Closing the door on energy losses

It turns out your grandmother was ahead of her time if she spent your youth reminding you to close the doors and not let all that heat out.

Essentially, keeping the doors shut and the heat in is what the business of the Mullingar firm Serchek is about, explained the firm’s Tom Griffith at the sustainable energy event.

“This event is of interest to Serchek, because they supply doors that help to conserve energy for our customers.

“So if you imagine a local factory and they’re looking at their energy bills just going higher and higher: they might have all their walls insulated – and the roof – but if all the heat or all the energy is going out through the door, of course that’s going to keep driving their energy bills up.

“So what Serchek does is we provide insulated doors. We also provide door automation and high speed doors, so that the doors open up automatically as the forklift comes towards the door and then closes automatically behind them, preventing egress of heat – or cold air, since we also do refrigerator doors.

“So this is very much of interest as part of ESG which is environmental, social and governance of our customers.

“Some of our bigger clients are really concerned about this now: their customers are putting them under pressure to report on what it is that they’re doing to make their businesses more sustainable. So that’s why Serchek is here.”