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Flo-Motion Manual Sliding Doors

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FLO-MOTION® - The Low Friction Manual Sliding Door System With Fingertip Control.

Available in the following formats:
•   Single Sliding
•   Bi-Parting
•   Telescopic

Variety of glazing options available including double glazed with integral privacy blinds. Also matching screen panels and hinged pelmet for easy maintenance access.

•   Manual doors weighing up to 180kg
•   Standard door leaf size
•   1805mm wide x 2265mm high.
•   Other sizes on request

Specifically designed for the new Alder Hey Children's Hospital to provide child friendly, full width, glazed bedroom and ward doors.

"The extra-large, easy opening, glazed sliding doors have transformed the way single rooms work to deliver healthcare with a choice of privacy or social interaction when required without the loss of clinical observation."
David Houghton, Project Manager, Children's Health Park Project,
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Axis Automatic Entrance Systems Ltd were able to develop a new concept and design for a manual door which satisfied all the critical architectural and operational requirements specified by the architects, BDP. The doorsets were originally specified to meet a force of 22.5N or less and the original prototype with a door leaf weighing 135kg, just achieved this. Once production quality components were employed, the first Flo-Motion® sliding door installed on site achieved a mean average force of 10.1N.

MULTI AWARD WINNING
Flo-Motion® doors have won 4 prestigious awards. Firstly, Laing O'Rourke's 2015 Construction North Award for Innovation, followed by the IHEEM 2015 Product Innovation Award. This was followed by the Building Better Healthcare Best Internal Building Product 2015 and in 2016, the European Healthcare Design Award for Innovation for Quality Improvement.

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About us

AXIS Entrance Systems Ltd is independently owned with over 30 years' experience as a manufacturer in the automatic door industry, working in healthcare, education, government agency and commercial sectors. Our products, which are custom made to suit specific applications, include - Manual and Automatic Swing & Sliding Doors, Hermetically Sealed Doors, Steel Doors, Glazed Low Level Curtain Wall & Shop Fronts.

From a central UK base, Axis offers a complete fabrication, installation and maintenance service.

As part of continuing development and to meet customer requirements, Axis has sole UK distributorships for Doorson Automatic Door products, Manusa Healthcare Doors and Stanley Automatic & Healthcare Doors.

KNOW-HOW
Axis has extensive knowledge and experience in the automatic door industry, dealing with a wide range of clients in both the public and private sectors. Axis is an active member of ADSA – Automatic Door Suppliers Association. Detailed risk assessments to BS7036-0 and surveys ensure all installations conform to all EN16005:2012 safety standards. We have an array of accreditations and are always seeking to improve. We ensure that our staff are trained and given opportunities to develop and grow with us. All our technical and engineering staff are certified to EN16005, CSCS Health and Safety where appropriate and receive continual product training.

INNOVATION
Axis is the proud developer of the Flo-Motion® manual sliding door system, a multi award winning and innovative product designed specifically for BDP Architects and installed at the new Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. To date Axis Flo-Motion® doors have won 4 important design awards including the 2016 European Healthcare Design Award for Innovation and Quality Improvement.

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Articles/Press Releases

17/09/2024 - Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust
A state-of-the-art new-build development for the new Accident & Emergency (A&E) department at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.
10/07/2024 - University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
The development of the new Bigbury Orthopaedic Surgical Suite, on Level 2 of Derriford Hospital, in Plymouth.
07/03/2024 - Axis secures position on procure23 recommended suppliers list for NHS Projects
Axis, the manufacturer of the innovative and award-winning Flo-Motion® manual sliding door system, developed specifically for the healthcare sector, has been awarded a coveted position on the ProCure23 Recommended Suppliers List.
23/02/2024 - Harrogate District NHS Foundation Trust
The refurbishment and expansion of the Wensleydale Ward at Harrogate District Hospital, to enable the creation of a new cardiology and respiratory ward. Our brief for the project was to design, supply and fit the doors for the project.
16/05/2023 - Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
A new Urgent & Emergency Care Centre for Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, at Walsall Manor Hospital.
07/03/2023 - A big thank you from Alder Hey children's charity!
Recently Axis Entrances contributed £2,637 to the Alder Hey Children's Charity, making the total donation value from Axis a whopping £15,055.45, since the new hospital opened.
30/11/2022 - NHS Trust - Northampton General Hospital
To develop a new state-of-the-art Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) at Northampton General Hospital.
13/10/2022 - Healthcare Estates 2022 Competition Results – “Can you Guess the Force of Flo-Motion?”
We invited visitors onto our stand to guess the mean average opening and closing force of our Flo-Motion F12 single sliding and T55 telescopic doors.
16/08/2022 - Willmott Dixon for Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
To extend and refurbish the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital’s Emergency Department.
05/04/2022 - Logan Construction for St George’s Hospital
The conversion and refurbishment of existing offices into a new interventional radiology department, consisting of; six enclosed recovery bays, a nurses’ station, and an accessible toilet.
18/01/2017 - Axis Wins European Healthcare Design Award
Northampton based Axis Automatic Entrance Systems has won the prestigious European Healthcare Design Award for Innovation for Quality Improvement. Their Flo-Motion manual sliding doors were developed, in conjunction with architects BDP, specifically for the new Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool.
13/01/2017 - Axis Install Manusa Hermetically Sealed Doors
Hospitals are demanding environments for most suppliers, particularly when it comes to doors and the new Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool is certainly no exception. As well as the 200 plus manual sliding doors to each bedded room, Axis Automatic Entrance Systems Ltd also installed 11 Manusa Hermetically Sealed Automatic Doors in isolation areas on a number of the wards.
02/12/2016 - Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Axis Flo-Motion® Doors
At the new Alder Hey Children’s Health Park three quarters of patients will be in single rooms rather Nightingale wards. The importance of light and airiness was vital to the whole design concept and this meant the doors for each of the patient’s rooms had to be large for ease of access for beds and equipment, glazed for brightness and airiness, have privacy blinds for examinations or just occasional solitude, and finally they had to be easily opened and closed - by a child.
30/11/2016 - Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital Improve Access with Axis
The ongoing refurbishment programme at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital identified a set of emergency exit doors on the Holly Suite Cardiac Day Care Unit being regularly used as a delivery point for supplies and exit for waste materials. The doors were not automated which made it difficult to move trolleys through the doorway and left them prone to damage, both cosmetic and functional.
28/11/2016 - Axis Installs Seven Automatic Doors at Trioscape Garden Centre
The Trioscape Garden Centre near Newent in Gloucestershire traces its origins back to 1994 when the partners of Trioscape Landscaping (Richard Mitchell, Douglas Wilson and Ronan Lynch) bought the site at Highleadon as a run down business with dilapidated buildings.
23/11/2016 - Axis Open Doors at Waitrose
Axis Automatic Entrance Systems have helped finish the little Waitrose store in the centre of Ipswich.
07/11/2011 - Axis Add Ozak Turnstiles To Their Range
Axis Automatic Entrance Systems have announced the addition of Ozak Turnstiles, Passage Gates and Security Cylinder Gates to their range and to bring their quality, style and features to the UK market.
24/11/2010 - Disabled Toilets and Access Control
Why do disabled people need automatic doors to enter a building if, once inside, they are deemed capable of opening a toilet door unaided?

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