Besam is an international supplier and manufacturer of automatic entrance equipment for commercial, health care and residential buildings. The present product portfolio includes automatic swing doors, sliding doors and revolving doors, as well as air curtains and dedicated service and maintenance.

Headquartered in Landskrona

Landskrona

Landskrona is a locality and the seat of Landskrona Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 28,670 inhabitants in 2005.-History:The city of Landskrona was founded at the location of Scania's best natural harbour, as a means of King Eric of Pomerania's anti-Hanseatic policy, intended to compete...

, Sweden

Sweden

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, Besam has 1500 employees at 26 subsidiaries around the globe and representation in another 55 countries. The company has production units in Sweden, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, USA, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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 and China

China

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. U.S. manufacturing is based in Monroe, North Carolina

Monroe, North Carolina

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Since 2002, the Besam group of companies have been wholly owned by ASSA ABLOY

Assa Abloy

The Assa Abloy Group is a Swedish lock manufacturer, the world's largest by sales. Assa Abloy was formed in 1994 when ASSA AB was detached from Swedish security firm Securitas AB. Shortly thereafter the Finnish high-security lock manufacturer Abloy Oy was acquired. The company was introduced to...

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