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Schweiss Doors is the leading manufacturer for Bifold & Hydraulic doors. Industry leading innovations since 1980. Custom built doors to fit any project!

Schweiss Doors is a leading manufacturer of bifold lift strap doors and one-piece hydraulic doors for the agricultural, aviation, architectural, commercial, industrial and residential applications. Schweiss doors can be found on aircraft hangars, farm shops, commercial buildings and homes around the world. Whether it's our patented “Lift Strap” bifold doors or our new “Red Power” hydraulic doors,

Schweiss is the company to choose for a strong, safe and reliable door. Learn more at bifold.com | hydraulicdoors.com.

06/11/2026

Today’s Farm Work is for the Young Hepps Later

For a while, getting equipment into James Hepp's machine shed meant easing it through a side door, inch by inch, like parallel parking a combine.

So Hepp went to work. He cut open the end wall and installed a 26-foot bifold. The shed runs about 16 feet to the ceiling and has two windows and a walk-in door, so the shop stays naturally lit most days.

Hepp rents the land he farms in central Iowa, but the house, sheds, and equipment are his. He came to farming in a roundabout way, running grain carts for neighbors until a friend's father wanted to retire and keep the land in the family. After one successful harvest, the place was his.

James had seen a few Schweiss doors on nearby farms that were recommended. They were twenty years old and still running great, so that’s how he chose a Schweiss Door.

"I'm trying to build something for my boys, that is why I'm updating these buildings and trying to make stuff better," Hepp said. "So, in 15-20 years when they want to start helping me more, they have something worth helping with."

https://www.bifold.com/farm-photos-hepp-ag.php

06/08/2026

The Fire Boss at Fleming Field Heads for the Lake

A floatplane rolls out of its hangar behind a tractor, floats and all, under an open bifold door at Fleming Field in South St. Paul.

Wipaire has built those floats here for more than 65 years. Their Fire Boss is an Air Tractor on floats that scoops about 800 gallons of water in seconds and drops it on a wildfire.

Chuck Wiplinger leads the company. "If we built it or renovated it, it probably has a Schweiss door on it," he says. More than a dozen bifolds sit across the field, a few on 1940s Navy hangars that needed a free-standing header to carry the weight.

The Wiplinger and Schweiss families go back even further. They were neighbors on farms in southwestern Minnesota, a long time before either family built anything that flew or folded open.

06/05/2026

A New Schweiss Bifold Door for Advanced Sunflower

This industrial bifold door in Huron, South Dakota, has lift straps and four vents and folds up to clear the full opening.

Advanced Sunflower cleans and sizes confection sunflowers, then sells them both in-shell and as kernels. From Huron, they ship to buyers across the country and overseas.

The door itself is a Schweiss bifold with a patented lift-strap design. The straps distribute the weight evenly, allowing the door to open and close smoothly and securely.

Schweiss Doors installed it over a 13'6" by 33'9" opening. When the door's up, the plant has full clearance for forklifts, totes, and product moving through all day.

06/02/2026

This is What Schweiss Door Owners Talk About Most

Triad Construction of Olivia, Minnesota, worked with Schweiss on this steel building and its bifold door. The Schweiss crew handled the install, with Niemeyer Ulferts Construction of Raymond, Minnesota, on-site.

Ask any Schweiss Door owner around, and you'll hear the same thing. The door works every time it's supposed to, and it stays out of the way the rest of the time. After a while, owners stop thinking about it at all, which is about the best thing you can say about a door this size.

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05/30/2026

A Schweiss Bifold Door Built for the Nebraska Wind

Out at Jim Kelly Field in Lexington, Nebraska, the Schweiss Doors installation crew installed a bifold hangar door with a clear view of the runway.

Kevin Kreger's crew at On Point Construction Management, based in Kearney, Nebraska, about 30 miles east of I-80, handled the build. The company builds projects across Nebraska and the surrounding area, and its work speaks for itself.

The bifold opens to 70 feet wide and 18 feet tall. That's enough room for airplanes to roll in clean and for the crew to work with no fuss when the wind picks up in the Platte Valley.

05/27/2026

Easy Access for Aircraft and Everyday Work

Sam needed more than a big door. He wanted a wide, clear opening for his aircraft, a tight seal against the weather, and a door he could rely on every day. After almost 10 years of working with Schweiss Doors, he says, "I think they're great!"

From the smooth installation to the clean, finished look, this Schweiss hydraulic door delivered what matters most to hangar owners. It's easy to access, dependable, and it protects high-value equipment. As Sam put it, "Schweiss Doors are easy to install and have proven to be the best of their kind!"

https://www.bifold.com/door-installs.php

05/24/2026

Big Enough to Fit a Dozer with the Blade Up

In Superior, Wisconsin, where the St. Louis River meets Lake Superior, there's a maintenance shop on an 80-acre coal yard. The bulldozers that work the yard come in here for service. They push coal across the piles and feed the conveyors that load the lake freighters headed for power plants downstream.

Mike Lebsack ran the project for Midwest Energy Resources Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of DTE Energy. The shop needed a door big enough to fit a dozer with the blade up and to run dependably day after day. The shipping season's short and intense, since the port closes for ice about four months a year, and any downtime with bulldozers costs real money.

“Without a doubt, we are super impressed with the quality of construction of the Schweiss bifold door. It's very pleasing to the eye, and all the welds are really good. Schweiss sent a team out to verify measurements before we actually ordered up the door to make sure measurements were spot on. Installation went super smooth — The Schweiss installers were very easy to work with. Rick and Rich have obvious pride in your company, product, and their work.“

https://www.bifold.com/door-installs.php

05/21/2026

Precision Science Starts Behind This Massive Glass Door

Behind a 13-by-14-foot glass door at Cornell University, Wilson West sits on piers driven into the bedrock. The work inside is part of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) facility in Ithaca, New York, where scientists use powerful X-rays to study materials, biology, chemistry, and physics.

The new Wilson West space gives CHESS room for larger equipment, such as a lead-shielded research hutch and a custom magnet for high-field X-ray work. The door had to fit the space, allow large equipment to pass through, and fold up and out of the way, so they chose a Schweiss bifold door.

Installer Paul Stein has worked with these doors before, and he said it plainly. “The installation went great; it was easy to install, just like all other Schweiss Doors. I love the simplistic operation of Schweiss Doors. If you understand how they work, you can see that they are very beautifully engineered doors.”

https://www.bifold.com/designer-doors-education-museums.php

05/18/2026

A New Hangar Gives EAA Chapter 25 Room to Grow

EAA Chapter 25 has been part of Minnesota aviation since 1956. At Airlake Airport in Lakeville, EAA members have welcomed a new generation of pilots, builders, and experimenters and taught them about general aviation.

After nearly 25 years in the same hangar, the work at EAA Chapter 25 had outgrown the space. Schweiss Doors saw a group giving its time, talents, and weekends to aviation and recognized the need for a hangar door wide enough for what would come next.

The new 60-by-80 Walters Buildings hangar now sits at the edge of the field, with a 54-foot bifold door across the front. Gary Rosch’s widow helped finish the interior with an insulation kit in his name, so the door blends in and helps retain heat when the Minnesota weather turns cold.

“Some guys thought it would never happen,” Patrick Halligan said. “Thought we were crazy. We’re happy that it has all worked out.” Now the hangar has room for meetings, Young Eagles flights, project planes, and kids who’ll build gliders and find their way into aviation.

https://www.bifold.com/photo-of-the-day-eaa-chapter-25.php

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