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Alvarado Manufacturing is a privately held company located in Southern California. Since our founding over 40 years ago, we've grown from a small garage fabrication shop to a true hardware design and manufacturing company that also offers niche market software. Our main facility is a modern 75,000 square foot manufacturing and R&D building. Alvarado has three recognized product lines:
In the mid-70's, Alvarado expanded into the security market, providing a broad range of products and systems specifically manufactured to limit access to, and secure facilities and commercial buildings. Our line of turnstiles, gates and optical monitoring products are used by thousands of government and private facilities throughout the world. During the past decade, Alvarado has also developed an innovative line of hardware and software solutions for the leisure and entertainment industries. Focusing primarily in the areas of access control, queuing and the computerized counting of people and vehicles. Alvarado's products are the recognized standard for this fast growing marketplace.
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INSTALLATIONS Alvarado has installed security hardware in perimeter controlled environments for a wide range of organizations in the U.S. and abroad, including the FBI, DEA, federal reserve banks, boards of trade, oil refineries, aerospace manufacturers, nuclear facilities, embassies and state department locations throughout the world. In addition to these highly regarded installations, our client list also includes a number of other very recognizable names that rely on us for help with access control, queuing and counting millions of patrons every year. In addition to security applications, Alvarado has also provided state-of-the-art solutions for numerous leisure and entertainment venues, including Jacobs Field, home of baseball's Cleveland Indians. Other entertainment facilities that have chosen Alvarado equipment include Denver's Invesco Field, Pittsburgh's PNC Park and Phoenix's Bank One Ballpark. These stadiums use Alvarado's EDC turnstiles and controllers for online entry validation via barcode ticket scanning. Six Flags theme parks also rely on Alvarado hardware and software for facility access control, plus patron and vehicle counting. Our turnstiles, optical counting lanes, patron access consoles (PAC's), GateLink and GateWatch software have been integrated with existing POS systems. We've also installed our Supervisor optical counting turnstiles and GateWatch counting software at a number of large riverboat casinos. The counting accuracy and reliability of this system has been tested and approved by four state gaming commissions, as well as an independent gaming testing laboratory. |
Alvarado is relatively unique for a company of its size because of the breadth of our products. Alvarado started as a designer and fabricator of pedestrian access control fixtures for the grocery and retail industry. Today we still count among our valued customers the majority of the major supermarket chains, plus drug and merchandise retailers.
