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| 30-metre-long automatic telescopic gate  Some people are more susceptible than others to the appeal of a challenge. These are people who don't always accept the conventional professional wisdom, people who, when faced with a problem normally considered insurmountable, focus not on the adjective insurmountable but on the adverb normally and decide that 'normal' is rather boring: a bit of a cop-out. Dull. And, naturally, this applies to the automatic entrance industry, too. No one would blame a competent installer who baulked at a request for an automatic gate for a 30-metre opening. Hence the standard solution of a masonry column mid-way across the opening, to halve the distance, would be the only option; shame, though, that this would create major problems, in terms of parking, access, manoeuvring the artics, etc.This kind of person has an extra gear, drive and stubbornness to add to their great professional expertise – like Gianni Padoan, Ditec Expert in Bolzano. That 30-metre opening that needed an automatic gate was no random textbook case: it was the actual problem that he had been set by a major logistics centre near Bolzano, not far from the Egna-Ora motorway junction, in an upland wine-producing area. 30 metres is a huge distance: any ordinary installer would have scratched their head and maybe thought it not worth even trying to find a workable technical solution. But there's nothing ordinary about a Ditec Expert. Padoan set to work, made calculations, evaluated ideas, and looked carefully at the technical features of the various automation solutions on the market. The result? A gate as long as a train, with 6 telescopic wings (3 on each side) and 12 safety ribs, controlled by 4 pairs of photocells. Watching it open and close is quite a sight. In three fluent movements, the wings slide alongside one another, throwing open the huge access to the yard where the articulated trucks continually come and go. write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Construction News :: home page |