Why Fenotag ?
1. Strategic location & expertise
Located in Aix-en-Provence, Fenotag benefits from a strategic position close to leading semiconductor and RFID technology ecosystems, including STMicroelectronics and Thales.
Fenotag operates a fully integrated industrial model across its French sites, including Marseille (Headquarters & Direction), Aix-en-Provence (production, R&D, administration and commercial functions) and Gardanne (micro-pack and micro-module production with advanced R&D facilities).
This proximity to key industrial ecosystems, combined with internal R&D capabilities, enables strong technological integration, industrial control, and continuous innovation.
2. High production capacity
Fenotag operates a 1,200 m² facility combining production and office spaces.
Our advanced manufacturing line is capable of producing up to 75 million of UHF textile tags annually and much more for others products, ensuring scalability for high-demand industrial applications.
3. Quality & certification
All Fenotag RFID textile tags are OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100 certified (product class 1), ensuring safety, compliance, and reliability in sensitive applications.
We operate under a fully ISO 9001:2015 quality management system supported by an in-house QA laboratory.
4. Ecosystem & partnerships
Fenotag collaborates with leading institutions and industry Partners and Textile Engineering Laboratories, reinforcing our position at the forefront of RFID innovation.
This ecosystem approach strengthens our ability to innovate across the full value chain, from R&D to industrial production.
5. Real-world performance
Our RFID tags are engineered for demanding conditions (up to 300 industrial washing cycles), ensuring durability, reliability, and performance in real operational environments.
MEET THE TEAM
Didier ELBAZ
Founder & CEO
Didier worked for 12 years at GEMPLUS (now GEMALTO) in R&D department. He was in charge of important R&D project, and published numerous patent. He industrialized many new technologies to improve significantly the card manufacturing solutions. Some of them are still used all over the world.
Didier has been part of the pioneers to leave Gemplus (now Gemalto) in 2003 to create with some colleagues, a new company, SPS (Smart Packaging Solutions), specialized in the development, production and selling of electronic micro-systems on flexible support. Didier highly contributed to the development of this company which achieved a turnover of Euro 18M in 2007. Didier was acting as CTO for the company. He patented, developed, and industrialized major technology used as a standard as of today. SPS (s-p-s.com) success has been rewarded with several Innovation awards. This company has been bought to the French National Printing Company (Imprimerie Nationale) in 2014 for more than 130 million Euros.
Didier joined TAGSYS, a famous company in RFID, in 2008 with a major experience in sub-contracting management, strong technology innovation capability, and control of the quality for sub-contracted products. Well known as an expert in both design and manufacturing of RFID tags, Didier has developed best-in-class expertise in antenna design, in complex RF solutions, and in customized and flexible manufacturing, all thanks to the continued efforts of its veteran team of top-talent engineers and to continuous investments and partnership with key players in RFID worldwide.
In 2015, Didier founded FENOTEK. (www.fenotek.com). This company develops and sells a range of innovative interfaces and software enabling to securely connect and control an existing object to the internet. As COO, Didier manages the complete product to market strategy.
More recently, he founded Fenotag, a company specialized in design and manufacturing of innovative SmartCard module and RFID TAG acting as CEO.
Richard BAILLY
General Manager
François COMBES
Process Manager
Susana PEREZ
Executive and Finance Assistant
Edgar MARENDAZ
Equipement Design Manager
Nicolas EYNAUD
Quality and Logistics Manager
Robert LYNN
North American Sales
Peter VOLZ
Eastern Europe Sales
Philippe TOUITOU
Brazil and LATAM Sales
SOME SIGNIFICANT COMMERCIAL AGREEMENTS
Textile traceability solutions
Pilot project – asset tracking
Railway equipment traceability
RFID chip technology partner
Industrial textile tracking
RFID hardware partner
RFID software platform
Industrial asset tracking
Reusable packaging tracking
A STRONG LOCAL PARTNERSHIP
Laser marking & industrial integration
Packaging & industrial solutions
SUPPORTED BY
Innovation funding support
Because the technology is clearly innovative and the global company strategy adapted to the market, FENOTAG received an important financial help from French state owned bank