The HES2-150. Because the Pursuit of Perfection is Never Finished

Bestseller. Flagship product. Award-winner. A revolution in its category. All of these and more are true of our HES concealed hinge range. And yet, from the way we keep tinkering with the design and adding new lines, you’d think we weren’t satisfied.

What’s certainly true is that we don’t believe there’s any such thing as the end of a design journey. No matter how groundbreaking, no matter how many awards we win, there’s always something we can rethink, adjust, improve. There’s no ‘game over’ in pursuit of perfection. When it comes to innovation and improvement, we hold our hands up. We’re obsessed.

So yes, we’ve done it again. We’ve added another product to the HES range. The HES2-150 is just the latest chapter in a success story that now stretches back 30 years.

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Surface-mount concealed hinge HES2S-150

Striking Design Gold

Many businesses would have been more than content to rest on their laurels after striking design gold with the HES3D all those years ago. It’s not often you reimagine an entire product concept. But by engineering a way for a traditional ‘butterfly’-style hinge to tuck all parts neatly into recesses in the door and jamb when shut, we did just that. Without the need for a pivot arm, we created a concealed hinge suitable for interior doors as well as cabinets.

From that one moment of inspiration, we’ve spun out a whole product range. Nowadays, there’s an HES hinge for practically every architectural application, from cabinets of all sizes to interior and partition doors. And still we keep going.

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Surface mounts on the jamb side for easy installation

Simplicity and choice

The HES2 model is a relative newcomer to the range and already it’s an award-winner. The tinkering we did this time was to simplify installation.

For all the aesthetic and functional benefits of the original HES design, it came at a cost. Door hanging is tricky at the best of times. With the original HES models, you had to mortise both the door and the frame or cabinet panel.

The HES2 halves the job. The door still has to be mortised to create the recess for the hinge parts to tuck into, so everything is hidden from sight when the door is shut. But the hinge separates into two parts. Once the door plates are installed, the other half of the HES2 is surface mounted on the jamb or cabinet interior.

We provide templates for pre-drilling the frame in the right place. The frame plate is clipped into the door plate before being screwed onto the frame. Once mounted, adjustment screws allow for vertical and depth alignment of up to 3mm for a perfect finish.

The surface mounting on the frame also means that the HES2 can also be fitted to slim framed or even frameless doors where there is not enough wood to mortise into.

The rationale for the new HES2-150 was to extend this to thinner doors as well. Our latest HES concealed hinge is designed for doors 35mm in thickness and upwards. A pair of hinges can support doors up to 40kg in weight, and three hinges can hold doors up to 50kg.

As well surface mounting, hinge separation and 3D adjustment post installation, the HES2-150 is also non-handed, meaning it can be mounted for either left or right-hand opening doors.

Another HES product, another win for simplicity and choice. It’s what gets us out of bed in the morning.

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