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Form meets function: In practice, meeting numerous architectural requirements often requires solutions that are individually tailored to a specific project. That is why facades are frequently one of a kind, with special requirements for climate control and shading systems or fire and smoke protection systems.
Fire and smoke protection systems are safety elements that are there not only to protect products but also – more importantly – to keep people safe from harm. That is why reliability, operating safety and (depending on accessibility) maintenance-free performance are vital.
Climate control and shading systems need to automatically provide fresh air or heat regulation and prevent direct sunlight. If desired, entire segments can be controlled by a single drive.
Frequently, these drives are located in an immediately visible area to ensure direct accessibility, so they need to be visually attractive. In general, drives that are installed outdoors need to be resistant to dust, dirt, moisture and corrosion. They also need to operate reliably even in the freezing cold and blazing heat.
Framo Morat has already equipped numerous facade projects with a wide variety of drive solutions, using both its standard drives and customer-specific solutions.
Facades are constantly exposed to wind and weather. Drives for adjusting extensive façade elements and sunblinds must therefore be highly resistant and durable. Framo Morat offers rack and pinion drives with a very high enclosure rating for this application. Their components are exclusively made of corrosion-resistant materials. The drives are not just reliable – they also look good, and are thus suitable for use in architecturally demanding facades. A total of 1,320 rack and pinion drives from Framo Morat are used to adjust the sunblinds of the award-winning, 270-meter-long “Kraanspoor” office building in Amsterdam’s port.
A Compacta MS12 adjusts the sunshades on a façade. A set of rods and a toothed rack transfer force to each complete segment of the sunshade.
A Mini 01 linear actuator is used for air-conditioning in a building. Large glass surfaces are opened and closed automatically.
These customer-specific drives actuate control valves, such as those used in the district heating networks. To accommodate the wide variety of applications, we produce over 100 variants, including those for different travels, actuating forces, speeds and operating voltages. Test procedures integrated into the assembly ensure that all relevant characteristic values are achieved at all times. For our customers, we take in charge, besides the complete assembly, also the manufacture of the injection molded plastic parts.
Used as an individual small valve drive, this unit controls for example radiators and induction units in conjunction with zone valves. About 25 variants are produced from over 40 individual parts, which differ for example in terms of lifting force and actuating speed. A concluding final test ensures that the drive fulfills the required performance data. For this drive too, we produce all of the injection molded plastic parts.
Precision gears made from temperature-resistant plastic are used to allow flexible setting of a precise switching point in a wide variety of adjustment switching units, such as defining the end positions for blinds.