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Protecting Retail Spaces in a Changing Landscape
As retail businesses evolve alongside the rapid growth of e-commerce, curbside pickup and mixed-use developments – where storefronts share space with offices or residences – security must adapt. Whether it’s a standalone shop or part of a multi-level, multi-tenant complex, retail operations need durable, flexible life safety and security hardware that performs under pressure.
Why Modern Security Solutions are Critical to Modern Retail Environments
- High-value inventory: Retail locations often house valuable goods that require physical protection.
- Frequent customer access: High foot traffic increases the need for clear exit paths and controlled entry.
- Employee safety: Staff must be protected whether it’s regular hours and after-hours operations.
- Theft prevention: Both internal and external theft are ongoing concerns in retail.
- Multi-use buildings: Retail spaces often share structures with residential or office units, requiring smart separation of access.
- Rise of e-commerce: Retailers are increasingly using warehouses and fulfillment centers instead of traditional storefronts, demanding industrial-grade security for large inventories and logistics operations.
- Curbside and delivery logistics: Securing delivery doors and managing access for curbside pickups and service vendors has become essential for modern customer convenience and loss prevention.
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Why Detex
Detex products are built to secure retail businesses in today’s complex building environments, offering smart solutions for storefronts, stockrooms, shared corridors and more:
- 100 years of protecting America’s businesses
- Rugged, weatherized products
- Made-in-America quality
- Products made with stainless steel
- Installation training and ongoing support
Tailoring to the Unique Needs of Modern Retail
From high-end boutiques to convenience stores, Detex delivers life safety and security products that meet the unique challenges of today’s retail spaces. Our wide product range ensures you’ll find the right hardware to keep people, property, and profits secure.
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ES880 Invisigate™
When tight security is required in high-traffic areas, the ES880 Invisigate™ turnstiles provide an optimal solution with an attractive modern design. Invisigate™ combines full-height glass barriers with an optical turnstile, ensuring controlled access with high-speed throughput. Customization is available in the same options as other DSI turnstiles, providing the flexibility required by unique installation designs.
Features
- Glass panels can cover from 4″ above the floor to 6′ high
- Detects tailgating
- High throughput easy entry or exit for authorized personnel
- Field configurable for card-in/card-out/free-exit operation with no programming necessary
- ADA compatible
Benefits
- Compliments architectural styling
- Encourages employees to maintain access control procedures
- Compatible with any access control system
- Field configurable for card-in/card-out or card-in/free-exit operation (no programming necessary)
- Meets ANSI/BHMA Door Break Away Standard for Power Operated Pedestrian Doors
- ADA Compatible
- Reduces number of personnel needed to monitor building entry/exit points
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Guard Tour Support Center
Effective as of June 1, 2021, Detex Corporation will end our nearly century-old participation in the Guard Tour market.
The responsibility for the management of the sales, service and support for our guard tour products and systems will be transferred to Central Time Clock, Inc. (CTC) in the New York City area. CTC has been selling and supporting Detex guard tour products through three generations of family ownership, and they are totally capable of handling these responsibilities and eager to do so.
Beginning on June 1, 2021, our Guard Tour Sales Channel Partners and End Users may continue to procure Detex guard tour products through CTC. CTC has committed to maintain current pricing in effect at least through the end of 2021.
Contact information for CTC is as follows:
Central Time Clock, Inc.
5-23 50th Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101
Phone: (718) 784-4900
Fax: (718) 472-9491
Web: www.centraltimeclock.com
Principal: Hal Reinhardt hal@centraltimeclock.com
Detex Corporation is profoundly grateful to our many loyal distributors and customers who have trusted us to provide you with effective guard tour solutions for nearly a century. We are confident that you can continue to place this same trust in CTC.
How Fast Can Your School Lockdown?
Preventing entry by anyone posing an immediate threat can be a serious challenge. If it’s your responsibility to protect students and staff from intruders, you have a choice: rely on traditional manual locking for front doors, or install a Lockdown System to instantly secure the main doors.
In these situations, timing is truly everything. With the Lockdown System EasyKit, a centrally located control switch secures panic hardware devices on the doors, saving precious time. There’s no searching for keys, no need for someone to run to the front doors and attempt to secure them while under pressure. Just one person pushing the Lockdown button can control the threat.
Learn more about the lockdown system
Unfortunately, it is an accepted fact that occasionally schools have to go on lockdown. What that term means in individual schools varies as much as the size of school districts across the country. Some schools define a lockdown as securing all exterior school doors. Others add all classroom doors to the exterior and could throw in the cafeteria, library, and gymnasium. Whatever the term means to your school district, one key question remains foremost in the minds of school administrators, facility and security directors. What is the safest, fastest, easiest and most cost effective means of locking down our campus?
White Paper
Detex has developed a white paper on school security. Read the problems campuses face and solutions to fix them. Get your copy of the Detex white paper today.
Industries
The Industries pages is designed for end users, architects and other visitors that are unfamiliar with door hardware and Detex. Industries is intended to function as a guide to help connect the best products with specific applications.
Detex has added a list of most common industries. Customers simply select the industry their project is in or related to. When clicked on, the category includes a 3D building image specific to the industry with labels that illustrates how various Detex products and systems can be used within each application.
Once an application has been decided upon, click on the corresponding name in the legend and a list of products and systems for that application will be provided. When one is clicked on, it will lead to riser diagrams (shown above) that display examples of how the hardware looks. Each of these links then lead to a corresponding product information page.
Power Supplies & Logic Controllers
Power Supplies
80-800 / 90-800 (For use with Delayed Egress products)
Power Supply -1 Amp continuous filtered, regulated power
Power Supplies / Logic Controllers
10-800 / 11-800 (For use with various EasyKits)
Universal logic and power controllers provide 2 Amps of filtered, regulated power& for total control over all electrified hardware in virtually any access and/or egress control application.
81-800 / 82-800 / 83-800 (For use with Electric Latch Retraction)
Controller and Power Supply – 1 Amp or 2 Amps continuous filtered, regulated power.
84-800 / 85-800 (For use with EExER Delayed Egress with Latch Retraction products)
Controller and Power Supply – 1 Amp (84-800) / 2 Amp (85-800) continuous filtered, regulated power for integrated delayed egress with latch retraction (EExER) control for 1 door & 1 operator (84-800) and 2 doors & 2 operators (85-800).
Logic Controllers
12-800 (For use with delayed egress products)
Stand-Alone 120VAC/24VDC System contains back box, upper back pan and flip-up insert, 24-point terminal strip, transformer and Series 800 electronics
Prewired at factory and labeled with connections for use in delayed egress applications (single or pairs)
106595-1 Logic Controller / Power Supply For Use Outdoors
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70-2B
Battery Box Extension – Black (no batteries provided)
70-12B
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70-24B
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Resources
Effective as of June 1, 2021, Detex Corporation will end our nearly century-old participation in the Guard Tour market.
The responsibility for the management of the sales, service and support for our guard tour products and systems will be transferred to Central Time Clock, Inc. (CTC) in the New York City area. CTC has been selling and supporting Detex guard tour products through three generations of family ownership, and they are totally capable of handling these responsibilities and eager to do so.
Beginning on June 1, 2021, our Guard Tour Sales Channel Partners and End Users may continue to procure Detex guard tour products through CTC. CTC has committed to maintain current pricing in effect at least through the end of 2021.
Contact information for CTC is as follows:
Central Time Clock, Inc.
5-23 50th Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101
Phone: (718) 784-4900
Fax: (718) 472-9491
Web: www.centraltimeclock.com
Principal: Hal Reinhardt hal@centraltimeclock.com
Detex Corporation is profoundly grateful to our many loyal distributors and customers who have trusted us to provide you with effective guard tour solutions for nearly a century. We are confident that you can continue to place this same trust in CTC.
Retail Security
Our world is full of threats both external and internal. Most facilities have addressed access control and the securing of main doors, but those should be measures of last resort. There are steps you can take—some that you may not have considered—to mitigate the threat before it arrives at your front door.
Supplemental security measures, such as securing perimeter entrances and installing devices to warn when secondary entry points are compromised, can increase your ability to protect your environment against threats in retail locations, distribution centers, or the corporate campus. Examining security and safety from a holistic viewpoint can help prevent threats from materializing. You can enhance life safety and security measures on your property with the addition of cutting-edge technology that works in conjunction with your existing systems, such as:
1. Delayed egress devices with alarms
2. Heavy-duty door with heavy-duty lock and hinge bolts
3. Door prop alarms
4. Tailgate detection systems
5. Lockdown systems
Ensuring all the pieces of technology will work together is key. Manufacturers and some dealers will create a kit to fit your application that includes best-in class products along with wiring and riser illustrations to fit your application. Be careful of specification writers who supply only a list of products without a wiring diagram or information on how the items are integrated together. Failing to install the items correctly can create years of headaches and wasted money. Ensure the supplier understands your needs and offers time-tested products. Additionally, make sure they can support the installation with wiring diagrams, riser illustrations, and technical support.
Get a free consultation from the retail security specialists.
Sign up for your free 30 minute healthcare life safety and security consultation now, which will include:
- Detex specialists working with our network of integrators to provide an assessment of your current systems.
- Recommendations on how to resolve your current pain points.
- Suggestions on how to enhance your current systems with additional hardware.
- Access to our comprehensive retail catalog of industry-leading life safety and security hardware.
- Our guarantee of comprehensive support during the installation and ongoing maintenance of your Detex hardware.
More than 22,000 Detex EAX-500 door alarms were installed in about 1,500 New York City elementary schools by the close of 2015. The project fulfills “Avonte’s Law,” which was passed after the death of Avonte Oquendo, an autistic teen who ran unnoticed from his Queens school in 2014. The law prompted the NYC Department of Education (NYCDOE) to evaluate public-school buildings for audible exterior-door alarms on unlocked security doors, changing school security forever.
To increase student safety, the NYCDOE selected Detex’s EAX-500 door alarm to secure all exterior exits in all schools. The product sounds an alarm at 100dB when someone attempts an unauthorized exit, alerting school staff to potential wandering incidents.
The recently completed alarm installation spans all five of the city’s boroughs and includes thirty school districts. Originally scheduled for a three-year timeline, Detex ramped up EAX-500 production, and Maximum Security Group accelerated installation, to complete the project in just ten months.
“As a company that has manufactured life safety and security door hardware for over a century, we are always proud when our products make a substantial difference in the wellbeing of our users, such as these New York City students,” says Ken Kuehler, Director of Marketing and Sales at Detex Corporation, a New Braunfels, TX-based company.
In addition to drawing immediate attention to wandering incidents, the alarms alert security personnel to all unauthorized security door use, preventing unsanctioned entry to school buildings.
Jim Lengyel, President of Maximum Security Group, the Queens-based locksmith company that installed Detex’s alarms, says he has seen them in action: “The alarm works really well. I have observed kids react to it and notice the signs on the door. They turn around and choose the appropriate exit instead.”
After the project’s successful implementation, the Department of Education approached Lengyel to install similar alarms in all of New York City’s Pre-Kindergarten buildings. His company will use a combination of Detex’s EAX-500 door alarms and Detex Value Series panic hardware to secure about 400 Pre-K locations.
“We recommended Detex products for the Pre-K buildings after seeing how well they worked in elementary schools,” explained Lengyel. “Beyond installing alarms, we will be bringing all of these Pre-Kindergarten doors up to current fire code regulations. We’re using Detex’s life safety products to make it happen.”
