An Ongoing Commitment

New materials, manufacturing processes, hinge designs, bracket designs, panel construction, continual product testing are a way of life at Chase Doors.

The in-house product development team spends each day looking at ways to make our existing products perform better, developing new product concepts based on our customers' inputs and changing needs, testing our own and competitive products to understand their performance characteristics and finding ways to reduce manufacturing and material cost so we can assure our customers that they are getting the most durable and efficient products at the lowest possible price.

R&D labs within our Cincinnati and Redmond facilities are used exclusively for prototype manufacturing, product analysis and material testing. Four custom designed and built double-acting door test sleds are used 24 hours a day for accelerated life cycle testing of both hinge and panel integrity. Our manufacturing facilities offer our R&D group a complete array of plastics, metal and wood fabricating equipment to support all in-house prototype development activities.

Our relationships with our partner suppliers and acknowledged manufacturing expertise in rotational molding, strip doors - flexible PVC extruding, multi-layer lamination has allowed us to be a beta test site for new materials before their introduction into the general marketplace.

Drafting designers and engineers utilize AutoDesk, AutoCad and Inventor for creating, modeling and animating components, assemblies and complete products. We utilize this powerful software to refine design concepts, check component interfaces, clearances and tolerances, create production tooling and assembly drawings for manufacturing and generate the specification drawings that will be used by architects.

We hold a number of patents and have additional patents applied for that directly relate to our design and manufacturing innovations. From panel construction to hinge systems and even manufacturing processes, Chase Doors has maintained a leadership role as a progressive manufacturer of products that have become industry standards.

Maintaining our role as the world's leading manufacturer of traffic doors pushes us to continually evolve and innovate as we respond to our customers changing needs. Our product research and development group is in the business of turning our customers' ideas into reality.