Morpho Cards

Morpho Cards GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1984
Seat	Flintbek , Germany
management	Philippe d'Andréa
Number of employees	2,697 (2011)
sales	389.3 million euros (2012)
Branch	Chip card manufacturer
Website	www.morpho.com

Morpho Cards (formerly Sagem Orga ) is a company in the chip card industry. The product range includes hardware, software, advice and service for everything to do with smart cards for the telecommunications , health , identification and banking sectors . The company, which was founded in 1984 as ORGA Kartensysteme GmbH, was taken over in 2005 by Sagem Sécurité, which in turn is part of the state-owned French conglomerate SAFRAN SA . Morpho Cards has its headquarters and a production facility in Flintbek and employs 2,700 people worldwide. The production facilities are located in Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and India; Subsidiaries in France, Great Britain, India, Lithuania, Mexico, Austria, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil and the USA.

history

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Logo after the name change

• 2018 Change of name to Idemia Germany GmbH
• 2017 Merger with Oberthur Technologies
• 2014 Announcement of the site closure in Paderborn and reduction of the workforce in Flintbek
• 2013 supporters of FIDO Alliance , the industry standard Universal Second Factor (U2F) for a generally applicable two-factor authentication has developed

Logo until 2011

• 2011 Sagem Orga GmbH is renamed Morpho Cards GmbH and relocates its headquarters from Paderborn to Flintbek
• 2010 Sagem Orga, like the entire Sagem division, which previously operated under the name Sagem Sécurité , takes over the brand name "Morpho".
• 2009 Sagem Orga received the SESAMES Award in the "Software" category for the "T2TIT" project at Cartes in Paris
• 2008 Sagem Orga develops the first A-GPS SIM card together with a partner
• 2008 Introduction of the 256k SIM for multiple customers
• 2007 Sagem Orga is the first provider to receive all certificates for all smart card products that will be required for the future eGK telematics infrastructure.
• 2005 Introduction of the first e-government card
• 2005 Acquisition by Sagem Défense Sécurité , creation of Sagem Orga
• 2004 Development of a SECCOS (Secure ChipCard Operating System)
• 2003 ORGA receives in the consortium, together with u. a. IBM and SAP , the consulting contract for the new electronic health card in Germany
• 1996 Introduction of the first prepaid GSM system
• 1992 First ec bank card with chip in Germany
• 1990 Development of the first GSM - SIM card
• 1985 Development of the first multifunctional chip card
• 1984 Introduction of the first single-chip processor card worldwide
• 1984 Orga Kartensysteme GmbH is founded

Web links

• Morpho Cards GmbH website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bundesanzeiger.de: Consolidated financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011 (with preliminary annual results for 2012)
2. ↑ idemia.com
3. ↑ morpho.com
4. ↑ Paderborn site is closed
5. ↑ shz.de
6. ↑ New Westfälische Sagem Orga: Headquarters says goodbye to Paderborn
7. ^ Sagem Sécurité renamed Morpho ( Memento of April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 3.2 ″  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 13 ″  E