Cookson Blog

We’d like to send you off to your holiday season with some merriment, 12 days of Christmas style. You may not think rolling security grilles and doors and the holiday season are a match made in gingerbread heaven, but we hope to change your mind with this riff.

Many facility owners don't realize that they're losing energy efficiency through leakage from old, underperforming doors. Specialized high-performance doors use a combination of insulation and controlled speed to protect against air infiltration. One of the main ways to determine energy efficiency savings is to understand heat load and calculate the heat loss from an old door.

We're excited to continue the "Counterbalance: An Open Door Conversation" series with our Architectural Design Support and Architectural Product Representative Teams. Each week, you'll meet one of our associates and learn about their roles and lives. This week, meet Ross Baran, Architectural Design Support.

As you’re installing your rolling door, you may come across some service questions you’re just not sure about. At CornellCookson, our dedicated service team can assist in tackling challenges head-on. We’ve gathered a few answers from Electrical Service Tech, Mike Stasyszyn, of some of the most common electrical questions we hear.

Cookson Door is the industry leader in roll up doors, overhead garage door, insulated garage doors, steel security doors and safety gates. Cookson Door’s products can be found worldwide in the top companies and buildings. To find out why Cookson Door is the top trusted leader in closure products call 1-800-294-4358.

Both Cornell and Cookson combined forces in 2008 and more recently, in 2018 they joined the Clopay Corporation family. Discover these 6 interesting facts about Cookson that you (probably) didn't know.

In advance of hurricane season, there’s often a lot of questions about hurricane proof doors and how to protect buildings from damage. It’s no surprise that rolling doors are often areas of great concern, as any opening or hole in the building is a natural pressure point that must be able to withstand great wind forces in a hurricane.

What is STC? STC is a commonly used acronym across the construction industry that stands for Sound Transmission Class. Generally speaking, STC is a standard that provides a rating of how well a building partition reduces internal airborne sound. Simply stated, the higher the STC the better.