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ASSA ABLOY
ASSA ABLOY is the world's largest access solutions group — mechanical and digital locks, cylinders, door hardware and automated entrances — supplied and supported in Saudi Arabia by Stebilex.
Every access control project eventually comes down to the door itself. A reader and a controller mean nothing if the lock body, strike, closer and exit device are not rated for the traffic and the fire code. ASSA ABLOY covers that entire layer, from the mechanical cylinder to the wireless escutcheon, which is why it appears on the ironmongery schedule of most serious buildings in the Kingdom.
ASSA ABLOY was formed in 1994 through the merger of the Swedish lock company ASSA and the Finnish company Abloy, and is a Swedish public limited company registered in Stockholm. The Group employs around 64,000 people and operates in more than 70 countries, making mechanical and digital locks, cylinders, keys, tags, security doors, automated entrances, biometrics and trusted identity technologies.
The digital access portfolio is what most Saudi clients are now specifying. CLIQ combines a mechanical cylinder with a programmable electronic key, so a contractor's access to a remote pumping station can be granted for a day and revoked without changing a cylinder. SMARTair delivers standalone and wireless-online electronic locking for offices and campuses, and Aperio wireless locks extend an existing wired access control system to doors it could never reach economically.
Underneath the digital layer sits a deep catalogue of electromechanical hardware: electric strikes, electromagnetic and motor locks, panic exit devices, door closers and the accessories that make a controlled door compliant as well as secure. For life-safety doors in Saudi hotels, hospitals and high-rises, this is the part of the specification that a civil defence inspection actually examines.
The practical argument for ASSA ABLOY on a Saudi project is continuity of supply and standards. A single group can cover a master key system, the electronic access layer and the automated entrance, with hardware sourced from factories that already serve the Gulf market and documentation that consultants recognise during design review.
Stebilex Systems supplies ASSA ABLOY locking and door hardware across Saudi Arabia from Al Khobar and Riyadh, serving Jeddah, Dammam and projects nationwide. We help translate an ironmongery schedule into a working access control design, integrate electronic locks with the readers and controllers on site, and support the handover documentation clients need for facility management.
