Below you will find the results of my research for the names of the
companies who print or manufacture passports or National ID cards for
European countries. I am also providing brief excerpts and contact
information for each one.
Country : Estonia
Document : Passport
Company : De La Rue
?De La Rue Identity Systems is a trusted partner in more than 50
government national identity schemes providing integrated solutions
for secure national identification, driver's licence and passport
issuing.?
Examples:
Passport for Estonia.
National identity and passport for Chile.
Driver's Licence for New York State.
National identity and passport for Bahrain.
Passport for members of the United Nations.
Passport for Macau.
http://www.delarue.com/DLR_Content/CDA/Pages/NationalIDTD/nationalidtd/0,1700,,00.html
?De La Rue, a British company, is the world's largest commercial
security printer and papermaker, involved in the production of over
150 national currencies and a wide range of security documents such as
travellers cheques and vouchers. The Company is pioneering new
technologies worldwide in government identity solutions for national
identification, driver's licence, passport issuing schemes and
election systems. ?
http://www.delarue.com/DLR_Content/CDA/Pages/Home/home/0,1641,,00.html
De La Rue plc (London: DLAR )
Jays Close, Viables
Basingstoke
Hampshire RG22 4BS, United Kingdom
http://www.hoovers.com/de-la-rue-plc/--ID__90117--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
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Country: Switzerland
Document: Identity Card
Company: Trüb Switzerland
Country: Liechtenstein
Document: Identity Card
Company: Trüb Switzerland
Country: Estonia
Document: Identity Card
Company: Trüb Switzerland
Country: Croatia
Document: Identity Card
Company: Trüb Switzerland
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Document: Identity Card
Company: Trüb Switzerland
Swiss Identity Card: ?We are proud of being able to claim that every
inhabitant of Switzerland owns one of our products. Well-known cards
such as the Swiss Identity Card, EC and credit cards or the Coop
Supercard are all produced by Trüb.
For our international clients we produce the identity cards for
Liechtenstein, Estonia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hong Kong
as well as a range of bank and client cards.?
http://www.trueb.ch/en/aboutus/index.php
Trüb is producing the new chip-based identity card for Estonia
http://www.trueb.ch/en/products/national/ausweise.php
Trüb AG
Hintere Bahnhofsstrasse 12
Postfach
5001 Aarau
Tel. +41 62 832 00 00
Fax +41 62 832 01 00
http://www.trueb.ch/en/aboutus/index.php
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Country: Switzerland
Document: Passport
Company: Orell Füssli Security Printing (ofs)
?In its most recent project, ofs acted as project manager to create
the new Swiss passport. This complex challenge brought the best out of
our highly experienced and skilful specialists.?
http://www.ofs.ch/15/29/19/passports.html
Orell Füssli Security Printing (ofs)
?Orell Füssli Security Printing (ofs) is a leading provider of secure
identity documents and systems. In this area we are focused on
passports, visas, drivers? licenses and similar.?
http://www.ofs.ch/15/29/identity_documents__systems.html
Profile
http://www.ofs.ch/14/14/profile.html
Orell Füssli Security Printing Ltd.
Dietzingerstrasse 3
CH-8036 Zurich
Switzerland
Phone +41 (0)1 466 77 11
Fax +41 (0)1 466 79 01
http://www.ofs.ch/17/contact.html
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Country: Spain
Document: Passport
National Identity Card
Company: Fábrica Nacional De Moneda Y Timbre-Real Casa De La Moneda
The FNMT-RCM is entrusted with manufacturing most of the
identification documents that a citizen might need:
The National Identity Card
The Spanish Passport
The Aliens? Card
The Driving License
The ?Schengen? Visa
EU Resident Permit
Travel Documents
http://www.fnmt.es/en/html/id/sc_idid.asp
http://www.fnmt.es/en/html/id/sc_idid.asp
?The inauguration of a new building in 1964, together with the quality
and the guarantee of product security and control, enabled documents
to be manufactured such as the Passport and the National Identity
Card.?
http://www.fnmt.es/en/html/hi_in.asp
?FÁBRICA NACIONAL DE MONEDA Y TIMBRE-REAL CASA DE LA MONEDA (FNMT-RCM) was
established originally in 1893. It is in charge of all the security
printing works for the Spanish Government,
while it is undertaking a very active presence in the international
markets, exporting to countries all over the
world. The FNMT-RCM produces a very wide range of products, including
banknotes, coins, postage
stamps, lottery and other gaming products to the protection of
non-official documents, identity documents
and passports, identification, memory and smart cards, security
papers, identification systems, etc.?
http://www.fnmt.es/es/html/ho-ho.asp
Address Jorge Juan
106 28009 Madrid
Telephone +34 91 566 66 66
+34 91 566 65 56
Fax +34 91 504 2943
+34 91 504 3386
Email comercial@fnmt.es
Website www.fnmt.es
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Country: Italy
Document: National Identity Card
Company: ISTITUTO POLIGRAFICO E ZECCA DELLO STATO S.p.A
?A plan submitted by Istituto Poligrafico E Zecca Dello Stato to the
Ministry of the Interior projects that 1.5 million cards will be
issued nationwide this year, with a goal of 10 million per year by
2005.
The Italian government has indicated that the national services
offered through the new national ID card will include healthcare,
voting, and social security, while municipal local services will
include transportation and education. ?
http://www.lasercard.com/downloads/files/laserwire_04_02.pdf
?The Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, the Italian Government
Printing Office and Mint, combines tradition and innovation in a
single body: the artistic techniques and craftsmanship of the past are
supplemented with advanced technological and industrial
specialisation, in which quality and constant innovation are
fundamental to the Institute?s production. Specific products like
labels, holograms and security packaging can be produced with the same
technical expertise and ability only used until now for the production
of passports, ID cards, stamps and coins - the same expertise and
security procedures that form the basis of a long history of tradition
and culture of a name which is famous throughout the world.?
http://www.pisec-world.com/store/documents/newsletter.pdf
ISTITUTO POLIGRAFICO E ZECCA DELLO STATO S.p.A.
Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, 10 ? 00198 Roma
Tel.+ 39-06-8508.1 Telefax +39-06-8508.2517
Numero verde: 800 864035
www.ipzs.it
http://www.ipzs.it/scheda_prodart_ocv_en.jsp
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Country: Slovenia
Document: Passport
Company: Cetis
?On 1st March, we started with the printing and personalisation of the
new Slovenian passports as a result of two and a half years work in
the field of developing protective elements for printed products.?
http://www.cetis.si/en/FS_content.asp?id=285
?Cetis is one of the largest printing enterprises in Slovenia and is a
leader in security printing for both the private and public sectors.
Cetis has assisted countries (most notably Slovenia and Bosnia and
Herzegovina) on the road to development. Our company has been
entrusted with the production of provisional currency, coupons,
passports, identity cards, driver and vehicle licenses, financial
documents and stamps, treasury bonds, debentures and shares, documents
pertaining to the privatisation of companies, voucher certificates,
tobacco duty stamps, forms for domestic tax payments, pension
certificates, customs forms, toll tickets - the list goes on and on.?
http://www.cetis.si/en/FS_content.asp?id=239
CETIS
?OPOVA 24,
SI - CELJE 3000,
TEL: + 386 (03) 427 85 00,
FAX: + 386 (03) 427 88 17
http://www.cetis.si/en/FS_content.asp?id=241
http://www.cetis.si/en/FS_content.asp?id=238
http://www.cetis.si/eng_version/podjetje/lp2002/_lp2002.pdf
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Country: Sweden
Document: Passport
Company: Setec
Country: Norway
Document: Passport
Company: Setec
Country: Lithuania
Document: Passport
Company: Setec
Country: Denmark
Document: Passport
Company: Setec
Denmark - Setec Danmark A/S.
?The parties have signed a 5-year contract covering nearly three
million passports with deliveries starting in late 2004. The passport
booklets are manufactured at Setec in Finland and personalised in
Setec Danmark?s facilities in Ballerup on the outskirts of
Copenhagen.? Besides Denmark, also the other Nordic countries are
planning to renew their passports. At present Setec supplies passports
to Finland, Sweden, Norway and Lithuania.
http://www.rfidnews.org/news/2004/02/19/worlds-first-tender-of-manufacturing-biometric-passports-according-to-icaos-specifications-granted-to-setec/
?The Danish Government has decided to issue its citizens with
biometric passports that fulfil the US visa waiver programme?s
requirements and are consistent with the facial recognition standard
adopted in May 2003 by the International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO). The first new generation passports should be issued in late
2004.?
?Finnish smart card and security printing company Setec - which
currently supplies passports to Finland, Sweden, Norway and Lithuania
- announced on 17/02/2004 that it had won an order from the Danish
Government to provide almost 3 million biometric passports over the
next 5 years. The passports, which will be produced in Finland and
personalised by Setec Denmark, will feature a biometric identifier (a
facial image of the holder) stored in a microchip.?
http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida/jsps/index.jsp?fuseAction=showDocument&documentID=2164&parent=chapter&preChapterID=140-194-329-333
Setec Group, headquarters:
Setec Oy
P.0. Box 31
FI-01741 Vantaa
Finland
Telephone +358 9 89 411
Fax +358 9 891 887
http://www.setec.com/english/press/article.jsp?file=artikkeli2004.02.17.11.05.15.81.conf
?Setec delivers over a million passports to Lithuania. In addition to
Finnish passports, Setec has manufactured passports for Sweden and
Norway for several years as well.?
http://www.setec.fi/english/press/article.jsp?file=artikkeli2003.05.27.10.14.19.45.conf
http://www.cr80news.com/news/2004/02/19/worlds-first-tender-of-manufacturing-biometric-passports-according-to-icaos-specifications-granted-to-setec/
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Country: Albania
Document: Passport
Company: Bundesdruckerei International Services GmbH
Country: Romania
Document: Passport
Company: Bundesdruckerei International Services GmbH
Country: Lithuania
Document: Identity Cards
Company: Bundesdruckerei International Services GmbH
Bundesdruckerei To Supply Passports To Albania
?Bundesdruckerei International Services GmbH and the Ministry of
Public Order presented the first passports to the public today in the
Albanian capital city of Tirana. These documents will be issued to
Albanian citizens starting early February 2002. The overall volume of
this order not only includes personalisation systems that are to be
installed in 14 regional registration offices, but also 2 million
forgery-proof passports. In a bid for tenders , Bundesdruckerei sales
company, Bundesdruckerei International Services, managed to win this
order in the summer of 2001.?
http://www.bundesdruckerei.de/en/press/press_archive/e_2002/p29_01_2002_en.html
http://www.bundesdruckerei.de/en/downloads/zdfengl.pdf
Bundesdruckerei International Services GmbH
?Passports for Romania and Albania, EU visa stickers for the UK, ID
and driving licence cards for Lithuania, as well as EU driving licence
cards for Iceland ? laser-personalised at Bundesdruckerei ? were among
the
extensive product range in the year under review.?
http://www.bundesdruckerei.de/en/downloads/gf_2002_en.pdf
Bundesdruckerei GmbH
Corporate Communications
Oranienstrasse 91, 10958 Berlin, Germany
Telephone: +49 30 25 98-28 12
Facsimile: +49 30 25 98-28 02
www.bundesdruckerei.de
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Country: Portugal
Document: Passport
Company: Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, E.P
http://www.incm.pt/
Products:
PASSAPORTES E OUTROS DOCUMENTOS DE IDENTIFICAÇÃO
Passports and other identification documents
http://www.incm.pt/pt/dgf/produtos.html
IMPRENSA NACIONAL-CASA DA MOEDA, SA
Av. António José de Almeida
1000-042 Lisboa
Tel.: 21 781 07 00
http://www.incm.pt/pt/contactos/geral.html
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Country: Latvia
Document: Passport
Company: Giesecke & Devrient
Country Lithuania
Document: Passport
Company: Giesecke & Devrient
?By the Cabinet of Ministers decision of 14 December 1999 the
identification document system was conceptually divided: a travel
document to foreign countries and identification cards to individuals
for domestic use. Only the results of the third tender were approved
by the Cabinet of Ministers on 26 May 2000. The German company
?Giesecke & Devrient? was recognized as the winner of the tender on
Passport Production.
The new passports have been designed in compliance with the year 1999
recommendations of the International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO) and the recommendations of 17 October 2000 of the Council of
European Union as regards passport content and structure and document
security.
Personalization of the new Latvian passports was started on 1 July
2002. Identification cards (or identity cards) could be implemented as
of the year 2004.? http://www.ocma.gov.lv/?_p=337&menu__id=13
New identity documents for more security in Lithuania
?Giesecke & Devrient supplies personalization systems from a single
source ? four million citizens soon to be issued with new identity
documents
Lithuania's four million inhabitants won't have much longer to wait
for their new identity documents. Munich-based technology group
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) completed a personalization center for
various identity documents in Vilnius, Lithuania?
http://www.gdai.com/gdai-pr/press111302.htm
Giesecke & Devrient in Europe
c Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, München
c Gesellschaft für Automation und Organisation mbH, München
c EPC Electronic Payment Cards, Gmund/Tegernsee
c Papierfabrik Louisenthal, Gmund/Tegernsee
c Wertpapierdruckerei Leipzig GmbH, Leipzig
c Giesecke & Devrient GB Ltd., Seven Oaks
c Giesecke & Devrient Hellas GmbH, Athens
c GyD Ibérica, S.A., Sant Joan Despí/Barcelone
c Giesecke & Devrient S.A., Zaventem/Brussels
c G&D - LOMO, ZAO, St. Petersburg
c Giesecke & Devrient Representative Office Moscow, Moscow
c G&D-Znak Card, ZAO, Perm
Giesecke & Devrient
http://www.gdai.com/pdfdocs/BanknoteID/High%20Security%20Passports.pdf
Giesecke & Devrient:
Tel: 1-703-480-2113
Fax: 1-703-480-2060
Email: info@gdai.com
http://www.gdai.com/gdai-profile/contact.htm
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Country: Belgium
Document: Passport and National ID cards
Company: François-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire
François-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire High security printer.
?As the world's third largest banknote printer and a world leader in
identity documents, François-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire (FCOF) is in
the forefront of each of these businesses and is among the printers
selected to print the Euro. ?
?To date, over 70 countries in the world have entrusted the printing
of their paper money or the management of their identity documents to
François-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire.?
http://www.oberthur.com/1024/uk/fiduciary.asp?identity_documents.htm
Identification documents include passports, visas, national identity
cards, voters' cards and driving licenses.
?Producing these documents requires particular know-how due to their
technical characteristics: sewn books (for passports) or synthetic
media (for national ID cards, visas, etc.). François-Charles Oberthur
Fiduciaire (FCOF) produces secure documents according to the
requirements of the different countries and coordinates the
installation of the computing system that will enable the documents to
be personalized.?
Some references:
Belgium
Bangladesh
Jordan
Kuwait
Bosnia
Lesotho
Costa Rica
Nepal
Guinea
Conakry
Uruguay
Hati
Zambia
http://www.oberthur.com/1024/uk/fiduciary.asp?identity_documents.htm
François-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire
102 boulevard Malesherbes
B.P. 458
75824 - Paris Cedex 17
FRANCE
Visitor: 112 ter rue Cardinet
75017 - Paris
FRANCE
Tel.: +33 1 47 64 64 00
Fax: +33 1 56 99 99 37
E-Mail: info@oberthur.com
http://www.oberthur.com/1024/uk/press_and_events.asp?contacts.htm
Sources:
Directory of Companies
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Exhibitors
http://www.ipc2002.org/pages/exhright.htm
ICMA Members
http://www.icma.com/members/listnlinks.htm
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