Glass Door Systems: Frameless and Framed Tempered Doors, Edgework, Hardware and Export Packing

What “Glass Door System” Actually Includes

A glass door is not a sheet of glass with holes in it. It is an engineered assembly: the tempered or tempered-laminated panel, machined notches and cutouts for hinges and locks, the patch fittings, rails, handles and floor hardware matched to that panel, and the installation tolerances that let the whole thing swing true on day one.

We supply doors as complete systems — tempered glass with hinges, handles, locks and clamps, ready for installation — in frameless, semi-frameless and framed designs for offices, shops, banks and residential projects. The practical difference for buyers is accountability: when panel and hardware come from one line, a swing fault is one supplier’s fix, not a negotiation between a glass vendor and a hardware vendor.

Start from the glass door product page for the full spec table; this guide walks through the decisions behind each line.

Glass Thickness: 8, 10 and 12 mm Tempered

Door panels run 8, 10 or 12 mm. The selection logic is traffic and span: 8 mm suits lighter residential and interior doors; 10 mm is the commercial workhorse for shop and office entrances; 12 mm serves tall, heavy or high-traffic leaves where rigidity and a premium, weighty feel are part of the design.

Where the application demands containment — over-door glazing, doors above entrances, or safety-rated locations — tempered laminated glass replaces single tempered. If a panel ever breaks, the interlayer holds the fragments and the doorway stays sealed rather than open.

All doors are fully tempered before any hardware fitting: the panel you receive cannot be cut, drilled or notched again. Every aperture must be final at order stage, which is why the machining section below matters more on doors than on any other product.

Color and Substrate Choices

The full color range is available in door thicknesses: clear, low iron, grey, bronze, green and acid etched. Clear is the default for retail and offices where visibility sells; low iron glass removes the green cast for premium interiors and thick 12 mm leaves where the edge is a design feature.

Grey, bronze and green body-tinted panels add privacy and solar control at the entrance — the same tinted glass chemistry used across architectural glazing, so door and facade tone can match from one batch.

Acid etched delivers privacy with a fine, uniform matte surface that resists fingerprints far better than sprayed alternatives — the standard for bathroom doors, clinic interiors and office meeting rooms. Etched panels are produced with the etched face to specification, and can combine with clear zones for signage bands.

Edgework: The Visible Craftsmanship

On a frameless door, the edge is the product. We offer six finishes: flat polished, round polished, flat grinded, round grinded, matt and beveled. Flat polished is the crisp commercial standard; round polished (pencil-round) softens corners and is friendlier in homes; grinded finishes serve hidden edges on budget builds; matt suits acid-etched designs; beveled edges catch light and read as classic.

Edge quality is not cosmetic only. A well-polished edge removes the micro-flaws that start tempered-glass breaks, and a square, true edge is what lets patch fittings clamp with even pressure. Doors arrive with corners arrissed and edges finished to the specified grade — no site touching-up, no sharp edges.

Specify edgework per door face: many projects order polished on the verticals and grinded top-and-bottom where rails cover them. It is a quiet cost saving with zero visual penalty.

Notches, Holes and Cutouts: Machined Before Tempering

Every aperture — hinge cutouts, lock cases, handle bores, floor-spring pockets, rail notches — is machined by water-jet or CNC before tempering, to standard hardware sizes, with edges finished free of sharp nicks. Positioning is taken from your hardware drawing or our standard templates for the fittings you name.

This is the single most important coordination point in door procurement. After tempering, the panel is final: a hole 2 mm off means a new door. So the workflow is fixed — you confirm the hardware model and handing (left/right, inward/outward), we machine, then temper. Changes after tempering are reorders, not fixes.

Because machining is in-house, tolerance accumulates correctly: the notch that receives the patch fitting and the hole that receives the spindle were cut on the same setup, which is why our doors hang without shimming games at installation.

Swing or Sliding: Choosing the Hardware Family

Swing doors run on patch fittings, floor springs and overhead closers — the classic commercial entrance. They suit banks, shops and offices where a solid closing action and fire/door hardware integration matter. Panel preparation is the notch-and-bore set described above.

Sliding doors run on top-hung rollers with floor guides — frameless sliders for residential and boutique retail, and soft-closing systems where traffic is constant. Sliding panels need top-track drilled holes and bottom-guide notches instead of hinge cutouts, and the glass thickness usually steps down one grade versus an equivalent swing leaf.

Both families come with handles, locks and clamps matched to the panel drilling. If your project mixes swing doors, sliding doors and fixed screens in the same elevation, we machine and pack them as one coordinated set so the hardware line reads continuous.

Where Glass Doors Earn Their Keep

Retail storefronts use frameless swing or sliding doors to erase the boundary between street and shop — maximum visibility, and the entrance itself becomes the display window. Offices use frameless or semi-frameless doors within glass partition systems, where the door’s edge and hardware finish must match the partition channel exactly.

Banks and premium lobbies step up to 12 mm low iron with beveled edges — the weight and clarity are the message. Residential projects use 8–10 mm doors for bathrooms, wardrobes and room dividers, often in acid etched or tinted finishes for privacy.

Across all of them the constant benefits hold: enhanced natural light, soundproofing versus openings, and the modern appearance that only a frameless glass line gives.

Packing and Shipping Door Systems

Tempered door panels are heavy, final-size and unforgiving, so packing is engineered around edge protection: panels on edge in A-frames or crates with foam separation, corner guards, and strapping that braces without loading the polished edges. Hardware ships in its own boxed set inside the same crate — hinges, handles, locks and clamps labeled per door.

Each crate is marked with door numbers and handing (LH/RH, in/out) matching the layout drawing, so installers unpack in sequence and never reverse-hang a leaf. For mixed projects — doors plus mirror or panel lines — doors pack in dedicated crates; nothing heavy ever loads a door face.

Before loading we send packing photos and the final machining drawings for your records: what was agreed is what ships, and what ships is what installs.