Doors of perfection
October 14th 2008 Crawford is a leading international provider of door and logistics solutions. The carefully selected programme of doors and dock loading equipment, combined with profound application know-how and an unparalleled service offering, is the reason why more than a million customers worldwide have chosen Crawford as their preferred supplier. The Crawford organisation prides itself on troublefree operation around the clock.
Crawford has been operating in the U.K. for forty years, delivering door and docking solutions to a wide range of market segments that serve almost every imaginable application. The head office is based in Sheffield with a National Spare Parts centre operating out of Stoke–on–Trent. Service for Scotland is covered by an office in Livingston.
The product range includes:
Industrial doors
Folding doors - Horizontally moving folding doors are intended for premises with limited space around the door opening. They minimise the roof space required inside the building. There are few moving parts, which contributes to high reliability. Crawford’s folding door program includes models for use in normal industrial environments as well as special applications. The Crawford, 521 and 220 folding doors are all well insulated, tight and robust.
Overhead sectional doors - Crawford offers a complete range of overhead sectional doors.
The Crawford 542 overhead sectional door, an insulated sandwich panel door, and the Crawford 242 overhead sectional door, a glazed frame door, are both traditional sectional overhead doors, meaning that the entire door blade is moved during the opening process. All door types are designed to save as much space as possible around the door opening. They can be supplied as fully covered or semiglazed versions – or fully glazed for optimal daylight inlet or exposure possibilities.
High speed doors - High speed doors are intended for industries with an intense traffic flow. Crawford offers an extensive collection of high speed doors designed for a wide range of applications - outside, inside as well as special solutions. All Crawford high speed doors are equipped with a break-away system - and the Crawford 855 high speed door even with a self repairing system. This means, that after an impact by a vehicle, the doors will always by reset, manually or automatically, in a few minutes. This offers a smooth run and secures an efficient traffic flow.
Megadoor - The Megadoor is a vertical fabric folding door with very high reliability and minimal need for maintenance. The safety level is high with a built-in safety monitoring system. The Megadoor is extremely wind resistant due to its unique design and structure. The product range includes Standard doors, Special doors and Hangar doors where there are almost no size limitations thanks to the Megadoor swing-up-mullion system
Docking systems
Crawford is Europe’s leading supplier of dock loading equipment, which consists of dock levellers, shelters and load houses. The products provide a work environment for loading and unloading that is rational, energy efficient and protected from the weather.
Service and Maintenance
Regular maintenance is needed on all doors, regardless of application, simply to obtain optimal functionality at all times and to reduce the number of unnecessary repairs.
A team of more than 50 engineers are located at various points around the whole of the UK, ensuring that Crawford customers have full access to service, maintenance and repair facilities around the clock.
Monitoring systems
The Crawford 101 Dock Management is the solution for efficiently coordinating truck traffic and warehouse operations. Crawford’s goal is to support supply chain organisations in meeting these challenges. Today, dock areas are bottlenecks in the supply chain process.
Trucks often spend more than 25% of their time waiting for available doors at which to dock. Therefore managing the efficient flow of traffic in any warehouse operation is vital to the success of any business. | 
