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Centor E3 is a medium heavy bifolding door hardware system for door panels up to 80Kg. It is Centor Architectural’s latest solution to the challenge of creating truly seamless transitions between indoor and outdoor spaces. E3 is suitable for a range of applications from stylish private residences to the most ambitious store front, restaurant or commercial project.
Imagine The Possibilities
Business or pleasure, E3 means entertainment without the interruption of conventional sliding or hinged doors, views which become vistas, a breeze when you please! Over the past decade Centor Architectural’s groundbreaking exterior bifolding window and door technology had instigated a worldwide revolution in window and door installation.
One moment bifolding doors are acting as an effective, secure barrier from rain, wind and noise. The next they’re effortlessly moved aside to reveal wide open space – with no fixed glass panels or posts.
The considerable weight-bearing capacity of the elegant, precisely functioning E3 ensures that possible applications for Centor’s bifold range are limited only by the imagination of the world’s most progressive architects and designers. Engineered to withstand the most severe weather. E3 is just as suited to interior use. The ability to visually and physically connect spaces can be equally beneficial indoors and the sound-proofing effect of double-glazing equally important.
High Performance System
Interior comfort, operational function, durability; painstaking attention to detail and an unerring commitment to quality mean ‘Centor-grade’ performance, whatever the category. The result is a degree of control and comfort for the end-user that matches the easy flexibility of modern design.
Interior Comfort
E3 is truly a system for all seasons and all locations. Teamed with quality door panels, E3 hardware ensures a formidable barrier against the elements when closed. The integrity of the required internal environment is never compromised.
Air Infiltration: The E3 system achieves its superior rain and wind resistance in part from the way it allows the folding doors to close snugly against weather seals.
Noise and Temperature: With double glazing allowed for by E3’s impressive panel weight capacity, unprecedented levels of insulation against noise and temperature variation are possible.
Effortless Operation
While E3’s outstanding performances as part of a secure, weatherproof barrier is crucial, it’s not until the doors are opened that the space transforming benefits of the system truly come into play. For maximum enjoyment and use of the system, every effort has been made to ensure that doors glide open and slide shut with the minimum of effort throughout their working life.
Adjustment: While E3 is designed to operate flawlessly well into the future, built-in adjustment mechanisms make the system tolerant of an imperfect world. Surelock™, Centor’s patented carrier pin locking system ensure that once heights are set they stay set, but should the door panels swell or newly built structures settle over time, the end-user can easily make vertical or lateral adjustments simply using a screwdriver.
Proven Durability
Cyclic Testing: Centor’s minimum requirements of cyclic testing for any released product is a gruelling 50,000 cycles without a single failure at maximum configuration. E3 had been tested in excess of 50,000 cycles with many parts rated to over 100,000 cycles.
Corrosion Testing: Stainless steel and engineering-grade plastics are used throughout the E3 system and are carefully selected to maximise performance in any environment. Centor conducts regular, thorough corrosion testing in a salt spray chamber, fixing hardware to various substrates to ensure that E3 will perform admirably even in the most exposed of coastal applications.
Design Features: A floating wall pivot is used to control door stile deflection and bowing on tall doors caused by wind loads or climatic conditions. Offset floor guides and floor pivots mean the guide channel is concealed beneath close doors, while top-rolling function means performance is never compromised by debris in tracks.
E3 Assurance
Unparalleled Security: The E3 systems respond to an increasingly security conscious market place with measures designed to ensure unwanted visitors are excluded – as well as the elements.
Concealed Fittings: When doors utilising E3 are closed there are no externally accessible parts that can be removed or damaged. Screw fixings are concealed.
Locking Screw Technology: The E3 system incorporates locking screw technology which ensures the E3 hardware can not be removed from the track when the doors are closed.
