History Timeline

1969 - Developed high usage card for IBM users of hollerith punch systems.

1970 - Developed plastic card manufacturing equipment.

1970's - Pioneered magnetic stripe and bar code technologies for plastic card applications.

1971 - Developed "solid plastic" polyester-based Student ID with variable information for Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma.

1973 - Developed laminate to adhere to "wet" Polaroid film for security badges.

1973 - Developed polyester-based library cards with bar codes

1977 - Developed first electronic photo identification camera.

1983 - Developed magnetic striped plastic cards for Kronos, Inc. electronic card-based systems.

1984 - Produced first Teslin based plastic card in the industry.

1984 - Produced first Teslin based plastic card with variable information.

1987 - Developed Security Stripe (Black Bar), concealing the bar code and allowing only infrared scan.

1989 - Developed high security identification credential for Baja, Mexico. Identification card contained 21 fields of data.

1990 - Produced polyester RFID badges for Texas Instruments.

1990 - Identified over 1,000,000 Mexican voters in Baja, Mexico with Teslin based identification credential.

1991 - Developed and produced first Telecard for AT&T, the "TeleTicket."

1993/94 - Produced over 55,000,000 Mexican voter credentials for Mexico.

1994 - Developed and produced SSI's two card magnetic stripe mailers for Blockbuster Universal card program.

1995 - Developed and produced first Electronic Gift Cards for Blockbuster Entertainment.

1992-97 - Developed and produced National Identification credentials for Russia, Latvia, Australia, Iran, Croatia, and South Africa.

1998 - SSI Custom Data Cards purchased by DocuSystems, Inc.

2000 - SSI Custom Data Cards repurchased by Ron Goade and is now SSI Technologies.

2000 - Automated systems installed for high-speed lamination, laser imaging, magnetic stripe encoding, packaging, and label application.