Amsterdam 17 April 2024 - Two leading companies in the field of production of license plates, vehicle identification & registration systems, DKT Deutsche Kennzeichen Technik GmbH and Erich Utsch AG, today announce their strategic cooperation to improve the production of high-quality and secure vehicle number plates. Among other things, this partnership provides for co-operation in the future production process of DKT and a mutual supply of primary materials. The common goal is to increase and improve efficiency, quality and logistics processes. 

To this end, UTSCH and DKT are combining their expertise and resources to drive innovation in vehicle registration, identification and car data management through smart and digital solutions in order to meet the increasing demands of the market. Part of this cooperation is a highly innovative, state-of-the-art production line from Utsch, which DKT will use to realign its production at a modified and optimised location. The two companies agree that this will lead to increased flexibility in production and access to a wide range of smart solutions for the future. The focus is on the environment and sustainability in production, logistics and recycling processes with suppliers. 

"This future collaboration is a significant step for our market positioning," said Bernhard Gött, CEO of DKT. "With the experience and technological leadership of our partner Utsch, we can improve our entire production process and, more importantly, bring high-quality products to market faster."

When supplying primary materials for the production of vehicle licence plates, both companies want to work closely together in the future to develop suppliers with their own standards of quality and standardisation and a focus on sustainability. One example of this is that, in future, licence plates shall be produced exclusively based on recycled aluminium.

Dominic Höffgen, CEO of the uGroup, is very positive about the future collaboration: "The cooperation is a win-win situation for both groups of companies and will not only help to strengthen the partners' supply chains, but also, where markets demand it, to jointly present existing solutions with the best customer benefits."

Both companies therefore also see synergies in the area of international sales and the willingness to work together on some defined markets. According to the motto "Together we are even stronger", digital and smart products and solutions for vehicle identification with RFID and NFC in particular are to be bundled and promoted.