Oberthur Technologies

Oberthur Technologies is a French international group of companies. Business is the development and production of chip cards, the printing of bank notes, checks, securities and other tamper- protected documents, the production of identity cards such as passports and security systems for cash payments.

History

François Charles Oberthur 1842 founded the printing company Oberthur. 1984, the Security Print by Jean- Pierre Savare was taken, the other divisions were acquired from other buyers. Subsequently, several subsidiaries were founded or bought. Today Oberthur has offices on all continents.

Products

The business activities of Oberthur extends to several sectors, all in the safety area.

Card systems

Oberthur created not only bank and credit cards, but also SIM cards, electronic ticketing and smart cards for other applications.

Security printing

Security printing is performed by the subsidiary company Oberthur Technologies Fiduciary in five manufacturing facilities. According to the company, the company is the world's third largest producer of banknotes. The euro notes are printed with the plate Code " E", it has been for Slovakia (serial number E), Malta (serial number F ), Cyprus (serial number G ), Slovenia (serial number H ), Finland (serial number L ), the Netherlands (serial number P ), France (serial number U) and, since 2011, Germany (serial number X) printed. 2008 bills were printed for more than 50 countries. Also creates Oberthur passports, visas, driving licenses and voter cards.

Identity

Oberthur produced - including electronic - passports and ID cards, including biometric identity cards for Morocco and issuing identity cards to Morocco and Guatemala are printed. Furthermore, identification cards for employees of private companies and governments to be printed. For example, for Denmark, India and Tunisia Oberthur provides the driving license card, in the area of ​​health insurance cards for as France and Spain are produced. For a number of European, Asian, African and South American countries, the company is responsible for the production of biometric passports.

Security systems

The development of security systems is assumed by the subsidiary company Oberthur Cash Protection. For example, are sold cash boxes or security systems for ATMs.