Sectional sliding gate for curved and tight entrances

The CAIMEN Turning Sectional Sliding Gate is for the entrance that's already ruled out everything else. Its panels are hinged. They run on a curved track, round the corner, then lie flat against your side wall. No swing arc out front, no straight run-back along the fence line, and no counterweight tail sticking out behind. The panels park in their own strip along the side wall. CAIMEN is a Shenzhen-based manufacturer of gates and access control equipment, founded in 2013, supplying sectional sliding gates to distributors, installers and project buyers worldwide.

Say your boundary wall bends inward a metre past the post. A conventional straight sliding gate still needs a straight wall to slide along, so it's out. This gate just follows the line you've got.

It sits with our other automatic gates on the products page. Like the rest of the range, it's drawn to your site before anything gets cut.

A track that bends with the site

We lay the track to a predesignated curve. Open the gate and each panel tracks that curve, sliding sideways against the wall. Posts, planters, whatever sits beside the opening: the leaf stays clear of them.

No depth needed front or back

Swing gates eat the driveway. This one doesn't. The whole gate body moves inside its own allocated strip next to the opening, so the road outside stays open and so does the footpath inside. Hence garages, tight community entrances, shallow plots.

Aluminium sections, specified profiles

Main frame? A 6005-T5 extrusion, 95 x 63 mm, with a 3.0 mm wall. Inside the panel you get 6063-T6 inner frames and stand tubes. It's the hinged sections that let a rigid gate get round a bend at all.

Motor drive with the controls you already use

Remote, keypad password, fingerprint, phone app or a smart home system all work. Good motors and pulleys keep it quiet, which your neighbours will notice when someone comes home late. Want lighting and cameras too? Add them, including license plate recognition, and regular vehicles get in without anybody touching a button.

Looks matched to the building

There are plenty of colour and texture combinations. Hollow, see-through infill lets air through and keeps the street in view. If privacy matters more to you, go for the closer fence-style panels instead. Our coatings page covers the finish systems.

The opening itself is usually fine. It's the space around it that isn't. Typical spots:

• a villa where the boundary wall curves or steps back near the gate
• commercial complexes and driveways with columns, signage or planting right beside the entrance
• high-end garages and courtyards, almost zero depth behind the gate line
• industrial zones with curved or narrow entrances
• any site without back-room for a straight slider or swing leaf

Got a long, straight wall beside the opening? Then a cantilever sliding gate is the simpler choice for heavy-duty, high-traffic openings. Short wall, wide opening: look at a telescopic sliding gate. We'll be honest. The turning gate earns its keep only when the wall bends or something permanent is in the way.

Every curved-track gate is drawn for one site. So the quote is only as good as your survey. Here's what we need:

• clear opening width, plus the gate height you'd like
• a plan sketch of the wall it'll park against (bend radius or angle, and how far that bend is from the post)
• photos from inside and outside, showing whatever's next to the opening: trees, meter boxes, drains, columns
• how you'll open it, whether that's remote, keypad, fingerprint, app, smart home or plate recognition
• hollow or fence-panel infill, and the colour

CAD drawings and renderings come first. Nothing goes into production until you approve them, and after that it typically takes 15 to 20 days. Non-standard panels? See custom aluminum gates. Send everything through the contact page or email [email protected].

Don't skip safety. US buyers will expect automatic gate operators to meet UL 325, while ASTM F2200 covers gate construction. DASMA's gate safety guide says any gap over 2 1/4 in (57 mm) between a slide gate and a fixed object must be protected, for example with edge sensors where the gap creates a draw-in zone. A curved run passes more fixed objects than a straight one does. Have your installer map those points before the track goes down.