Automatic doors Rabat are supplied and installed by Coetz™ and MC Automations Entrance Systems as a project, shipped from our facility in Johannesburg. Rabat is the capital of Morocco, on the Atlantic coast, and its buildings put demands on an entrance that a temperate specification does not answer. This guide covers what to specify, and what we can and cannot tell you in advance.
Prices and specifications are on our automatic doors page.
What automatic doors Rabat have to survive
Rabat has a mild Atlantic maritime climate, where salt air is a constant rather than a seasonal factor. Atlantic salt air is the enemy of a sliding entrance: it works into the track, loads the rollers and settles on the sensor lenses. That is not a reason to avoid an automatic entrance — it is a reason to specify one that can be cleaned and serviced, and to plan the service interval around the local conditions rather than a generic calendar.
Our door leaves are powder-coated aluminium, which is the right base material for hot and coastal environments because it does not rust and the coating carries the finish. The moving parts — track, rollers, floor guides and sensors — are the components that wear, and they are the ones worth planning around when you specify automatic doors Rabat.
Specifying automatic doors Rabat: the decisions that matter
Most of the specification for automatic doors Rabat comes down to a short list of decisions, and all of them are easier to make before the opening is built than after:
- Opening width, set for how two-way traffic actually overlaps at the busiest part of the day, not for the average.
- Sliding or swing. A sliding entrance needs side space for the leaf to travel into. Where there is none, the MCW-100 swing operator automates a door that is already there.
- Access control, decided up front, because it changes the wiring and the door’s behaviour rather than being bolted on later.
- Battery backup, which matters wherever the mains supply is not guaranteed — it decides whether the entrance fails safely open or simply stops.
- Sealing and cleaning access, so that Atlantic salt air can be swept out of the track instead of grinding through the rollers.
Get those five right and automatic doors Rabat behave the same way on day one and in year five. Get them wrong and the entrance becomes a maintenance item rather than a piece of the building.
Automatic doors Rabat and the safety rules that do not bend
Whatever else changes between markets, the safety principle does not: a powered entrance must detect a person standing in the opening and hold, rather than close on them. That is the principle set out in EN 16005, and it is the reason sensor testing belongs in every service visit. Sensors drift, they get knocked by trolleys, and lenses fog or dust over — so on automatic doors Rabat we treat sensor checks as routine work, not as a fault call.
Local building and fire regulations in Morocco govern escape routes and may set requirements for how an entrance behaves in an emergency. We do not hold those approvals on your behalf and we will not claim compliance we cannot evidence — your local consultant confirms what the authority requires, and we build the entrance to meet it.
Automatic doors Rabat: service, spares and the distance problem
The honest difficulty with automatic doors Rabat is distance. A service call from Johannesburg is not a next-day visit, so the plan has to shift from reacting to failures towards preventing them. In practice that means holding a small spares kit on site — belt, rollers and floor guides are the parts that go first — and agreeing at the outset who carries out routine cleaning and sensor checks between our visits.
The MC-125 system is tested to one million operating cycles and carries a 24-month warranty on the operator. Those are the figures we stand behind. We will not quote a lead time, a freight cost or a duty figure for Rabat in an article, because they depend on the consignment, the route and the prevailing tariff on the day — those come back to you in writing with the quotation.
Frequently asked questions
Does Coetz install automatic doors in Rabat, or only supply them?
Both. Coetz supplies the equipment and MC Automations installs it. Installation outside South Africa is handled as a project: we quote the equipment, the freight and the installation visit together, against your drawings.
Where are the door systems made?
The MC-125 sliding door system is assembled in South Africa, at our Laser Park facility in Johannesburg. Assembly is done there from supplied components.
How long does the MC-125 operator last?
The MC-125 is tested to one million operating cycles and carries a 24-month warranty on the operator. Actual service life depends on the traffic the entrance carries and how well grit is kept out of the track.
Can the entrance be linked to an access control system?
Yes. The MC-125 integrates with card readers, keypads, remotes and intercoms, so one entrance can be open during staffed hours and controlled outside them.
What does an automatic doors Rabat project cost?
The South African published prices are R31 728 for the MC-125 sliding system and R18 285 for the MCW-100 swing operator. Freight, duties and installation for a project in Rabat are quoted separately once we have the opening sizes and site details.
Starting a project in Rabat. Send us the opening sizes, the building type and whether the entrance needs access control, and we will come back with the equipment, freight and installation quoted together. Our automatic door service areas page sets out where our own installation teams are based, and the MC-125 automatic sliding door system page carries the full equipment detail.
Budgeting for automatic doors Rabat
Opening width, glass specification, sensor layout and access control are what separate one quotation from another, so compare them line by line rather than on the total alone. A free site measure confirms the opening, the power supply and the traffic before we commit to a fixed price, and the standard glazing is 6.38 mm laminated safety glass.
How the safety side actually works
Two sensor types work together on automatic doors Rabat: motion detection to open on approach, and presence detection to hold the door while somebody stands in the opening. Add safety beams and a force limit and the door reverses rather than pushing. Most call-outs we attend are sensors knocked out of alignment by a trolley or a delivery, not motors that have failed.
We walk the opening with a trolley and at normal walking pace before handover, then record the speed, hold-open and force settings.
Keeping it running after handover
The running cost of automatic doors Rabat is decided by two things: how often it is serviced, and whether spares are local. Service intervals follow cycle counts, and a visit covers sensor alignment, belt, rollers and guides, opening and closing force, and wear parts. We keep the operators, sensors, drive belts and control boards we fit in stock. In Morocco, installation and service are arranged per project and confirmed in writing; in South Africa, Gauteng call-outs are attended within 24 hours.
Can you automate a door we already have?
In most cases, yes — a swing operator such as the MCW-100 automates an existing hinged door up to 1,200 mm and 150 kg (interdependent).
What warranty applies to the operator?
The MC-125 and MCW-100 carry a 24-month warranty on the operator. Wear items such as belts, rollers and guides are replaced as part of servicing rather than under warranty.
Glass, frames and finishes
Standard glazing is 6.38 mm clear laminated safety glass, which holds together if it is ever broken and takes the edge off outside noise. Tinted and performance glass are available, quoted separately, where solar gain or privacy matters, and toughened glass suits frameless and low-level applications. The framing is powder-coated in the colour that suits the building, so an entrance reads as part of the frontage rather than something bolted on afterwards.
Can the existing opening be used?
Most retrofits work. We check three things for automatic doors Rabat: the head and its support, how square the opening runs, and where the power is. If all three are workable, an operator goes onto the opening you already have. If they are not, we say so before quoting rather than discovering it on installation day.
Common faults and what they mean
Doors that stay open usually have a sensor seeing something that is not there — a reflection, a banner moving in the draught, or a unit knocked out of alignment. Doors that stop short are often reacting to an obstruction or a force limit set too tight. Grinding or juddering points at the rollers or the guide rather than the motor. None of those need a new operator; they need a technician with the right spares in the van.
Can access control be added later?
It can, but cabling into a finished ceiling costs more than specifying it with the door. Readers, push buttons, intercoms and time clocks are all straightforward at installation stage.
How quickly can a fault be attended?
Gauteng call-outs are attended within 24 hours; outside South Africa, response times are agreed per project and confirmed in writing. Telling us the symptom when you call means the right spare travels with the technician.
Automatic doors Rabat in short
If you are pricing automatic doors Rabat, send the structural opening sizes and a photograph and we will specify the system, the sensors and the glass against the traffic the doorway really carries. Automatic doors Rabat are supplied, installed and serviced by one team, with spares held locally.
Ask us about automatic doors in Rabat and we will confirm the opening, the power supply and the traffic flow before quoting a fixed price.
Automatic doors Rabat at a glance
- Pricing for automatic doors Rabat follows the opening width, the glass and the sensor layout.
- Ask us to confirm the opening before ordering automatic doors Rabat.
Budgeting automatic doors Rabat: where the money actually goes
Buyers ask for one figure, and one figure hides the decisions that matter. A quotation for automatic doors Rabat breaks into four parts, and knowing which is which is what lets you compare two proposals honestly.
First the operator, the powered unit above the opening. Second the leaf and its framing, which is a glazing and fabrication cost rather than an automation one. Third the installation and commissioning, which is physical work on site. Fourth what happens afterwards: the service interval, the spares position and who answers the phone.
Rabat sits on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, where salt-laden air is the governing constraint on fixings and brackets rather than dust. Exposure to driven rain on seaward elevations is worth confirming before specifying.
Comparing quotations like for like
Two quotations for automatic doors Rabat can differ widely and both be honest, because they are often not quoting the same thing.
What duty class is the operator rated for, and against what cycle count? A unit specified for a quiet lobby and one specified for a high-traffic threshold are different machines, and a cheaper quote is sometimes cheaper because it is the wrong machine. What safety sensors are included? Activation and safety detection are not the same thing, and an entrance quoted with activation only is quoted incompletely. Is commissioning priced in or assumed? Is the warranty on the operator or on the whole installation?
Documentation you should receive
Buyers rarely specify this and later wish they had. At handover on automatic doors Rabat projects you should hold four things.
A record of the commissioning settings for each entrance, so a year later nobody is guessing how far a door has drifted. A parts list identifying the operator model and its wear items. A service schedule with the interval and the reasoning, per entrance rather than one figure for the building. And a clear statement of what the warranty covers and what voids it.
If a supplier cannot produce those four, ask what they intend to hand over at all.
Procuring across several sites
Where automatic doors Rabat forms part of a wider rollout, standardise the operator and vary the protection.
Standardising the unit is genuinely valuable: one spares holding covers every site, one set of instructions applies, and whoever maintains the estate learns a single unit properly rather than several badly. Standardising the environmental specification is where rollouts go wrong, because a sheltered interior entrance and an exposed street-facing one are not the same job even in the same city.
Coetz Glazing supplies the equipment for automatic doors Rabat projects and MC Automations installs and commissions it. Neither of us holds local building or fire approvals in this market, and where an entrance sits on an escape route your local consultant carries that question. Cross-border work is quoted per project, in writing, and we publish no landed prices, freight figures or lead times because those change.
When to involve us, and when not to
The cheapest moment to influence automatic doors Rabat is before the opening is built, and the most expensive is after the floor is poured and the header framed. If a project is still at drawing stage, a short conversation about header depth, leaf parking space and the floor line across the threshold will save more than any discount on the unit.
There are also projects where the honest answer is that you do not need new equipment at all. Where a sound automatic entrance has simply been neglected, the right advice is to have it serviced properly rather than replaced, and that is the advice you will get even though it earns us less. The entrances that cause trouble later are the ones that were never right for the opening in the first place, not the ones that were merely old.
If you are weighing automatic doors Rabat against refurbishing what is already there, send a photograph of the existing entrance and the leaf dimensions and we will tell you which case you are in.
Questions worth asking before you sign
Most disappointing automatic doors Rabat installations are not the result of a bad product. They are the result of four questions nobody asked at quotation stage, and all four are easy to ask.
What happens when the power goes off? The behaviour of the entrance during an interruption is a design decision, not a property of the operator, and it interacts with the building fire strategy. Decide it deliberately rather than inheriting whatever the default is.
Who owns the opening? On projects running through a main contractor, the commonest cross-border failure is an opening that shifted during construction and nobody mentioned it until the installation team arrived. One message at the time costs nothing.
What is the service interval and why? An interval quoted without any question about your traffic or your environment is a guess. It should be set per entrance, against real duty, with the reasoning written down.
What happens in year five? Ask which parts are consumable, which are proprietary, and what the position is if a control board fails. Knowing which entrances carry that risk before it materialises is worth more than any discount at purchase.
A supplier who answers all four plainly is a supplier worth dealing with on automatic doors Rabat work, whether or not it turns out to be us.
Who does what: Coetz Glazing and MC Automations
Coetz Glazing and MC Automations are two businesses under the same ownership, and on automatic doors Rabat projects they do different jobs. It is worth knowing which one you need.
Coetz Glazing supplies. This guide is the supply side: what equipment suits the market, what it involves to procure, and what to specify.
MC Automations installs and commissions. The physical work of fitting the operator to your opening, setting the safety systems and maintaining it afterwards is done by MC Automations, using its own MC-125 and MCW-100 operators. See automatic doors Africa for how those installations run, and taking over other door brands if equipment is already in the building.
Most automatic doors Rabat projects need both sides, and they are quoted as one piece of work rather than sending you between two companies.
Morocco’s largest city: see automatic doors Casablanca.
Elsewhere in Morocco: see automatic doors Marrakech.
Further north on the Strait of Gibraltar: see automatic doors Tangier.
Automatic doors across Africa
Coetz™ supplies automatic entrance systems across Africa and MC Automations installs them, project by project from Laser Park in Johannesburg. Find your country or city below, or see automatic doors South Africa for projects at home and the MC Automations automatic doors Africa page.
- North Africa – Egypt: Cairo, Alexandria · Morocco: Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Tangier · Algeria: Algiers · Tunisia: Tunis
- West Africa – Nigeria: Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Ibadan · Ghana: Accra, Kumasi · Côte d'Ivoire: Yamoussoukro, Abidjan · Senegal: Dakar · Togo: Lomé · Benin: Cotonou · Cape Verde: automatic doors Cape Verde
- Central Africa – Cameroon: Douala · Gabon: automatic doors Gabon, Libreville · Republic of the Congo: Brazzaville · DR Congo: Kinshasa, Lubumbashi · Angola: Luanda
- East Africa – Ethiopia: Addis Ababa · Kenya: Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu · Uganda: Kampala, Entebbe · Rwanda: Kigali · Tanzania: Dodoma, Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Zanzibar, Mwanza
- Southern Africa – Botswana: automatic doors Botswana, Gaborone, Francistown, Maun · Namibia: automatic doors Namibia, Windhoek, Walvis Bay, Swakopmund · Zimbabwe: automatic doors Zimbabwe, Harare, Bulawayo · Zambia: automatic doors Zambia, Lusaka, Livingstone, Ndola · Mozambique: automatic doors Mozambique, Maputo, Beira, Nampula · Malawi: automatic doors Malawi, Lilongwe · Lesotho: automatic doors Lesotho, Maseru · Eswatini: automatic doors Eswatini
- Indian Ocean islands – Madagascar: automatic doors Madagascar, Antananarivo · Mauritius: automatic doors Mauritius · Seychelles: automatic doors Seychelles
Coetz™ also exports aluminium windows and doors to every African country, supply only: see aluminium windows and doors Africa.
Building in Morocco? Coetz™ also supplies aluminium windows and doors Morocco, exported from our Laser Park factory for your builder to fit.
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