Making sure your cards work worldwide first time, everytime


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Increase confidence & eliminate the cost of faulty cards

Financial, Transport, Identification

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Get your card batch certification in days!


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How long is a card likely to last once it’s issued?


The ISO/IEC 24789 Card Service Life Standard evaluation regime sees how your cards measure up against current card industry expectations

Find out if your cards will last until their expiry date


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Card Testing International™ (CTI) is an independent ISO/IEC 17025 Card Testing Laboratory. CTI provide a range of specialist compliance & quality assurance testing services for financial, transport & identification cards. Additionally, our services include evaluating and certifying proficiently manufactured card batches.



Get your cards tested!
Card quality and reliability is more important then ever! Today, with increasing card usage and reliance, and the added expense of smart card (chip card) productions, there is no room for complacency. The image and performance of your card is a direct representation of your organisation.
 
Compliant cards perform for your customers!
The single common binding factor between all of our clients, is the desire to have ISO, IEC, MC CQM, ANSI or DIN Standard compliant cards in their customer's hands. It is a fundamental truth that a non-ISO standard card will not perform for a customer as well as an ISO Standard compliant card.

Preventative maintenance testing and an early commitment to quality reduces the cost of faulty cards providing savings and increased customer satisfaction. Learn more

Transport Card Testing


Blank Stock Testing


Passport Testing


Proximity Testing


Card Dimensions


Problem Analysis


Manufacturer Certification


Personalisation Testing


Electrostatic Discharge Robustness


Financial Card Testing


Magnetic Stripe Encoding Quality


Card Service Life


Independent Lab Testing for Cards & Major Schemes
With the capability of our ISO/IEC 17025 laboratory, we provide our independent unbiased Quality Assurance to companies including Financial Card issuers (Debit/Credit cards including VISA® and MasterCard®, ATM/EFTPOS cards), Card Manufacturers, Card Equipment Manufacturers, Loyalty & ID Card issuers, Encoding Bureaus, Chip Card Issuers etc.


Wherever you are, get your cards tested with us!
CTI is one of the few independent card testing laboratories in the world capable of testing cards to internationally recognised standards (e.g. ISO, MC CQM, ANSI). Certified to ISO/IEC 17025, the worldwide recognised standard for competence of testing laboratories, you can be assured of our capability.


 

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CTI's Card Testing Services are applied to all Product Testing and Technology Testing. We offer worldwide ISO/IEC 17025 accredited quality assurance testing to certify and also to prevent re-issuance of financial / transport / ID cards. The services are separated by the different stages of the card manufacturing and card processing equipment, all with the common goal to ensure your cards work worldwide, first time, every time.