Keeping Your Work Areas Safe & Isolated. Steel Guard’s Auto-Guard Curtain Walls™ are Your Cost-Effective, Simple Solution.
Steel Guards Auto-Guard™ Curtain Walls create a rock solid barrier between work areas, keeping out paint fumes, welding arc, aluminum & steel dust, or toxic chemicals. Use them in all of your Body Shop operations such as:
Prep Stations
Paint Booths
Estimating Bays
Wash Bays
Welding Areas
Grinding/Sanding Areas
Auto-Guard™ Curtain Walls are manufactured with our propriety Steel-Scrim® super polyester reinforced vinyl laminate, the toughest on the market with 406 pounds per square inch of tensile strength. Auto-Guard Curtain Walls:
Meet OSHA and Fire Marshall standards (CFM,NFPA-701, ATSM E-84 class I)
Protect your workers in any working condition(-20 to +200 degrees)
Resist tears. The advanced, proprietary tri-lateral design causes the vinyl to bunch up and collapse upon itself when punctured, automatically re-sealing itself!
Prevent water and mildew damage
Protect against UV rays
Resist rot
Resist most chemicals (even caustic acid)
Cost less than 10% of the investment required for permanent walls
Track mounted curtain walls can be opened or closed in a matter of seconds and are available in virtually any size to meet your exact space-dividing requirements. You can request a quotation or call 1-800-347-8368 to be connected with a sales professional to discuss your application and requirements. Or, read more about our specifications and why we developed Steel-Scrim®.
Custom design your Curtains to fit in any type of building or work application.
Our Steel-ScrimÆ super polyester reinforced vinyl laminate is the toughest on the market with 406 pounds per square inch of tensile strength.
Meets OSHA and Fire Marshall standards (CFM,NFPA-701, ATSM E-84 class I)
Protects your workers in any working condition (-20 to +200 degrees)
Resists tears. The advanced, proprietary tri-lateral design causes the vinyl to bunch up or collapse upon itself when punctured, automatically re-sealing itself!
Prevents water and mildew damage
Protects against UV rays
Resists rot
Resists most chemicals (even caustic acid)
Costs less than one-tenth the investment required for permanent walls
How did we develop one of the world's strongest vinyls?
Why Available vinyls Cannot Meet All Our Requirements
We know you’re aware of industrial curtains …and we also know that your opinion of them might not be a favorable one. Here are some of the things we’ve heard a) they’re made of low-quality material, b) they break, c) they’ll get me fined by fire inspectors.
But we were determined to find a better solution for you. The head of our research and development team set out to find the best vinyl possible. He investigated over 20 different suppliers and just as many varieties of vinyl. Four months worth of exhaustive research.
But after all that searching and testing, he still wasn’t able to find a vinyl with adequate finish, scrim strength or flame resistance.
We were beginning to think we’d have give up on a finding a vinyl that would satisfy all your requirements…for a cost that would give you a great return-on-investment.
But instead of giving up, we decided to design our own. And what we discovered was an odd-looking design that would allow us to shatter the previous limits of vinyl strength and tenacity.
How We Created a vinyl that would Meet All Your Needs. A vinyl Strong Enough to Earn the Name STEEL-SCRIM
We started by spec-ing out a "super vinyl". A vinyl that would
boast an R-value of 1.14 or higher, high enough to guarantee you energy savings
meet the strictest of codes for flame resistance including CFM, NFPA-701 and ASTM E-84 class 1 protecting you from fines
protect against mildew
protect against harmful chemicals
protect against UV rays
protect against heat up to 200 degrees
provide cold crack resistance down to -20 degrees
provide the highest tensile and tear strength on the market
be affordable enough to give you an attractive ROI.
Obviously, this wasn’t going to be easy. The biggest problem our engineering department faced was the poor scrim strength of most of the vinyl on the market. There were a handful of strong vinyls available but they were prohibitively expensive. To create a tougher, longer-lasting curtain, we had to somehow increase the scrim’s tensile and tear strength because ninety-five percent of a vinyl’s tensile and tear strength comes from the scrim.
To achieve this, our engineering department created something completely unique. A tri-lateral (three-directional) polyester scrim design. It may look odd compared to traditional vinyl patterns, but it was cost-effective and, most importantly, boosted the tensile strength of the vinyl to over 406 pounds per square inch. That’s more than EIGHTY-FOUR PERCENT stronger than a standard 9x9 denier 1000 row scrim! This is the strongest scrim we know of…quite possibly the strongest scrim ever created. It’s so strong that this 16-ounce vinyl out-performs standard 18-ounce, 22-ounce, even 26-ounce vinyl! It’s stronger, more resilient, and meets fire codes standards that the other vinyls can’t match.
16 gage galvanized steel track 1.5" wide x 1.75" height - available with 6 different types of mounting options. See Mounting Options
2-wheel nylon roller hooks - for easy sliding and retracting of the curtains. (2-wheel steel roller hooks available for large curtain systems)
#2 brass grommets - Spaced every 12" centered on the top of the curtain the grommets securely hang from the 2-wheel nylon roller hooks.
16 oz STEEL-SCRIM vinyl - Our proprietary tri-lateral scrim design 16 oz laminate vinyl. Available in 10 different colors. Meets CFM, NFPA-701,ASTM-E-84 Class 1, and Over 405lbs tensile strength sq/in, and 104 lbs tear strength sq/in
Velcro side attachments - 2" Velcro side attachments easily seal and attach both sides of curtains to multiple curtains.
Chain Weight - Sewn in the bottom hem of the curtain to stabilize and weigh down the curtain.
NEW Auto-Guard Filter Panels - easily filter in clean dust-free air into your paint booth operation
Floor Sweep Panels - Keep dust, wash spray, paint and chemicals sealed in your work area.
Floor Mount D-Ring Attachments - Keep your curtain securely mounted to the floor, stopping drafts from paint booth filtration devices wherever powerful drafts are a problem.
Steel-Scrim vinyl vs. Standard vinyls
Steel Scrim vinyl is over 84% stronger than standard vinyl laminate with over 406 lbs of tensile strength per square inch. The advanced proprietary trilateral design causes the vinyl to bunch up and collapse upon itself when punctured, automatically resealing itself.
Areas of Use
- Machine and Manufacturing Separation
- Dust Containment and Control - Assembly Areas
- Paint Primer, and Prep, Areas
- Food Processing and Prep - Welding and Grinding Areas
- Pharmaceutical Production - Aircraft, and Large Machinery Bays - Chemical Over Spray - Metal Shops - Semi-Clean Rooms
- Wood Chipping
Sizes and Configurations
The Curtain Walls are available with our unique 16 gage galvanized steel roller track system to slide in and out of use in your desired configuration in seconds. They can be designed in almost any configuration, height, and width.
Construction
All interior seams on curtain walls are heat sealed at over 900 degrees to create a molecular bond between vinyl seams. Exterior edges and edges with Velcro attachments are sewn using a double-lock stitch with a very strong rot resistant nylon thread.