Our sports hall doors are crafted with 1.5mm galvanised steel rebound panels, the Defender Sportsguard doesn’t just survive impact, it absorbs it. These panels are specifically designed to withstand repeated contact while maintaining durability and optimal performance.

For ease of maintenance, the rebound panels can be quickly removed, allowing straightforward access to panic hardware.

Engineered for Safety

In high-energy environments, safety is everything. Our sports hall door, Defender Sportsguard, features a flush design with no protruding hardware, helping to prevent injuries and keep users safe during play. This attention to detail aligns with Sport England design guidance, giving you peace of mind that you’re meeting national safety expectations.

Flexible Configurations to Fit Any Space

Whether you’re upgrading an existing leisure centre or designing a new-build sports complex, our sports hall doors are available in a wide array of configurations:

• Single & double doorsets
• Side panels
• Over panel
• Side panels & over panels
• DDA-compliant options for accessibility

Plus, we offer customisable performance upgrades including:

• Thermal insulation as low as 1.4 W/m²K
• Acoustic ratings to help control noise in multi-use spaces

Built for Performance. Backed by Expertise.

Like all Metador products, the Defender Sportsguard is manufactured with precision, tested to the highest standards, and supported by our expert team. Whether you’re specifying for a local community centre or a national sports arena, you can rely on Metador for performance, durability, and service.

Get the Full Technical Picture

Want to explore detailed specifications? Our Defender Sportsguard technical datasheet is available on our website, with everything you need.

Get in touch

Planning a project that demands tough, reliable doors for sports or leisure spaces? Get in touch with our technical experts to discover how Metador’s durable steel doorsets can deliver the performance you need.

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Durable Powder Coated Colours and Finishes

Available in any colour and a selection of powder coated woodgrain finishes, which outperforms vinyl wraps.

Stronger Than Traditional Wooden Doorsets

While maintaining a warm appearance.

Defender Decorguard’s Decorative Detailing

Available in a handful of pre-configured designs to provide added aesthetics or we can collaborate to create a completely bespoke solution to suit your requirements.

Customisable to Match Your Building Requirements

Ideal for high-traffic areas in health care and educational settings.

A Huge Variety of Security Hardware Options

Including electronic locking.

Vision Panels Can Be Included

With clear, obscure, or patterned glass.

If you’re interested in our decorative and woodgrain special finish steel doorsets, get in touch with our team to see how we can collaborate to meet your requirements.

Specially designed to prevent forced entry, our LPS 1175 Issue 8 C5 steel doorsets offer greater levels of resistance to intrusion from physical force, and a wide range of hand tools with a more significant mechanical advantage, including tools that create noise.

Our C5 doorset is tested to sustain an attack of 5 minutes utilising the full toolkit on a range of target points including trying to remove the hinges, penetrating the leaf, removing the lock, levering, and drilling.

Tested and certified by BRE’s Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB), our LPS 1175 Issue 8 C5 doorsets offer a comprehensive range of configurations and hardware options, expertly tailored to meet the unique requirements of each project.

• Single doorset
• Double doorset
• Side panels
• Over panels
• Side and over panels
• Louvred doorsets
• Vision panels.

With a huge range of lockable configurations across steel door manufacturing, we can create a customised solution to suit your needs.

• Single point locking
• Multipoint locking
• Panic escape
• Lockable access setups
• Manual and electronic locking options.

Take a look at our full certification here: https://www.redbooklive.com/search?page=1&search=1284d&skip=0

Do you have a project that could benefit from our LPS 1175 security-rated steel doorsets?

We have a team of steel door experts eager to assist you with any inquiries or technical advice, get in touch to find out more!

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• The Defender ModuleX doorset is manufactured from 1.5mm galvanised steel
• 1.5mm stainless steel thresholds
• Internal steel strengthening as standard
• A mineral wool core is also more thermally efficient than cardboard honeycomb infill versions
• The special fast-fit frame is able to compensate for most irregularities in the opening with 16no threaded fixing adjusters per doorset
• Shims and packers are not necessary, making an extremely secure fix and alternative frame depths are available on request to suit your specific wall panel construction
• With our specialist threshold design, we are able to combat any water ingress with both outward and inward-opening doorsets
• We can also provide alternative frame depths to suit your specific wall panel construction needs.

Available in a range of configurations

• Single doorset
• Double doorset
• Glazing options
• Decorative finishes
• Louvre panels
• Hardware options
• Fire-rated
• Thermally-rated

Defender ModuleX: A durable, stronger modular doorset with a unique flange frame design that seals efficiently and conceals panel cut-outs for modular buildings.

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View the Defender ModuleX here: Defender ModuleX

We can help advise and collaborate to find the required solution, how to specify, and more – Speak to our experts today to find out more! Contact Us

Using collaboration with our clients, we create bespoke steel door solutions that meet the correct specification and are better suited for challenging environments like alternative provision academies.

Our steel doorsets are specifically designed with these settings in mind…

• Using 2mm steel leaf skins as standard, reinforced with a solid timber core
• Additional fixing points to ensure a solution that lasts

This creates an excellent solution for high-use access subject to abnormal stress, helping to keep pupils, staff, and property safe and secure.

Many Steel door configurations available

Each door is manufactured to meet your exact requirements using premium materials for high durability.

• Single doorsets
• Double doorsets
• Glazed or solid
• Side and over panel options.

Glazing options

• Privacy vision panels
• Clear or obscured glass
• Many sizes and options are available
• DDA compliant options
• High-security glass to resist attack and prevent damage.

Locking and hardware options

To help create the perfect solution for you and to serve the needs of different users, we have a huge range of locking and hardware options to choose from:

• Manual and electro-mechanical options
• Concealed maglocks to the leading edge and head of the door
• Durable tested handles available including anti-ligature
• Concealed closer available
• Continuous hinge option.

Vast range of colours and special finishes

A significantly stronger solution when compared with more commonly used wooden doorsets, while maintaining a warm aesthetic to suit building requirements.

• Available in any colour
• Colour-matched to suit your building/brand
• Durable finishes as standard
• Popular woodgrain powder coat options available.

Get in touch

We can help advise and collaborate to find the required solution, how to specify, and more – Speak to our experts today to find out more!

That’s precisely what the Defender Duopar was created for!

A two-part wraparound frame design crafted from 2.0mm steel incorporates a modern architrave profile with fully concealed fixings. An unobtrusive yet effective rubber seal around the perimeter provides a soft-close effect and an excellent barrier against noise, dust and smoke. Each frame of the Defender Duopar is bespoke and built to order, allowing for total flexibility in structural opening sizes, wall depths, and configurations.

Duopar steel frames offer many benefits over traditional wooden door frames. Finished with super smooth and consistent powder coatings, they provide the highest resistance to knocks and chips from heavy usage. Any standard RAL colours are available in either a matt or gloss finish, in addition to a vast range of special effects, including concrete, stone, or wood grains.

As standard, we couple the Duopar frame with our flush-edged steel doors. Hard-working and long-lasting, these are folded from 1.5mm steel and can be offered with a full range of vision panels, locking options and ancillary ironmongery. It is ideal for use in high-traffic environments such as retail, warehousing, and healthcare.

For the ultimate aesthetic, we can also team Duopar frames with timber doors. Flush chipboard door cores are finished with real wood veneers or laminates of your choice, available in 44mm or 54mm thickness. Concealed hardwood lippings are applied to all 4 edges as standard. Hinges, locks and seals are factory-fitted. Other options include vision panels with contrasting or matching beadings; air transfer grilles and concealed door closers. This premium option is ideal for use in offices, education and hospitality.

Supplied fully finished with all hardware fitted and working, Duopar doorsets are best installed at the end of your project: after the walls have been decorated and the floors laid, minimising any chance of costly damage by other trades. The fully adjustable frames clamp around the substrate and will accommodate variations in wall depths and openings, requiring only minimal sealing to complete.

Contact us to learn more about how Defender Duopar door sets can benefit your project, offering high-quality aesthetics and performance, design flexibility, easy installation, and low maintenance.

To show you some of the changes we have made, Operations Manager Paul Stonehouse takes us on a tour of our quickly expanding steel door manufacturing facilities in our latest video:

https://youtu.be/KwbtRnkYYwo

Want to know more about what we do? Visit our Products page now or contact our team today:

The winners of #MadeByMetador for February and March are the installers of the double doors below. Congratulations if these are your installations. Enjoy your prize of a £25 Amazon voucher!

Want to be in with a chance of winning? The #MadeByMetador competition gives every installer the opportunity to win a £25 Amazon voucher every time they install a Defender doorset from Metador.

How to enter

We love seeing the #MadebyMetador entries – our steel security and fire rated doors are designed to suit a wide variety of building styles and the photos we receive emphasize this. We want to see entries from across the UK, so get snapping and a £25 Amazon voucher could be yours!

Remember, all you have to do is take a picture of the doors once they’ve been installed and send them to us. We’ll pick one lucky winner at random each month to receive the voucher.

Click this link to submit your picture – it’s as simple as that!

We understand that every build is unique and that every customer has distinct requirements. Therefore, our goal is to work collaboratively with our customers to create a bespoke product tailored to their specific project.

A great example of our collaborative design is our sloping top door, which we designed and manufactured in line with the client’s requirements. The client required a bespoke-sized entrance to a wine cellar under their stairs.

There is no photo trickery involved; the door actually slopes across the top!

If you’re looking for a steel door that is unusual in design or specification, get in touch with Metador’s dedicated sales and design teams.

They are always ready to offer technical insight and work with you to create something truly bespoke.

For more information about the steel doors we offer, visit our product pages below:

• • Fire Rated Steel Doors
  • Security Steel Doors
  • Emergency Exit Doors
  • Glazed Steel Doors
  • Louvred Steel Doors
  • Modular Steel Doors