Established in 1873, Clark Door has a 150 year heritage, nurturing a reputation for providing custom steel door solutions for the most challenging of projects.
Clark Door is an independent company that designs, manufactures, installs and services acoustic doors, fire doors, temperature-controlled doors, security and industrial doors. The doors are designed and manufactured at our Head Office and Factory Carlisle, Cumbria and are exported worldwide to more than 50 countries.
Clark Door traces its heritage back to 1873 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Growing to become one of the largest wholesale and timber mill operations in the USA. The company innovated and evolved into the manufacture of large industrial doors, gaining numerous contracts across multiple industries as well as the US Department of Defence. By the 1950’s the company had three manufacturing sites in the USA with later operations in Canada, Sweden and South Africa.
The UK factory was opened in 1973. The current company chairman initiated a management acquisition of the UK Company in 1991 and today, Clark Door Limited is a family business led by Paul and Andrew Ashley; both qualified engineers with a passion for excellence.
Clark Door’s Chairman Paul Ashley received an MBE in Her Majesty the Queen’s New Year Honours list of 2011, for services to manufacturing in Cumbria.
Clark Door’s philosophy is to offer thoroughly developed and tested high performance door solutions which embrace cutting edge technology. To support this, the company invests significantly in product research and development while the highly experienced Clark Door engineering team enjoy rising to new challenges, incorporating the latest technology into custom door solutions for its customers.
The company holds many patents for its product design innovations and has unrivalled fire certification, acoustic laboratory and site-test data, and security certification. It is one of the few international companies that has made fire rated doors up to 20m x 10m and with a sound rating of Rw 56dB and we continue to push the performance envelope with our latest R&D projects.
For 50 years Clark Door has used its engineering expertise to develop bespoke products to meet the needs of its clients – be they pivoting, sound proof, ventilation doors or large hinged automatic closing fire doors. As a UK based specialist manufacturer with a large engineering design capability the company is continually using its expertise to develop new innovative solutions to meet customers’ requirements for a wide range of doors, with its own in-house research & development team working on producing technically excellent competitive door products.
We nurture long term relationships with our customers. We work in partnership with architects, acousticians and main contractors at the early planning stage to underpin significant building projects.
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