More than half of people who use a palan à chaîne manuel expect to be still using one of some description in more than 20 years from now.
That’s according to an online survey carried out on LinkedIn by Hoist Magazine in partnership with LGH, a Royaume-UNI-based lifting equipment rental company, to gauge readers’ opinions on the future of the manual chain hoist.
The survey set out to find if there is a place for this relatively unchanged product in a constantly evolving market, or whether the time is near for it to ‘hang up’ its hat.
When asked whether they still expected to be still using manual chain hoists across a range of time periods, 16% said that they expected they would be within the next five years, around one in five (19%) extended to that to a decade, 7% said they would be operating a manual chain hoist within the next 20 years, while the majority, 55%, believed they would still be operating them in over 20 years’ time. A small percentage used an alternative to a manual chain hoist.
Respondents to the survey made a number of comments, including the following:
The views back up the opinions expressed by industry experts in a Hoist article that looks at the future of manual chain hoists.
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