Industry Leading Flagship Roller
Mother of All Rollers
Good Design Awards
THE MOR STORY · AN ENGINEERING DARE SINCE 2009
A codename became
A codename became
a way of thinking.
CiiLOCK was tired of rollers that failed early, made noise or changed from batch to batch. “Mother of All Rollers” was the project codename before the team knew what the final product would be: part frustration, part humour and a deliberately oversized brief.
BEFORE THE PRODUCT
The industry had learned
The industry had learned
to live with variation.
Adding wheels looked like added capacity, yet rigid carriages could still leave only some wheels carrying the panel. Tolerances, installation and the running surface changed which wheels worked—and how hard they worked.
The CiiLOCK team kept rejecting early concepts because the goal was not a larger housing or a longer parts list. The useful wheels had to share the real door load.
01Inconsistent participation
Wheel quantity means little when only some wheels carry.
02Concentrated work
Overloaded contact points accelerate noise, resistance and wear.
03Complete-system variation
Profiles, tracks, installation and panel load all change the outcome.
THE BREAKTHROUGH
The clue was nearly
The clue was nearly
two thousand years old.
A Roman arch survives because each stone participates in compression, passing load through the structure and into the foundations. CiiLOCK did not put an arch under a door; it borrowed that organising principle.
MOR translated participation into a pressure-based, self-levelling roller architecture. Under the panel load, the mechanism can respond to the loaded system and variation along the running surface so the useful wheels can stay engaged and share the work.
See the innovation step by step ↓
THE MOR TIMELINE
One idea.
One idea.
A widening footprint.
MOR grew inside CiiLOCK's engineering, testing and international expansion. These are the milestones that changed where the platform could be made, experienced and applied.
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2005THE FOUNDATION
CiiLOCK begins in Hallam.
The company starts with the engineering-first culture that will later produce MOR.
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2009THE DARE
Mother of All Rollers begins.
Noisy rollers, early failures and batch variation trigger a project that refuses to accept the usual carriage architecture. The codename sticks.
MOR ORIGIN -
2010BUILD TO TEST
A purpose-built technology circuit opens.
CiiLOCK's new Hallam facility brings development and an in-house test laboratory closer together—an important environment for proving MOR under load.
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2013UNITED KINGDOM
MOR reaches a second home market.
When CiiLOCK opens in Hinckley, the MOR story extends into the UK door and window industry.
GLOBAL EXPANSION -
2014DESIGN RECOGNISED
MOR receives a Good Design Award.
The engineering codename is now an award-winning flagship roller.
GOOD DESIGN AWARDS -
2016CHINA
Manufacturing and sales expand.
CiiLOCK China adds local manufacturing and market reach, bringing MOR into another major door-hardware region.
GLOBAL EXPANSION -
2018–20QUALITY + CAPACITY
The platform gains stronger infrastructure.
ISO 9001 certification formalises the quality system in 2018. In 2020, the UK operation expands into its flagship Stafford facility.
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2021TESTING + POWERED MOTION
The MOR way of thinking moves into VOLTA.
CiiLOCK's NATA-accredited test laboratory strengthens independent capability. VOLTA, an evolution of MOR thinking into powered movement, wins AGWA Most Innovative Component.
AGWA DESIGN AWARDS -
2022EXPERIENCE THE MOVEMENT
The Melbourne showroom opens.
Architects, fabricators and customers can experience CiiLOCK door-motion technologies in full-size systems rather than judging hidden hardware in isolation.
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2024VOLTA V2
Powered motion wins state and national recognition.
VOLTA V2 is named Victorian and National Winner for Most Innovative Component at the AGWA Design Awards.
TWO AGWA AWARDS -
2025NEW MARKETS + NAKED
MOR arrives in Brazil and South Africa.
The Naked series advances MOR's material strategy and receives Victorian Winner and National Highly Commended recognition from AGWA. CiiLOCK also presents its expanding range at Archify and the Home Show.
TWO AGWA RECOGNITIONS -
2026THE PLATFORM WIDENS
India and the United States join the MOR footprint.
MOR Lift & Slide launches, Silent Steel is announced and the Naked series receives a Fensterbau Innovation Award. CiiLOCK exhibits its door-motion work at Polyclose and Fensterbau.
FENSTERBAU INNOVATION AWARD
FROM HALLAM TO THE WORLD
Engineered in Australia.
Engineered in Australia.
Introduced market by market.
The dates mark when MOR gained a meaningful local route through CiiLOCK's branch growth or direct market introduction—not a claim that every product variant is available in every system.
ORIGINAustralia2009
BRANCHUnited Kingdom2013
MANUFACTURING + SALESChina2016
INTRODUCEDBrazil · South Africa2025
INTRODUCEDIndia · United States2026
SELECTED RECOGNITION
Not a tally.
Not a tally.
A record of progress.
Each recognition marks a different step in the engineering story—from the original MOR to powered motion and the lower-material Naked series.
Most Innovative Component
VOLTA Powered Roller
AGWA Design AwardsState + National Winner
VOLTA V2 Powered Roller
AGWA Design AwardsState Winner + National Highly Commended
Mother of All Rollers · Naked Series
AGWA Design AwardsInnovation Award
Mother of All Rollers · Naked Series
Fensterbau Frontale
THE ORIGINAL INNOVATION
Participation before
Participation before
wheel quantity.
The proposition is easy to state and difficult to engineer: help the useful wheels stay in contact and share the door load before asking any one wheel to do more.
The panel applies load.
The mechanism becomes active under the real weight of the door.
The architecture responds.
Pressure-based self-levelling accommodates loaded variation rather than relying on rigid equality alone.
Useful wheels participate.
More engaged wheels can reduce the work concentrated at each contact point.
The whole door still matters.
Roller performance cannot correct a dragging seal, unsupported track, damaged running surface or poor installation. Final operating force, noise, life and load rating depend on the complete system and must be confirmed for the application.
WHY THE NAME STAYED
The name was a dare.
The name was a dare.
The platform became the proof.
The codename existed before anyone knew exactly what the final product would be. It held the frustration, ambition and humour of an engineering team that had decided ordinary roller behaviour was no longer good enough.
Once the self-levelling solution emerged, no smaller name felt honest. CiiLOCK had set out to create the Mother of All Rollers—and could no longer imagine calling it anything else.
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