ITG companies ACG and Sokymat to be Platinum Sponsors of the 2006 Electronic Passport Forum |
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Sokymat SA
Zone Industrielle
Granges, Switzerland
Press release date: May 18, 2006
Walluf (Germany) and Granges (Switzerland),18.05.2006 - ASSA ABLOY ITG (ITG), represented by Sokymat, the world's leading supplier of RFID transponders, and ACG, a leading component and technology supplier in the smart card and RFID markets, announces today that it will be a platinum sponsor of the Electronic Passport Forum. The annual international summit on the introduction of electronic travel documents takes place in Paris on June 8th and 9th 2006. Sokymat provides state-of-the-art RFID inlays for machine readable travel documents and has already delivered 2.5 million ePassport inlays to five countries since the end of 2005. ACG is able to meet any kind of customer requirement in terms of hardware and software components for electronic citizen identity projects, from integrated circuits, modules and inlays, to reader components and personalization software.
"We sponsored the event last year and are back again as platinum sponsors this year because the Electronic Passport Forum has proven to be an ideal arena to meet decision-makers at the government and state-printer level as well as new business partners," comments Ulrich Reutner, CEO of ACG. "RFID-based eDocuments and readers for citizen authentication applications are a key focus of ACG's strategy."
"With our unique transfer wire and the embedded wire manufacturing technologies, we are very well positioned to supply top-quality prelaminates and inlays to manufacturers of next-generation electronic passports," says Thomas Hitzer, Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing at Sokymat. "These technologies allow Sokymat to create very specific and customized inlays using the widest range of carrier materials available to guarantee flexibility in design as well as excellent durability."
Sokymat is playing an important role in fostering the understanding of the technology issues at the core of the new electronic documents. The reliability and durability of the electronic units storing the biometric data of the owner is a fundamental issue that needs to be addressed in order to meet the ePassport durability challenges, with expected lifecycles of 5, 10 or more years in widely varying storage and usage conditions. Because of the company's proven track record in supplying quality RFID transponders for the most demanding applications in the harshest operating conditions, Sokymat products come with an optional lifetime warranty.
ACG is a specialist in reader technology, microcontrollers, transponders and state-of-the-art ID credentials and offers complete support to government suppliers confronted with the need to give an electronic dimension to the credentials issued to citizens. ACG provides subsystems as well as the necessary know-how to foster the understanding and implementation of advanced identification concepts applied to citizen identity authentication. Examples include ePassports and eVisas, the electronic driver's license and advanced ID documents based on smart card and RFID technology.
The Electronic Passport Forum offers anyone involved in the deployment of ePassport projects an excellent opportunity to meet with Sokymat and ACG executives and technology experts, who are more than happy to field any inquiries regarding the manufacturing, deployment and use of state-of-the-art machine-readable travel documents. Both companies also participate in other ePassport-related conferences such as the Global Border Technology Summit in London.
About Sokymat Sokymat, the world's leading supplier of RFID transponders, is at the forefront in the fast growing electronic passport, visa and national ID card sector. With the most complete know-how in 13.56 MHz technology, including the company's unique transfer wire technology, Sokymat is able to offer the most durable and secure data page inlays, cover page inlays, visa stickers inlays and ID card prelaminates available on the market. Sokymat's electronic travel documents are manufactured in the company's certified security level 5+ production facility and backed up by an optional lifetime warranty. Sokymat, an ISO 9001:2000 certified company, is already delivering ePassport inlays in volumes to certain countries and is qualified for various other European ePassport projects. With the most suitable technology for manufacturing ePassports, Sokymat is setting the standards for next generation national identity documents.
Alongside its expertise in 13.56 MHz technology, Sokymat is also a world leader in 125/134.2 kHz and UHF RFID technology. The company is present in all major market segments that express a strong interest in the benefits of RFID technology, namely access control and security, industrial automation & supply chain management, eID documents and animal identification.
The group employs more than 500 people worldwide, has both research and development centers and manufacturing plants in Switzerland, Sweden, Germany and Malaysia.
About ACG ACG Identification Technologies is an independent component and technology supplier serving the entire value chain of smart card and RFID-based systems. ACG responds to the emerging requirements expressed by governments worldwide following the ratification of the US Patriot Act. The company's aim is to support governments and the security industry in deploying advanced smart card and RFID based auto ID solutions for e-Passport, e-National ID and electronic driver's licences.
Headquartered in Walluf (Germany), ACG has 21 locations throughout Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa.
For further information, please contact: Mary-Claude Vienet, SOKYMAT SA, Tel. +41 (0) 21 908 07 11 Katja Dienz, ACG Identification Technologies GmbH, Tel: +49 (0) 6123 791 205 Pier Costa (media contact), Wise Media S.p.A., Tel. +39 02 89034112
Contact: Pier Costa - Wise Media S.p.A, Phone: +39 02 89034112 Email: pier@wisemedia.it/
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