From intaglio printing, heritage of its founder since 1842, to electronic personalization system implementation, Oberthur Fiduciaire has become a key player in the high-security industry.

With six production sites and over 700 employees, Oberthur Fiduciaire is now:

• World’s third largest privately owned banknote printer;
• Leader in identity documents;
• Key player in printing and personalization of checks, letter-checks and service vouchers;
• World number one issuer of electronic passports (in volume terms);
• Selected to print the Euro.

In line with its unique expertise in high-security printing, Oberthur Fiduciaire develops complete end-to-end solutions and offers a whole range of modern personalized secured services and solutions.

Oberthur Fiduciaire is the first fiduciary Group worldwide to have been entrusted by a country with the management of its complete travel documents system.

Every day, governments and ministries renew confidence in Oberthur Fiduciaire and rely on it to implement their identity projects: analysis and consultancy, design, printing, integration, personalization and delivery.

Oberthur Fiduciaire is one of a limited number of companies in the world capable of offering complete solutions, from application analysis and design to delivery. This applies to the entire Oberthur Fiduciaire product range :

• Banknotes
• Passports and identity documents
• Checks, letter-checks,
• Service vouchers
• Secure documents (gift vouchers, tickets, complex printed documents, etc.)
• Scratch cards.

Oberthur Fiduciaire develops new solutions in line with the logical development of its business activities :

• electronic personalization system;
• traceability tool;
• online secure production monitoring system;
• banknote sorting management system;
• audit and training.

Oberthur Fiduciaire plays a crucial role as consultant to its customers for the design of new documents, selecting the most suitable technology and setting up a complete, consistent system. As befits a high-security printer, the Oberthur Fiduciaire production sites boast extremely secure infrastructures and processes, in accordance with international standards and with its customers’ quality and security requirements .

This ongoing policy has resulted in the Oberthur Technologies's various sites gaining various certifications and accreditations, according to their activities :

Technical

• APACS
• CFONB
• Intergraf

Security

• French Ministry of the Interior (PS2)

Quality

• ISO 9001 version 2000
• AFAQ

Environment

• Imprim’ vert
• ISO 14001 (pending)

Guaranteeing the reliability of techniques and materials, the quality department ensures that the company’s quality policy is applied in all departments in accordance with pre-defined operating modes. It also manages preventive and corrective actions to identify and anticipate potential production malfunctions and implements any necessary measures to improve processes.

New products are finalized working together with the company’s materials and print media manufacturing partners. The R&D department, with its team of product and method engineers, continues to implement innovative and adaptable procedures.