2000-2003
R&D begins in Riga
First prototype of the stationary descent device is developed and tested around a simple requirement: usable under stress without specialist setup.
About TITUM Safety Systems
A Company Built Around the Failure Point Everyone Else Ignored
The founding insight came from watching how high-rise fires unfolded: stairs blocked, firefighters overwhelmed, people with no way out. Juris Cepurits, a rescue-systems specialist from Latvia, began developing a stationary descent device that required no training, no preparation, and no specialist intervention.
After years of research and engineering, TITUM became the first company in the European Union to receive a safety certificate for an individual rescue device of this class. The system was tested and certified against EN 341:2011, TR CU 019/2011, and Kazakhstan's ST RK 1910-2009, with patent protection secured for the core braking mechanism.
From the first installations in Kazakhstan high-rises to government buildings, energy-sector facilities, and residential complexes across the Baltics and Central Asia, more than 5,000 TITUM devices have now been installed. What started in Riga as a technical response to a human failure point has matured into permanent safety infrastructure.
