Keeps tight and fits well

After 15 years of planning, approval and construction, the 19th Höffner store was completed in the new Altwarmbüchen shopping center. Höffner is the second largest furniture retailer in Germany after Ikea and is regarded as a comparatively inexpensive supplier of furniture and accessories. Nevertheless, extremely high-quality furniture is also sold here. In the A2 Center, 162 kitchens, 140 bathroom furnishings, 600 sofa sets, 300 dining sets and a number of bedrooms are displayed on four floors. In addition to the showrooms and sales rooms, the new building, which is located close to the freeway, also houses the logistics center for the Hanover area. In this area, as in the entire project, great importance was attached to sustainability and energy efficiency.

Against heat loss

Naturally, the joint between the warehouse and the truck is the weakest point in the outer shell of any warehouse and the cause of the greatest heat loss through draughts. When it came to the required door seals, the version with side panels made of special foam core and the independent lifting roof from Koch-Lagertechnik, which had already been used on previous new buildings, proved to be particularly suitable for achieving the environmental targets.

The insulating effect of the foam is important: the heat does not penetrate to the outside as quickly. In addition, the vertical skirts press particularly well against the outside of the vehicles and swap bodies. This is due to special contact pressure slats, which have been a standard component of Koch door seals for many years.

Adapts to the vehicle contours

In order to prevent the escape of warm air from the hall upwards as far as possible, Höffner equipped the Koch door seal with double horizontal skirts and extra incisions. The aprons are slotted vertically at 20-centimeter intervals and, as a result and also due to their greater weight, press particularly well against the respective vehicle contours. This also keeps wind and rain away from the goods to be loaded, thus protecting the goods from moisture and the personnel from draughts and thus from colds.

A positive side effect: the flexible dock shelters have proven themselves to be particularly durable against trucks approaching incorrectly. In the side sections of this Koch TAS-SK door seal, the usual metal parts have been replaced by a 10 centimeter thick foam core, so that nothing can bend or break here due to trucks driving off the wrong way, making the door seals from Koch virtually "indestructible".

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