance to EN12424 class 3 (up to hurricane force) as well as protection from attempted break-ins. The doors are available with sara’s patented MCC Vector Control technology which is fully programmable and can provide speeds of up to 2.5m/s. The fast, reli- able operation has been shown to improve a building’s thermal insula- tion and contribute significantly towards energy savings.
n a busy distribution centre the loss of just one loading bay can mean missed delivery schedules, while a faulty door could put an entire production cell out of action in some factories. Now sara LBS, the loading bay equipment and high- speed industrial door specialist, offers a nationwide, 24 hour emergency repair service; even for non-sara LBS products. To help service its maintenance contracts, the company operates a network of dedicated service centres for loading bays and accessories and employs CSCS trained service engineers. Using its network, sara LBS is able to offer an emergency repair service on all products within its market, including high speed, fast action rapid roll doors, door frames and curtains, dock levellers, scissor lifts, loading ramps and other loading bay accessories.
Christopher Knollys, MD at sara LBS, comments: ‘When operating in a busy area, damage to loading bay equipment or industrial doors can cause costly disruption
and downtime, in many cases far in excess of the cost of repair. Many sites operate night shifts and operate 24hrs - speed of repair is therefore vital to our customers.” “We have service engineers on-call across the country at all times of the day and night, their vans carefully stocked with standard and genuine sara parts to facilitate immediate, on-site repair where possible. We also don’t discriminate between companies that have purchased equipment from us and ones operating non-sara equipment.” sara LBS has a 24 hour telephone line for its repair service. Call outs can also be requested via its website.
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The door supplied to Crown Honda came equipped with a non-contact safety beam that monitors any possible obstacles blocking the doorway. This ensures that the curtain cannot strike a person or a car when in operation which helps to maximise safety during busy periods and also protect the cars from potentially costly damage. An emergency manual override function is also included as well as a patented Disc Drive mechanism which limits operating noise and vibration. Monahan continues: “The Sprint 3000 is perfectly suited to our needs. The fast operation enables us to main- tain a warm working environment and achieve much-improved energy effi- ciency, which is on-message with the Honda brand, while the sleek alu- minium profiles fulfil the aesthetic requirements.” sara LBS T: 01442 245577
www.saralbs.co.uk
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