Right-Hand Soft-Close Undermount Slide for 550mm Frameless Drawers

The Hettich Actro YOU 550mm undermount drawer slide is a right-hand, full-extension, soft-close runner engineered for frameless cabinet installations. It carries drawer boxes built to 550mm nominal depth and sides from 1/2 inch to 5/8 inch thick, bringing the entire drawer out to the cabinet face and settling it shut with damped, silent closing action.

Key Features

• Right-hand orientation — this is a single right-hand cabinet member; pair it with the matching left-hand unit to complete one drawer installation.
• Full extension — the drawer member travels the full slide length, bringing the drawer box completely clear of the cabinet opening.
• Integrated soft-close — a built-in damper catches the drawer near the end of travel and settles it shut without slamming.
• 40 kg load rating — rated per pair for sustained use in residential and light commercial drawer applications.
• Accommodates 1/2 to 5/8 inch drawer sides — accepts a range of drawer box side thicknesses within that span, making it compatible with standard drawer stock.
• Ball bearing steel construction, Zinc finish — hardened steel ball bearings run in formed steel raceways; zinc finish protects through years of indoor service.

Where This Slide Fits the Job

A 550mm slide is a common choice for kitchen base cabinet drawers and deeper bathroom vanity drawers where the nominal drawer depth runs close to 22 inches. Full extension means the cook reaching for a pot at the back of the drawer or the cabinetmaker demonstrating drawer function to a client gets the entire box out in the open — nothing left inside the cabinet. For frameless production shops and custom builders working in the metric system, the 550mm nominal length integrates cleanly with CNC-cut drawer boxes and line-bored panels on the 32mm system grid. The 40 kg per-pair rating covers most residential kitchen loads without upsizing to a heavy-duty slide.

Build and Finish

Steel ball bearings running in formed raceways give the Actro YOU its smooth, precise travel under load. The zinc finish is a functional indoor finish — it protects the steel through daily cycling in dry environments and keeps the profile low-profile against the cabinet interior. The slide is handed: this unit is the right-hand cabinet member only. Handedness matters here because ordering two of the same unit leaves the drawer without one working side. The drawer box must be built to the 550mm nominal specification and have sides between 1/2 inch and 5/8 inch thick; the locking devices that fasten the box to the slides are Actro-series specific and must be ordered to match.

Who Orders This Slide

Cabinet shops running frameless production lines are the primary buyers, particularly those already building to the Actro YOU system who need to stock individual right-hand members for replacement or for staged ordering by orientation. Designers specifying drawer hardware for contemporary handle-less kitchens also reach for full-extension soft-close undermounts in this length, since the concealed runner disappears below the box and leaves a clean interior. Contractors replacing a single failed runner in an existing Actro installation — rather than swapping the whole pair — will find this single right-hand member the correct reorder unit.

Stock the right-hand member alongside its left-hand counterpart and the drawer goes in complete — no second trip to the supplier, no installation delay.