Designed to meet the US Department of Defense United Facilities Criteria (UFC), the ProSlide Blast sliding door is your solution for addressing the following military requirements:
UFC 4-010-01 anti-terrorism standards for blast resistance
ASTM F2248-03 standard practice for specifying an equivalent 3-second duration during design loading for blast resistant glazing fabricated with laminated glass.
The idea came to Lew Hewitt and Dee Horton to build an automatic sliding door back in the mid-1950's, when they realized that swing doors had difficulty operating in windy Corpus Christi. So Lew and Dee set out to invent the automatic sliding door to circumvent the windy conditions.
Horton Automatics Inc. was formed in 1960, placing the first commercial automatic sliding door on the market and literally establishing a brand-new industry.