Besam was an international supplier and manufacturer of automatic entrance equipment for commercial, health care and residential buildings owned by

Assa Abloy Assa Abloy AB is a Swedish Group whose offerings include products and services related to locks, doors, gates, and entrance automation. Related products and services include controlling access and confirming identities with keys, cards, tags, ...

. The product portfolio included automatic doors, automatic swing doors, sliding doors and revolving doors, as well as air curtains and dedicated service and maintenance. Besam was headquartered in

Landskrona Landskrona is a town in Scania, Sweden. Located on the shores of the Öresund, it occupies a natural port, which has lent the town at first military and subsequent commercial significance. Ferries operate from Landskrona to the island of Ven, an ...

, Sweden, in offices which are part of the Assa Abloy group since. Assa Abloy Entrance Systems has 1500 employees at 26 subsidiaries around the globe and representation in another 55 countries. The company has production units in United States,

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and China. U.S. manufacturing is based in

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. Besam originated as a manufacturer of automatic doors for the healthcare sector in 1962, and expanded its portfolio with automated sliding door systems in the 1970s as well as revolving doors in 1985. Due to the rapidly growing demand for automatic door solutions, especially in retail and transportation industries, Besam kept on expanding its portfolio. Since 2002 the Besam group of companies have been wholly owned by

, among other well knows brands, such as Crawford, Albany and Megadoors.

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* https://www.assaabloyentrance.com/en/about-us/our-heritage/besam/ Defunct manufacturing companies of Sweden Defunct companies based in Landskrona Manufacturing companies disestablished in 2009 {{Sweden-company-stub