Local company to supply products for world’s tallest building in Dubai
 REAMSTOWN, Pa. — Commercial door hardware products manufactured by DORMA Group North America (www.dorma-usa.com) will soon be headed to Dubai for use in the world’s tallest building: the Burj Dubai, which will tower more than 2,300 feet and 160 floors when completed in 2008.
The products include hydraulic door closers that will be manufactured locally in DORMA’s Reamstown facility. (Often mounted at the top of the door frame, door closers help control door speed when people open and close them.) DORMA will also supply locks and exit devices—the horizontal push bars that latch and unlatch doors—from its Steeleville, Ill., facility.
The $6.5 million order represents one of the largest in the history of the Ennepetal, Germany-based company and one of the largest fulfilled by DORMA Group North America operations, which traces its local roots back to 1851 in Reading.
Further, DORMA is optimistic the large order will be the first of several for this project, as the building has reached only about 1,100 feet—not even half—of the planned height.
“The inclusion of DORMA hardware on this record-breaking structure is a testament to the quality and style our employees put into every product,” says Scott Duncan, President of DORMA Architectural Hardware, part of DORMA Group North America. The DORMA Architectural Hardware plant in Reamstown employs ___ people.
Designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the Burj Dubai will house a hotel, a large number of luxury apartments, and several office complexes. The building combines historical and cultural influences with cutting edge technology to achieve a high-performance structure that will set the new standard for development in the Middle East and become the model for the future of the city.
DORMA Architectural Hardware’s local manufacturing operation had its beginnings in 1851, when William Harbster opened a blacksmith shop in Reading, eventually producing locks, latches, hinges and a variety of other hardware items. This developed into what was known as the Reading Hardware Co., operating continuously for 99 years until manufacturing ceased in 1950 and the company was sold off in parcels.
The door check division, which began in 1875, was sold to Hardware Products Inc., a Reading company which acquired the name, patterns, and machinery and eventually changed its name to Reading Door Closer. Eventually the privately held company relocated to Reamstown, where it has been operating since. Germany-based DORMA bought the company in 1980. The company has expanded significantly since then through organic growth and the acquisition of other companies who make and service products in the architectural openings industry.
DORMA centralized the management of its North American operations in Reamstown in 2002 with the formation of DORMA Group North America
About DORMA Group North America
DORMA Group North America manufactures and markets a wide range of products for the architectural openings industry, with a particular focus on commercial and institutional openings. Part of The DORMA Group worldwide, DORMA Group North America comprises DORMA Architectural Hardware, DORMA Glas, Modernfold, DORMA Canada, DORMA Mexico, and DORMA Entrance Systems -- which markets products and services under the DORMA Automatics, Crane Revolving Door and Carolina Door Controls brands.
DORMA Group North America offerings include safety and security products, locks, door closers, exit devices, glass hardware and patch fittings, sliding and swinging automatic doors, revolving doors and operable partitions
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