LIFE SAFETY & SECURITY DOOR HARDWARE Detex offers a wide range of life safety and security door hardware products that are guaranteed to be the most durable, easiest to install, innovative, technologically advanced and architecturally beautiful products available on the market today. From multipoint locks, to delayed egress to economical locks and alarms, Detex has been helping retailers and restaurants for decades. Detex manufacturers’ a wide variety of security hardware designed to prevent shoplifters from using emergency exits as escape routes, thwart break-ins and stop dishonest employee’s from sneaking out a locked door.INTEGRATED DOOR SECURITY SYSTEMS Detex provides everything you need for a customized, integrated door security system. Easy to specify, easy to order, easy to use, easy to install, and easy to maintain, Detex EasyKits are field-proven, code-compliant and will meet all of your requirements for worry-free, safe and secure control of building entry and egress. Detex has built specialized weatherized delayed egress systems for outdoor garden centers, and systems that automatically lock or unlock doors with the push of a button. You might only need to add a strobe light to an alarm, or prevent a propped door, but regardless of your challenge, give us a call, we can provide several answers.SAFETY, SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT For more than a century, Detex has been the world leader in Guard Tour Verification products and systems. Setting the standard with the widely used, reliable, and rugged mechanical watchclocks and continuing with the innovative GCS ProxiPen electronic guard tour verification systems, Detex is recognized worldwide as the leading solution provider.
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From our newest innovations in life safety and security door hardware, integrated door security systems, and guard tour verification technologies to our original Watchman's clocks, Detex, a USA company, designs, manufactures, markets and ships our products from New Braunfels, TX, and is recognized as best-in-class life safety, security, and security assurance manufacturer, worldwide.
Preventing entry by anyone who poses an immediate threat is a serious challenge. Locking down external doors quickly is essential during threatening situations. Manual lockdown...
Detex AO19 Series Low Energy Automatic Operators are economical, easy to install, heavy duty products for high use and high abuse applications. All AO19 Series Operators meet ...
The Advantex Latch Retraction Exit device (ER) is now available in a weatherized option. Tested to meet UL 1034-34 Temperature Section 34, UL 1034-54 Dust Section 54, MIL-STD ...
The Detex EAX-3500 door alarm is designed for applications requiring a hardwired, timed bypass alarm with rechargeable backup battery. The 100-decibel alarm will sound when someone...
Detex puts dependable in restricted secure areas - at gym and dorm entrances, pharmacies, office buildings, and any other area where unauthorized entry must be controlled, and...
ALOA Booth 408The Detex ECL-230X-TDB is a maximum security, multi-point lock so big and strong that it stands up to assault by the bad guys. Its heavy-duty, three-bolt construction...
Detex Corporation now provides an aluminum exit device option for budget-conscious project planners. Part of the premium Advantex line, this aluminum (628) exit device fills the...
Detex Corporation's new EAX-300 Battery Powered Door-Propped Alarm sounds an alert when a secured door is propped open. It provides a low-cost security solution because it requires...
Detex Corporation is offering a weatherized version of its maximum-strength 230X multi-point hardware for back door security. The Detex 230X is both a panic device and a three...
It’s with great sadness that Detex announces the passing of Gary Hackney at the age of 80. During his 31 years at Detex, Gary was a visible and significant contributor to the...
Detex Corporation traces its roots back to a predecessor company founded in 1878 by Abraham A. Newman. Originally focused on manufacturing and selling stationary watchclocks, ...
Door operators are divided into two categories: power-operated pedestrian doors and power-assist and low-energy power-assist doors.Their operation, features and installation guidelines...
Common applications include retailers wishing to reduce shoplifting and school and healthcare facilities needing to prevent children or patients from wandering out the door.
KeyWatcher® Manage Access at Luxury High-RiseKeeping residents and the facility safe and secure is a serious undertaking at the Promenade Condominium. For the past 17 years, management...
Detex Corporation provides a life safety and security hardware system designed specifically for healthcare facilities that have courtyards and gardens where patients or residents...
Detex Outdoor System Secures Garden CenterFor garden center gates, restaurant patios, lumberyards, or building doors that at times stand open, the Detex Outdoor Area System offers...
TWENTY YEARS AGOOur September, 1992 issue marked the beginning of a new era as Bill Reed retired from Locksmith Ledger. Padlocks were the theme of the September issue beginning...
The 230X Maximum Locking Strength Multi-Point Panic Hardware is engineered with an extreme-duty, triple-bolt design that withstands 16,000 pounds of pull force.
Components include the AO19 automatic door opener with controls mounted and pre-wired in one unit, as well as electrified Advantex® panic hardware, keypads and card readers.
All Detex CVR devices use a unique six-step latch hold-back method that keeps the latch retracted while the door is open, regardless of whether the pushpad is pressed lightly ...
TWENTY YEARS AGODiMark asked the question: "Should you expand into the high security auto market?" Harrison Electronic explained how to install an alarm system in your service...
Napco iBridge™ Wins SIA New Product Showcase AwardNapco Security Technologies, Inc. iBridge™ Keypad/Touchscreen Tablet won the SIA 2012 New Product Showcase (NPS) Award at ISC...
TWENTY YEARS AGOKey machines were featured in the December, 1991 Locksmith Ledger. Dimark International explained their line of Borkey key machines (now sold by MBA USA). Ilco...
Detex introduces a maximum security, multi-point lock with heavy-duty, three-bolt construction that takes panic hardware to a new level of toughness and eases security worries...
For many years exit control locks have been installed onto exit doors that have been designated for emergency use only. These include back doors in stores, markets, restaurants...
The following is an alphabetical listing of exhibitors at the 55th annual ALOA Convention & Security Expo at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, Nashville, TN, ...
TWENTY YEARS AGOGerry Finch started a series on the "Language of Masterkeying." Jerry Levine warned against buying low cost "open anything" car lock tools sold by slick telephone...
Detex ECL-230X Series Panic DeviceDetex Corporation has introduced the heavy-duty, single and multi-point deadbolt-equipped panic devices, the ECL-230 Series for protection against...
Detex Corporation has designed and engineered the next generation of multi-point locking security door hardware. Built for maximum strength, the new 230X hardware features heavy...
Delayed Egress with Latch Retraction (EExER) is designed for applications where both delayed egress and remote unlocking, remote dogging, access control or an automatic door operator...
The electromechanical lock is not new. I installed battery operated motorized deadbolts and electronic locks way back in the 1980s. I remember a “key free” electromechanical knob...
Detex WDE EasyKits provide a 15-second delay and 100dB alarm when someone attempts to exit. The WDE EasyKit is designed for outdoor applications such as garden center gates, amusement...
This reference is issued as a continuation of the annual Locksmith Ledger Editorial Index. The listings cover the material that was published in the Locksmith Ledger during 2010...
The Detex EasyKit specifies everything needed for your application, with one price and no problems. Illustrated here, AODx10ERx1S-1, Automatically Operated Door EasyKit, integrates...
E-Plex® 3200 Narrow Stile ASIS Booth 4239 DHI Booth 1121 Kaba Access Control introduces the E-Plex 3200 Series Narrow Stile Lock, an electronic, software-controlled, PIN-based...
A & B Fire SafesA & B Safe Corporation is adding a new line of insulated fire safes to its product offering. These One & Two Hour fires safes are available in nine single-door...
Detex Corporation offers delayed egress hardware that stands up to the weather. Of the many applications for this weatherized product - ranging from outside gates to interior ...
When specifying any locking device which is used on an exit, fire door or along the path of egress, the code requirements for that opening and occupancy must be determined, and...
Detex announces Delayed Egress with Latch Retraction (EExER), designed for applications requiring delayed egress, access control and automatic doors, without using magnetic locks...
CCTV Imports ISC East Booth 1836 / ASIS Booth 1169 CCTV Imports introduces the 2001CIH infrared weatherproof color bullet camera. It is built with a 1/4” Sony Super HAD CCD, has...
New to the line of alarmed exit devices for rim fire and rim panic applications are special model designations for hurricane and weatherized applications.
(Product photos will be available in July)A1 Security ALOA Booth 922 A1 Security introduces KeyCommander, a first line of defense for common-sense key control. The lockable cabinets...
In simple terms, an exit device is a lock with an inside release bar. Variations include standard, fire-rated, rim, vertical rod and mortise exit devices and a number of specialty...
Ten years have passed since Locksmith Ledger published this 65th anniversary article and many of these men are still leaders in the industry. Who should be added to this list ...
Exit devices are pieces of door hardware, specially designed to provide a no-knowledge means of exit. An exit device is often referred to as a "crash bar" or "panic bar." In an...
