About us

About us

Gilgen offers drive systems and complete installations for door and gate systems. Our company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Schwarzenburg, Switzerland. Over 1,300 employees worldwide work every day to ensure the high availability of your automatic system. Gilgen Door Systems AG has been part of the Nabtesco Group since 2011.

Tradition meets modernity

Gilgen Door Systems is a company with a long tradition. Since our foundation in 1961, we have set high standards for our values - and this still characterises us today.

We build innovative systems with precise engineering skills, focussing on stability, reliability and security. With this recipe for success, we epitomise Swiss quality in all our products and services.

1,300 employees

We employ more than 600 people at our headquarters in Switzerland and more than 1,300 worldwide.

70 countries

Gilgen Doors Systems is present in more than 70 countries thanks to numerous competent sales partners and strategically selected subsidiaries.

300 service technicians

Over 300 customer service technicians are on duty for our customers worldwide every day.

62 years

Gilgen Door Systems can look back on over 60 years of experience in developing and producing door and gate systems.

150 products

More than 150 products are currently in the development and production cycle.

3 million

Thanks to a consistently high order volume, we have already installed and operated more than three million doors and gates.

1,300 employees

We employ more than 600 people at our headquarters in Switzerland and more than 1,300 worldwide.

300 service technicians

Over 300 customer service technicians are on duty for our customers worldwide every day.

150 products

More than 150 products are currently in the development and production cycle.

70 countries

Gilgen Doors Systems is present in more than 70 countries thanks to numerous competent sales partners and strategically selected subsidiaries.

62 years

Gilgen Door Systems can look back on over 60 years of experience in developing and producing door and gate systems.

3 million

Thanks to a consistently high order volume, we have already installed and operated more than three million doors and gates.

Technology leadership

Tradition is not enough to be - and remain - a market-leading company with more than 1,000 employees and a global presence. Beyond our technological leadership, what makes us successful today and especially in the future is our foray into the digital future:

On the one hand, we are focusing on the state of the art development of digital asset management and at the same time are already going one step further with IoT, and are also using digitalisation and optimisation for our internal processes. The efficient result is connectivity that provides us with the basis for the needs of the future.

Human qualities
Human qualities

Another important success factor that we attach great importance to is human qualities. With an "open-door culture" that suits our trade, we at Gilgen live the virtues of classic entrepreneurship:

We see challenges as opportunities and encourage and demand personal responsibility from each individual employee. We allow freedom of organisation and involve each other in finding solutions. We all communicate as equals, trust each other and make decisions together.

Impressions from the world of Gilgen