SwipBox Brand Guidelines: The Sønderborg Maker of the Battery-Powered Infinity Locker

From a screen to a phone app.

SwipBox is a Danish maker of parcel lockers based in Sønderborg, in southern Denmark. The company dates its story to 2012, when, it says, it launched its screen-operated Classic locker, which made the SwipBox name familiar in Denmark and beyond. The Red Dot design award lists the company behind its lockers as SwipBox International A/S of Sønderborg.

Its second locker changed the business. In 2019, the company says, it introduced the app-operated Infinity, a battery-powered locker that talks to the user’s phone over Bluetooth. Post & Parcel reported in April 2019 that the lockers needed neither an external power source nor an internet connection, which made them easy to install; in February 2022 the same publication reported the company’s statement that an Infinity could be installed in under five minutes, since it requires neither Wi-Fi nor a mobile data connection.

The Infinity was first tried at home. In April 2019 SwipBox and PostNord, the Nordic postal group, expanded a pilot for a national locker network called Nærboks — Danish for “nearby locker,” Post & Parcel explained. After 200 lockers in Kolding earlier that month, 40 more went up in and around Sønderborg on 26 April 2019, some on municipal land and others at supermarkets, petrol stations and in residential areas. Customers opened them with an app on their phone. The network was run by Nordic Infrastructure, a company owned by SwipBox and PostNord.

SwipBox’s chief executive at the time, Allan Kaczmarek, told the publication that the aim of the pilot was to learn as much as possible before the concept was rolled out to the rest of Denmark, and said he was very happy that Sønderborg Municipality had given the company the chance to widen it.

Nærboks, Posten Bring and a Red Dot.

SwipBox later stepped back from running networks itself. In June 2021 CEP Research reported that PostNord had bought SwipBox’s 50 percent stake in their Danish locker joint venture. In February 2022 the chairman, Lars-Christian Brask, told Post & Parcel that selling the Nærboks shares let the company focus entirely on supplying locker networks to its customers. The same report said SwipBox had delivered more than 10,000 lockers in 2021, and that it had offices in Pakistan, Poland and Australia alongside its Danish headquarters.

Norway became its largest showcase in the trade press. Post & Parcel reported in June 2023 that Posten Bring, formerly Posten Norge, had built a network of 5,000 SwipBox Infinity lockers at 1,750 locations across Norway, after a pilot that began in January 2020 and a nationwide rollout from January 2021. Posten Bring was the first Infinity partner after Nærboks, the report said. It had added an option to deliver into a compartment reachable from a wheelchair, built on SwipBox’s software interface, and it gives every locker a personal name; lockers called Clarissa, Maribeth, Roy-Ole and Tor-Inge handled the most parcels over Christmas 2022.

The design itself was recognised in 2020, when the SwipBox Infinity won a Red Dot award for product design. The Red Dot entry lists it as an in-house design and describes a minimalist locker for indoor and outdoor use, with a neutral appearance meant to suit a busy shopping street or a rural spot, and no electric wiring, only batteries; the jury praised its “deliberately discreet appearance” and practical value.

The company says its newer Infinity Flex and Connect models build on that locker, and that its designers and engineers work side by side to combine what it calls “Scandinavian simplicity” with robust engineering.

Lockers as shared infrastructure.

Parcel locker companies are seen first as street furniture. Their machines stand in banks outside supermarkets, petrol stations, railway stations and shopping centres, finished in the operator’s colours — often yellow, red or grey. The first InPost Paczkomat, for example, was set up in Kraków in 2009, according to Polish Wikipedia, and the company reported some 62,000 machines across its group at the end of 2025.

Up close, the brand is an interface. A touchscreen, a keypad, a QR code or a code sent by text message opens one door among dozens, and some operators, InPost among them, let customers open a compartment from a phone app instead. Some machines hide the storage altogether: a robotic locker keeps parcels on shelves inside and hands each one out through a single window, as the robot Cleveron installed at a Walmart store in Arkansas in 2016 did, according to the Estonian broadcaster ERR.

Not every locker is public. Makers also sell systems for apartment-building lobbies, offices, university campuses and shops, where the machine may carry the landlord’s or retailer’s name rather than the maker’s. In those places the locker company’s brand often lives in software, signage and the small print on the cabinet, while the delivery vans and couriers that fill the lockers carry the carrier’s livery.

Beyond the street, these companies present themselves at logistics fairs and postal-industry events, in trade press and in investor material, where lockers are shown as hardware, software and service together. This guide sets out what can be checked about each brand — who founded it, who owns it and where its machines are designed and made — and marks clearly what rests only on the company’s own word.

New owners for a growing supplier.

Ownership has shifted as the company has grown. In an announcement dated 15 January 2026, SwipBox said that funds advised by BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital, an investor with offices in Zug, Munich, Milan and London, had agreed terms with EIFO, the Danish Export and Investment Fund, and the Clausen Group to acquire a majority stake in INPS, the holding company behind SwipBox International A/S. BU described SwipBox’s initial backers as the Danfoss family and EIFO. The main terms were agreed in December 2025, completion was expected in the first quarter of 2026 once regulatory and practical conditions were met, and the financial terms were not disclosed. SwipBox’s management would invest as part of the deal.

Chief executive Jens Rom said in the announcement that SwipBox would continue as a “100% independent” supplier of automated locker networks to all parcel distributors in the market, and BU named Germany among the key European markets where it hoped to support growth. On its website SwipBox says it has delivered 50,000 lockers across more than 30 countries, and that its teams in Denmark and abroad handle design, development, engineering and support.

For a design guide, SwipBox shows how a quiet, battery-powered box can become the face of other companies’ networks, from Nærboks in Denmark to Posten Bring’s named lockers in Norway. Compare InPost and Cleveron, two other locker companies. For this guide we use a slate blue, a fresh green and a pale stone with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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