Martin introduces new residential California garage door

Martin Garage Doors is introducing a new long life, lower priced, garage door known as the California Door.

The new model garage door is made of high-tensile steel and includes many of Martin’s essential quality and child safety features. It is available in six designs: grooved panel, ribbed, short panel, long panel and mixed panel, and also in flush.

The California Door is available in both 24 and 26 gauge steel.  The 24 gauge door comes in adobe stone, dark brown, desert taupe, white mist and light almond while the 26 gauge comes in two colors.

The new door features a low-profile hinge to provide finger protection between the section joints and also includes hot-dipped galvanized steel sections with a baked-on enamel finish.  It also comes standard with Martin’s aircraft grade lift cables, which feature a self-adjusting curl with a loop thimble that keeps the cable from coming off the drum easily to provide less maintenance and repair for the homeowner.

Martin’s anti-falling door feature (Controlled Descent Device), windows, insulation, powder coat paint in over 70 finishes, and sealed ball bearing roller with RollerShield™ are all available on the California Door at an extra cost. 

“For those customers focused on price, the California Door is a good value,” Michael Martin, director of Advertising for Martin Door Manufacturing, says.

Martin’s reputation for quality and safety is well established.

“Martin’s worst is better than anybody else’s best,” Dave Nelson, owner of Advantage Garage Doors, said of the company’s quality.

Besides high quality overhead type garage doors in steel, Martin also manufactures doors in cooper, aluminum and glass and also sells  commercial doors and a full line of garage door openers for the home.

Martin Doors are built in the United States and distributed to 93 countries in the world, including China.  The company is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

In business since 1936, Martin’s niche has grown from a regional company to one who builds affordable high-end garage doors, focusing on safety and value, rather than the lowest price.  Dave Martin, chairman of the board for MDM, says his company will never be among the giants, but is bucking the trend among his competitors seems to come down to the lowest price.

Using that philosophy, Martin discontinued the manufacture of wood doors and now offers a line of garage doors made of aluminum, copper and steel----all he insists are green and environmentally friendly.

In 1994 Martin Door Manufacturing received the "E" Award for excellence in exporting from President Bill Clinton.  Martin is also the only garage door manufacturer in the world certified continuously to the ISO 9001 quality standard, which also has Underwriters Laboratories (UL) listed garage door and opener systems.  Their product has also been certified for sale in Europe.

A pioneer in his industry, Dave Martin is also known for his innovation.  His company has introduced a number of safety features, which are now more common within the industry.  He says there are over 20 safety features available on every door he manufactures.