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How Do Security Shutters Work?

Security shutters shift between two positions: closed or open. When closed, the shutter is fully unrolled and covers the opening to fully protect it.

When open, the shutter retracts, rolling up into a coil located above the entrance.

The shutter can be designed with either manual or motorized operation and customized to fit your functional and aesthetic needs.

Types Of Security Shutters

Roller shutters can be operated manually or through motorized systems. Both options are intuitive and easy to use, yet highly secure.

Manual operation lifts the shutter by hand with minimal effort and can be accomplished with either a charge handle or a counterbalance system.

Lift-Ready Rolling Grille

With a compact roll and minimal head plate requirements, this security shutter is engineered to have for a very polished appearance and integrate seamlessly with your windows and doors. This line can have motorized or manual security operations, and there are dozens of options for materials, patterns, finishes, and colors.

FeaturesFeatures and Options

Dynamic Closures has a product for every security need. With feature-rich options included and custom options available, we can supply a system that suits each project’s unique demands. Features are unique to each product, so be sure to explore each one to find the best suited for your design.

Compact, Easy To Install Header With Pre-Rolled Curtain

This is the smallest, lightest, and easiest to install overhead rolling door.

Mounting Options
Color Options

Choose between clear, black, bronze, light bronze or champagne anodized finishes.

Alternately, we can provide almost any color in a powder coat finish.

Material Options

Choose between aluminum rod and link (straight or brick pattern), perforated aluminum, V-groove solid aluminum, or aluminum with polycarbonate panels. See models tab for more details.

Optional Hood And Fascia

For Lift Ready Rolling Grilles, using a hood for exposed barrels keeps it dust-free and provides a cleaner look. A fascia provides extra decorative surfacing if desired. Both hood and fascia are optional, as you can also leave the barrel uncovered or install it within a ceiling header.

Hood and Fascia Options
Bottom Bar Guides

Our bottom bars come standard with rubber bumpers to protect finished surfaces. Optionally, the rubber bumper can be replaced with a ceiling conceal to to minimize unsightly ceiling gaps.

Guides are designed with adjustable bottom bar top stops for fine adjustments in the field, as well as integrated smart locks for locking bottom bars.

Options for Bottom Bar and Top Stops
Manual Operators

Opening and closing your door is surprisingly easy when your door is this well designed. Options include a charge handle or a simple counterbalance.

Manual Operators and Winding Shafts
Motorized Operators

We recommend using one of these LiftMaster electric motor operators. With motorized operators, options for motorized emergency release and sensing edges open up.

Motors and Safety Accessories
Locks

If you’re using any optional locking posts, you can choose between:

• 1” mortise cylinder locks that can be easily changed to work with your internal key system and updated as needed.
• SFIC housing and cores.

Bracket Plates

The choice of bracket plate will need to work with the door size and material needed. Our customer service department will help you determine which one is right for your application.

Bracket Plates for Mounting the Lift Ready Rolling Grille

Why Choose Dynamic Closures?

With decades of industry-leading experience, a global presence, and a commitment to unyielding innovation, you’ll find a Dynamic Closures security solution to meet your project’s needs.

Behind every shutter, door, grille, and gate we manufacture is a team dedicated to enhancing our products’ strength, usability, ease of installation, and aesthetic appeal.

Dynamic Closures security shutters are ideal for countless settings, including airports, malls, pharmacies, banks, sporting facilities, and schools. We provide architects and designers with BIM and CAD files to streamline the design process, and our customer service team is available to help you navigate our products’ many features and options.

FAQsFrequently Asked Questions

A roll-up security door is an advanced security fixture commonly used in commercial, industrial, and even residential settings. Unlike traditional swinging or sliding doors, security roll shutters are constructed from heavy-duty materials like steel or aluminum. What sets them apart is their unique operation mechanism. Similar to a garage door, these doors roll upward. Unlike a garage door, a security door will roll into a coil, neatly tucking away above the entrance, rather than lay flat against the roof. This design not only maximizes space efficiency but also provides a sleek and unobtrusive appearance.

Storefronts and other operations use commercial security shutters for access control and to protect their business, building, or product from theft. Homeowners might use security shutters as well, though the installation in a residential building (such as a condo or apartment building) is more common than in single family residential homes.

Customer supportWorld Class Customer Support

Need help choosing a model for your project? We’re here to help, and go far beyond the usual standards to help you with your project.

Not only can we help you navigate the features and options of our products, but we provide free BIM objects for your plans, and even check Division 08 specifications for you, which can really save you costly delays during installation.

Illini Architectural Products has been providing a full range of Dynamic Closures security products since 1985. We enthusiastically promote their products because they fabricate and ship material promptly and with an absolute minimum of product variation. Our customers can rely on long usage, repair parts when required, and products that look as good as they function. Dynamic is constantly upgrading their products, their sales department works closely with their distributors, and customer service is by far the best of any of the manufacturers we represent.

David L. Berns
VP Sales Illini Architectural Products, Chicago

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