Latest GEZE closer ticks all the boxes

A unique new free swing door closer from the UK’s leading door and window control system manufacturer, GEZE UK, tackles the challenge of accessibility, fire safety, personal safety, building regulation compliance, aesthetics and durability and ticks all the right boxes.

Providing contractors with a high quality, solution, the unique Boxer EFS combines three important functionalities, accessibility, personal safety and fire safety, which are particularly important in hospitals, schools, care homes and mental health units.

The attractive Boxer EFS is a fully concealed unit with an electro free swing mechanism, which ensures easy access by enabling users to open and close the door without the resistance of the closer. As the closer is linked to the fire alarm system, when an alarm is activated, the closer releases the spring that re-engages the door, ensuring it self-closes. .

Tackling the issue of personal safety, for areas where anti-ligature is priority, the cam action door closer is integrated into the top of the door and the guide rail fitted discreetly into the frame, ensuring the whole unit is completely concealed when the door is closed.

Combining durability, aesthetics and compliance, the Boxer EFS is the ideal solution for single action, right or left hand closing doors and is suitable for wooden or metal doors with a leaf minimum thickness of 50mm, maximum leaf weight of 130kg and maximum leaf width of 1100mm. With free-swing, hydraulic latching action and adjustable closing speed the Boxer EFS makes it easier to assist with conformance to the requirements of Approved Document M and BS8300, and the rigorous demands of the DDA.

This German manufactured closer has been subjected to thorough testing, conforming to EN 1154, EN 1155 and fire tested to EN 1634-1 (CF 242) while free swing is specified in the Building Regulations Part B on fire safety.

GEZE UK’s technical director, Simon Bowden, commented: “We’ve looked hard at the challenges facing contractors when they try to find a product that does it all. By looking at the wide variety of functions a door closer needs to perform in a hospital, school or care home, we were able to develop a new closer that met a diverse range of safety requirements, while enabling easy and safe access. Not only that, but it totally concealed too.”