NEWSLETTER

Originally founded in 1999 as the innovation project “Enterprise” by the Austrian company voestalpine GmbH , ekey today is an independent company owned by two shareholders and is Europe’s #1 for fingerprint access solutions.

Enterprise, the innovation project of voestalpine GmbH, created room in which ideas were born, visions were brought to life, people were allowed scope for development and resources generated creative power.

The year 2000 witnessed the development of a visionary idea into a business model. The order for implementation was placed by voestalpine. Resources were made available. A consortium was formed, comprised of partners from the sectors of banking, credit card companies and technology. The know-how of these partners made it possible to intensify the analysis and development of the vision of a biometric system.

In October 2001, ekey biometric systems became an independent business. Jointly with the partners and 35 staff members, the vision was revised to meet the needs of future users and was put into action. After voestalpine decided to focus on its core business, the production of high quality steel, ekey biometric systems was meant to be closed down in September 2002.

In November 2002, the company was re-established by two former ekey top managers. The name “ekey biometric systems” as well as several assets and ekey patents were purchased by this newly founded company. To a large extent, the company’s staff specialized in these new products was recruited from the original enterprise.

At the beginning of 2004 ekey biometric systems Deutschland GmbH was founded in Nidderau-Heldenbergen, Germany. Generally speaking ekey Deutschland is responsible for sales and business project of all currently available products in the German market. There, highly motivated staff assures a high quality standard.

Early 2006 ekey biometric systems Est. was founded in Liechtenstein, servicing also the Swiss market.

At the moment ekey is developing several pillars in several biometric areas. And the company is on the right track: enormous growth, a high degree of customer satisfaction and continued research and development represent an enormous potential of our products.