Plastic Cards

India being an emerging economy, adoption of plastic cards is in the fledgling stage but rapidly becoming popular and replacing cash in the major metros. To cater to this high potential market ManipalTech set up the plastic cards division in 2008,  in a JV with Chanwanich Security Printing Company and Thomas Greg & Sons. The MCT facility is Visa, MasterCard and EMV certified and is the largest plastic cards facility in the country. Within the two years of operations we have already captured more than 50% of the banking Debit / Credit / Pre-paid cards market. We have also put in place infrastructure to produce smart cards and with the SCOSTA certification are now offering SIM cards and smart cards for applications like biometric identification, payment facilitation etc. With the setting up of the UIDIA most government departments are beginning to establish processes for e-governance, implying that a large number of departments are issuing smart cards for identification and transactions. The private sector is not far behind in transitioning to smart cards with banks issuing debit, credit, gift and transit cards in the smart-card format. Even the Retail, Aviation and Hospitality industries are beginning to prefer their loyalty cards to be in smart card formats. Our facility caters to all the plastic card requirements non-mag-stripe, mag-stripe and smart card formats.

Technology & Infrastructure

The MCT facility at Manipal is spread over 85,000 sq. ft with a Disaster Recovery Site at Mumbai. Both the facilities are equipped with machinery from redoubtable OEM suppliers like Heidelberg, Muehlbauer, Burkle, Matica, Sakurai etc. with a base card printing capacity of 300,000 cards /day. Magnetic-stripe, contact and contact-less smart card formats of plastic cards are produced by the post printing operations. The personalization division can provide card personalization by embossing, indenting, thermal printing in both color and B&W and magnetic strip and chip encoding. MCT is ISO 9001-2008 certified for its Quality Management System.

Both the Manipal and Mumbai facilities follow all security procedures and are equipped with security devices such as CCTV, PIR, Access Control, Vibration detectors; Laser beam protected fences and Round the clock manned security control room. The IT infrastructure is ISO 27001 – 2005 certified to ensure all processes for the security and confidentiality of the data are followed.