Intelligent Integration and Green Upgrade: Automatic Door Industry to Witness 100-Billion Market Boom in 2026

Global Market Size Exceeds USD 18.2 Billion, Central/Western China and Emerging Markets Become New Growth Engines

In 2026, the global electric automatic door industry is experiencing dual explosions of technological iteration and market expansion, with intelligence, greenization, and contextualization becoming core keywords for industry transformation. The latest industry data shows that the global automatic door market has reached USD 18.2 billion, projected to double to USD 36.5 billion by 2036 with a steady CAGR of 7.1%. In the Chinese market, driven by new urbanization and smart building policies, the industry scale exceeded RMB 17.8 billion in 2026, with penetration rates reaching 46% in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions. Central and western regions are rapidly catching up with a 13.5% annual growth rate, emerging as new drivers of market growth.

Technological Innovation Restructures Product Form, Intelligent Integration Becomes Core Competitiveness

Technological breakthroughs by international giants are upgrading automatic doors from functional products to smart building nodes. Following its strategic cooperation with Boston Dynamics, ASSA ABLOY further expanded its European market layout in 2026 by establishing an intelligent door research and development center in Munich, Germany. The company launched a "multimodal access system" adapted to European smart city projects, enabling hierarchical access management for pedestrians, robots, and logistics vehicles, which has been successfully applied in Berlin Central Station and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport expansion projects. The enterprise's latest "Smart Angle Bracket 2.0" patented technology dynamically adjusts force distribution through AI algorithms, increasing wind resistance rating to Level 12, reducing noise by 35%, and extending service life by 20-25%. Since global mass production in Q2 2026, orders have exceeded 500,000 units.

Sensor technology upgrades serve as dual guarantees for safety and efficiency. Japan's NABCO optimized its Nat Rus+E.W Pro system for Southeast Asia's high-temperature and high-humidity environment, integrating image recognition and infrared sensing technologies to expand detection range by 50%, achieving zero-delay contactless access at Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 5. France's BEA LZR® Pro planar scanning laser sensor achieved sales of over 150,000 units in the Asian market, with new anti-glare and anti-interference designs adapted to Middle Eastern desert regions. Detection blind spots below 5 cm provide safety guarantees for large-scale scenarios like Dubai Expo venues, while 15-minute quick installation feature reduces construction costs by 20%. In the field of energy-saving technologies, permanent magnet synchronous motor penetration has exceeded 68%, saving 45% energy compared to traditional motors. The application of aviation aluminum alloy and carbon fiber composite materials further reduces product energy consumption by 32%, with over 95% of mainstream products passing both EU Ecolabel green certification and China Green Building Materials certification.

Policy-Driven Market Upgrade, Scene Segmentation Spawns Differentiated Demand

The new mandatory national standard "General Technical Requirements for Automatic Door Safety" implemented from 2026 has achieved mutual recognition with EU EN 16005:2025 standard, accelerating global industry reshuffle. It is expected to eliminate 27% of low-end production capacity and promote global industry concentration rate CR10 to increase from 41% to 56% by 2031. The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's "Outline for Coordinated Development of Intelligent Construction and Building Industrialization" clearly requires 35% of new buildings to be smart buildings by 2026, while the EU "Green Deal" stipulates that new buildings must meet near-zero energy standards by 2026. Driven by these dual policies, the residential automatic door market continues to expand, with 32% of new residential installations in China and 40% in Europe already choosing smart products equipped with anti-pinch sensors and remote control functions.

Scene segmentation serves as an important support for global market growth. The medical sector achieves an 8.2% global CAGR, with antibacterial coating usage exceeding 90% in European medical scenarios. Germany's Dorma launched medical airtight automatic doors that complete air purification cycles within 0.3 seconds after closing, already supplied to over 200 European medical institutions including Munich University Hospital. In commercial buildings, smart sensor doors automatically adjust opening-closing speed through pedestrian density analysis, improving access efficiency by 30%. Customized orders for high-end commercial complexes like Dubai Mall and Shanghai Lujiazui Financial City grow at an average annual rate of 22%. Driven by smart home popularization, residential market sales grow at 16.8% annually in China, while European villa users achieve 85% usage rate of FSC-certified wood and low-VOC coatings. For cold chain retail scenarios, US-based Horton Automatics and refrigeration expert Anthony jointly launched dual-sensing "beer cellar" automatic glass doors, which have entered supermarket chain systems in 12 European countries, achieving both constant temperature and energy-saving standards in Nordic countries like Norway and Sweden. For arid regions in Africa, Chinese enterprise Oubao launched low-cost solar-powered automatic doors adapted to commercial complexes in Nigeria, Kenya and other countries, with annual sales exceeding 80,000 units.

Global Pattern Undergoing In-depth Adjustment, Domesticization and Emerging Market Potential Released

The global market exhibits distinct regional differentiation and synergy: North America accounts for 38% market share with 8.0% annual growth in US medical demand; Europe ranks second with 31% share, with Germany, France and Italy as core consumer countries; emerging markets in Southeast Asia, South America and Africa release potential with an 11.5% annual growth rate, where low-cost smart models occupy over 65% local market share. Chinese brands are accelerating global layout supported by policies - the "White Paper on Digital Technology Application in Smart Buildings and Residential Areas" requires 78% localization rate for automatic doors in public places by 2026 and 88% by 2029. Enterprises like Kaba and Oubao have achieved over 23% market share in developing countries in Southeast Asia and Africa, with Oubao's Vietnam production base officially put into operation in 2026, reaching an annual capacity of 300,000 units and radiating six Southeast Asian countries.

Industry analysts point out that automatic doors will be deeply integrated into global building automation systems (BMS), fire safety systems and carbon emission monitoring platforms in the future, becoming core infrastructure for smart city construction. With the global application of 5G edge computing and digital twin technologies, remote diagnosis and predictive maintenance will become industry standards, while modular design and green manufacturing systems will further reduce whole-life cycle costs. Driven by both national green transition policy dividends and technological innovation, the automatic door industry is entering a new development stage of efficiency, low carbon and humanization, providing important support for global building intelligence upgrades.