Swiss security industry cracks the 800 million mark
Despite the challenging market environment, the Swiss security industry is developing positively. The "Fire" and "Security" sections in particular are contributing to a historic upward trend in an annual industry statistic.
The market environment in the security industry remains challenging. However, the latest industry statistics from the Swiss Security Equipment Installers Association (SES) point to further historic growth in the Swiss security industry. Overall, the industry as a whole recorded an upward trend of 2.6 percent. The increase of 20.4 million Swiss francs lifts the industry to the 800 million mark for the first time. While this confirms to SES the upward trend that has been ongoing since 2017, both the Fire and Security sections were able to contribute equally to the historic upward trend.
Access control on the rise
The SES statistics also reveal two other pleasing trends: the security sections (intrusion detection systems, access control and video security) increased by 3.2 percent. The fact that projects relating to intrusion detection systems (EMA) in particular are bucking a trend that has persisted for years in this segment is manifested in an increase of 3.5 percent, which corresponds to growth of four million Swiss francs.
The statistics also show that the Access Control (AC) sector grew by a strong 4.5 percent, which according to SES is "in keeping with tradition", while the Video Security (VS) sector recorded a stagnant trend.
Strong upward trend in the "Fire" segment
A further upward trend of 2.2 percent was followed by the "Fire" section. The pleasing result is measured by all technical working committees (TAK) from the areas of fire alarm systems (BMA), wet dry extinguishing systems (NLA), gas warning systems (GWA) and voice alarm systems (SAA).
BMA from the Fire section is considered the most weighty contributor, and finished with an increase of over 2.6 percent in the statistics compared to the previous year, while NLA was not quite able to match the previous year's result with a minus of 2.5 percent.
TLA, on the other hand, achieved a solid annual result with an increase of 8.8 percent, which compensated for the decline in NLA. GWA closed the year with an increase of almost 16 percent. According to SES, this was a "great year.
