Egis TrafficFlap TF20

On busy internal routes, conventional doors die young: forklifts clip them, pallets slam them, and every impact becomes a maintenance ticket. The TrafficFlap TF20 is a double-action impact traffic door built for the routes where impact is not an accident but a certainty — it swings both ways, absorbs the hit, and self-centres closed after every passage.

The leaf is a rigid polymer panel with a flexible perimeter and a clear vision window at driver eye height, so forklift operators see oncoming traffic before they reach the opening. The double-action gravity hinge needs no power and no closer to fail: gravity returns the leaf to centre every time. Impact-rated bumpers take the daily forklift rub, and for cold-store routes an insulated variant keeps the thermal break intact.

Egis supplies the TF20 in single or double-leaf formats, sized to the traffic — pedestrian, pallet jack or full forklift. Clear openings run from 900 to 2400 mm wide and 2100 to 2600 mm high. It is the door for the internal routes where a conventional door would be a maintenance contract.

The TF20 survives impact by refusing to resist it. A rigid door bolted to a rigid frame concentrates the full energy of a forklift strike into the hinges and leaf; something breaks. The TF20's leaf swings both ways on a double-action gravity hinge, so a strike simply pushes the leaf through — the energy goes into motion, not into the frame. The flexible perimeter deforms around the impact and recovers, and impact-rated bumpers take the repeated low-speed rub of daily traffic.

The gravity hinge is the reliability story. With no motor, no closer and no power to fail, the leaf returns to centre under its own weight after every passage — the closing discipline that keeps temperature zones separated and traffic flowing. The vision window sits at driver eye height because most forklift-route accidents are not impacts with the door; they are collisions with unseen traffic on the other side.