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Top 25 Smart card manufacturers based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 55 smart card manufacturers headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 1,882 professional contacts across them, including 1,088 with verified work emails. Villingen-Schwenningen is the largest hub.
This list covers smart card manufacturers headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 30, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest smart card manufacturers based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,153 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als Technologieunternehmen des Bundes widmen wir uns mit großer Leidenschaft einem der zentralen Themen des 21.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Veridos is a world-leading provider of integrated identity solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “deister electronic is a leading company in the development, production and sales of electronic Security and Identification solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “COMPRION is the worldwide leading manufacturer of test solutions for smart card interfaces, terminals, and smart cards.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The SINC NOVATION Group is the partner for customer and employee loyalty.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unser Unternehmen ist Spezialist für Kartensysteme sowie Personalisierungslösungen der genossenschaftlichen FinanzGruppe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ddm hopt+schuler is a German family owned company, existing for now almost 50 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir sind IDENTA, ein mittelständischer ISO-zertifizierter Full-Service-Anbieter für moderne Kartenlösungen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Reiner Kartengeräte GmbH & Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The manufacturer for plastic cards, smart cards and ID media Plasticard-ZFT delivers products and services "a la card"- plastic cards, smart cards, rfid-cards and ID-media have…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Identbase GmbH is the biggest card printer distributor of Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 40 years, MADA has been developing and producing identification media such as ID cards, plastic cards, RFID tags or wristband transponders with high quality and utmost…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Technologisch innovativ und kompromisslos serviceorientiert plant, entwickelt und realisiert identWERK seit vielen Jahren anspruchsvolle Identifikationslösungen und stattet die…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a certified security printer, Schwarz Druck specializes in the development and production of counterfeit-proof print products and system solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fleischhauer Datenträger ist einer der führenden Hersteller von Tickets, Karten und RFID-Produkten für Identifikations- und Zutrittskontrollsysteme.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “All About Cards is producer of plastic cards, smart cards, prepaid, banking and credit cards.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Heyden-Securit - Europe´s first choice for ID and more Heyden-Securit GmbH are leading suppliers of ID systems and printers for the production of high-quality photo ID cards and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ecsec GmbH is a specialized provider of innovative solutions in the field of security in information and communication technology, security management, smart card technology…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Qartis is one of Europe's leading card manufacturers, providing products and services in more than 25 countries worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fischer Electronicsysteme steht seit über 35 Jahren für Kompetenz, Qualität und Sicherheit im Bereich der automatisierten Zahlungssysteme und dem Automatenbau.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KIS Global is a young and dynamic team of professionals that have a mission to assemble and deliver market-leading identity management solutions backed by quality Japanese…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BALTECH specializes in RFID and contactless smart card technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Distributor for Smart Cards and Smart Card Readers and solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wer auf der Suche nach einem zuverlässigen Partner in Bezug auf ID-Ausweissysteme ist, der hat mit CardPlus genau den richtigen Ansprechpartner gefunden.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als Hersteller von Kartencodierungs-Maschinen und Modulen für die Personalisierungsindustrien verstehen wir uns als weltweiter Partner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: smart card manufacturers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names smart card manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of smart card manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name smart card manufacturers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Smart card manufacturers based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 30, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 55 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among smart card manufacturers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “smart card manufacturers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names smart card manufacturers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among smart card manufacturers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,088 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names smart card manufacturers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many smart card manufacturers are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 55 smart card manufacturers headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Bundesdruckerei-Gruppe, headquartered in Berlin, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most smart card manufacturers?
Villingen-Schwenningen leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Berlin (3) and Bochum (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,088 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 55 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 30, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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