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Plant, product and market news from Böss Group.
Second 2,500-tonne press commissioned at Binh Duong
The new press lifts extrusion capacity by 14,000 tonnes a year and takes billet up to 254 mm, which brings large curtain-wall mullions in house.
The operator is the part that decides the door
Most of a shutter specification goes into the slat. The failures that bring an installer back come from the operator — and almost always from one of three decisions made when it was chosen.
What actually decides how long a shutter lasts
Service life is usually treated as a property of the brand. It is a property of eight things, and three of them are decided on site after the door is bought.
Which shutter type suits which opening
Vented, single-skin, wide-span, grille, high-speed and fire shutters answer different problems. Five questions settle which one an opening needs.
Ten ways a shutter order goes wrong
Most shutter problems are traceable to the order rather than the door. Ten of them, in the order they cost money.
Coating line certified to QUALICOAT Class 2
The vertical powder line now holds Class 2, which is the threshold most facade specifications in Australia and the Gulf are written against.
First EV battery tray programme reaches PPAP
A multi-void 6082 extrusion, friction-stir welded and helium leak tested, has passed production part approval for a Thai assembly plant.
Honeycomb panel press expands to 4 metre panels
The heated press now takes 1.5 × 4 m panels, covering full-height lift car walls without a joint.
Meetings with Korean and Australian partners
Two partner delegations, from Korea and Australia, met us this month to go through production capacity, the plants, the process and the main product ranges.
Böss Group at Vietbuild Ho Chi Minh City 2026
Stand B2-14, with the full profile range, the new sablé finishes and a cutaway of the UC160 unitised system.
Sablé textured finishes added to the standard range
Five coarse-textured powder finishes now hold stock status, aimed at facade work where installation scuffs are the recurring complaint.
First architectural aluminium shipments to Europe
Architectural profile is now shipping to European customers. The qualifying work was in three places: the ED coating, the alloy, and a dimensional check on every bar rather than on a sample from the batch.
ED coating agreement signed with Shinto Toa Vietnam
An agreement signed in Hanoi on 2 December brings electrodeposition coating to the premium profile range — a bath process that reaches the inside of a hollow section, which a spray line does not.
Tân Trường Sơn Group becomes Böss Group
From 2025 the group trades under one name. BossDoor, BossWindow, Robust and BossG were separate marks under Tân Trường Sơn Group; they now sit under a single identity.
Customer conference and 2025 range launch
The annual distributor conference launched the 2025 aluminium door and shutter ranges and set out the distribution plan for the year.
Three-year supply agreement for solar mounting rail
An agreement with a mounting-system manufacturer in Malaysia covers 6,000 tonnes a year of 6061-T6 rail.
A shutter in a storm
Storm loading arrives at the guides, not at the curtain. Four things decide whether a door stays in its opening, and one of them is what happens when the power goes.
Two parts that do the security work: the code and the latch
The first vented shutter came off the line in 1998. Almost everything added since has gone into two parts a buyer never sees — the rolling code in the handset and the latch at the bottom rail.
The three shutter ranges, and what each is for
Böss Strong for spans, Böss S-Bright for daylight, Boss Elegant for finish. The three ranges answer three different questions about the same opening.
Automotive line certified to IATF 16949
Certification closes the last gap that kept the plant off tier-one bid lists.
CD.100: what is inside the slat end
The largest section in the range closes a 10.5 m opening. The detail that makes that possible is not the slat — it is the three-layer cap on the end of it.
The electronic warranty label
A paper warranty slip is lost within a year of handover. Registering the door instead of the paperwork makes the record survive the occupier.
Boss Elegant: the shutter as part of the elevation
A shutter on a street frontage is a large flat surface at eye level. The Elegant range treats that as a finish problem rather than a hardware one.
Daylight through a closed shutter
A vented slat trades stiffness for light. The S-Bright section is an attempt to give back most of the stiffness without closing the aperture.
What a shopfront shutter is actually protecting against
A shopfront shutter is attacked in three predictable ways. The parts that resist each of them are small, cheap, and usually left off the quotation.
Hand-operated steel shutters
A hand-pulled steel shutter is a different product from a motorised aluminium one, and it is chosen for reasons that have nothing to do with budget.
What a UPS does for a powered door
An uninterruptible supply for a shutter is not the same product as one for a computer. The load is a motor, and motors fail differently.
Running a door UPS so it lasts
Door back-up units are commonly replaced early, and usually for one of three reasons that have nothing to do with the unit.
Replacing the battery, not the unit
When a door back-up stops holding charge, the electronics are almost always fine. Five steps, and three precautions that matter more than the steps.
Copying a handset, and why rolling code cannot be copied
Fixed-code handsets can be cloned in a shop in two minutes. That is convenient, and it is exactly the property rolling code exists to remove.
Choosing a shutter operator
The most common question about operators has an unhelpful answer: the best one is the one specified with the curtain. Here is what actually separates the four ranges we fit.
Twelve years of the shutter plant, in the order things were built
The BössDoor line opened in 2010 and the plant has been rebuilt around three changes since: the multipoint lock in 2013, phone control and the automatic powder line in 2015, and a slat range that now runs from single-skin to 10.5 m spans.
The guide is not an accessory
Guides are quoted as a line item and treated as trim. They set the friction, the noise and the wind resistance of the whole door.
Why light grey is the stock colour
Every wide-span section is held in one colour. That is a manufacturing decision with a practical side effect: grey is the finish that ages best on a door at street level.
High-speed doors: the specification is the clock
A high-speed door is not a fast shutter. It is a boundary that has to be closed most of the time, which makes cycle time the whole specification.
Openings at 8 m and 10 m
Past about 8 m the governing load stops being the curtain and becomes the wind behind it. What changes in the specification, and what does not.
Telling a genuine curtain from a copy
Counterfeit slat is sold as the real section at close to the real price. Three checks separate them, and only one of them needs a phone.
Fire shutters: four parts, all of them rated
A fire shutter holds a compartment line for a rated period. Every part of it is part of that rating — including the guide fixings, which is where an installation fails inspection.
Grille shutters: closed and still visible
A shopping mall unit has to be secure overnight and legible from the concourse. A grille shutter is the curtain type built to do both at once.
Ceiling-slide doors, for when there is no headroom
A rolled curtain needs a barrel above the opening. Where the structure will not give up that space, the curtain runs back across the ceiling instead.
Industrial shutters: seven parts, and the three that decide the job
A warehouse shutter is seven assemblies. Three of them — the slat, the balance spring and the operator — decide whether the door survives its duty cycle; the other four are fitting work.
Briefing a warehouse shutter
The information a supplier actually needs to quote an industrial door, and the three items usually missing from the enquiry.
What an automatic shutter is made of
Six assemblies, and the price of a shutter is mostly decided by two of them. A working note on what is actually in a quotation.
What ships with a shutter, and why it ships together
A shutter leaves the plant as a set: slat, guide, barrel, spring, operator, latch and control. The reason is not convenience. Parts specified against each other hold a cycle count that parts bought separately do not.