Locking solutions provider Abloy opens several competence centres worldwide to support the digital transformation in professional access management and locking. The focus is to bring operational excellence to the rapidly evolving and critical rail industry.

Finnish locking solutions provider Abloy is expanding its international business operations. The main focus in 2019 will be in the global railway industry, which is undergoing a rapid digital transformation.

To facilitate growth and support its professional customers worldwide, Abloy will open new competence centres in in North America, Southern Europe and in the Asia-Pacific region this year.

Abloy aims to be active in major railway infrastructure and rolling stock projects worldwide. Abloy has for years provided access management solutions to critical infrastructure customers in other vertical markets, for example to South African telecommunications network provider MTN.

The new competence centres will focus on Abloy?s PROTEC2 CLIQ? access control technology. Opening of the latest CLIQ? competence centre was announced in the United Kingdom earlier this year. Last year Abloy opened up its first centres in Poland, South Africa, Singapore, Colombia and France.

Abloy is already known for securing high-profile properties such as the Panama Canal, Louvre in France, State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, British Museum, and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the United Kingdom.

In the last few years, Abloy has invested in developing its PROTEC2 CLIQ technology to deliver the best range of solutions combining digital communication and precision mechanical products. At the core of this strategy has been the founding of a number of competence centres around the world to provide customers with technical expertise, professional service, and 24-7 support around