RFID Card Manufacturer in China

What a factory-direct card manufacturer controls

'Card manufacturer' gets claimed by trading desks that never touch a lamination roll, so the honest test is which steps a supplier actually owns. Proud Tek owns all of them: we assemble the inlay, laminate the card body, die-cut it to ISO/IEC 7810 dimensions, print it, encode it and read-test every piece — the whole chain on our own Shenzhen lines since 2008. For the security-grade end of the range there is a dedicated smart-card manufacturing page, and for volume economics the bulk-card page; this page is the factory itself. The numbers below are the ones a procurement team checks first.

• 2008Card factory since
• 50+Countries shipped to
• 10Automated lines, 2 sites
• 3Audited ISO systems

• Full in-house production — inlay assembly, hot-roll lamination, die-cutting, offset and digital printing, encoding and 100% electrical test under one roof, so one team is accountable from PO to dispatch rather than five subcontractors.
• Direct chip allocation from the major card-chip makers (NXP, Infineon, Fudan) with authorised-distribution backup, so a card program is not held hostage to one vendor's lead time.
• A direct factory, not a trading desk: two Shenzhen sites, ten automated lines and 305+ pieces of process equipment under one ISO 9001 management system, every encoded card read-tested before it ships.
• Export-ready fulfilment — ISO/IEC 7810, 14443 and 15693 conformance, per-shipment RoHS / REACH / FCC / CE paperwork, FOB Shenzhen / Yantian or DDP terms, and English-speaking project managers who reply within one business day.

How an RFID card is actually made — five production stages

Every Proud Tek card runs the same five stages, documented on a production traveller from PO to dispatch — and knowing them lets you read a quotation line by line, because each cost item maps to one stage. The factory encoding step and the printing step each have a page of their own; here is how they sit in the line. The operators who run your 100-piece pilot are the same ones who run the 100,000-piece order.

1. 1. Inlay assembly

   The chip is bonded to an etched or wire antenna in-house (HF 13.56 MHz and UHF wet-inlay assembly), and any inlay that fails a readability check is scrapped before it ever reaches card production.

2. 2. Collate & laminate

   Inlays are sandwiched between card-body layers and hot-roll laminated under controlled heat, pressure and dwell — around 150°C — permanently encapsulating chip and antenna into a single monolithic card.

3. 3. Die-cut to CR80

   Laminated sheets are punched to the ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1 (CR80) format, 85.60 × 53.98 × 0.76 mm — the payment-card footprint, so finished cards fit every standard reader, hotel lock and badge printer.

4. 4. Print & finish

   Four-colour offset for volume, digital for short runs, plus screen printing, hot stamping, laser engraving, signature panels, hologram and magnetic-stripe options — the full finish menu lives on the card-printing page.

5. 5. Encode & 100% test

   UID read, NDEF or sector data written on the line, then a functional read test on every encoded card — chip response, antenna resonance and read range — before it is packed.

Card capability menu — families, chips, materials and MOQ

The table is the fast way to see whether we make your card. We are chip-vendor agnostic, laminating LF 125 kHz, HF 13.56 MHz, vicinity and UHF silicon into any body in the materials list, printed and finished to your artwork. Chip names are representative of what we stock and allocate directly; security-grade selection — encryption, key handling, transit and payment-grade parts — is the territory of the smart-card manufacturing page, and per-SKU parts live on the RFID cards catalogue.

Card body materials we laminate

Material drives feel, durability and price more than any line item except the chip, and every stock in our range earns its place — wallet thinness, a sustainability mandate, a premium unboxing or a pool-deck beating. All of them run on the same lamination lines, so mixing materials across a program does not mean mixing suppliers. The points below are the stocks buyers ask for most.

• PVC — the standard card body: lowest cost, full-bleed print compatibility and years of normal wallet service. The volume default unless a requirement pushes elsewhere.
• PETG and ABS — tougher and more temperature-tolerant than PVC, specified for gym, pool, locker and other high-handling environments.
• Polycarbonate — the decade-of-daily-use option, laser-engravable for tamper-resistant personalisation on government and enterprise credentials.
• PLA, recycled-PVC and FSC-certified paper — lower-footprint bodies for sustainability mandates, with RoHS and REACH SVHC declarations on file by SKU; FSC paper and bamboo-composite offered on request for chain-of-custody programs.
• Wood and bamboo — laser-engravable natural stocks for hotel-key and premium-membership programs; see the wooden card and bamboo card SKU pages.
• Transparent and metal — clear PET for promotional cards, and stainless-steel bodies for premium business cards; metal detunes a 13.56 MHz antenna, so metal cards use a slot-antenna design to stay readable.

Where a trading desk stops — and where a card factory starts

A card program goes sideways in the gap between the quotation and the cards that actually arrive: a trading desk forwards your PO and hopes, while a factory owns the chip, the lamination and the read-test. When the cards carry your brand and your access-control estate — a MIFARE DESFire EV3 badge or a laminated hotel key — that difference is the whole order. The commitment numbers below are the ones we hold in writing.

• 500Custom-print MOQ (cards)
• 5-7 daysProduction lead time
• 5-10Free sample cards
• 100%Electrical read test

Proof your procurement team can verify

Trust on a first card order is not a feeling; it is a stack of documents your supplier-qualification team can check without us in the room. Every item below is verifiable before you commit — the certifications page shows each standard and how to confirm it with the registrar, and the factory page documents the plant behind the cards.

• ✓ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certificates — certificate number and issuing registrar provided on request for independent verification.
• ✓100% electrical test on every card — chip response, antenna resonance and read range — with a functional test report included in the shipment.
• ✓ISO/IEC 7810 dimensional conformance plus ISO/IEC 14443 (proximity) and ISO/IEC 15693 (vicinity) air-interface conformance as applicable to the chip family.
• ✓Per-shipment compliance pack: commercial invoice and packing list with chip family and encoding lot, Certificate of Origin, radio-compliance Certificate of Conformity (FCC / CE as applicable) and RoHS / REACH SVHC material declarations.
• ✓Open factory audits across two Shenzhen sites by appointment, in-house pre-shipment inspection by your QC agent at no charge, and quality records retained seven years under ISO 9001.

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