Aluminium Glass Folding Doors

Aluminium Glass Folding Doors – Open Your Home to the World

Aluminium glass folding doors — also known as bifold doors — represent one of the most dramatic and desirable architectural features available to contemporary residential and commercial design. When fully open, the entire door assembly concertinas together and stacks neatly to one or both ends of the opening, transforming what was a wall into an open-plan connection between interior and exterior spaces. The effect is transformative: a living room flows naturally onto a garden terrace, a restaurant opens to a courtyard, a hotel suite connects to a private balcony — without interruption, without threshold drama, and without any visible barrier between the two spaces. SKATE's aluminium glass folding doors are engineered to deliver this experience reliably, beautifully, and for decades of daily operation.

Engineering for Large-Scale Folding Systems

Aluminium glass folding doors present a unique set of engineering challenges. Multiple door panels — typically between two and seven — must fold against each other smoothly while maintaining consistent weather sealing across the full system width. The top-hung or bottom-rolling track system must support the total glass weight of all panels simultaneously, distribute lateral forces from wind loading evenly, and resist the racking forces generated as panels fold and unfold repeatedly.

SKATE's aluminium glass folding door system (85W series) addresses these challenges through:

- 6063-T5 aluminium profile sashes with PA66 GF25 polyamide thermal break strips throughout - Top-hung and bottom guide configurations, distributing panel weight through the head track rather than the sill - Adjustable multi-wheel trolley rollers running on precision-extruded aluminium track sections with stainless-steel inserts - Seamless welded corners on every panel sash — no mechanical corner joints that loosen over time - Continuous EPDM gaskets at all panel-to-panel and panel-to-frame interfaces, maintaining consistent weathertightness at every stage of opening