Doors, Hatches, & Scuttles
Jered designs and manufactures marine doors, hatches, and scuttles that offer a wide-range of features and high-quality performance to provide safer operations across every area of a ship.
Jered designs and manufactures doors, hatches, and scuttles for marine vessels. We provide a wide-range of features and focus on providing high quality, easy installation, low maintenance, and superior dependability.
Our door systems can be enhanced with COMFIRE® technology, the industry-leading fire insulation that meets the strictest safety standards for naval, commercial marine, and nuclear applications. Products are available in standard configurations or with additional coverings to achieve fire resistant ratings, including A15, A30, and A60. This flexibility ensures our products meet all customer requirements for fire resistance and safety.
A60 Rating: Watertight, Weathertight, Gaslight Door Systems*
The world’s first A60-rated fire protection in marine doors
Jered designs and manufactures A60-rated doors for marine vessels. With our patented COMFIRE® material, we offer the most comprehensive A60 fire boundary solution available. We build multiple types of door systems and our systems can be retrofitted as replacement to match existing bulkhead details.
*up to 1.5 bar pressure
Wide Variety of Sizes, Shapes, and Applications
- Double doors
- Flare and tumble doors
- Commercial watertight sliding doors
- Tandem sliding doors
- Level access system doors
- Lightweight engine room doors
- Blast doors
A60 Door Systems Features and Benefits
- Fire protection rated up to A60
- COMFIRE® technology ensures the door can still retain its watertight status after a major fire as the seal remains undamaged
- Cassette system eliminates requirement to straighten bulkheads, making installation easier
- Compensation for bulkhead distortion of +/- 10mm
- Just 10 minutes of maintenance per door, per year
- Watertight, gastight, and weathertight designs
- Wide variety of sizes and shapes for applications across a variety of ship classes and locations
Additional Door Systems
In addition to our A60 door systems, we offer door systems that are designed and tested for specialty use.
- A180 single and double doors designed and tested for the newest, most stringent nuclear power plant specifications
- B15 and B30 internal passageway and acoustic cabin doors, which offer a 50% weight savings against other systems and provide a higher integrity fire protection
Hatches and Scuttles
Hatches and scuttles from Jered are equipped with many of the same features as our doors. We design, implement, and refurbish a wide variety of hatch and scuttle types, from escape scuttle systems, underwater watertight hatches, and shock-qualified naval flush and raised hatches.
Features and Benefits
- Built to withstand 1 bar pressure inside to out and up to 1.5 outside to in, allowing for installation with a variety of deck thicknesses
- Made from 316 stainless steel, which resists corrosion and improves long-term functionality
- Available in watertight and shock-qualified designs
COMFIRE® Fireproof Technology
COMFIRE® is a patented composite technology that delivers a comprehensive A60 fire boundary in marine doors on military and commercial ships. Designed to be as versatile as possible, COMFIRE® is suitable for a host of additional applications whether fit-out, retro-fit, or stand-alone.
A Superior Marine Fireproof Material
- Non-combustible
- No smoke or toxicity
- Non-carcinogenic
- Dimensionally stable, unaffected by water
- Excellent acoustic attenuation
- Excellent insulation properties
- Recyclable
U.S. Navy Applications
- Landing Platform Dock (LPD)
- Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD)
- Landing Helicopter Assault (LHA)
- Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)
- Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG)