Alvarado is celebrating its 52nd year of business. From our humble beginnings in Mr. Alvarado’s backyard garage, we’ve grown to an international company selling our products worldwide.

We manufacturer and distribute from our west coast facility where our superior manufacturing processes allow us to ship products an average of 35% faster than our competition. Our manufacturing flexibility allows us to offer expedited service through our highly popular “quick ship” program, which allows our customers to receive a number of our most popular products for rush jobs.

Our product groups are:

COREPORATE SECURITY / ACCESS CONTROL - Alvarado is the #1 US manufacturer of full height turnstiles, waist high turnstiles, optical turnstiles, security turnstiles and security gates.

Optical Turnstiles

Our Supervisor optical turnstiles are fast becoming the #1 choice for installations worldwide. Our award willing product line ranges from small footprint barrier-free optical turnstiles to our newly released SU4000, which combines a smooth operating high security motorized barrier with color TFT displays and user customizable operation.

Full Height Turnstiles

With thousands of installations worldwide, Alvarado’s full height line is known on six continents for superior craftsmanship and simple access system integration at an affordable price. Every year 15% of our full height turnstile sales go toward the replacement of competitors full height models. Find out why America and the world has chosen Alvarado’s MST full height turnstile line as America’s best selling full height turnstile.

Waist High Turnstiles

Alvarado’s waist high turnstiles are attractive, reliable and precision crafted. Our EDC waist high turnstiles are installed in thousands of locations and often are purchased to replace competitors’ models.

Security Gates

Alvarado offers a comprehensive security gate line. Our VSG waist high gates and MSG security gates ship full assembled. Our full height MST security gates also come fully complete with a frame and are ready for installation into fence lines. Alvarado security gates are available with electric lock control, and push and panic hardware.

ADMISSION CONTROL / VENUE SOLUTIONS – Alvarado’s GateLink Admission and Park Admission software is the premium entertainment facility access software for reserved seat and general admission venues. Alvarado also manufactures ticket scanning turnstiles and ticket scanning equipment such as wireless hand held scanners.

Alvarado is not a ticketing company. We specialize in gate control hardware and software and provide a seamless integration to an in house or third party ticketing company. For end users Alvarado is a smart choice because our solution is not proprietary. If you change ticketing providers, our hardware and system will integrate easily with your new provider. Alvarado is also a smart choice as an OEM for ticketing providers. We specialize in gate control - and because that’s all we do our products are superior to what can be produced when gate control is just a sideline. Your solution and prestige is enhanced by offering the proven products from well-known name of Alvarado.

In addition to admission control, Alvarado also manufactures pedestrian counting equipment, including our GateWatch facility counting software and counting turnstiles and counting optical turnstiles.

CROWD CONTROL / PEDESTRIAN QUEUING – We offer a complete line of pre-fabricated railing, railing systems, and portable pedestrian queuing and crowd control equipment including stanchions, retractable belt stanchions, and traditional posts and ropes.

Our Quick Queue retractable belt stanchions represent the finest value in stanchions available.

ASSET PROTECTION / RETAIL SOLUTIONS – Loss prevention is highly important to today’s retailers. Alvarado’s railing, turnstiles and gates are an inexpensive and a highly effective method of channeling customers and reducing theft.

Alvarado also offers asset and damage protection products such as case guards, floor mounted bumper systems, crash bollards and our patented Watchman collision forklift avoidance alarm.