Innovative Engineering Technology
for the Garage Door Industry
About Engineered Hardware
The mission of Engineered Hardware is to bring to market extended life products designed to exceed customer expectations in safety, performance, and total cost of ownership.
Our Approach
Our engineers interface directly with service providers who always look to bring better products to their customers. We then identify the mechanisms that require the most attention (service). These components typically create both unsafe operating conditions and also chronic maintenance and service costs. We then identify innovative technologies and materials that can be applied to serve our more strict requirements with the objective of developing a high performance solution that minimizes service costs while providing a safer, long-life product.
TorkRite™ Gas Actuator Garage Door Lift System
The most expensive maintenance and repair item for garage doors is a broken door spring. The purpose of door springs is to balance the door allowing the electric door opener to easily lift the door. When door springs fail, the door is no longer balanced making the door too heavy for you or the electric opener to lift.
The TorkRite™ gas actuator garage door lift system is a long-life garage door torsion spring replacement that retrofits most commercial and residential overhead doors. TorkRite’s nitrogen gas actuators and high-cycle bearings are combined with a patented cable drum that provides the perfect balancing torque for standard lift, high-lift, and vertical lift doors.
Commercial
TorkRite commercial systems' patented cable drum and nitrogen gas actuators yield more than 300,000 open/close cycles.
Residential
The TorkRite residential model has been tested to more than 350,000 cycles, as compared to the typical torsion spring cycle life of 10,000.
Truck Doors
The TorkRite commercial gas actuator lift system has been engineered to meet the high-volume demands of truck door applications, with an innovative damping system that prevents the door from bouncing back upon full open.