An eye for perfection
According to our welding specialist Sebastiaan Koopmans, finishing an RF-shielded door requires special skills: “A regular household door fits into a wooden or metal frame. The ‘knives’ on our doors need to fit exactly into the copper ‘fingers’ of the door frame after welding the parts together. Therefore, they must be sharp but not too sharp to wear the copper fingers. Just like a good kitchen knife. I test the welding edges of the door knives manually but safely: when they feel smooth enough, they get my green light.”
09/10/2024
How does a 4.2×4-meter door fit in the box in the photo? “It’s not only a challenge for packaging but also transportation,” explains Arjan Nederstigt. His colleagues Ron Ligtvoet, Ferruh Saribas, and Miguel Gobardhan join him in ensuring that all products are sent safely and soundly to our clients. “One of the things that sets us apart from other manufacturers is that our doors are shipped in one piece after being thoroughly tested in our workshop so our team can install the doors fast and worry-free anywhere in the world. The challenge that comes with shipping completely assembled doors is their size.”
How do you solve that challenge?
Arjan: “We tilt 3×3-meter doors on a special transport crate to send them using regular trailers. The door in the photo requires so-called exceptional transport because the box is 4 meters wide. Different regulations per country can make planning transport a puzzle. Even in nearby regions, the rules differ from those in the Netherlands. Sometimes, we send our doors in open-top sea containers to faraway places. The doors in these containers stick out of the top; for obvious reasons, they can only be placed on top of a ship.”
The sticker of the DAF truck brand from the Netherlands on his tool trolley expresses his fascination for trucks. Arjan: “I always had a passion for trucks. In fact, when I applied for my job at Comtest 12 years ago, Hein (the father of the current directors Bas de Groot and Rik de Groot) was the boss, and he asked me if I could start the following Monday. But I said I needed to do my truck driver’s exam first, which he understood since Hein was preparing for the same exam for his camper! Three months later, I had all truck driver’s licenses and certificates.”
Is your company outside the Netherlands, and are you looking for a Comtest Engineering door or even an entire chamber? Don’t let distances get in the way. Contact one of our technical consultants, Uliana Trucchi, Marc Le Roy, Vincent van de Vrie or Hanneke Mertens – van Veen, for an international door-to-door, worry-free solution.