Major Highlights of the Year
dormakaba achieved significant milestones in the past year, including key customer deals and strategic partnerships, and was recognized for its product innovations and environmental stewardship. We remain committed to innovation and bolstering our corporate social responsibility.
Energy efficiency through smart doors
The Door Efficiency Calculator consulting tool compares different dormakaba automatic doors in terms of their impact on the building’s energy consumption, costs and carbon footprint, thus helping customers to find the most energy-efficient solutions that also meet specific building and use requirements. The tool calculates how the various door types impact the air flow and the loss of heating/cooling of the building. The calculation result is summarized in a customer-specific report comparing the ecological and economic aspects of the proposed solutions.
Innovation recognized
dormakaba’s transformative technology continues to receive recognition from industry bodies. At the 2023 ICONIC AWARD: Innovative Architecture, both the innovative EntriWorX EcoSystem and the Argus V60 sensor interlock were winners in the Product-Building Technologies category, while the Axessor Apexx IP safe lock was awarded by the Security Industry Association in April 2024. Further product lines received recognition for outstanding product design at the 2024 ICONIC AWARD.
Unlocking breakthroughs
dormakaba is a partner to supply access solutions to the University of Oslo’s ambitious Life Science Building project. The facility is set to become Norway’s largest research and education building spanning across 97,000m2. The state-of-the-art facility will serve as a focal point for interdisciplinary research and collaboration, bringing together academia, healthcare institutions, and industry partners. The scope includes door hardware, access control solutions, and project management services.
Supporting women to thrive
ISC West is the largest security industry trade show in the USA held annually in Las Vegas. Global professionals gather to explore innovations in access control, video surveillance, and more. At the event, dormakaba stood out by showcasing its latest advancements in security solutions and by providing the trade show’s entry solution (V60 Optical Turnstile) used by the 29,000 attendees. Further, dormakaba’s Nancy Lambert and Yazmina Rawji were named among the Security Industry Association’s Women in Security Forum Power 100 for 2024. This makes a total of nine dormakaba women who have received this award since its inception in 2022: just one of many testimonies to dormakaba’s strong commitment to increasing opportunities and advancing leadership for women.
The ticket to visitor satisfaction
At sports events, mega-concerts, theme parks, and museums, visitors naturally want to immerse themselves immediately in the experience without the hassle of waiting in line to hand over a ticket. Self-scanning allows smooth access and frees staff to optimize the visitor experience. Vivaticket S.p.A is a global leader in venue ticketing; its US division turned to Alvarado’s line of intelligent admission devices to deliver seamless and versatile access control. Alvarado’s DirectConnect API provides simple plug-and-play connection between Vivaticket’s software and the admissions devices without intervening servers, ensuring data security while supporting wide flexibility in installation design.
Recognitions in sustainability
dormakaba was named among TIME magazine’s 500 World’s Most Sustainable Companies for 2024; the ranking covers over 20 sustainability criteria. We received our third gold medal from EcoVadis, recognizing dormakaba as among the top five percent of over 130,000 organizations assessed for ESG criteria. GreenCircle Certified has issued 23 new certificates to dormakaba recognizing the use of recycled materials in all door closers manufactured in Singapore and adding to the 16 existing certificates for US-manufactured door hardware.
United Against Child Labor
Cobalt is a critical mineral for the modern economy. Any company sourcing electronic components cannot be sure that the cobalt in these components does not come from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where 70% of the cobalt mined worldwide originates and which is well-known for a high prevalence of child labor. dormakaba is the first company in Europe to support Save the Children Switzerland in a pioneering project to remediate child labor in the DRC. Over a period of ten years, dormakaba will invest around one million Swiss francs to support the project’s objectives.
Self-scan convenience arrives at airports
Together with leading technology companies like Rohde & Schwarz, dormakaba has developed new solutions for passenger screening at airports. This self-screening is a new approach but is based on mature technologies, products, and solutions within the dormakaba portfolio and the portfolios of the other companies. This innovative approach gives passengers more autonomy during the security check. These new solutions will also be able to be used in areas such as critical infrastructure, IP protection, and prisons.
Integrated modernization for an iconic banking brand
One of the oldest and largest cantonal banks in Switzerland is the Berner Kantonalbank (BEKB | BCBE). Between May 2019 and December 2023, it modernized its 54 branches, creating bright, welcoming, informal yet highly efficient customer spaces. dormakaba was at the heart of this transformation, providing a linked ecosystem of RFID readers, on- and off- line key systems, door hardware, and access systems.
Supplying Access System for a Global Engineering Group
dormakaba is entering a partnership for supplying access control systems to thyssenkrupp Dynamic Components, the global engineering company, covering 10 locations in seven countries ranging from Brazil to China. dormakaba’s Exos access management system will be installed at thyssenkrupp’s Ilsenburg headquarters, creating the potential for further hardware and software extensions.
Enabling a seamless campus access
New York University Shanghai is the first Sino-American international university officially approved by the Ministry of Education with an independent legal personality. It has degree- granting authority while also being an integral part of the global education system of New York University. Its new 114,000m2 campus in Shanghai’s Qiantan International Business Zone drew on dormakaba’s expertise in Access Automation and Access Hardware solutions to provide seamless, stress-free access for the university’s nearly 2,500 students and faculty. The order included 22 access lanes and gates, locks, premium exit devices, and door-closers.