Although card usage today is shifting from physical use toward virtual use, the physical production, personalization, and printing of cards remain very important steps in card manufacturing.
Companies that produce and personalize cards in Turkey
Plastkart
Plastikkart Akilli Kart Iletisim Sistemleri Tic. Ve A.S. (Plastkart) was established in 2000 to produce the 'smart cards' that are the key to the future in Turkey. Its production facility, built on a 9,000-square-meter site in Silivri, Istanbul, is one of the few production facilities in the world in terms of advanced technology, machinery, and security systems.
Austria Card
AUSTRIACARD AG offers solutions and products in digital security and information management. The group provides digital payment solutions that combine a century of printing experience with the latest digital data solutions, smart card production, and personalization.
AB Card Group
AB KART GRUP, established in Istanbul in 2004, is one of the world's leading organizations in the prepaid top-up card production sector. Thanks to its innovative approach, technological infrastructure, and growth strategy, it has become a successful brand across a wide geography. Taking into account the demands of its customers worldwide, AB KART GRUP offers single and multi-use top-up cards, SAS, Visa, and MasterCard certified SIM cards, smart card products, and electronic payment systems.
Gemalto
Gemalto enables companies and governments to authenticate identities and protect data, and in doing so stay secure, by running these services on personal devices. It also offers easy-to-use technology and services such as cloud solutions.
G&D (Giesecke & Devrient)
G&D develops, produces, and markets solutions for payment, secure communication, and identity management. The group's customers include central banks and commercial banks, wireless communication providers, businesses, governments, and public institutions.
Oberthur
Oberthur brings people together with smartphones, tablets, and new technologies, saves people time, shortens distances, and keeps them connected even on the go. The Internet of Things is considered to be the next digital revolution. Connections can now be made between the machines and objects around us so that we can stay fit, shop easily, work effectively, communicate, or have fun. In these new connections, the active or passive participant must be kept continuously secure. The movement of data depends on individuals and companies. In fact, long-term mobility can only be achieved if there is flawless security across all these connections, in transmission, and in storage. Oberthur aims to take on the role of providing these connections and their security.
E-Kart
Established through a shared vision between Giesecke & Devrient and Eczacibasi Holding, E-Kart Elektronik Kart Sistemleri A.S. is Turkey's high-technology card development and production center, specializing in the high security, authorization and identification, and low-cost data storage and management needs of e-commerce and e-business, which define today's way of doing business.
Mapikart
Established to meet the needs of the Turkish plastic card market, Mapikart produces plastic cards to ISO standards and with all known features. From plastic card production to card personalization, data organization, secure data transfer, and data processing, it provides end-to-end solutions on a flexible, updatable software infrastructure tailored to the needs and structures of institutions, primarily for finance and government projects.
Teknik Kart
T-Kart was established in 1997 with the goal of producing contact/contactless smart and PVC cards in Turkey, and is a pioneering company with 100% Turkish capital. In addition to card body production, it offers high-capacity personalization, statement printing and enveloping, data processing, and form reading services under one roof.
