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Slide and stack
Each panel in a slide-and-stack run travels on its own along the head, and at the end of the run it is turned square to the opening and set against the last one, so the pack ends up standing side-on in a recess or against a return wall. Nothing is hinged to anything: that is the whole distinction. A folding system moves its leaves in pairs whether you want one open or all of them, and a conventional slider leaves its parked leaves standing in the glass line where they still fill part of the hole. Here the panels leave the line altogether, one at a time, in whatever number the evening calls for.
- one at a time how panels move
- turned square at the end how they stack
- a recess or a return where the pack lives
What the arrangement rests on
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Independent
Panels
Nothing hinged to a neighbour
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Several, at the head
Tracks
Every panel needs its own path
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Out of the glass line
Stack
Panels turn and stand side-on
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A contact line each
Vertical joints
More of them than on a slider
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Moved by hand
Operation
Panel width is set by that
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- Address
- The Pinnacle Building, Sheikh Zayed Road, Office 607, Dubai
- Hours
- Mon–Fri: 9:00 – 18:00
Profile Options
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Profile finish and coating options
Powder coating in any shade of the RAL palette; the colour is confirmed against a physical sample at the survey.
Anodising builds an oxide layer on the profile itself, so the colour belongs to the metal rather than to a film on top of it and cannot peel.
Wood-grain and stone-effect finishes are transferred onto the powder coating. The profile keeps the strength of aluminium and never needs repainting.
Available colours (200+ RAL shades)
- White
- Anthracite
- Brown
- Black
- Grey-anthracite
- Grey
Anodised finishes
- Natural silver
- Champagne
- Light bronze
- Medium bronze
- Dark bronze
- Black anodised
Wood-grain and special effects
- Golden oak
- Walnut
- Dark oak
- Concrete
- Basalt
- Wenge
Laying out a slide-and-stack run
- Stack end chosen before anything else The panels must have somewhere to go
- Head depth agreed with the ceiling Several tracks need room above them
- Panel width set by what one person moves Nobody should need help to open it
- Floor guide and drainage detailed Water leaves before the pack does
- Panels made and glazed in our Dubai plant Three to five weeks from the drawing
- The full sequence run through at handover Opening it is a routine, and it is taught
Partitions
Office partitions made of aluminium profiles are a simple, quick, and cost-effective way to organise efficient zoning within a large space, while maintaining interior unity.
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Aluminium office partitions with glass
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Full-glass office partitions
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Transformable partitions for the office
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Accordion partitions for the office
Aluminium windows of any configuration
Made to size in our own factory in Dubai — in 3–5 weeks.
We will find convenient opening options:
The honest downside
What slide-and-stack asks in return
Every panel is a separate object, and each brings its own path, its own joints and its own lock. After a shamal there are several head tracks and a floor guide to clear rather than one, and at night every panel has to be closed and checked rather than a single leaf.
In summer, when the wall stays shut and the room runs on the cooling, those vertical joints are contact lines rather than a continuous compressed seal, so the run holds cooled air and keeps dust out less well than a heavy leaf pressed onto its gasket.
If the opening stays closed through most of the hot months and faces the wind, a lift-and-slide door seals tighter with far fewer joints. Slide-and-stack is the right answer where the whole wall genuinely needs to disappear, often, and in part as well as in full.
Consider instead
Lift-and-slide doors
Frequently asked questions
Hinges, and everything they imply. Folding leaves are joined to each other, so they arrive and leave in pairs and the pack is a concertina standing at right angles to the opening. Slide-and-stack panels are separate objects: open one for a breeze on a Tuesday and the rest stay shut and sealed, or move them all before a party. The pack is flat faces against flat faces, which reads slimmer, but it needs somewhere to turn into — a recess, a return wall, a pocket at the end — and that has to exist in the plan.
A slider keeps its leaves in the glass line for good. Open it fully and the leaves are stacked behind one another at one end, still filling that part of the opening, still something you look through and walk around. Turn the panels square instead and the same width of glass occupies a fraction of the run, so what you get back is close to the whole hole. The cost is the head: separate paths for separate panels means more tracks and a deeper detail above.
It has more joints to be honest about. Every panel meets its neighbour on a contact line rather than compressing into a continuous perimeter, so a run facing the prevailing wind will take more from a squall than a single large sliding leaf would. Where the elevation is exposed to the sea we specify the head and the floor channel harder, keep the panel count sensible, and say plainly when a lift-and-slide door is the tighter mechanism for that particular wall.
Each panel is light, and there are several of them, so opening the whole wall is a sequence rather than a single push. That is the trade. We set the panel width so that one adult moves one panel comfortably — including turning it at the end, which is the part that catches people out when panels are made too wide — and we walk the household or the floor staff through the order at handover, because doing it in the wrong order is how panels get scuffed.
Related pages
Nearby pages and the rest of the catalogue.
- All-glass corners
- Aluminium railings
- Balcony glazing
- Balcony glazing upgrade
- Cassette facades
- Conservatories
- Curtain wall
- Floor-to-ceiling glazing
- Frameless balcony glazing
- Frameless glazing
- Garden rooms
- Glass balustrades
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