OTI Subsidiary Wins Polish E-Passport Contract

ASEC S.A., a Warsaw-based wholly owned subsidiary of On Track Innovations Ltd. of Israel, has won a contract to supply contactless chip and antenna inlays for Poland’s electronic passports. PWPW S.A., the Polish public printing works, placed the order, and plans to being issuing the new passports with contactless inlays in their covers this quarter, according to OTI. The company says Poland, a country of 38 million, has 1.5 million passports in circulation. As a new member of the European Union, Poland must comply with the EU’s directive that member nations begin issuing passports carrying contactless chips and biometric data by August of this year.

Source:cardtechnology.com