ASK is the leading manufacturer of contactless microprocessor smart cards, contactless cards and paper tickets and RFID smart paper labels with over 130 million products in circulation worldwide.

Contactless and RFID technology offer significant advantages over contact based solutions for citizen mobility and item tracking. ASK has focused first on transportation, the most demanding contactless market and gradually addressed new market segments thanks to its expertise gained in mass transit schemes. Applications include access control and identification providing customers with loyalty schemes and e-purse for highways, cities, stadiums or university campus. The ID sector is addressed through Smart Paper ID (SPID) for passports or visas while the RFID market is offered sub-solutions for supply chain, asset management, item tracking and other specific needs.

ASK's range of products extends from the low-end inexpensive, consumable contactless paper tickets or labels up to the high-end contact/contactless multi-application cards. It includes OEM and hand-held readers to offer system integrators a full end-to-end solution.

ASK' products are based on a patented technology of paper inlet and silver-printed antenna combined with a specific pick and place process. Cards withstand specific quality tests that go beyond the ISO standards providing the highest quality and most reliable contact/contactless cards available on the market. These specific features are covered by 54 patents to date.

As a result of its outstanding technology, supported by a large and expert team of R&D engineers, ASK is already supplying dual interface (contact/contactless) cards and tickets to over 200 cities in 50 countries and smart paper labels, C.label, for major actors in asset management and supply chain representing some 40 million cards in circulation and 90 million tickets and inlays. These products are manufactured in our production center and headquarter of Sophia Antipolis, in the South of France. Regional offices are located in Paris (France) and Singapore.