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Heel Guard Grating 55x5 Stainless Steel
Heavy stainless heel guard panel on 55x5 bearing bar with an 8 mm round cross bar, acid passivated, where a heel-safe surface also has to take vehicles.
Product Overview
This is the section for the awkward case: a run that has to be heel-safe because people walk on it, and strong because vehicles cross it, in an environment corrosive enough to rule out galvanized steel. A 55 mm deep bearing bar at 5 mm thick carries the wheel load, the 8 mm round cross bar keeps weight sensible at that depth, and the closed bar pitch still stops a heel. It is the panel specified at loading bays behind food plants, at pool plant access, and at service entrances where the same threshold takes both pedestrians and a delivery vehicle.
Key Benefits
- Heel-safe pitch on a section deep enough for vehicle crossings
- Stainless steel where the environment would strip a galvanized coating
- 8 mm round cross bar keeps panel weight manageable at 55 mm depth
- Acid passivated after all fabrication, welds and cut ends included
At A Glance
- Family
- Heel Guard Grating
- Category
- Heel Guard Grating
- Material
- Stainless Steel
- Bearing bar
- 55 x 5 mm
- Cross bar
- φ8 mm
- Surface treatment
- Acid passivation
What It Looks Like
Photographs of this product taken by the factory, lit and in production. Nothing here is a rendering of a product that does not exist yet.
Who It Is For
- Food and beverage plant contractors
- Leisure and aquatic facility operators
- Contractors on coastal and marine-adjacent projects
- Engineers dealing with a threshold that takes mixed traffic
Problems It Solves
- A single threshold that has to be both heel-safe and vehicle-rated
- Galvanized panels failing in a chloride or washdown environment
- Two different gratings meeting mid-threshold because no single panel suited both duties
- Stainless panels corroding at welds because passivation was skipped
Application Scenarios
- Service entrances and loading thresholds at food plants
- Pool plant and leisure facility access routes
- Washdown bays that are also driven over
- Coastal and marine-adjacent pedestrian areas
Technical Features
- Bearing bar 55 x 5 mm stainless steel
- Cross bar 8 mm round
- Acid passivation after fabrication
- Heel guard bar pitch
- Framing, hold-downs and fixings in matching material
Published Specification
Every row below is reproduced from the manufacturer's published specification for this range. Rows shown in italics are figures the specification does not publish; those are confirmed in writing rather than estimated here.
| Material | Stainless Steel |
| Bearing bar | 55 x 5 mm |
| Cross bar | φ8 mm |
| Surface treatment | Acid passivation |
| Structure | Heel Guard Grating |
| Panel size | Made to your drawing |
| Place of production | Yantai, Shandong Province, China |
| Brand | ShengJingYe |
| Minimum order quantity | Small batch accepted |
| Load class | TBC, confirmed in writing against your loading |
| Lead time | Confirmed in writing per order, not published |
Use Guide
- Confirm both duties before specifying: the heel pitch and the wheel load together
- Fix panels down wherever vehicles turn or brake
- Use stainless tooling and stainless fixings throughout
- Wash with non-chloride cleaners where possible
- Check hold-downs after the first month of vehicle traffic
Quality Control
- Bar section and material verified before fabrication
- Slot width gauged along the panel
- Flatness checked at this weight before passivation
- Passivated surface inspected for free iron
Materials
- Stainless steel bearing bar and cross bar, grade TBC
- Passive layer restored by acid passivation after fabrication
Manufacturing Process
- Drawing and 3D model
- Cutting and stamping
- Pressure welding or press locking
- Framing and fabrication
- Surface treatment
- Inspection and packing
Certification Standards
Production follows TBC, the source specification publishes no certification marks. Certificates are sent per product on request rather than posted publicly, because the documents a shipment needs depend on the destination market.
Customisation Options
- Bar pitch to the accessibility specification and the drainage area required
- Panel division sized for the lift available on site
- Bolt-down and anti-lift fixings in stainless
- Frames and thresholds fabricated to the opening
How It Compares With The Alternatives
A technical comparison against other ways of solving the same problem. Nothing here is a performance claim against a named competitor product.
| Against a stock panel cut to fit on site | A stock panel trimmed on site loses its banding, its bar pitch at the edge and its coating at every cut. This one is drawn to the opening and coated after it is fabricated. |
| Against buying the panel and its frame separately | Panel, banding, hooks, frame and handrail are fabricated and coated in the same plant and the same batch, which is what makes them fit each other. |
| Against another family in this range | See the Heel Guard Grating page for what this family does that the others do not, and the related products below for the nearest alternatives. |
Heel Guard Grating 55x5 Stainless Steel Questions
Can one panel really be heel-safe and vehicle-rated?
Why stainless rather than galvanized at a loading bay?
What does it weigh?
Which grade of stainless?
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