Egis FireShield H60

Hospital compartment walls face a contradiction: the door must seal air every day for infection control, yet hold back flame, heat and smoke for a full hour when fire breaks out. The FireShield H60 resolves it. It is a single-leaf hermetic sliding door rated EI60 to EN 1634-1 — 60 minutes of integrity and insulation — while its daily operation is the same down-and-in airtight closing, EN 12207 Class 4, as the HermaSeal family. One door, two life-safety jobs.

The 85 mm leaf carries a fire-engineered core behind its clinical face: powder-coated steel or HPL finish, stainless option, flush and wipeable like the rest of the healthcare range. Intumescent and smoke-sealing systems are integrated into the perimeter so that on fire-alarm signal, the automatic drive executes a controlled fire-closing override — the door closes and latches into its fire position regardless of normal traffic logic. Smoke resistance to EN 1634-3 (cold and hot smoke) keeps escape routes tenable while the insulation criterion limits heat transfer to the protected side.

Egis supplies the H60 as a complete fire-door system for Indian healthcare projects: leaf, frame, drive with fire-alarm interface, and commissioning against the site's fire strategy. Clear openings run 800 to 2000 mm wide and 2100 to 2600 mm high. Because the door is airtight in normal service, it also serves the pressure cascade — a rare combination that lets designers use one door schedule for infection control and compartmentation together.

Fire rating and airtightness are usually enemies: fire doors need clearance to close under alarm, airtight doors need compression to seal. The H60 reconciles them with a two-state perimeter. In daily service the down-and-in travel compresses the EPDM gasket for Class 4 airtightness. On fire-alarm input the controller drives the leaf to its fire position, where intumescent seals — which expand many times their volume when heated — close the remaining clearances and the leaf's insulated core delivers the EI60 performance: E for integrity (no flame or hot-gas passage), I for insulation (limited temperature rise on the unexposed face).

Smoke is the third killer, and the standard most fire doors ignore. The H60 is tested to EN 1634-3 for smoke leakage, cold and hot, so the door that holds the pressure cascade on a normal Tuesday also holds the smoke boundary during evacuation. The automatic closing override is fail-safe: on power loss or alarm, the door completes its fire close rather than remaining in traffic mode.