ARA Manufacture through ARA subsidiary, BM Doors, is a market leader in the design and manufacture of security doors.
In-house design and manufacturing Rigorous testing ensures our products offer buildability, reliability, adaptability and inspectability. Understanding the ever-changing requirement for security, ARA has developed a diverse range of products fit for application. Our experienced in-house design team take security door concepts as specified by our customers and demanded by the market and design our products.Real Steel
Real Steel, acquired in July 2025, works predominately within the Defence market. Real Steel focuses on high tolerance manufacturing. A high level of quality is maintained with all parts CNC machined in-house and dimensionally certified using calibrated co-ordinate measuring machines. Real Steel’s machinery operates and measures by microns, helping to produce more complex and stronger geometrics. The machinery is fully integrated with 3D scanning and modelling workflows, providing an innovative approach to our manufactured products. They utilise CNC lathes and mills capable of producing complex geometries, prototyping and the production of small runs of intricate parts. With this capability and the focus being the Australian market, Real Steel will expand to the Tier 1 defence manufacturing sector. The resources of ARA Manufacture as a larger company with more resources will assist Real Steel. Within the Tier 1 sector, focus will be defence aerospace, submarines and naval applications. ARA Manufacture will continue to invest in machinery and technology to create an improved manufacturing environment that will enable us to innovate with new product design development.Patents
Many of ARA Manufacture’s products are patented. These patents have been granted in Australia, the United States, Canada, the UK, New Zealand and Europe. Using our in-house research and development capabilities we are continually looking for improvements to our paten