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The DICTATOR family keeps growing

We have been searching for a distributor in Canada for some time.

We are very happy to announce that we’ve found a partner who can now provide our personalized customer service to our Canadian customers directly from Canada!

Get to know Eklecmatic Inc.

Our new distributor in Canada is a small company near Toronto, Eklecmatic Inc. run by Deven & Manessia Sungelee. In 2018, Deven and his wife founded Eklecmatic Inc. with the goal of helping small and medium sized companies source electrical parts, electronic components, among others for drives and elevator parts from Europe.

Deven is a Certified Engineering Technologist and an Industrial Electrician.

Our customer service – We’re here to help

From now on Eklecmatic Inc. takes over the support of the customers in Canada. For all the partners and members of the DICTATOR group, a personalized customer service is an essential part of our business. Therefore we all work closely together to offer our customers suitable solutions and to assist everyone from the first contact until after the purchase – and that with great enthusiasm.

DICTATOR door dampers have been helping to close doors safely and quietly for 90 years

Many doors do not work the way residents would like them to: Either they make noise by slamming shut or they don’t close completely and remain slightly open. The door damper was invented 90 years ago to put an end to these problems. The functioning principle has proven itself to this day: The door damper catches the closing door, pulls it into the lock softly and holds it securely closed.

It all began in 1932, when a German and a Dutchman invented a “Hydraulic Shock Absorber and Closer for Doors” and received the patent for it. Its inventors called this product the “Dictator” because it dictates the door to close gently but safely. The company that manufactures and sells them was also named after this product. And even today, door dampers are often known in the market as “Dictator”.

Over time, the appearance of the door damper has changed, even though its essential shape and functioning principle have remained the same. Today there are many different models and versions, suitable for different types of doors and installation situations. This makes it possible to install door dampers on almost any door.

In the production of DICTATOR door dampers, great emphasis is placed on the high quality of the raw materials used and the careful design of the manufacturing process to ensure a long service life and precise operation when damping the door. Thanks to the combination of specialized machinery, automated processes, experienced staff and numerous quality controls, it is ensured that the door dampers can easily withstand well over a million operations.

Unlike many other products, DICTATOR door dampers are still produced in Europe since their invention. Every year, almost 200,000 door dampers leave Emmeloord in the Netherlands for destinations all over the world to ensure that doors close gently and quietly everywhere.

After quite some time of intensive work and a lot of preparations, we are proud to introduce our new Door closing solutions catalog. With it, DICTATOR takes one more step into the future, as the catalog not only contains all the information you will also find on the website, but it also uses state-of-the-art interactive features. Here you will find an overview of its new features and functions.

Newly redesigned layout

We have completely overhauled the design of the catalog: Now it is fresher, more compact and cleaner than ever before!

In the completely redesigned, compact layout, all important information about a product is arranged so that everything is easy to find at a glance. On the first page of a product you will find an overview of the most important features, as well as technical data and a product picture. This is followed by dimensioned drawings and ordering information. For the more complex products, you will also find information on the different models as well as selection criteria and installation accessories on the following pages.

Should you have any questions about our products or want to place an order, you will find our contact information in the footer.

The door closing technology catalog follows the same structure as the website and is divided into six sections

• Door dampers
• Door & gate closers for hinged doors
• Door closers & accessories for sliding doors
• Back checks
• Door holders
• Swing door hinges

You can easily tell which section you are in, either on the page margin or on the header.

New interactive features

The catalog is now interactive, which means that it has lots of links to additional information, such as website, videos, installation instructions and questionnaires. This way you can get to all the additional information you need about a product with just one click.

If you have printed the pages of a certain product, you can view this information by scanning the QR code with your smartphone’s camera app. Simply hold the camera over the QR code and click on the bar that appears on your phone’s screen to retrieve the information you need.

New content

We have also taken the opportunity to add new content and revise the existing information. For example, we have added simple steps for selecting the right model of the gate closer DIREKT.

We have also reworked the installation accessories for back checks and added some of the most common installation examples to make the selection of accessories easier.

New Door closing solutions catalog as digital document

With the new catalog, we contribute to protecting the environment. Since the demand for print catalogs has dropped in recent years, it is becoming increasingly difficult to offer print catalogs that are up to date while avoiding unnecessary waste of paper from outdated catalogs that are left over.

For this reason, from now on the new catalog will be offered only in digital form. On our website you will always find the latest version in high quality PDFs, so that you can print the pages you need yourself if necessary.