AGD Systems: Your Trusted Gate Safe Installer, Delivering Excellence and Expertise in Gate Manufacturing and Installation Since 1986
AGD Systems (Automatic Gates and Doors) has been specifying, supplying, installing and maintaining electric entrance gates and access-control systems since 1986. That’s 40 years of specialist experience helping homeowners, businesses and site managers secure entrances with reliable automation and the right safety systems from day one. We’re a trusted Gate Safe installer, and we take compliance, correct specification and long-term reliability seriously.
Based in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, we operate from an established showroom and warehouse so you can deal directly with a knowledgeable in-house team. We’re part of the family-owned Dove Group (over 70 staff), giving you strong back-up, installation capacity and ongoing service support. When you contact us, you speak to real gate specialists — not a call centre.
What we do (end-to-end):
Call 01933 229123 (Mon–Fri, 9:00am–5:00pm) to speak to Rachel, Lana, Imre or Chris, or email directly to enquiries@agdsystems.co.uk with your requirements.
If you can, send a couple of photos and a brief description of what you want to achieve (security, convenience, traffic control, etc.) and we’ll advise on the best solution and arrange a survey if needed.
You are more than welcome to visit our showroom in Northamptonshire. Please drop us a line to arrange an appointment.
Showroom Address: Valley Trading Estate, 6-8 Meadow Close, Ise, Finedon Rd, Wellingborough NN8 4BH
AGD (Automatic Gates and Doors) began in 1986, supplying and installing automatic electric entrance gates for domestic properties across Northamptonshire and the surrounding counties. We started from a small office in Finedon, automating existing gates and doors, while also specifying and supplying completely bespoke new gates, posts and groundwork when a full entrance solution was needed.
In the 1980s, most electric gates were steel and automation choices were limited. Hydraulic piston rams were the norm, and the focus was on robust engineering rather than endless product variations. Many of our early customers lived in larger detached homes and country estates, where reliability, privacy and security were essential.
As demand grew, we moved premises in 1988 to Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. This gave us more space and a better central base for supporting installations across the UK, with improving road links making travel and logistics far easier.
Gate design and automation developed quickly through the years. Sliding gates became increasingly popular, and we broadened our offering to suit different driveway layouts and levels of use. We also introduced bespoke timber gates, often in Iroko hardwood, a durable species still used today for many high quality installations. Underground automation systems became more widely available too, giving customers more discreet options while keeping performance and safety at the forefront.
In 1994 we made a major move to a much larger showroom and warehouse in Wellingborough, allowing customers to view products, discuss design choices and take a more considered approach to specification. From that point on, our focus has been clear: professional advice, the right equipment for the gate size and usage, and safety systems specified correctly for the site and its users.
Alongside AGD Systems, we also started our sister company Samson Industrial Doors, and we work closely on projects where security shutters, industrial doors, grilles, and associated security products are required as part of a wider entrance or perimeter solution.
Today, our trading history matters more than ever. Electric gates are a significant investment, and they need careful specification, compliant safety measures, and long term support. With four decades of experience behind us, you can expect a professional process, quality products, and an installation designed to perform reliably for years, not months.
✓ Entrance Gates for Security and Convenience ✓ Parking Barriers for Traffic and Access Control ✓ High Security Commercial Gates for Business
✓ Pedestrian Gates and Fencing ✓ Automation of Existing Gates ✓ Bespoke Swing and Sliding Gates with Matching Garage Doors
✓ Specialist Gates with Folding or Rising Barriers and Telescopic Gates ✓ Bollards, Rising Kerbs and Anti Ram Raid ✓ Video Intercom Systems and Access Control Integration
Our Head Office is in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. You can call us directly and speak to a real person who knows about gates on 01933 229 123 (Mon-Fri 9 - 5)
We are part of a family owned group of companies Dove Group who specialise in high quality bespoke products for home and industry. We have over 70 staff in total dedicated to offering the very best professional service and products to our customers.
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We work with domestic and commercial customers, small and large projects alike, and always have done since 1986.
AGD Systems provide services to domestic, commercial and industrial premises with access control, parking barriers, security bollards and many other products offered to increase security and control for any company keen to reduce unwanted visitors and increase on site safety day and night.
We work closely with many high quality housebuilders to provide electric entrance gate systems for individual properties or shared parking facilities for apartment developments.
How we work
How we work
Survey - if you like the proposal and you are happy with the pricing, we will carry out a comprehensive site survey to ensure the correct dimensions are taken and a site risk assessment based on location, users and other factors. This helps us to ensure the right safety measures are included to make your electric gate or barrier compliant.
Final confirmation of specification and price would be provided.
To proceed, you pay your deposit, and the manufacturing process begins.
Delivery will take place anywhere from around 4 to 8 weeks depending on the gate or barrier specification and material.
We would book in the time required with yourself and carry out the work to then commission and handover a system which would provide you with many years of service. We also carry our regular maintenance and servicing as required for such large mechanical products, this ensures longevity and correct operation of automation and safety equipment.
Installation will take place at the time the product is delivered this will have been booked in with our sales team at the same time the delivery is arranged.
In a world increasingly operated by online logins and ecommerce ‘click to buy’ processes we know that this isn’t possible when the products need careful specification and are made to measure in every way. Sure, you will see a lot of online companies offering DIY entrance gates and automation equipment, but any entrance gate of a decent size is a serious ‘machine’ in the eyes of UK law.
DIY gates are lower quality, and the equipment is questionable in its long term durability. If you want a Design and Installation service carried out by a company who have done nothing else but this since 1986, then speak to us.
A remote controlled electric gate or barrier, by law, must have minimum safety standards and devices incorporated to comply and to give customers peace of mind.
Safety has been paramount in every product we have sold since 1986. Not only is it logical to have safety systems in place on any automated gate or door, which operates as a machine would do, but it is also a legal requirement in the UK.
Whether the safety is a simple infra-red beam or more complex radar detection, magnetic ground loops or pressure sensors, each individual gate system is assessed, and appropriate safety is specified. Whether the gate is on a private road or public road, and what users are allowed to operate the gate will also affect aspects of the safety systems incorporated.
Our Gates and Barriers
We offer entrance gates in hardwood timber species specifically relevant to outdoor use in a climate like ours where there is high moisture content and massive variations in temperatures throughout the year. We also offer high quality aluminium and steel gates. Not lightweight DIY gates but proper guage profiles with welded or guaranteed jointing methods to guarantee longevity and the ability to offer much larger sizes.
The gates are all either sliding with a bottom tracking or cantilever sliding when the ground is not even or available. The swing gates are either single or double swing gates in almost any size. We also offer folding gate and rising gate systems for entrances with space issues such as in London or other cities or a cottage with limited driveway space.
Our main commercial gate solution has been the sliding electric gate mainly because it has almost no limitation on size but also because they are very efficient in operation and need minimal maintenance. They also offer real security because of their mechanical design and sheer strength in design.
We provide a wide range of parking barriers, bollards and rising kerb options for any type of commercial entrance. More commercial premises are needing to control the vehicle and personnel entering and exiting for security and safety.
We can offer bespoke solutions and also incorporate security fencing with the barrier solution and control is by a wide range of access control solutions depending on users.
There are multiple providers of gate and barrier automation equipment but also many providers offering lightweight DIY equipment designed for low use and lightweight gates. It is imperative the equipment used is properly specified to work with the gate size, weight and potential wind loading. Commercial gates for example might need to open and close several times per hour and sometimes 24 hours a day, all year round. The motor needs to be rated to deal with that kind of activity and provide the power required constantly.
As mentioned, safety is also super important these days in a commercial environment, there are no shortcuts at all. The legal requirements are stated and out there so simply have to be understood and built into the automated gate system for everyone’s peace of mind and safety.
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Call us on 01933 229123 and you will get to speak to either Rachel, Alan or Imre directly, our front line customer sales and service team. The only time they might not be able to answer is if they are all busy on other calls or it is out of hours, in which case leave us a short message and we will call you straight back.
Alternatively, you can also use our online Contact Form or email us directly from your own email with images, drawings, etc on enquiries@agdsystems.co.uk
Tell us what you are thinking and the purpose of the gate or barrier, security or convenience, etc. and also provide an image or 2 so we can assess the site and options.
We provide a quotation for you with options to consider if appropriate based on discussions and requirements.
We can also provide a rendered image of what the gates might look like. As this is a free service and carried out in house, we ask for patience sometimes as we often have many in progress for customers.
