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Radiation Shielding Doors: Where and How They Work

The survey meter made its slow pass along the new shielding wall and the readings stayed low. Then the radiation physicist stopped at the doorframe, and everyone in the room went quiet. That moment, repeated on handover days wherever ionizing radiation is used, is why radiation shielding doors deserve engineering attention rather than a last-minute ... <a title="Radiation Shielding Doors: Where and How They Work" class="read-more" href="https://www.raxdoors.com/blog/radiation-shielding-industrial-doors/" aria-label="Read more about Radiation Shielding Doors: Where and How They Work">Read more</a>

Sep 24, 2026 · 9 min read Read →

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Industrial Acoustic Doors: Matching STC to the Room

The wall passed first. The acoustic consultant signed off on the new compressor room, and then someone closed the door. A sentence spoken inside came out through the leaf as clearly as an announcement. That moment, repeated on handover days across industry, is why the industrial acoustic doors on a quote sheet deserve more attention ... <a title="Industrial Acoustic Doors: Matching STC to the Room" class="read-more" href="https://www.raxdoors.com/blog/industrial-acoustic-doors-selection/" aria-label="Read more about Industrial Acoustic Doors: Matching STC to the Room">Read more</a>

Sep 24, 2026 · 8 min read Read →

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Explosion-Proof Industrial Doors: ATEX Zones Explained

The zoning drawing went up on the wall months ago. The door schedule still says EX door, with no zone number and no category behind it. The safety engineer walks her ignition-source checklist through the plant and stops at the loading bay. The door that cycles two hundred times a day has neither a marking ... <a title="Explosion-Proof Industrial Doors: ATEX Zones Explained" class="read-more" href="https://www.raxdoors.com/blog/explosion-proof-industrial-doors-atex/" aria-label="Read more about Explosion-Proof Industrial Doors: ATEX Zones Explained">Read more</a>

Sep 23, 2026 · 10 min read Read →

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Fire-Rated Roller Shutters: EI Ratings Explained

The fire officer walks the door schedule with a highlighter and stops at the loading bay. One line item, one phrase: fire shutter. He asks which class it holds, E or EI, and for how many minutes. The purchase quote on file cannot answer, because nobody wrote a classification into the specification in the first ... <a title="Fire-Rated Roller Shutters: EI Ratings Explained" class="read-more" href="https://www.raxdoors.com/blog/fire-rated-industrial-roller-shutters/" aria-label="Read more about Fire-Rated Roller Shutters: EI Ratings Explained">Read more</a>

Sep 23, 2026 · 10 min read Read →

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Safety Systems Every Hydraulic Hangar Door Should Have

A hydraulic hangar door passes judgment on a commissioning sheet long before an aircraft rolls through it. That sheet lists the devices standing between a twelve-ton leaf and the people working under it. The hydraulic hangar door safety features below are that list, explained layer by layer. Use it to read a quote and see ... <a title="Safety Systems Every Hydraulic Hangar Door Should Have" class="read-more" href="https://www.raxdoors.com/blog/hangar-door-safety-features/" aria-label="Read more about Safety Systems Every Hydraulic Hangar Door Should Have">Read more</a>

Sep 14, 2026 · 9 min read Read →

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Hydraulic vs. Traditional Hangar Doors Compared

Pick the wrong hangar door and the building fights you for decades. The hydraulic vs traditional hangar doors decision comes down to five measurable axes: floor space, wind behavior, opening speed, climate control, and lifetime cost. As the manufacturer rather than a reseller, we produce every variant ourselves and see which option survives a year ... <a title="Hydraulic vs. Traditional Hangar Doors Compared" class="read-more" href="https://www.raxdoors.com/blog/hydraulic-vs-traditional-hangar-doors/" aria-label="Read more about Hydraulic vs. Traditional Hangar Doors Compared">Read more</a>

Sep 14, 2026 · 9 min read Read →

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Why Choose a Hydraulic Hangar Door for Your Facility

Picture a drawbridge: one rigid leaf, counterweighted, swung up by a pair of arms instead of hauled along a rail. A hydraulic hangar door works on the same conviction. Instead of splitting a wide opening into sliding leaves or folding sections, the whole facade is a single panel. It rotates outward and up on hydraulic ... <a title="Why Choose a Hydraulic Hangar Door for Your Facility" class="read-more" href="https://www.raxdoors.com/blog/hydraulic-hangar-door-reasons/" aria-label="Read more about Why Choose a Hydraulic Hangar Door for Your Facility">Read more</a>

Sep 12, 2026 · 11 min read Read →

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Hurricane Rated Garage Doors: A Specifier’s Guide

What Makes a Garage Door Hurricane Rated A 9-pound piece of 2×4 lumber fired at 50 feet per second — roughly 34 mph — is the projectile behind the large-missile test used for coastal openings. That number comes from the impact protocols referenced across North American hurricane codes. It matters before you compare quotes, because ... <a title="Hurricane Rated Garage Doors: A Specifier’s Guide" class="read-more" href="https://www.raxdoors.com/blog/hurricane-rated-garage-doors-guide/" aria-label="Read more about Hurricane Rated Garage Doors: A Specifier’s Guide">Read more</a>

Sep 12, 2026 · 8 min read Read →

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Choosing Hotel Fire Door Ratings: 30, 60, or 90 Minutes

The most expensive mistake in hotel fire door procurement is not picking a rating that is too low. It is picking a rating that is too high for the wall it sits in. The doors that fail at handover are usually the stairwell set, ordered by budget habit instead of by the fire strategy. Hotel ... <a title="Choosing Hotel Fire Door Ratings: 30, 60, or 90 Minutes" class="read-more" href="https://www.raxdoors.com/blog/hotel-fire-door-rating-guide/" aria-label="Read more about Choosing Hotel Fire Door Ratings: 30, 60, or 90 Minutes">Read more</a>

Sep 12, 2026 · 11 min read Read →

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3 Types of Automatic Hospital Doors, Explained

Two rulebooks govern every automatic door in a hospital, and they pull in opposite directions. The ADA fixes the minimum clear width of a doorway at 32 inches (815 mm). Infection control pushes the other way, toward sealed leaves, touchless activation and surfaces that survive round after round of disi