UK based company Industrial Door Engineering (IDE) celebrates their 600th service contract, having secured major contracts with Morrisons Supermarket chain to service nearly 400 doors on a twice yearly basis at their food distribution centres in Northwich,Cheshire and Wakefield – West Yorkshire.

Health and Safety considerations continue to drive the market forward towards the 700 mark, protecting numerous companies and Local Authorities from accidents and operational downtime.

IDE are proud to support the Industrial Sector – Safe and secure with IDE.

AM Group companies – Austral Monsoon and Ansa Doors has successfully tendered and negotiated the nation wide rollout of roller shutters for the Coles Group.

A total of (113) supermarket stores throughout NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC and WA will have new aluminium roller shutters fitted to the store entry – over (400) roller shutters supplied Australia wide.

The AM Group undertook a thorough tender review process conducted by the Coles Group and is well positon to deliver the project to the high standards expected by Coles.

Store rollout will commence immediately.

Following 2 years of intensive development and testing AM Group company – Austral Monsoon is proud to announce it can offer a steel roller shutter rated to withstanding a Category 5 Cyclone wind event and meet the Design Guidelines for Queensland Public Cyclone Shelters 2006.

The Cyclone Testing Station at JCU have issued test report numbers TS774 and TS820 covering a range of tests and this test data provides the basis of an engineered roller shutter solution to meet high range wind events that occur in Northern Australia and specifically those associated with the extreme requirements nominated in the Design Guidelines for Queensland Public Cyclone Shelters 2006. 

Our proprietary H21 Cyclone Rated Steel Roller Shutter products are custom designed based on specific site locations, door positions and building construction.  They will be certified by appropriately credentialed third party engineers.

For more information on our Cyclone Rated Roller Shutters contact our sales engineers in your region.

AM Group company  – Austral Monsoon has secured the order to supply steel roller shutters to Karara Mining for the magnetite iron ore project in Western Australia.

Karara Mining is a joint venture between Gindalbie Metals and China’s second largest steel producer, Anshan Iron & Steel Group.

Austral Monsoon will supply (11) electrically operated steel roller shutters for the project.

As part of the major overhaul of the Youth Justice System in South Australia, a new 60-bed secure Youth Traning Centre is being built on a new new green fields site in Cavan – Adelaide.

Group company Lietzke Doors are currently supplying and installing the medium and high security door, barrier and window requirments. The project involves Lietzke Doors producing (60) off cell doors, (9) off high security barrier doors, (40) medium security doors and (60) external and internal window and doors.

AM Group company – Ansa Doors has recently completed the supply and installation of (2) Bi-Fold Doors for Ambulance Victoria.

The Wantirna station in Victoria has a Ansa Bi-Fold Door to both the front and rear of the facility.

It’s another project completed on time and to the Hi Standards that Ambulance Victoria demand for such a critcal part of the facility.

As reported in previous months news items  the AM Group was successful in its tender for the Cobham Juvenile Justice Project located in Western Sydney.

The AM Group is in the process of manufacturing and installing a range of security doors, frames and windows – as seen in photos below we are well underway with the installation of our security door frames on site.

UK based company Industrial Door Engineering (IDE) has taken delivery of (2) new roll forming machines for its Northwich manufacturing unit.

These (2) new machines will produce IDE standard slat / lath profile and insulated slat / lath profile.

The added addition of these (2) new machines will also provide greater flexibility to the IDE business which will strengthen response and delivery times to our customers.

AM Group company - Industrial Door Engineering (IDE) has acquired the Industrial and Commercial Roller Shutter Division of Excel Metal Sections Limited in St Helens, Merseyside, UK.

Excel has been established for over 25 years and has a wide ranging customer base covering construction companies, local authorities, factories, schools, offices and retail outlets.

The Excel product range is similiar to that of IDE and manufacture of products will take place at IDE Headquarters in Northwich, Cheshire.

It is anticipated that the acquisition should add in the region of 10% to the annual turnover of IDE.