A flexible impact protection system
To develop an entirely new product range of pedestrian safety barriers, bollard posts, guard rails, and column protectors was a big investment for Axelent. But the company also saw that there was a great opportunity to solve the design challenges in an innovative way. The main issue was that many were good in theory but very inflexible in practice. Therefore, a team gathered to brainstorm ideas for a unique solution.
What problems did you want to solve with Axelent’s impact protection range?
– First of all, the modularity was something really important. Most products on the market worked well as shock protectors but were hard to assemble. We wanted something super easy to install, and that did not require any special knowledge. Secondly, most of the existing products lacked true modularity. It was hard to extend and build upon an existing system of protection. So, if you let's say have a factory or a warehouse that needs to expand, you would have to tear the current system down and start all over again. This is both time-consuming and very expensive, says Marcel.
The system is designed with flexibility and modularity in mind. While competing products require specific posts for different configurations, Axelent’s X-Protect is uniquely keyed to allow limitless combinations. The customer can put up the protection as one configuration and quickly change between, for example, impact barriers and pedestrian barriers since the anchoring posts are the same for both systems. The users do not have to order a new post. Furthermore, the innovative anchoring system is extremely kind to the floor.