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Get Group selected by Belarusian for Border Pass ID card

Date: 10/08/2011

Global Enterprise Technologies Corp. (GET Group) announced today that its Toppan CP400 card printing solution has been selected by the Republic of Belarus for its new Border Pass ID Project managed by the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

GET Group will be providing its state-of-the-art Toppan CP400 security ID card printing system for this prestigious project in cooperation with its local partner, RFID Stars Co., an experienced IT and hardware distributor in Belarus. The aim of the project is to grant Belarus citizens the flexibility and ease of crossing borders to the neighboring countries of Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland without the need of any additional visa processing.

The CP400 printer distributed worldwide by GET Group employs patented high resolution pigment ink printing technology to produce cards with unprecedented color fidelity and durability. It is used for various high security ID projects around the globe including driver licenses, National IDs and government access control solutions.

Dmitry Malashenko, RFID Stars Co. Director said: "Our decision to partner with GET Group for this project was made in continuation to the success achieved in the previous Belarusian driver license project which was also personalized using the CP400. It was then only a logical choice to extend our successful relationship with the CP400 to this highly secure and sensitive project. With GET, we have established competitive synergy and sincerely look forward to expanding our collaboration to further territories and projects."

Isam Aziziyeh, Senior VP of GET Group's Passport and ID Division said: "We are very proud that the Belarusian government has again trusted and selected our Toppan CP400 technology over many competitors worldwide. Our proven success in the market with the CP400’s incomparable credibility was a main reason the CP400 has been selected for such a project.

The use of the CP400 and its unique printing capabilities was not only trusted by the Belarusian government but was also approved as a secure printer for the Border ID cards by the bordering governments as a reliable and secure source."

Khaled Aziz, GET Group Sales and Business Development Director for EMEA and Asia Pacific added “This highly strategic advancement on this project has encouraged GET Group to establish further expansion in the East European region. We definitely believe that GET possesses the technology perfectly adaptable to widely expand in such a market”.

For more than two decades, GET Group has led the industry with cutting edge passport and ID systems utilizing the world's most advanced digital printers manufactured by Toppan Printing Co. Ltd. of Japan. GET Group's Passport and ID Division is headquartered outside Boston, Massachusetts, USA.