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37 Years in the industry…. Can anyone beat that !!

After an eventful year for all of us Colin Stokes reflects on progress at Oasys over the last year as the world emerges from the recent pandemic  Industry veteran and innovator, Colin says – “our team at Oasys have done a great job over the last 18 months with the latest models of machines which […]

The New Wave! Plastic Recycling in the Banking Industry

Taking back some of the plastic that litters our planet and re-using it for Banking Cards is a small but positive step in addressing increasing environmental concerns.   Processing and manufacturing cards using reclaimed materials is not without it’s challenges. The characteristics of these materials are different, with more variability than ‘virgin’ polymers such as […]

The Card Sandwich Conundrum: How Many Layers Are Too Many?

Credit cards and smartcards used to be like BLTs, consisting of printed card images on sheets with three or four layers. Now they are more like super club sandwiches with eight, nine or even 10 layers—particularly in the identification credential arena. Identity credentials, such as ePassport pages and ID cards, have security features contained in […]

New Compact Punch Machine OCP333

Oasys are pleased to announce the launch of a new compact Punch machine which provides combination printing product handling. The OCP333 Series provides either manual sheet feeding or fully automated sheet feeding possibilities. Fully automated print registration to produce ISO standard size cards. The concept of the machine is to take printed card sheets directly […]

Oasys launch revolutionary card sorting facility…

Oasys Technologies are pleased to announce that they have successfully launched a new method of handling and sorting punched card products. The card sorting facility can be incorporated into the well proven Oasys OCP440 and OCP 310 series of punch machines. As an example, an 8 x 6 sheet format would be guillotine cut into […]

New OCL 624 “compact” version

The unique Oasys 600 series Oasys Collator incorporating the pioneering “print to print registration has been an industry leading card production machine since its launch in 2001 – now widely considered the leading industry collation machine and used by many of the leading global card manufacturers. About the only technical drawback in certain cases has […]