Fastlane Brand Guidelines: The Feltham Turnstile Range Built by IDL Since 1985

A Feltham engineering company and its brand.

Fastlane is not a company name but a product brand. It belongs to Integrated Design Limited, known as IDL, which the UK’s Companies House register lists as incorporated on 30 May 1985, with its registered office in Feltham, in west London. The Fastlane website describes IDL as “a private, limited company that was formed in 1985,” set up to provide hardware and software for the security market, and says it has “grown organically with reinvestment from within.”

The company’s early work was broader than turnstiles. In July 2010, marking IDL’s 25th year, an item on the trade site SourceSecurity.com said the firm had been designing and making products “combining electronics and software” since 1985, and that it had won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade in 2009. That 2010 item already described the Fastlane range as covering traditional turnstiles, optical turnstiles, barrier-arm optical turnstiles, speed gates, pass gates and tailgate-detection devices.

Today IDL presents itself as a company focused on research, development and manufacturing for entrance control. Its corporate website, separate from the Fastlane one, says its core business is making and distributing Fastlane products worldwide, and names its brands as Fastlane turnstiles, Door Detective, Fastlane Connect, FastCam and FastCount. It sells through partners and specialist integrators rather than directly to most building owners, and it lists sales, pre-sales technical support, training and commissioning among its services, with further on-site work handled through what it calls its contracts company.

Glass gates for corporate lobbies.

The Fastlane range is built around the lobby. Its current line-up is grouped into speedgates, under the Glassgate and Glasswing names, in a series of numbered models; optical turnstiles, which detect a person passing without a physical barrier; entrance gates such as the Intelligate and Passgate; and the Door Detective family, which watches a single doorway for people following an authorised user through. The company says it makes barrier arms, optical turnstiles, entrance gates and tailgate-detection devices, and that each product is designed and built to order.

Its strongest claim is about place. “At Fastlane, all of our products are designed and manufactured in Feltham in the UK,” the brand’s website says, adding that each element of a turnstile is designed in-house rather than bought as an off-the-shelf part. IDL’s own site repeats that the range is built to order at its Feltham manufacturing site. We give those as company statements.

Part of that claim was strengthened in 2025. According to a news item IDL published through The Security Event, the trade exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC, in February 2026, IDL completed the purchase of Rapier Precision Sheet Metal on 1 April 2025. Rapier had supplied the architectural stainless-steel parts for Fastlane products since the 1990s from premises next to IDL’s own factory. IDL’s managing director, Derek Huff, said the two companies had worked together for more than 30 years and that the deal secured its supply of specialist sheet-metal parts for Fastlane and Door Detective products. Rapier, the item said, would keep serving its other customers.

The company also points to its installations. IDL’s website shows case studies for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, 7 World Trade Center in New York, where it says Glassgate lanes were chosen, and the Angel Building in London; the Fastlane site adds Cleveland State University’s student accommodation and the Pacific Gas and Electric headquarters. These are the company’s own project accounts.

Entrance control in context.

Entrance control is a quiet corner of the building trade. Its makers sell turnstiles, speed gates, security doors and barriers to the people who plan office lobbies, stations, airports and sports grounds, and they tend to present themselves through installations rather than through logos: a row of glass gates in a tower foyer, a line of fare gates in a metro hall, a car-park barrier at a terminal.

The products fall into a few families. Glass speed gates, which open a pair of panels for each authorised person, are shown in office lobbies; full-height turnstiles, with rotors that reach above head height, are marketed for site perimeters and stadiums; mass-transit gates line metro and rail stations; and revolving security doors and portals are offered for high-risk sites. In 2026 ASSA ABLOY summed up one maker’s range as speed gates, mass transit gates and security revolving doors, which covers most of that spread.

Case studies carry much of the marketing. Gunnebo’s press releases describe speed gates fitted in Shenzhen’s Galaxy Twin Towers in 2023, and Automatic Systems’ own timeline reads as a list of metro networks, from Manila in 1983 to Stockholm in 2007. Public buyers leave a record of their own: in 2023 the Brussels transport operator STIB awarded the maintenance of the access gates in its metro and premetro stations to Automatic Systems, according to an EU contract notice.

The trade meets at security fairs. Security Essen, in Germany, held its 2026 edition and has announced the next for September 2028; Intersec, now called Intersec Global, is held in Dubai under Messe Frankfurt, with its next edition set for January 2027. Ownership is consolidating too: in August 2026 ASSA ABLOY agreed to buy Gunnebo Entrance Control, in a deal expected to close in the fourth quarter of the year.

A product brand that outgrew its maker’s name.

Fastlane’s identity sits in an unusual spot: the brand name is more visible than the company behind it. IDL’s own site describes the company as the designer and maker of “the leading Fastlane and Door Detective brands,” and the Fastlane site explains IDL’s role in its “About” section.

The company also presents its environmental work as part of the brand. The Fastlane site says IDL’s environmental management system is certified to ISO 14001:2015, that it favours recyclable materials, and that it asks its suppliers to reduce, reuse and recycle, with a goal of sending no waste to landfill. These are the company’s own statements.

Customisation is the other half of the pitch. “As designers and manufacturers, we are able to customise products to suit your specific needs,” the Fastlane site says, and it describes a range offered across a wide spread of needs and budgets, built to work with access-control systems from other suppliers. The current range is grouped into named families of lanes rather than built around one signature gate.

Public sources on the brand are mostly the company’s own pages and trade-press items, and IDL is privately held, so its ownership and finances are not widely reported. What can be checked independently is the core: a Feltham company incorporated in 1985, still trading under the same name, which has kept its turnstile brand, its engineering and, since 2025, its main sheet-metal supplier under one roof.

For a design guide, Fastlane shows how a product brand can carry an engineering company’s whole public face, with glass, stainless steel and a single name doing most of the work. Compare Gunnebo, the Swedish security group, and Automatic Systems, the Belgian entrance-control maker. For this guide we use slate, steel grey and a teal with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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