Zurich, August 2010–Shenzhen Card Intelligent Science & Technology, Chinese manufacturer of IC cards and electronic tags, is a new licence partner of LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, a leading manufacturer of contactless smart card technology for personal identification. The Chinese card manufacturer will be able to offer to its customers contactless IC cards based on the innovative LEGIC advant technology. The cards will also be used by end users in public transport services and universities.

Shenzhen Card Intelligent Science & Technology is a professional manufacturer of IC cards and electronic tags and was founded in 2004 as a corporation concentrating on IC card and RFID tag production. The company’s product portfolio covers all aspects of card manufacturing and services including the entire production process as well as the personalization, coding and programming.

“We look forward to work with the LEGIC advant technology that fulfils our over-all requirements in terms of flexibility and security. As our customers are from many different industries the basic identification technology has to be very flexible”, explains Yan Bin Jun, General Manager of Shenzhen Card Intelligent Science & Technology. “The decision for the LEGIC multi-application technology was definitely the right choice and an important step for our future business. It especially helps us to serve the growing needs to provide multi-service schemes in enhanced transport ticketing or smart campus cards in schools and universities.”

Dr Otto Eggimann, Vice President Sales and Business Development of LEGIC, expects a fruitful collaboration: “The flexibility of our technology was convincing. Shenzhen Card Intelligent Science & Technology has a good market position with a lot of interesting customers and prospects, of which we are also going to benefit from the partnership.

Press contacts

Frank Zhang
General Manager Business Unit Asia
LEGIC Identsystems Ltd
Tel: +86 21 6288 4107/8
fzhang@legic.com

Marcel Brand
Manager Marketing Communications
LEGIC Identsystems Ltd
Tel: +41 44 933 6464
mbrand@legic.com

About Shenzhen Card Intelligent Science & Technology

Shenzhen Card Intelligent Science & Technology is a professional manufacturer of IC cards and electronic tags and was founded in 2004 as a private-owned corporation concentrating on IC card and RFID tag production. Since its foundation, the company has been using the most advanced technology to create high quality brand and win customers via quality and service. The products include contact-based and contactless IC card and RFID tags (low/high/ultra high frequency).

About LEGIC® Identsystems Ltd

LEGIC Identsystems Ltd, with headquarters in Switzerland, is a leader in the design and manufacture of 13.56 MHz contactless smart card technology. The LEGIC product portfolio includes highly integrated LEGIC RF Standard, ISO 15693 and ISO 14443 compliant read/write chip sets, security modules and transponder chips.

LEGIC Identsystems currently works with over 200 external co-operation partners world-wide who offer compatible LEGIC all-in-one-card applications including access control, e-payment, parking, e-ticketing and other multiapplications. More than 2 million readers and over 100 million credentials are integrated in more than 60,000 work and leisure places worldwide.