In April 1977, EVVA became the first Austrian company to be granted a patent for the GPI key and lock combination. The complex technology – extreme zig zag profile, overlapping plug ribs, hardened steel

the management of EVVA in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2016. Be it in mechanical or electronic locking systems – in 2019 EVVA solutions are in use throughout the Netherlands, maintaining high levels of

great challenge for the company. At the end of 1943, the Nazi regime banned the production of all locks and escutcheons that were not crucial to the war effort and even threatened to shut down EVVA's local

s to the market: The first: AccessDesigner – a piece of software that makes digital planning of locking systems and ordering more simple for customers. 4KS, 4 Curve System – a mechanical access control

EVVA as a family-owned company had grown to be the country's largest manufacturer of cylinders and locking systems. The company had grown in size, and earned a good reputation internationally. It was time

gradually increased its market share and brand awareness. And EVVA Polska is also setting records. A ‘locking systems record’ was broken here in 2015. 300 EVVA cylinders that a customer had ordered were already

(Double Profile Integrated) variant, which was launched onto the market in 1995, in the plant’s locking systems. DPS/DPI satisfied the market demands for a cost-effective, yet secure system – with several

As part of that cooperation, in 2005 EVVA launched iLocker, an electronic supplementary and cubicle lock, which was developed in-house. In 2012 the cooperation with Salto ended. With the development of Xesar

different pin variants in the cylinder plug, GPI enables a huge number of unlocking authorisations. Locking systems with such breadth and uniqueness had never before been seen. GPI became a great success,

EVVA combined the ESKIS system developed by Zeiss-Ikon with the award-winning GPI system. It was one of the first times that GPI's mechanical security was brought together with the electronic benefits