Cominfo Brand Guidelines: Zlín Turnstiles Since 1990, Part of Gunnebo Since 2019

A start from zero after the Velvet Revolution.

Cominfo was founded in 1990 in Zlín, in the south-east of the Czech Republic, and still has its headquarters there, the company said in a 2021 article it sponsored on the Czech building-services site TZB-info. In that article its general manager, Jarmil Vlček, said that after the Velvet Revolution the business “started literally from zero.” The company says that in the first half of the 1990s it began developing identification systems, and then went on to develop and make turnstiles.

Exports came early. Cominfo says it has sold abroad since 1996, and by 2021 it said its products went to more than 80 countries. Its website today describes it as a Czech turnstile manufacturer and data collection systems supplier “with over 30 years of experience,” and its Czech pages add time-attendance and canteen-records systems to that description.

The decisive change came in 2019. On 20 June 2019 the Swedish security group Gunnebo announced it would buy Cominfo a.s., and in July it said the purchase was complete, the trade magazine GIT Security reported on 8 July 2019. The magazine described Cominfo as based in Zlín with some 160 employees, and said the deal would strengthen Gunnebo’s Business Unit Entrance Control. Gunnebo’s chief executive, Henrik Lange, called Cominfo “a well-run business” and a good fit, since it would extend the unit’s geographical footprint and product range. English Wikipedia lists Cominfo among Gunnebo’s major acquisitions, dated 2019.

Glass wings, slim cabinets and in-house production.

Cominfo’s range runs from speed gates to full-height turnstiles. Its website groups the products as swing and sliding speed gates, tripod turnstiles, swing gates, and full-height and half-height turnstiles, with the glass wings of its EasyGate speed gates and the arms of its BAR and REXON turnstile series named as the parts that control each passage. Alongside the gates it sells data-collection equipment: time-attendance terminals, card and QR-code readers, and smart locks for lockers.

The flagship is the EasyGate Superb, which the company calls “the world’s slimmest, fully equipped speed gate.” In the 2021 TZB-info article it described the gate as a swing-wing design with 24 pairs of optical sensors and a slim cabinet meant to fit the architecture of a lobby. The same article said the EasyGate Superb won the GRAND PRIX at the 32nd FOR ARCH building fair in Prague in 2021, and that Cominfo’s stand received a TOP EXPO award there. The website also names a patented Magnetic Direct Drive motor among its features.

Cominfo presents itself as a maker of finished entrances rather than only parts. Its website sets out packaged solutions for airports, arenas, paid entry, smart ticketing and bicycle parking, and a portable turnstile system built into a shipping container. It says most of its production is made to order: gates can be finished to match an entrance, carry a client’s logo or have their lighting set to a company’s colours.

On where things are made, the company is specific. In 2021 it said all development, production and sales take place in house, and its website says about 85 percent of its suppliers are in the Czech Republic, four of its ten largest in the Zlín region. Among installations, the company has named the National Theatre in Prague, the 1 William Street tower in Brisbane, the SKY PARK development in Bratislava and the Czech Consulate General in Chicago. Czech Wikipedia’s entry on the Zlín industrial designer Aleš Machů lists entrance turnstiles among his designs, citing a December 2022 Forbes Czech article about Cominfo.

Category context.

Entrance control is a quiet corner of the building trade. Its makers sell turnstiles, speed gates, security doors and barriers to the people who plan office lobbies, stations, airports and sports grounds, and they tend to present themselves through installations rather than through logos: a row of glass gates in a tower foyer, a line of fare gates in a metro hall, a car-park barrier at a terminal.

The products fall into a few families. Glass speed gates, which open a pair of panels for each authorised person, are shown in office lobbies; full-height turnstiles, with rotors that reach above head height, are marketed for site perimeters and stadiums; mass-transit gates line metro and rail stations; and revolving security doors and portals are offered for high-risk sites. In 2026 ASSA ABLOY summed up one maker’s range as speed gates, mass transit gates and security revolving doors, which covers most of that spread.

Case studies carry much of the marketing. Gunnebo’s press releases describe speed gates fitted in Shenzhen’s Galaxy Twin Towers in 2023, and Automatic Systems’ own timeline reads as a list of metro networks, from Manila in 1983 to Stockholm in 2007. Public buyers leave a record of their own: in 2023 the Brussels transport operator STIB awarded the maintenance of the access gates in its metro and premetro stations to Automatic Systems, according to an EU contract notice.

The trade meets at security fairs. Security Essen, in Germany, held its 2026 edition and has announced the next for September 2028; Intersec, now called Intersec Global, is held in Dubai under Messe Frankfurt, with its next edition set for January 2027. Ownership is consolidating too: in August 2026 ASSA ABLOY agreed to buy Gunnebo Entrance Control, in a deal expected to close in the fourth quarter of the year.

A Czech brand inside a Swedish group, now heading to ASSA ABLOY.

Inside Gunnebo, Cominfo kept its own name. Its website says that since 2019 it has been part of the Gunnebo Group, which it describes as a world leader in entrance control and safe storage, and it continues to trade from Zlín as COMINFO, a.s. Gunnebo itself traces its roots to a forge founded in 1764 in the village of Gunnebo in south-east Sweden and is headquartered in Gothenburg, according to English Wikipedia; its owners are the investment firms Altor and Stena Adactum, SecurityBrief reported in August 2026. English Wikipedia describes the group’s entrance control products — speed gates, turnstiles and other entrance systems — as used in public transport, at stadiums and in airports, the same settings Cominfo’s own airport and arena packages address.

A further change is under way. On 3 August 2026 International Security Journal reported that Gunnebo had agreed to sell its business unit Gunnebo Entrance Control to ASSA ABLOY, leaving Gunnebo to focus on safe storage. The deal was subject to regulatory approval and expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, and SecurityBrief reported that ASSA ABLOY planned to place the unit in its Entrance Systems division. Cominfo joined that Entrance Control unit when Gunnebo bought it in 2019, according to GIT Security.

For a design guide, Cominfo shows how a regional maker can keep a clear product identity — slim glass-winged gates finished to suit each lobby — while changing hands within larger groups. Compare Gunnebo, its Swedish parent, and ASSA ABLOY, the agreed buyer of Gunnebo’s entrance business. For this guide we use a deep teal, graphite and brushed steel with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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