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PVC Doors for Food Processing Plants | Strip Doors
PVC strip curtains for food processing plants. Zone raw from ready-to-eat, hold chiller temperature, and support your HACCP plan. Made to size.

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Zone raw from ready-to-eat, hold your chiller temperature, and keep product moving through the plant.

PVC Doors for Food Processing Plants

Zone raw from ready-to-eat, hold your chiller temperature, and keep product moving through the plant.

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The Challenge in a Processing Plant

Your plant is a sequence of controlled zones. Raw goods in one end, process in the middle, packed product out the other, and the whole point is that those zones do not mix.

Doors are where control is lost. A hinged door in a busy production run gets wedged open by the first person carrying a crate, and once it is wedged your temperature zoning and your separation both stop working.

An auditor will find that. Zoning and temperature control are the backbone of a HACCP plan, and holding cold storage at temperature is a requirement under Standard 3.2.2.

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How Strip Curtains Solve It

Strip curtains give you a barrier with nothing to prop. Staff push through with crates, trolleys and pallet jacks, and the barrier closes itself behind them every single time.

They also partition where no doorway exists. A run of strips across an open production hall creates a zone boundary in a day, without building work and without a shutdown.

Specify by what goes through, not by the room. 3mm in 300mm width for goods-in and thoroughfares, 3mm ribbed Polarflex for chillers, and 5mm where a pallet truck runs.

  • Zone integrity: Raw and ready-to-eat stay separated in practice, not just on the plan
  • Temperature holding: Chillers and freezers recover faster between openings
  • No shutdown: Partition an open hall without building work
  • Throughput: Pallet jacks and trolleys pass without anyone stopping
  • Wash-down: Stainless fittings take plant cleaning chemicals
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Where Strip Curtains Go in a Processing Plant

Think about the plant as a flow rather than a set of rooms. Here is what we fit at each stage, and why.

Floor plan of a food processing plant showing where strip curtains go: 3mm in 300mm width at goods in, 3mm ribbed Polarflex Freezer grade on the chillers, a full run of strips partitioning raw process from ready-to-eat, and clear strips at the despatch dock
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Goods in · Raw materials dock

3mm in 300mm width

Goods-in takes the heaviest traffic in the plant. Pallet jacks, stacked crates and drivers all come through, often with the roller door up for long stretches. Wider strips overlap more, so the seal survives it.

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Chillers and freezers · Cold storage

3mm ribbed, Polarflex Freezer grade

Cold storage is where the money is. Every opening dumps conditioned air and the plant pays to make it again. Ribbed PVC stops the strips sticking together in the damp cold.

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Process zoning · Raw to ready-to-eat

3mm in 300mm width

This is the boundary your HACCP plan cares about. A run of strips separates raw process from ready-to-eat, and it can go up across an open hall where there is no doorway to work with.

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Despatch · Packed product out

Clear, 3mm

Despatch runs the same traffic as goods-in but in reverse. Clear strips here, so a driver reversing a pallet jack can see who is on the other side before they come through.

Forklift or motorised pallet truck through the opening?

Step up to 5mm. It comes in 150mm or 300mm, flat surface only, and it takes the knocks that would tear 3mm over time.

We built this from the way you described a facility layout, not from a conversation about processing plants. Does it hold up?

Recommended Products for Food Processing

These match the four zones above. Prices exclude delivery and were taken from the live catalogue on 20 August 2026.

DoorwayProductPrice
Goods in, zoning and despatchClear PVC Roll 3mm x 300mm Ribbed, 50m$617.10
Chillers and freezersClear PVC Roll 3mm x 300mm Ribbed Polarflex Freezer, 50m$645.70
Lighter internal doorwaysClear PVC Roll 2mm x 200mm Ribbed, 50m$314.60
Forklift and pallet truck openingsClear PVC Roll 5mm x 300mm Flat, 50m$935.00
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Customer quote

This is our second time using strip doors, both times they have contacted us to offer advice after receiving our orders. This has, both times, resulted in us getting a product that suited our needs and application. Very quick delivery from time of order and i will use them again, very happy with this supplier.
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Questions and answers

Can strip curtains be used to separate raw and ready-to-eat areas?

Yes, and it is one of the more useful things they do in a plant. A run of strips creates a physical zone boundary in an open space, which supports the separation your HACCP plan requires. It is not a substitute for a wall where your plan specifies one, so check before you rely on it.

Is the PVC food grade?

Yes. Our PVC is food grade and safe for use in food preparation, processing and storage environments.

Will the fittings survive plant wash-down?

The stainless steel hook-on head sections and plates will. Stainless is used precisely because these environments get washed down with aggressive chemicals. Clean the PVC itself with warm soapy water or a food-safe sanitiser rather than solvents.

How wide an opening can you cover?

There is no practical limit. Wide openings and open production halls are covered with a continuous run of strips on a head section, which is how the partitions in our photo gallery are built.

What thickness for a plant?

3mm is the default. It stands up to constant pallet jack and trolley traffic and insulates well enough for chillers. Step up to 5mm where a forklift or motorised pallet truck goes through, and drop to 2mm on light internal doorways.

Can individual strips be replaced?

Yes. Strips unhook individually from the stainless steel head section, so a damaged one comes off and gets replaced without taking the whole curtain down.

Do you deliver to regional areas?

Yes, we ship Australia-wide. Delivery costs are calculated at checkout based on your location and the size of your order.

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Getting Started

We make pvc doors for food processing to order, cut to your opening sizes and shipped Australia-wide. Start with cold storage and goods-in, because those two carry the most traffic and the most cost.

Send us your opening measurements and tell us what goes through each one. We will tell you what gauge to run where.

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Questions we need you to answer

These are the things we could not confirm ourselves. The page cannot go live until they are sorted.

Are these the right four products for a processing plant?

Our pick from the verified range, not yours. The 5mm x 300mm at $935 is the dearest thing we recommend anywhere, so worth a look.

What is the site in the production-hall photos? We have called it a food production area.

The stainless tanks suggest a brewery or beverage plant rather than general food processing. The same photos appear on the Commercial Kitchen page. If you tell us the site we can caption both properly, and move them to whichever page they really belong on.

Are you comfortable with us saying strip curtains support raw and ready-to-eat separation under HACCP?

We have hedged it and said it is not a substitute for a wall. It is still a compliance claim, so we want your sign-off.

Is there a food processing customer who would give us a quote?

The testimonial is a genuine review about getting the right product for the application, which fits the page. But it does not name a processing plant.

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