Nickel Finish and a True Half-Overlay Fit

The Hettich Intermat is a self-close concealed hinge built for half-overlay doors on face-frame and frameless cabinets, with a nickel-plated steel finish and dowel mounting for production-friendly installation.

Key Features

• Self-close spring pulls the door shut over the last few degrees of travel without a damper.
• Half-overlay, half-crank arm sets the door to cover part of the cabinet side, suited to two doors sharing a center partition.
• 95 degree opening angle engineered for thick-door clearance and close-quarter cabinet situations.
• Dowel mount presses into pre-bored dowel holes for a fast, screw-free cup attachment at the door.
• 45mm boring pattern with a 35mm cup matches standard production boring setups.
• Nickel-plated steel brings a clean, consistent finish to hardware that stays out of sight when the door is closed.

Where the Half-Overlay Geometry Does Its Work

Half-overlay is the geometry for two doors that meet at a shared center partition, each covering roughly half the stile or panel edge. It is also the right pick anywhere a door needs a partial overlay rather than covering the full cabinet side. The half-crank arm on this hinge delivers that position precisely, and the 35mm cup bores into the door at 45mm spacing, the standard pattern across most production shops.

The hinge mounts to a separate base plate on the cabinet, sold separately. Because plates are Hettich-specific, pair this hinge with a matching Hettich plate. Hettich cross plates provide three-way adjustment and are a natural pairing for both frameless and face-frame boxes. The 95 degree opening is intentional: at this angle, a door in a tight or thick-door situation clears the cabinet front cleanly without binding. It is the correct geometry for the application, not a reduced swing.

Nickel Steel Built for the Background

The hinge is plated steel in a nickel finish. Since this is a concealed hinge, the finish is invisible when the door is closed, but nickel still matters where the hinge arm is briefly visible during the door swing and in settings where visible hardware throughout the cabinet box shares a consistent metal tone. Steel construction gives the arm and cup the rigidity a self-close spring needs to operate reliably across years of daily use.

The Right Installer and the Right Job

This hinge suits cabinet shops running frameless production lines and contractors fitting face-frame cabinetry where a partial-overlay door layout is called for. The dowel mount speeds up the door-side installation on CNC-bored doors, making it a practical choice on volume runs. It works across both frameless and face-frame boxes, so it fits into a mixed-cabinet project without a separate SKU for each cabinet type.

This hinge handles doors from 15mm to 25mm thick, a wider window than the standard 16 to 22mm range, so it accommodates slightly thinner or heavier door stock. For a softened, damped close instead of a spring pull, look at the Hettich Intermat Sensys with integrated Silent System soft-close. For a wider opening swing, this 95 degree version is specific to applications where angle restriction is part of the design brief.

Common Questions

A Consistent Finish Across Every Door in the Run

Specify this hinge when a half-overlay layout, a production-ready dowel mount, and a nickel finish that holds up in daily use are the requirements the job puts on the hardware.