Tampere maker of RFID tags, labels and contactless smart tickets (Confidex Oy, business ID 1969597-3, Vihiojantie, 33800 Tampere; registered 21 July 2005), owned since April 2022 by the Brazilian RFID and labels group Beontag, which has made Tampere its global R&D centre of excellence. In September 2024 Confidex won TML – Transportes Metropolitanos de Lisboa’s contract for 9.5 million contactless memory tickets with the ST25TB512 chip, worth €784,700 — the paper smart tickets sold across Lisbon’s public transport.
Confidex’s Portuguese business is anchored in Lisbon’s public transport. On 17 September 2024 TML – Transportes Metropolitanos de Lisboa, the metropolitan transport authority that runs the Navegante fare system, published the award to Confidex Oy of a contract for 9,500,000 contactless memory tickets built on STMicroelectronics’ ST25TB512 chip, for €784,700 (TED 556202-2024). These are the disposable paper smart tickets used on Carris, Metro de Lisboa and the other operators in the Lisbon fare system, so a Finnish factory’s output passes through millions of Portuguese hands every year.
The company that won it has been part of a larger group since 2022. Founded in Tampere in 2005, Confidex built its business on industrial-grade RAIN RFID and NFC tags for logistics, automotive and smart-city applications, and on NFC transport ticketing for cities. Beontag, the Brazilian smart-tags and adhesives group, announced its acquisition of Confidex on 20 April 2022 and has kept Tampere as the group’s global research and development centre, with a pilot factory for new tag designs; Confidex continues to trade under its own name with offices in France, the Netherlands, the United States and Asia.
Contactless ticketing is a procurement niche where Nordic suppliers have a structural edge: Finland and Sweden industrialised NFC and RFID tags early, and public transport authorities buy tickets in tens of millions through open EU tenders. Confidex’s Lisbon award is a clean example of a Nordic technology exporter winning a Portuguese public contract on price and specification alone, without a local subsidiary. For Fractio’s Nordic clients it is a reminder that Portugal’s transport authorities publish on TED and are open to foreign bidders.
September 2024 — TML award: 9.5 million contactless memory tickets for Lisbon public transport, €784,700 (TED 556202-2024).
April 2022 — Beontag announces acquisition of Confidex; Tampere becomes the group’s global R&D centre of excellence.
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