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Erich Utsch AG is one of the global market leaders in security license plate technology, headquartered in Siegen, Germany.HistoryErich Utsch established the company in 1961 as a family business.The first embossing machine was a modified wine press. 1969, after his father’s death, Manfred Utsch took over. In 2001, the Erich Utsch KG became a public limited company whose majority shares are in family ownership. Today Erich Utsch AG is active in more than 130 countries, with joint ventures in 52 countries and has as group about 1,500 employees worldwide.In 1988, Utsch confirmed his role as a technology pioneer by introducing a new, environmentally friendly and extremely durable dry roller coating technique for license plates called “hot stamping”.From 1995 on, Utsch developed extensive security concepts for license plates. By using laser-codes, holograms, graphics or coats of arms, license plates turned into national high security documents. In 2002, Utsch introduced the first windshield label with transponder technology as an electronic identification document.Between 2008 and 2009 Utsch realized the three biggest orders in value of over 30. Mio. € in the Arab world.In 2012, the company produced more than 50 million vehicle license plates worldwide. In the same year Erich Utsch AG and J. H. Tönnjes GmbH & Co. KG (the two world leaders in security license plate technology) founded a joint venture: UTI (Utsch Tönnjes International).The sale of the majority shareholding owned by Manfred Utsch became known in September 2016. In future, it belongs to a Swedish and Australian group, represented in the negotiations by Ian George and Anders Eriksson. Manfred Utsch stated that the sale will support the business continuity and safe the jobs at the location Siegen in long term. He himself will only perform an advisory task in the future.