Air-Lec Industries has been manufacturing quality pneumatic door operators for nearly a century. Our craftsmen combine old world wisdom with modern technology to produce trouble-free, cost-effective solutions, Made in America. The Inertia operator is a compact, two-fisted operator that uses one arm to quickly slide large doors, then gently but firmly slows the motion with the other arm. The Inertia operator is commonly used is cattle auction houses and industrial warehouses with large sliding doors up to 30 feet wide.
Air-Lec was founded in 1921 by a University of Wisconsin Madison graduate named Louie Schoelkopf. Schoelkopf was a an entrepreneur with many business ventures including a Ford dealership, agricultural equipment sales, hospital equipment design, and much more. Schoelkopf found a need for an automatic door operator for customers to more easily drive into his dealerships. This led to the creation of one of the first ever automatic door operators. Louie's design was durable, simple and easy to maintain.
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