At this year's Cartes, Melzer will introduce an alternative inlay production for e-NID cards made of PC material. We will exhibit our digital production platform M4-R for endless inlay production. These inlays include compensation foil and can subsequently be processed on our fully automatic lamination line for industrial production of e-NID cards in ID-1 format.
The MRTD product, be it an e-NID card or driving licence, border crossing document or e-passport must have a long life-cycle and is usually equipped with security elements. In addition to the lasered photo other security features like CLI/MLI, micro-lettering, latent image etc. must be integrated. Therefore PC material is the choice. This material can be lasered and offers the requested 10 years' life span.
Melzer's inline production is the key to success. The combination of sheet material with partially very thin reel materials and the unique precision of +/- 0.1 mm guarantee an industrial production process. The PC material sandwich is only laminated for 20 - 30 seconds at 180 - 200°C. This patented lamination technology ensures a gentle handling of the electronics (ICAO inlays) and other security features like ink, security thread etc. Thanks to the modular system, control stations or card inspection systems can be integrated as well.
A number of governmental enterprises are our reference customers for this large-volume production solution.
Melzer auf der Cartes 2009