USD 20 Million Smart Card Manufacturing Plant in Singapore Gemplus Microelectronic Asia starts operation in Singapore.
Facility includes embedding, cleanroom and personalization.
1998-Gemplus, the world leading provider of smart card based solutions, today announced the official opening of its smart card manufacturing plant in Singapore through an opening ceremony officiated by Mr Philip Yeo, Chairman of Singapore Economic Development Board. The USD20 million state of the art manufacturing facility, Gemplus Microelectronic Asia Pte Ltd, is located at Marsiling Industrial Estate and includes a cleanroom, embedding and personalisation facility and will house over 250 personnel comprising both engineers and production staff, when fully operational. The plant will be managed by Jean Marie Bosc, who in his capacity as Managing Director, will be responsible for overseeing day to day operations of the plant. Phase 1 will see the first line in production and the rest of the lines are expected to go fully operational in the first half of 1999. The clean room has a capacity of up-to 5 production lines, with a potential production output of almost 1 million micro modules per day.