Kaasmerk Matec

Founded in 1920, Kaasmerk Matec is a dairy industry manufacturer based in Leiden, Netherlands.

Kaasmerk Matec designs and produces cheesemarks, flexible casein-based identification plates that are applied to cheese at the earliest stage of production. The marks carry a unique code, text and logo, allowing individual cheeses to be identified, traced through production and distribution, and protected against counterfeiting, and they are used by cheese producers ranging from farms to large-scale plants. The company develops new shapes, compositions and colours with customers in its laboratories in Leiden, the Netherlands, and Arinthod, France. It also builds software and systems for identification, tracking and production optimisation. The business traces its origins to Het Kaasmerk, founded in 1920 to produce the first casein cheesemarks, and to Matec, founded in 1989 to serve protected designation of origin (PDO) consortia. The two organisations merged in 2009. The group has about 40 employees, operates from Leiden and from a factory in Arbent, France, opened in 2022, and works through distributors in several countries. The company holds HACCP certification.