Health and beauty retailer Boots UK is well known for providing beauty products to enhance the stylish appearance of its customers, so the entrance to its brand new store in Kensington High Street, London, had to step up to the mark.

The busy store needed an entrance to complement its glass and bronze-anodised façade and GEZE UK had just the answer: the UFO NT, an underfloor operator that is completely hidden from view and therefore perfect when installed with glass doors.

Extremely quiet in operation and compliant with the demands of the Equality Act and BS EN 8300 ensuring access for all, the UFO NT can be used on any type of door – glass, metal or wood – and can operate doors with leaf widths up to 1250mm (external) and 1600mm (internal), and up to a weight of 125kg.

GEZE UK worked with façade solutions specialists Colorminium to design and install double doors with two UFO NT automatic operators to the store entrance. The Boots store is part of a mixed-use building on the corner of the High Street and Wrights Lane. Remodelled and extended, the 1970’s building now includes office space, a retail arcade and connection to the London Underground.

“The UFO NT was the perfect solution for this busy store, the operator is concealed beneath the floor giving designers the freedom to create aesthetically pleasing entrances yet still provide automatic access,” said Andy Iredale, GEZE UK’s national sales manager for automatics and window technology.

“We have worked with GEZE many times and we were delighted with this solution from them,” said Mihai Ciobanu, project manager at Colorminium. “This new product is mounted below the finished floor level and so gave us the clean stylish entrance we wanted.”

For more information about GEZE UK’s comprehensive range of automatic and manual door closers call 01543 443000 or visit www.geze.co.uk