Reversible Core SystemAW65Thermally Insulated Aluminum & Timber
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A thermally insulated aluminum core system - the AW65 is internally reinforced with aluminum and includes discreetly locked on the timber and aluminum profile faces with no need for beading clips and is fully reversible.

10 Year Manufacturers Warranty

10 Product Warranty
- Overview
AW65 Aluminum & Timber Bi-fold Door - Features
Key Features as Standard - Security
Safety & Security Features - Threshold
AW65 Threshold Options - Performance
Weather & Thermal Efficiency - Specifications
Technical Details
Overview
The AW65 bi-fold door forms part of the new 65 series - the next generation in door and window systems from FSDC Global.
A system with an internal thermally insulated aluminum core for increased strength and rigidity, and where the finished chosen material (profile) is then bonded around, and in the case of AW65, it’s ‘Aluminum & Wood’.
This system eliminates the need for beading clips and is fully reversible - so you can choose to have timber to the internal face or external face and vice versa for the aluminum side, something the AW73 doesn’t offer.
The thermally insulated inner core and track profiles provide a product that is thermally efficient and will help ensure your home stays the right temperature throughout the year, keeping your heating and cooling bills low, saving you money.
The AW65 bi-fold door combines the warmth and character of natural timber and the low maintenance, strong, durable properties of aluminum.
This combination proves extremely popular as it achieves both a clean modern look with a more traditional appearance, and you get to decide which way round it goes!
The AW65 is custom made to your exact requirements - meaning you get to specify; dimensions, product style, opening style, configuration, color, finish, hardware, thresholds, glass specification, glazing options, magnetic stops, ventilation and internal blinds, and is equally ideal for both residential and commercial use.
A matching range of windows and door products are available to complement the AW65 bi-fold door.

FSC - Environmentally sourced timber from sustainable forests

Features
Key Features
- Available in any RAL color, special color/texture, anodized color, or dual color option/natural stain/unfinished timber
- Anti-rot and anti-fungal treated frames
- Available with or without external cill
- Buying direct from the manufacturer
- Child friendly/fitted with finger safe gaskets
- Choice of nine threshold (bottom track) options
- Contemporary modern and traditional appearance combined
- Dual running (top and bottom) rollers for even weight distribution
- Easy to operate - effortlessly smooth
- Environmentally sourced timber from sustainable forests
- Finger safe gaskets - so no need to worry about fingers getting caught
- Hard wearing powder coated finish/resistant to scratching & denting
- Factory sprayed with long life, low maintenance finishes
- Inward and outward opening options
- Low threshold - zero trip hazard / ADA compliant
- Marine treatment available for salt water environments
- Mechanical life expectancy of up to 25 years
- Matching range of windows and doors available
- No nailed on glazing beads
- Secure roller system, encapsulated within the track
- Security hinges - non surface mounted
- Slim flat handles for reduced stacking for when the doors are in use
- Slim sightline of just 130mm (60/5/5/60) - 5 1/8” (2 3/8” / 3/16” / 3/16” / 2 3/8”)
- Thicker than standard aluminum walls for greater strength
Functionality
- Corner posts can be incorporated to produce corner openings
- In-line out of sight track offering a practical functionality
- Marine treatment available for salt water environments
- Outlet Water escape
- Pull handle(s), to enable ease of operation and easy closing
- Resistant to scratching and denting
- Robust hardware using our own ‘Fold N Slide’ hardware range
- Steel wheels sealed bearings for maintenance free use
- Structurally strong - built to last
- Thicker, stronger aluminum profiles than most competitors
Security
- Five point multi-locking to access door with ‘Secured by Design’ (SBD) security cylinders
- Three star diamond ABS TS007 euro cylinders (anti-snap, anti-pick, anti-bump, anti-drill)
- Encapsulated rollers/running gear within the track, preventing it from being attacked
- End panels and access doors are fitted with high security locking mechanisms
- Hardened steel hook locks and dead bolts
- No bead system
- Option of key locking shoot-bolts are available for added security and external access
- Passed tests equivalent to a 300lb man trying to force entry
- Tongue and groove (interlocking) door panels to prevent lever opening
- Security hinges (non face fixed) to prevent the pins from being removed and the hinge being forced from the door
- Shoot bolts - Top and bottom, locate directly into both top and bottom track
- Stronger/thicker (1.75mm) aluminum profile
Threshold Options
We currently offer nine threshold options to satisfy all applications and current building regulations, with all options available as either inward or outward opening. But for the many, the most popular option is our flush threshold that blends the inside floor with the outside floor, especially those with children, elderly or wheel chair users.
Our flush track is ADA compliant, fully weather-rated and the profile itself is available in a choice of 2 colors / finishes; anodized silver (standard) and bronze.

Flush track
Threshold option

Flush track with rebate
Threshold option

Flush track with cill
Threshold option

Flush track with cill and rebate
Threshold option

Raised track
Threshold option

Raised track with rebate
Threshold option

Raised track with cill
Threshold option

Raised track with cill and rebate
Threshold option

Raised track with double cill
Threshold option
Performance
Weatherproof
- High performance seals/gaskets
- PVC nitrile (synthetic rubber) gaskets, fitted as standard and used to seal the double glazed units into the panels and protect the door from water ingress
- PVC nitrile seals between each panel (including top and bottom of the panel) to prevent water, wind and noise from entering the property
- Tested for water ingress, wind resistance and air permeability
- Weather head drip bar - moulded top profile
The main properties of PVC nitrile is its outstanding heat, acoustic and thermal resistances.
Thermal efficiency
- No condensation
- Super Spacer® bars fitted as standard to glass units
- Thermally insulated aluminum profiles
- Thermally insulated aluminum track
- U-Value of complete unit from 1.52 W/m2k
- U-Factor of complete unit from 0.27
- UKAS PAS23 weather tested
- Weather tested to over 300 pascals
Specifications
Frame width: | 60mm / 2⅜in |
Frame depth: | 70mm / 2¾in |
Maximum opening width: | 18300mm / 60ft |
Maximum opening height: | 3000mm / 10ft |
Panel height range (min/max): | 305mm / 1ft - 3000mm / 10ft |
Panel width range (min/max): | 305mm / 1ft - 1100mm / 3ft 7 1/2in |
Material: | Wood/Aluminum |
Stock colors: | Unfinished natural wood |
Optional colors: | Any RAL color/natural stain |
U-Value of complete unit - W/m2k: | 1.52 - 1.81 |
U-Value of center pane (Glass) - W/m2k: | 0.92 |
U-Factor of complete unit - Btu/h·ft²·°F: | 0.27 - 0.52 |
Warranty (Product): | Up to 10 years |
Warranty (Manufacturers): | 10 years |
Aluminum thickness: | 1.75mm / 1/16in |
Glass units, standard: | 28mm / 1⅛in double glazed, low-E tempered |
Glass units, optional: | Triple glazing, laminated, anti-sun tinting (grey, bronze, green and blue), Turtle Glass, Krypton Gas |
Downloads
AW65 General Arrangement Drawings
Adobe Acrobat · 2.5MB
AW65 Bi-fold Track Detail (inc. drainage)
Adobe Acrobat · 197KB
Installation Services
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