Bartec Auto ID Company History

Dedicated teams of experts in the UK, Germany and North America design, develop and manufacture our products and support our customers. The company offers professional training, TPMS information and support in several European languages. All of our high quality tools are manufactured and tested in the UK and both of our manufacturing sites have ISO9001 approval.

1998 - Bartec installed the first ever TPMS car plant system at Renault, Sandouville, France and today have 105 plant installations. These TPMS antenna systems diagnose faults at wheel and tyre assembly and program vehicle ECUs on the final production line within major car manufacturing plants. With a market share of over 80% of plants in Europe and North America, Bartec is able to access the most up-to-date technical information and specifications of vehicles and sensors. This means that our aftermarket tools are also up-to-date and our customers are the first to be able to repair new models in this fast moving market.

2005 - TPMS is legislated in North America. Bartec opened Bartec USA LLC to support their North American customers and used their market leadership to equip many car plants and over the following years to supply over 100,000 tools to aftermarket customers including tyre shops, repair shops, OE customers and others. These advanced tools diagnose TPMS faults, enable repairs and turn off the warning light. The latest tools can download their vehicle diagnostic and repair data to a PC package called TPMS Desktop which provides an audit trail of work done along with extensive TPMS and vehicle repair information in several languages. The tools are also able to receive software and coverage updates over WiFi again leading to the repair of the latest vehicles.

Our OE customers include Ford, Chrysler, GM, Mitsubishi, Renault, Volvo, Nissan, Subaru, Isuzu, Land Rover, Jaguar, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota, Kia, BMW, Mercedes and wheel manufacturers and assemblers across the world.

Bartec Auto ID is also a leading edge designer and supplier of commercial vehicle tyre management systems, RFID readers, vehicle satellite tracking systems and other Tyre and vehicle technology products.

In April 2005 the company was privileged to receive the Queen's Award for Enterprise. This award is a recognition of the tremendous team effort by all at Bartec Auto ID innovating, listening to customers and bringing great products and technical support to our customers worldwide. The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are the UK's most prestigious awards for business performance.

2006 - Bartec Auto ID merged with Bartec Municipal Ltd, thereby acquiring the systems expertise of this company and its fast growing Waste Management Systems business. This division of our business has grown to be market leader in the UK for Local Authority Waste systems. In the same year the Tyre management business of Smartronics Limited was purchased from NMR PLC.

2014 - Our flagship TECH400 product won all of the major Trade awards for the best TPMS tool for ease-of-use and Return on Investment as voted by US trade customers. In 2015 this feat was repeated by the TECH500.
In 2014 Bartec Auto ID Ltd also moved to new state-of-the-art premises at Redbrook Business Park, Barnsley, UK at the start of the European rollout of TPMS. Again Bartec have been able to capitalise on our excellent reputation for customer service and market leading products by supplying over 35,000 tools into the aftermarket and equipping most of the manufacturing plants who supply into the European market.

2016 - Bartec acquired the top FTIR emissions analyser specialist Protea Limited, the aftermarket tools specialist SP Diagnostics and the vehicle performance chemicals business of Revive Automotive Solutions Limited. These businesses bring technology and expertise to complement the engineering teams at Bartec and offer the exciting prospect of extending the Bartec range of products for our tyre shop and repair shop customers. SP Diagnostics are specialists in battery management, Diesel Particulate Filter technology, towbar electronics, key cloning, fault code resetting, and other automotive technology.

2017 - Bartec purchased the product line and manufacturing rights to the Procal range of CEMS systems and merged this with Protea. The business will operate from two state-of –the-art manufacturing premises at Middlewich and Peterborough. Bartec continues to expand its emissions monitoring businesses.

Also in 2017 Bartec Auto ID (China) Limited opened its doors in Shanghai. The company is a Joint Venture with our esteemed Chinese partner Leadersoft with whom we have installed car plant systems throughout China during the past four years.

2020 - Bartec launches the latest generation of our TPMS Tools – the TECH600 at SEMA360 and wins the Runners Up award for Best New product in Show. The tool has Wireless communications with the car and works with all OE TPMS sensors and all major programmable sensors. In the US we launched the Ritesensor, Bartec's own programmable TPMS sensor.

The year was dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic. This saw sales slow in our major markets but our team pulled together to hit all product and software release schedules on time and ensure undisrupted service to our customers. This was an outstanding performance by all divisions of our business.

Bartec Municipal Technology is classed as an essential business and has succeeded in significantly growing its Service Management systems sales during the year. We enter 2021 stronger than ever with several new product launches across our businesses.

Bartec Auto ID Group is continually striving to develop its technology to remain number one in all of its markets. We strive to be world leaders in all of our product lines and markets. Contact us today and talk to our team about your specific requirements or challenges. Call +44 (0)1226 209226 (UK), +49 0800 7586529 (Germany) or +1 866 407-TPMS (US) and speak to one of our team or e-mail us at sales@bartecautoid.com.