We here at Chase Doors are excited to announce the launch of the Door Post blog. The Door Post will focus on topics affecting the traffic and specialty door market.
OK, I imagine that by now you are now thinking something along the lines of:
- That is a blog topic only a mother could love.
- What are traffic and specialty doors?
- I think I hear crickets chirping.
Before you click back to wherever you came from, let me explain why we think it makes sense for the Door Post blog to exist.
First, some background. Chase Doors is a manufacturer of a variety of specialty doors including double acting impact doors, swinging restaurant doors, sliding pharmaceutical doors, fire doors, cold storage doors, PVC strip doors, and bug, bird, and wire mesh doors. (Did I just hear the crickets again?) Generally speaking, ours are the types of products that most people outside of our pretty narrow market have never heard of.
All changed (a little bit anyway) in December of 2007 when President Bush signed into law the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (”EISA”). As you would expect, in its 1801 pages, EISA imposes many important regulations related to energy exploration, generation and conservation. None of these regulations are more important to this blog than those contained in section 312, which addresses walk-in coolers and walk-in freezers. This section mandates that these walk-in coolers and walk-in freezers “have strip doors, spring hinged doors, or other method of minimizing infiltration when doors are open”. These “strip doors, spring hinged doors” are just the types of products we make. Additionally, section 312 mandates certain requirements relating to the cold storage doors-also products we make-that are used in these coolers and freezers.
Unfortunately, as is often the case with new legislation there are many, many details that need to be worked out, and questions that need to be answered relating to the actual interpretation and execution of the law. All of the sudden, the obscure knowledge of doors, gasketing, R-values, etc. developed here at Chase Doors became a little more relevant.
As we began talking more about the new legislation, we realized that EISA was far from the only topic where our knowledge of specialty doors could be helpful. Building codes, LEED, energy rebates, markets trends, and the energy related provisions of $900 billion federal stimulus package are just a few of the areas in which our obscure knowledge might be useful.
And with that, the Door Post blog was born. We hope you find it interesting, but if not we hope you at least find it helpful.