With the broad offering and combined know-how, the new company the company says it will be able to better meet system integrators' future needs with regards to interoperability, flexibility, convergence, reliability and standards. The company is showcasing the new portfolio in November 2006 at Cartes in Paris.
Assa Abloy ITG has one of the most comprehensive offers of contactless components such as cards, tags, reader modules and complete readers. Within seven business segments the products and services will be bundled with regard to distinct solutions and markets. The business segments and offering
include:
- Government: Inlays and readers for governments worldwide planning to roll-out eDocument programs such as ePassports, eNational ID cards and eDriver's licences
- Public Transport: Contactless cards and readers for system integrators who need to develop forward-looking public transport solutions based on RFID technology
- Financial Transactions: Cards, customized form factors and reader components for contactless and/or EMV compliant payment applications
- IT & Corporate ID: Smart card readers for contact and contactless cards as well as chip sets and reader boards for OEM in the corporate security market, paired with support in the area of contactless smart cards
- Access & Security: Printed or white cards, prelaminates, key fobs, labels, and wristbands for loyalty, POS, leisure & pleasure, and access control applications
- Industry & Logistics: Wide range of RFID transponders for track & trace in the industrial and logistics business, as well as general advice on e.g. customisation and readers
- Food & Animal: RFID transponders for embedding into animals or food items to enable identification and tracking systems
The newly formed company employs over 800 people worldwide, drives innovation in three R&D centres and manufactures components in global manufacturing sites in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
"Our customers, which are predominantly system integrators, will benefit from the bundled components and services in order to reach an easy and quick integration in a one-stop shop", said Juan Garcia, President & CEO of Assa Abloy ITG. "This will be even more so in the future when we can leverage our combined R&D capabilities to be at the forefront of upcoming technologies in the dynamic ID and RFID markets."
"I am delighted to see that Assa Abloy ITG has initiated the necessary steps to form one strong partner in the RFID and smart card market", commented Joe Grillo, Executive Vice President of Assa Abloy and President of the Global Technologies Division (GTD). "The combined competences of the individual companies will enable Assa Abloy ITG to be first choice in a market that is driven by convergence and interoperability."