Safety
Most modern garage doors are equipped with a safety reversing mechanism. This feature uses two sensors which can detect movement. If you, your child or pet get lost in thoughts and find yourself under a moving door, the sensors will stop the door from closing and reverse it. If your door doesn’t have this mechanism, maybe it is time to think about replacing it. After all, being safe in your own house is essential. A garage door repair professional can also inspect your door for any security risks.

Easy access, more security
Keys are easy to lose, and having a bunch of them on your chain can be annoying. For this reason, state-of-the-art garage doors come with a keypad that is installed outdoors. With this function, you can easily open your garage door by typing a code or by using your fingerprint. It is extremely easy to use, and can be operated even by children. Furthermore, this mechanism protects you from thieves. The code cannot be hacked, and that makes it virtually impossible for uninvited guests to enter your garage.

Design
Last, but not the least is design. Let’s be honest, appearances matter. We all want our houses to look good, both on the inside and outside. Garage doors play a big role in the way your house looks, as they draw a lot of attention. The good news is that you can choose every little thing for your door, to the smallest detail. You should first consider the material, then the style that will match your taste and the architecture of your house, and the color, of course. All these things can make a huge difference, and you should really take your time before making a final decision. Do you want your garage doors to make a statement? Do you want them to blend in with the rest of the house? Or do you just want them to look classy? These are some of the questions you should ask yourself when picking garage doors.

If you thought that garage doors are unimportant, think again. Installing high-quality garage doors will contribute to your safety, keep thieves away and make your home stylish. These are all good reasons to put some thought into picking a perfect door for your garage.

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Glass garage doors can be found some places and they follow the same idea as glass doors and sliding glass doors usually. They look great honestly, but practically they just don’t make sense for most people. Glass garage doors will not only be a garage door repair nightmare, but you most likely won’t be able to repair them most of the time. A panel just can’t be replaced when there is a small crack or scratch when it comes to glass, instead the whole things needs to be replaced. With glass you can only make it smaller or replace it, and with something like a garage door making it smaller isn’t really an option.

Why then do people get glass doors if they are so tough to keep? It is certainly an easy way to show off and so if you have got the money to blow then it makes sense. You can show off any cars that you own without ever having to raise the door. You can also show off that you don’t need to worry about smaller expenses like a new garage door. For the rich person in a place that doesn’t have too much extreme weather, the glass garage door is not an awful idea if they think the look is worth it.

For everyone else though it’s a pretty awful idea. Anyone who lives in an area with high winds or any sort of extreme weather will pretty quickly have a shattered glass door in their garage and on their driveway more than they’d like. This also goes for if you have kids. A glass garage door is extremely unsafe if it breaks and with kids that is more of an inevitability than a possibility.

Glass garage doors are not one of your typical choices when it comes to garage doors and that is because of all of these reasons. There are a number of things that can be done, not always in the pursuit of looks, but things that just probably only work as the exception to a variety of factors rather than actually being a more mainstream success.

If you are looking to make a splash with your garage door choice and want to show off your cars maybe, you probably should look elsewhere for that type of look. If you want a stylish choice try and go modern or maybe with a carriage style garage door. If showing of your interior is important try and ask about windows that seriously show off what is in your garage and make that the focus.

Choosing your garage door, no matter what your goals, is a tough thing to do if you have a lot of ideas. However, one thing you can probably rule out already is glass as the material for your garage door. It most likely isn’t an option, but if it is brought up make sure to think about all the shortcomings that go with it.

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The Moselle is an industrial department. But not only. Its historical and cultural heritage as well as its natural setting bear witness to a wealth that is often unknown. Land of history, traditions, and exchanges, it is surprisingly young and full of resources. In traversing it one feels it as obvious: history is a force. The strength to go forward, to build the future.

Moselle Développement is the economic development agency of the department of Moselle and offers its services in the following areas:

• •  support for start-up projects,
• •  economic promotion of the Moselle and territorial marketing,
• •  prospecting and looking for investors in France and abroad,
• •  the location of new activities,
• •  endogenous developments and support for existing businesses,
• •  the setting up of the financial aid files of the General Council of the Moselle.

Not to mention the development and organization of networks of excellence as well as the development of economic strategies for the General Council and intercommunalities.

For the establishment of industrial or logistics activities, Moselle Développement offers two mega zones of European dimension, at the gateway to Germany and Luxembourg: Illange-Bertrange and Farébersviller-Henriville.

From 17 to 19 November 2009, Moselle Développement organizes in Metz the biggest Indo-European event dedicated to transport systems: Euro India Transportation Systems (EITS). 5,000 business meetings are organized in the sectors:

• •  Automotive: EITS Automotive
• •  Aerospace: EITS Aerospace
• •  Shipbuilding: EITS Shipbuilding
• •  Railway: EITS Railway
• •  Transport and Logistics: EITS Logistics
• •  Trucks and buses: EITS Truck & Bus

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Lorraine, known for its traditional industries (iron and coal mines, iron and steel, textile), wrote the most beautiful pages in the industrial history of France. For three decades, it has been living in a time of globalized markets and has undergone a profound transformation of its economic fabric, which is now modernized and diversified.

With its four departments, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle and Vosges, Lorraine is a French region ideally located in the heart of Europe.

Lorraine, industrial skills mastered

The logistics and the automobile are two examples that illustrate the changes in the regional economy. Their very important development is based on the specificities and know-how of Lorraine. The growth in logistics can be explained in particular by the privileged position of Lorraine at the crossroads of major European traffic routes (east-west and north-south). The development of the automobile is the result of a well-controlled industrial skill.

The whole history of Lorraine shows that the region has always been at the forefront. The steel industry Modern was developed there, whether casting techniques continuous steel or rolling. The globalization of the economy took its first steps with the birth of the ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community). The creation of the European Single Market was tested in the mid-1980s with the European Pole of the Three Borders between France, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

Lorraine, a land of diversity and exchange

Lorraine has always innovated in the technical and human fields. The need for labor during the Texas-Texas era made the region a land of successful integration. Later, the industrial reconversions imposed the emergence of new social organizations. This is the reason why Lorraine is a land of exchange and sharing, which continues today with the reception of foreign investors.

The wealth of know-how in Lorraine can be understood through some examples, which are as many challenges. The steel of the Eiffel Tower is Lorraine. The region is the cradle of the largest French glassworks (Baccarat, Saint Louis …), enamels and earthenware most famous (Longwy, Lunéville, Sarreguemines …).

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More than a third of Lorraine is covered by forests (35.5%). The department of Vosges is the most wooded with 280 000 ha of the 840 000 in the region. For its part, the Meuse is the first French department of beech production. Lorraine is thus the first French region for the production (peeling and sawing) of beech, ash, and maple. With its strengths, the region innovates and invests more and more in research on wood and its derivatives: in France, one project out of three is conducted in Lorraine.

Fiber pole: the strength of a multisector pole

Unique in France, Lorraine has integrated its wood sector into a global cluster that includes four fiber sectors: wood, paper-cardboard, textiles, and composites. The Fibers competitiveness cluster, located on the ENSTIB campus (National School of Wood Technology and Industries) in Epinal, is currently running the Ecolicel project dedicated to the chemical and bio-chemical valorization of wood, lignocellulosic plants. and waste wood and paper. Its industrial interface in Nancy, the CRITT Bois, is a technological resource center.

Certified sawing and certified forest

The second largest French region for the value of its forest production, Lorraine stands out with the first French collective brand of softwood sawing, the Sélection Vosges label, the national leader with 350,000 m³ of sawing/year.

And on the sustainable development side, it has embarked on a certification process for its forest according to the PEFC (European Certified Forest Program) standards. It is the Gipeblor (Interprofessional Group for the promotion of the wood economy in Lorraine) that drives PEFC Lorraine.

The second transformation of wood

But Lorraine still sees further and develops its skills in wood processing. It is thus the first French region for the construction of wooden houses (12.7% of individual houses). Companies recognized in their field have established themselves in Lorraine: Cuny, leader in wood construction, Depalor , the leading French manufacturer of PPSM (melamine-faced chipboard), Oak of the East, a French leader in solid parquet, Merrain international (US ), a European leader in dowel manufacturing.

Lorraine is also specialized in the manufacture of style seats in small series. Created by leading designers, they adorn the major hotels of the world.

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The port of Metz (Moselle, Lorraine) is the international reference for the quotation of rapeseed.

It is on the basis of “FOB Moselle oilseed rape”, that is to say, loaded on a barge at the port of Metz and free of any subsidy tax, that the price of rapeseed is set worldwide.

But that’s not all, with its storage capacity of 464,000 tonnes and 3.4 million tonnes of processed grain a year, make Metz the largest river port in Europe. Its railroad junction in the Woippy marshaling yard and its proximity to highways make it a real hub.

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Research and innovation have a great place in the automobile industry in Lorraine. Presentation of four innovative projects undergoing industrialization:

► PSA Peugeot Citroën: an ecological engine developed in Lorraine

PSA Peugeot Citroën is preparing to anticipate the 2014 Euro 6 environmental standard by launching its new 3-cylinder gasoline engine developed and industrialized at the Trémery site in Moselle. Its design required an investment of 255 million euros.

► The first electric Smart made in Lorraine

It is “for two” and emits no polluting gas. Currently being developed at the Smartville assembly plant in Hambach, the Smart ED is fully electric. The battery is recharged in 3 hours on a simple domestic plug. Smart plans the installation in cities of reloading terminals geolocalisable by GSM.

► Innovative steering rack at ThyssenKrupp

ThyssenKrupp is investing 30.3 million euros in an innovative electric power steering rack project. Produced in Moselle, this new system equips the Mercedes E Class. ThyssenKrupp Presta is the world leader in steering columns with 15% of world production in Lorraine.

► The new generation of Renault Master manufactured in Lorraine

The assembly lines of the Sovab factory in Batilly (Meurthe-et-Moselle): it is there that since 1980 generations of Master utilities succeed one another. The new Master, the X62, replaces its predecessor the X70 since April 2010. The Renault Master remains the leader in its field with 21.2% of the French market share of commercial vehicles.

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Neuhauser in Moselle is today a major player in the bakery and pastry industry in Europe; the company is the leading exporter of frozen bakery products.

This family business of a century of existence and tradition began its activity in Folschviller in Lorraine to develop over the years 17 factories and 150 points of sale in Europe.

On the French market, Neuhauser accounts for 10 to 15% of the frozen ready-to-grow pastry market and 15 to 20% of the frozen ready-to-cook and ready-to-cook industrial bakery.

After having opened three sites outside the region in recent months, it is in Lorraine that the manufacturer is investing 40 million euros in a new production unit that will include a large negative cold storage area and a research and development center. Development.

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ECOLICEL is a major project of the Fibers Competitiveness Cluster whose objective is to organize a wood-based chemistry sector in the regions of Lorraine and Alsace.

The context is as follows: to meet the demand for 100% green materials expressed by industry and markets, wood is emerging as a new “green” and bio-sourced chemistry well.

Through the ECOLICEL project, the Fibers Competitiveness Pole is promoting the very important, well-managed and regularly growing natural resource of wood, which is growing steadily in our region.

On the other hand, the paper industry Lorraine (the largest in France) knows how to turn wood into pulp which is then easy to extract the cellulose and the different molecules that will feed the chemical industry.

Assisted by research(Public research in the field of organic chemistry and wood-based chemistry is the number one in the country), the chemical industry will benefit from supplies of extracts that are both important in quantity, varied and of high quality. These extracts will allow the development of treatments and renewable materials such as adhesives, green resins, and adhesives, new fibers …

This initiative, which includes major research centers through the CNRS, INRA, and universities Lorraine, is supported by the industry: SNF, EGGER, LOHR, NORSKE SKOG, GEORGIA PACIFIC, AHLSTROM, ALBANY INTERNATIONAL, SOPREMA, UPM …

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►  Smart Hambach

Established since 1994 in Hambach near Germany, surrounded by its main suppliers, Smart has set up a logistically efficient logistics organization. She was chosen by her group to produce the future electric Smart Fortwo, whose arrival on the market is expected in 2010.

►  PSA Trémery, Metz

Production at two sites in the Moselle:
– Trémery: four-cylinder gasoline and diesel engines (HDI engines)
– Metz: gearboxes (Master)

At Trémery, production in 2008 amounted to 1.45 million engines (of which nearly 95% were diesel), a rate of 6,700 units per day.
With the launch in 2011 of the new compact and environmentally friendly 3-cylinder gasoline engine EB, an investment of 255 million euros will be made, which will create 500 jobs.

►  Rehau Morhange

World leader in the production of polymer solutions (building, automotive, industry). 15,000 employees around the world work on the development of complete systems, adapted to the customer and to the preservation of the environment.

The Morhange site produces parts for the building (window profiles, electric ducts, etc.), for the automobile (door sticks, seals, etc.) and for the industry (production of pool covers). It now employs 850 people in the Moselle within its administrative headquarters, its factory and its commercial agency.

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