PVC cards are ideally suited for the use as customer or credit cards. Typically, they are tucked into a wallet or purse and used, on average, once a day. ID cards, car park card, or PKI cards are exposed to tougher loads. They are used more than 50 times a day as door openers, or for bookings, are inserted into a PC and exposed to serious thermal loads or must handle UV radiation on a daily base whilst sat behind the windshield of a vehicle. Ex¬posure to chemicals or aerosols may also shorten the lifespan Plasticard-ZFT offers cards out of its own de¬velopment department. These cards are made using composite materials that have been optimised for specific demands. Our bestseller, the HT85 Card, has been certified by FOGRA For¬schungsgesellschaft Druck e. V. for a threshold temperature of 85 °C and for a lifetime of 10 years.