BIO-key Signs Agreement with Shinden Hightex Corporation to Market and
Sell Company’s Line of Compact Fingerprint Readers in Asian Market
SideTouch, SideSwipe and EcoID made readily available for Windows Customers throughout APAC
Hong Kong – November 21, 2016 - BIO-key International, Inc. (OTCQB: BKYI), an innovative
provider of biometric software and hardware solutions for strong and convenient user
authentication, announced today that the company has signed an international distribution
agreement with Shinden Hightex Corporation (JASDAQ:3131) a specialty electronics components
trading organization headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Shinden Hightex Corporation started in 1995
and today has over 150 employees in the APAC region and revenues exceeding $450M USD. The
company has offices throughout Japan and regional offices in Seoul, Bangkok, Hong Kong and
Singapore. Shinden Hightex Corporation’s list of offerings includes LCD, RF-ID Cards and SemiConductor
products. Marquee customers include Toshiba, Sony, NEC, Ricoh and Panasonic.
“BIO-key is highly committed to serving the demand for convenient online security in the APAC
market,” stated Wong Kwok Fong, Managing Director, BIO-key Hong Kong Limited.
“Enterprises and consumers in this market have been early adopters of biometric technology, as
they embrace the benefits the technology delivers. Our new line of compact fingerprint readers
for Windows is revolutionizing the way the world is conducting online authentication and Shinden
Hightex Corporation has cultivated and managed relationships with many companies in the APAC
market, that could immediately benefit from our technology”, added Wong.
“We are very excited about adding BIO-key’s secure authentication solutions as our new product
portfolio into national distribution through our enterprise and government. Security is the biggest
concern in Japan which must be built quickly as social infrastructure, especially toward for the
Olympic Games that will take place in Tokyo, Japan in 2020. It is very much an honor that we are
able to deliver BIO-key’s products and solutions to protect us from security threats”, stated
Tamotsu Shiroshita, President of Shinden Hightex Corporation
