Aluplast’s new Smart Slide Neo is now being fabricated by fabricators in UK and Ireland – the systems house adds that the sliding door is offering new opportunities to customers thanks to modern aesthetics and high performance.

Smart-Slide Neo has a contemporary minimalist design with slim sightline lines, and can achieve widths up to 4.5m and a height of 2.5m with two panels.

It can be finished in a range of 40 different finishes, including the premium range Woodec and Aludec foils – which are designed to accurately replicate the look and feel aluminium.

Aluplast’s director of sales and marketing, Ian Cocken, said: “Having a PVC-U sliding door in your portfolio has always been a key product, but with the Smart-Slide Neo we are helping our customers compete with high-end aluminium alternatives.

“The colour options also help the Smart-Slide suite perfectly with our Ideal 70 and Ideal 4000 window systems,” Ian said. “And with our flush casement – now in a mechanically joined option – and flush outward-opening door, homeowners and developers can achieve a suited appearance across a whole project with clean modern lines or heritage detailing, without having to turn to aluminium.

“Design wise, that’s a big win, but you are also ticking boxes for energy efficiency, price and sustainability thanks to our Ecotech profile, which maximises the amount of recycled content in its design without affecting its appearance or performance.”

Smart Slide neo can achieve Passive House levels of thermal efficiency, and can span 4.5m with just two panels – one fixed and one sliding. Three and four-panel options are also available.

Thanks to class leading hardware from either MACO or Siegenia, the Smart Slide neo achieves excellent performance for both air/water permeability, meeting BS6375 for weather tightness, while achieving PAS24 for security.

When the door is the ‘fully open’ position, it lifts away from the gaskets and the weather seals so that it can glide ‘effortlessly’ on its rollers, while accommodating individual sash weights of up to 200kg.

When it goes into the ‘fully locked’ position, a locking mechanism pulls the sash onto the frame and locks it on all four sides of the sliding sash, and the fixed panel is glazed into the outer frame.