Pivot/slide-in storage for modern environments

Hafele has launched the Hawa-Concepta 25/30/50 pivot and slide-in hardware system, which is claimed to provide an elegant, multi-functional storage solution for modern living and working environments.

The system, suitable for wood and glass doors, creates space in front of the cabinet and provides unobstructed access to its contents.

The Hawa-Concepta 25/30/50 can move wood and glass doors weighing up to 50kg.

The pivot/slide-in hardware combines the two movement forms of pivoting and sliding; it allows doors to be opened conventionally by 90deg with a slight pivoting motion and then pushed into a recess to save space.

The Hawa-Concepta 25/30/50 is also suitable for creating efficient and simple room-high designs without a cabinet body, such as in wall recesses or walk-in wardrobes.

The hardware is said to be ideal for creating storage space options that make a tidy impression in private living spaces, public buildings, offices and shops.

The Hawa-Concepta 25/30/50 works without a bottom guide channel and enables flexible room utilisation, according to the company.

Cabinetmakers and interior designers can use it to fulfil specific customer requirements as design options with this hardware system are virtually unlimited.

It is also flexible with regard to dimensions; it accommodates door heights of up to 2,850mm, widths from 300mm to 900mm, wood thicknesses from 19mm to 50mm and a glass thickness of 8mm (toughened safety glass).

The modular, all-glass system also provides the greatest possible storage space inside the cabinet; a door with a thickness of 30mm, for instance, needs a maximum recess width of 55mm.

Plain anodised aluminium decor disks for glass patch suspension, vertical cover plates and a frame profile with integrated door handles in three lengths add up to a total of four different design options.

The Hawa-Concepta 25/30/50, which is said to be suitable for serial production, also offers front metal covers for every profile.

The system effectively prevents doors from jamming during pivoting and sliding movements.

In contrast to conventional steel cables that stretch and need to be adjusted sooner or later, scissor technology is completely maintenance free.

It enables the optimal utilisation of the cabinet depth, with the door projecting only a little beyond the cabinet wall.

The pivot/slide-in doors move with next to no effort.

Doors weighing 30kg or more are also equipped with trolleys fitted with plastic-coated rollers in addition to scissor technology.

All adjustments are made from the front, with no need to dismantle furniture components, not even on fully integrated systems.

Even heavy doors are said to be simple to adjust.

The height adjustment system is patent pending; neither distracting adjustment screws nor cover caps are visible within the cabinet body.

Cabinet assembly is also accomplished at a comfortable working height; pivot/slide-in doors are laid flat on trestles and are joined to the intermediate panel.

The entire section is then inserted into the cabinet body and the intermediate panel is attached to the cabinet body.

The hardware system allows furniture items to be pre-assembled at the factory and delivered to the site.

Hafele claims that both of the two concealed hinges for glass and wood doors also ensure optimal functionality and setting options.

The concealed hinge for wood doors is suitable for all door thicknesses from 19mm to 50mm.

The opening angle is set individually on each door by the processor to ensure that handles and hands are well protected if the cabinet is positioned next to a wall.

Brush seals on the outside and a roller on the inside of the door provide door guidance.

No further furniture components need processing once the positioning and hinge holes have been drilled.

Swiss manufacturer Hawa has created an installer-friendly solution: bonding frame profiles to glass by means of silicone.

This is achieved by inserting rubber profiles with punch holes into the vertical frame profiles.

It simplifies glass fitting because the rubber insert in the profile centres the glass pane and holds it in position.

The new Hawa method also eliminates the problem of silicone oozing out of joints.

This, in turn, eradicates tedious cleaning work such as peeling off residual silicone.

The result is a clean joint between glass and aluminium.

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