Secure door manufacturer targeting new markets

Well established as a supplier of high security and blast and ballistic-resistant doors and windows, Bedfordshire-based Stafford Bridge is now aiming to build awareness of its products in the acute and mental healthcare sectors. As HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports, its product portfolio is set to grow significantly in the next few months, with a new factory that began manufacture late in 2016 well-equipped to accommodate rising demand, and an impressive new showroom recently completed at its Pavenham HQ.

Healthcare and Education Sector Projects manager at Stafford Bridge, Clive Seakens, who only joined the company in January last year, but has spent many years in the doorset and associated security sector – began by explaining when I met him at the Pavenham office and production facility that the business has a ‘long-standing blast and ballistics background’, having supplied robust doorsets for the Ministry of Defence for some years. He said: “That, in turn, led us on to working with large organisations including London Underground and Network Rail. We can supply a range of sites requiring robust blast and ballisticresistant doors and windows with purpose-designed products tailored to their needs.” Over the past 5-10 years, he explained, the company has also developed a range of robust seclusion room doors for mental healthcare settings, and now supplies many of the UK’s mental health Trusts and private mental healthcare providers with such doorsets – most notably perhaps in the latter case, St Andrew’s Healthcare. 

Such doors incorporate features such as a choice of hardwood veneer, antibacterial impact protection sheet, or high impact laminate finish; robust morticed mechanicalmulti-point locking mechanisms; access control systems for remote locking and unlocking; hardware designed to comply with the Door and Hardware Federation’s TS 001:2013 B4 anti-ligature standard; high density 800 kg/m3 hardwood cores, full-length continuous hinges with anti-ligature tips – again tested to the DHF TS 001 standard, and a range of user-specifiable vision panels.