Rehabilitation will boost the automatic door sector in 2021
Rehabilitation and reforms must become one of the main driving engines for the sector to recover this year, according to the experts, who point out that most existing doors are very old and have serious safety deficiencies. This situation is quite obvious in the industrial sector, where even the Occupational Hazard Prevention departments report the lack of suitability of many pieces of equipment.
Javier Pérez Sánchez, President of AEPA (Corporate Association of Manual and Automatic Doors), Juan Carlos Erauso and Luis Vicente Rubio, Vocals on the Board of this same association, said that rehabilitation and reforms should be one of the basic pillars in the recovery of the automatic door sector in 2021.
Luis Vicente Rubio gave several reasons for this. Firstly, “currently existing doors are very old and have many safety deficiencies”, which entails “a significant volume of adaptation”. In his opinion, this situation is quite obvious “in the industrial sector”, where “even the Occupational Hazard Prevention departments report the lack of safety in many of these pieces of equipment”.
On the other hand, Rubio referred to the coronavirus pandemic and explained that “Covid also brought with it the need to reduce as much as possible contact with common elements, such as, for example, doorknobs on pedestrian doors”. And he added that this “has opened a significant business line, automating pedestrian doors, especially swing doors and mainly in community entrances, where a double functionality is achieved: not only reducing contagion but also, quite important, eliminating architectural barriers”.
Reforms in homes
Javier Pérez Sánchez and Juan Carlos Erauso agree with Rubio. Erauso added that, regarding homes, there are and will be “many reforms and new installations because, given the current situation of limited mobility, we are spending much less on travelling, eating out, etc., and there is more investment in improving homes”.