Our Sponsors, Exhibitors & Partners

Komori Corporation

Founded in 1923, Komori’s design concepts have originated from the needs of our users and all our efforts have been devoted to customer satisfaction. The management principle of Kando – ‘beyond expectations’ – drives Komori to adhere to its origins and produce products of superior quality and reliability.

With equipment used in over 60 countries, Komori is recognized as a leading supplier with an excellent reputation as a manufacturer of printing machinery. Komori has been developing and manufacturing banknote presses since its first dry offset press was developed and delivered in 1958.

The printing of banknotes, and high security documents, requires the careful synthesis of many printing systems and technologies. By utilising our vast printing knowledge and technical skills, Komori has developed a range of products to service this exclusive market.

Oumolat Security Printing LLC

Oumolat Security Printing LLC. is a new banknote printing company in the United Arab Emirates, established in July 2016. The name Oumolat is a native Arabic word and literally translates into ‘currency’ and also reflects an element of ‘Security Printing’. Oumolat Security Printing is the first of its kind in the region, located in the new KIZAD industrial zone in Abu Dhabi. Oumolat is a specialised facility for printing banknotes and is equipped with an ultra-modern and fully integrated security and protection systems. At Oumolat we leverage technology and process innovation to achieve flawless products and best in class services. In all our key processes we employ industry experts with significant experience in their respective field.. Oumolat aspires to become the premium choice of Central Banks for any banknote related matters, including production, consultancy, planning of security upgrades to existing banknote designs, provision of conceptual design ideas and conceiving of new security features and concepts. We recognise the best way to achieve our goals is to continuously pursue our corporate values: Integrity, Quality, Customer Focus, Teamwork and Innovation Our strengths are: Security, Technology, and Reliability.

IDEMIA

As leader in identity technologies, IDEMIA is on a mission to unlock the world and make it safer. Backed by cutting-edge R&D, IDEMIA provides unique technologies, underpinned by long-standing expertise in biometrics, cryptography, data analytics, systems and smart devices.

IDEMIA offers its public and private customers payment, connectivity, access control, travel, identity and public security solutions. Every day, around the world, IDEMIA secures billions of interactions in the physical and digital worlds.

With nearly 15,000 employees, IDEMIA is trusted by over 600 governmental organizations and more than 2,300 enterprises spread over 180 countries, with an impactful, ethical and socially responsible approach.

INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION GROUP

IIG Produces and Personalizes International Payment Systems Cards, Multifunctional Cards With an Electronic Media- Both Contact and Contactless, Cards With a Social Application.

CREATION OF SOVEREIGN SECURITY PRINTING INDUSTRY
We offer states the creation of the advanced sovereign security printing facilities to be able to provide states with the following benefits:

NATIONAL SECURITY: technology independence from foreign suppliers while producing IDs and passports, own data management infrastructure, locally deployed and owned security technologies and production facilities.

SUSTAINALBE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: economic development and enhanced competitiveness, expansion, and diversity of IT and security printing business in the country.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: an advanced educational platform for local workforce certification and training, having the best talent in the industry.

Koenig & Bauer

Koenig & Bauer is regarded as the main driver of innovation and excellence within the high-security printing industry.Working hand in hand with our clients and partners, we have continuously elevated the art of high-security printing to new levels.By listening to our clients’ needs we have expanded our range of products and services to meet the ever-changing challenges of our market.Today we offer a unique range of products and services to authorised security printers and central banks enabling them to design, produce and issue banknotes and security documents according to their specific and individual needs.

Oberthur Fiduciaire

We are a hi-tech security printer and smart card manufacturer in India specialising in tax stamps for tobacco, wines and spirits- both non-adhesive and self-adhesive with complete track and trace system to eradicate the fake stamps.

UrbanID

UrbanID is a Dubai-based Identity Management Consultancy with offices in the UK, Nigeria and a few other African countries.
It’s primary purpose is the development and deployment of Industry Standard Personal Identity ecosystems for 3rd World countries, with emphasis on localized solutions, enhancing Data Privacy and User Consent Management. We are responsible for the development and deployment of Africa’s First Mobile ID ecosystem with over 23m subscribers in Nigeria alone.

Hungarian Banknote Printing Company / DIPA

Hungarian Banknote Printing Company (HBPC), as a symbol of tradition and reliability, has always been a significant part of the Hungarian and the international high security printing history.
HBPC, owned by the Central Bank of Hungary, is not only the exclusive manufacturer of the Hungarian banknotes and passports but also offers other cutting-edge security services (to protect official documents and other products) to our current and future partners.
We also provide complex system solutions for secure identities, data and infrastructures.
Our co-operation with our subsidiary, DIPA Diósgyőr Paper Mill – which manufactures different kinds of special security paper – makes it possible for us to offer a complete security product value chain from the substrate to the final product and further to the system level solutions.
Our mission is to provide services and products of high aesthetic value, so that our domestic and international clients would recognise their superior quality and use them in the future.

DIPA is a security paper manufacturer in Hungary since 1782. The main profile of the company is the production of banknote, passport and other document, diploma or ticket base papers for security printers and central banks.
We have a wide range of references in more than 50 countries worldwide, including Europe, Asia, Africa and South-America.

Jura / PARVIS

Jura is a recognized name in the security printing market, offering solutions from document personalization, high-security prepress, and platemaking to digital security and consultancy.
Jura’s software are in function at more than 100 governmental and licensed security printers all over the world. The Corvina graphic design software family helps the designers to develop sophisticated high-resolution artworks with precision, beauty and harmony.

For the fast-developing digital security printing market, has proprietary, worldwide-patented technology to protect security products and enhance brand protection. Jura’s latest developments contain different new features with smartphone apps for security print authentication and brand protection.

Jura is the first ‘Certified Security Supplier’ company by Intergraf and VPGI.

PARVIS is the leading provider for MES, Track & Trace, Quality Control and production management solutions for the high security printing industry.
With an experience of more than 25 years, PARVIS has been constantly investing in innovation, working in tight cooperation with its customers.
The line of solutions proposed by PARVIS include:
– Abaco-MES: for production management and traceability
– Numero: for on-line numbering inspection
– Proxima-o/p: for substrate and offset print measurement
– Proxima-i: for intaglio print measurement
– Optimark: SCMarks measurement system

Landqart

Landqart AG is the only manufacturer of security paper in Switzerland, proudly upholding traditional Swiss values: quality, security, and innovation. A trusted partner to governments around the world for the supply of banknote and passport paper, our paper-polymer composite substrate, Durasafe®, is firmly at the forefront of technological development in the industry.

A platform for innovative design and security features, Durasafe® is engineered to meet the requirements of banknote issuers. It allows the notes to stay safely ahead of the counterfeiters, offers untold design possibilities, and remains familiar and easy to recognise for the general public. In circulation from Switzerland to Asia, from Africa to the Americas, Landqart’s substrates are used with confidence in the most demanding situations.

Luminescence Sun Chemical Security

Formed in 1987, Luminescence manufactures high quality, custom-made security inks for value documents that are extremely difficult to recreate or replicate either by criminals or competitors. Now part of the Sun Chemical/DIC group of companies, we are a producer of inks used to print billions of documents and products globally each year and we offer the very latest in security ink technological development.

LUMINESCENCE manufactures security inks suitable for offset, intaglio, flexo, gravure, screen, numbering and inkjet processes. Most of our inks are custom-made to meet the customer’s exact technical requirements and preferred drying process. Our philosophy of supply gives our customers the highest levels of innovation, security, discretion and confidentiality.  “Inspiring confidence” is in everything we do.

SICPA

Market leader in security inks and leading provider of secured authentication, identification, traceability and supply chain solutions, SICPA is a long-trusted partner to governments, central banks, high security printers and the industry. Every day, governments, companies and millions of citizens rely on its expertise, which combines material-based covert features and digital technologies, to protect the integrity and value of their currency, personal identity, value documents, e-government services, as well as products and brands. True to its purpose of Enabling Trust through constant innovation, SICPA aims to further an Economy of Trust worldwide, where transactions, interactions and products across the physical and digital worlds are based on protected, unforgeable and verifiable data.

Founded in Lausanne in 1927, headquartered in Switzerland and operating on five continents, SICPA employs about 3000 people.

TECH5

TECH5 is an international technology company founded by experts from the biometrics industry, which focuses on developing disruptive biometric and digital ID solutions through the application of AI and Machine Learning technologies.

A combination of sustained investment and single-minded dedication to the development of biometric modalities that capitalize on AI has resulted in TECH5’s algorithms being consistently ranked in the top tier of NIST ranking for face, fingerprint and iris recognition technologies.

TECH5 target markets include both Government and Private sectors with products powering Civil ID, Digital ID, as well as authentication solutions that deliver identity assurance for various use cases.

United Security Printing

USP is a single source provider of Total Security Printing Solutions, catering to the evolving and expanding secure printing business needs of Banking, Government, Telecom, Retail, Hospitality, Transport and other industries seeking efficiency, security and personalization.

Veridos

Veridos GmbH creates secure and pioneering identification and identity solutions. Founded in January 2015, the joint venture between Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, Munich, and Bundesdruckerei GmbH, Berlin, pools the specialist expertise, the many years of experience, and the innovative power of the two largest German providers for high-security technologies to serve the international market.

Veridos offers its customers a unique product portfolio from a single source. For instance, it covers the entire value chain for passports, from paper right through to eGates.

The German company is a reliable partner valued by governments and public authorities throughout the world – so far, it can count over 70 countries among its customers. In addition to its headquarters in Berlin and the operating facility in Munich, Veridos is represented around the world including in Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, the USA, and the United Arab Emirates. Veridos currently employs a workforce of approximately 400.

WTG Water Treatment GmbH

WTG is an engineering company and trading company for industrial goods.

Our employees have decades of experience in the field of treatment plants and industrial plant construction.This both in the planning, the execution and the site supervision.

Anoop Plastic

Established in 1994, emerged as a leading supplier in the field of Printing, Graphic Arts, Packaging & Industrial Marking, catering to all segments of the industry – be it Offset, Flexo, Gravure or Screen Printing. We are an exclusive agent in UAE, Sultanate of Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen & India for the reputed international brands.

Applied Laser Engineering

ALE has been involved in the manufacture of Functional Topographic surfaces for more than 30 years. This privately owned company has provided leadership through innovation in the sector of laser engraving machine manufacture. These machines are used to place micro-textures onto rollers. To date, ALE has supplied more than 350 systems worldwide. Our machinery is used in an extensive range of industries having the commonality of requiring laser engraved microstructures to provide value and function through topography.

Laser engraved Functional Topography describes a surface that has functionality provided to the surface by the laser. This functionality could be to hold ink, for Flexo, Gravure or Anilox rollers, or to create a surface used for embossing or imprinting a substrate. Printed electronics, optical films, anti-microbial and low-friction surfaces are further examples of Functional Topography.

ART-Line / MELZER

Since 1992 ART-Line has established its services in the graphic arts industry as an authentic and multitalented partner.
Our core business is the trade of machines and materials for the production of high security printing products. Our supply ranges from the design to quality assurance tests of such products and includes all materials.

We operate independent of machine manufacturers, material factories and system integrators.
Our customers appreciate sophisticated acknowledgement of the broad range of technical solutions and state of the art manufacturing.

MELZER
High in-house production depth combined with flexibility and competence enable MELZER to quickly analyse special requirements and turn them into high quality solutions.

The modular designed machines manufacture highly precise and very sophisticated multi-layer products for the pharmaceutical and automotive sector, microelectronics, public transport, printing and many other industries.

Specific and modular designed machines for the production of high-end RFID cards, chip cards, inlays, ID cards, e-passports, e-visa-stickers and RFID labels are MELZER’s main scope of supply.

CETIS

CETIS, one of Europe’s leading security printing solutions companies, provides identity, travel and traffic documents (biometric passports, identity cards, visas, birth certificates, and other civil status certificates, driving licences, vehicle registrations and more) and comprehensive turnkey solutions for identity management and document issuance.
With security printing documents and the most advanced complementary solutions, which we have developed ourselves, we are a reliable strategic partner to customers around the world. We are committed to the highest international security and quality standards. The know-how of our experts is based on over 200 years of experience.

Heidelberg Instruments

HEIDELBERG INSTRUMENTS – THE POWER OF DIRECT WRITING

Heidelberg Instruments is a world leader in the development and production of high precision photolithography systems, maskless aligners and nanofabrication tools.

Our systems are installed in industrial and academic facilities all over the world. These are used for direct writing and photomask production in various
areas of MEMS/NEMS – for Semiconductors, Quantum Computing, Flat Panel Displays, Photonics, 2D Materials, IOT and many other related applications.

With over 35 years of experience and more than 1,000 systems installed worldwide, we can provide lithography solutions specifically tailored to meet all
your micro- and nanofabrication requirements – no matter how challenging.

HID Global

HID Global is the trusted source for innovative products, services, solutions, and know-how related to the creation, management, and use of secure identities for millions of end-users around the world. The company’s served markets include physical and logical access control, including strong authentication and credential management; card printing and personalisation; visitor management systems; highly secure government and citizen ID; and identification RFID technologies used in animal ID and industry and logistics applications. The company’s primary brands include ActivID®, EasyLobby®, FARGO®, IdenTrust®, LaserCard®, Lumidigm®, Quantum Secure, and HID®. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 2,700 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries. HID Global® is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand.

Hunkeler Systeme AG

We are providing solutions in the evacuation logistics segment for substrates like paper, cardboard, foils, and general waste to ensure an efficient management of the waste. From the compact unit right at the collection point to the factory integrated system solution, we always provide the right scaled system. From Hunkeler Systeme AG you receive comprehensive competence from one source.

Globally recognised, 80-person engineering company for tailor-made systems in disposal logistics. Construction of systems of any size for recycling companies, offset, digital and securities printing centres, financial institutes, packaging producers, large distributors, logistic centres.

Infineon

Infineon is the leading provider of security solutions. For nearly 30 years, we have been offering the industry’s broadest portfolio addressing the increasing need for security in the connected world. Our tailored and ready-to-use security solutions serve a wide range of applications from smartcard and ID applications to embedded, mobile and Internet of Things use cases.

IQ Structures

IQ Structures is a company creating micro and nano structures that provide products and materials with extraordinary properties to be used mainly in the fields of anti-fraud protection and optics.

The company is equipped with technologies that allow you to record and build structures with a precision of several nanometres. IQ Structures has authored many international patents and has more than 100 years of combined business experience in the protection of government and private documents and goods in over 80 countries.

Such knowledge and experience enables IQ Structures to create optical security features for protection of IDs, passports, banknotes etc. against counterfeiting.

Linxens

Linxens is a leading technology company providing component-based solutions for security and identification. We are a world-class specialist in the design and manufacture of Microconnectors for smartcards and RFID Antennas and Inlays. With over 100 billion Microconnectors and 4 billion RFID Antennas supplied to date, Linxens is the preferred supplier of many of the world’s technology pioneers shaping the markets of telecom, transport, hospitality, leisure & entertainment, financial services, eGovernment, access control, healthcare and Internet of Things (IoT).

In a digital world where the future is all about connectivity, our technology ensures the best possible connections, where and when they are needed. Our expertise empowers people so that they can lead their life with technology in a seamless way.

MaskTech

Masktech is the #1 independent supplier for highest security embedded chipsets, operating systems and related middleware for electronic identification cards, travel documents and authentication solutions.

Our portfolio includes generic and customized mask solutions for state-of-the-art Common Criteria certified smart card and contactless cryptographic chipsets. The company supplies more than 30 major passport manufacturers and system integrators and holds a leading position in all of its primary product categories.

Mühlbauer

Founded in 1981, the Mühlbauer Group has ever since grown to a leading global player of the security sector. With 35 production and service locations worldwide we have created a strong competence network around the globe. We specialize in innovative end-to-end ID solutions focusing on the production, personalization and issuance of secure ID cards and ePassports according to ICAO standards, and have established ourselves as a competent partner dedicated to implementing security systems. Access and border control systems, vision inspection technologies and semiconductor and RFID applications complete our comprehensive portfolio. Our clients benefit from three decades worth of experience we have gained during the lead in no less than 300 ID projects.

NANOBRICK

NANOBRICK is a new performance material pioneer based on “Active Nano Platform” inspired by mother nature.

Established in 2007, it continuously developed new nano-materials that are either color changeable or transmittance controllable depending on external electric or magnetic field.

NANOBRICK successfully developed the world’s first and only magnetically color-tunable photonic crystal material, MTX and has set up a secured mass production process.

NANOBRICK supplies not only application products such as M-Tag(Labels), M-Certi(Certificates, tickets), M-Stamp(Taxstamps) and M-Card(ID Cards) but also supplies M-SecuPrint, the security pigment only to the strategic partners.

Moreover, NANOBRICK will have a grand launch of a new security material, M-Currency, only for banknote applications.

OVD Kinegram / KURZ

Our high security printing products include Security Marks, Computerized Receipt/Manual Receipt, License Stickers, Certificates. Our Card Products are Banking cards , National ID , Voters ID, Smart card Driving Licence, E-Health /Smart Health card.

KURZ’ security solutions have used foil to protect tax stamps, banknotes and documents against counterfeiting and manipulation for over 30 years. National banks, government organizations and their suppliers in more than 100 countries rely on our experience in security technology. The combination of optical technology, security foil technology (e.g. partial metallization) and additional components provides superior protection against counterfeiting. These optical security labels can be combined with the web-based TRUSTCODE® identification system and marked with a unique identifier for mobile verification.

Sakurai

Since 1946, Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation has been manufacturing printing equipment and providing sophisticated services to customers, under a corporate philosophy of developing and maintaining customer relationships that endure for generations.

The Sakurai London Branch continue to further develop the concept, devoting their unique competence to providing integrated Solution Oriented Systems, that satisfy present market needs, as well as the latest technology innovations. As a result, the London branch has been re-defined as a “Tech_Business Competence Hub”.

Schwarz Druck

Security for authorities and companies worldwide

Innovation meets tradition – reliable supplier of security products and security solutions since 1898. Widely recognized know how in the fields of security printing, government solutions, and industrial applications. We provide consulting, design, research and development, production, logistics, and system solutions. Our company locations and agencies are, for example, in Germany, the UK, China, and Abu Dhabi.

SPM – Security Paper Mill

SPM – Security Paper Mill, Inc. is the leading and oldest security paper mill in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The company was founded in 1997 by Czech shareholders and continues a 50 years-old tradition of security paper production.
Security papers include various ways of protection against counterfeiting. Distinct features provide a documents protection and their security. Currently, our company produced more than 1,000 different types of security papers having unique technical specification and characteristics per customer´s requirements.

Stardust

We are the leaders in state-of-the-art technology for Supply Chain Traceability, Document Security, and Brand Protection for the past 20 years. We provide brand owners the ability to authenticate products and materials at any point in the supply chain, from the point of origin to the end user. This enables brand owners to track and accurately identify diversion of goods and counterfeits along the supply chain, and make demonstrative claims about what is, and what is not, in their products.

Currency News

Currency News published by Currency Publications Ltd, is the only independent newsletter dedicated to the specification, production and circulation of currency. Published 12 times a year, Currency News is an authoritative one-stop source of news and analysis of the events and issues shaping the development of banknotes and coins around the world and the industries that support them.

Currency Publication Ltd is is a joint venture between Currency Research and Reconnaissance International.

ID & Secure Document News

ID & Secure Document News is a comprehensive information source that focuses on developments in ID and travel documents.

Each monthly issue includes news, features on technologies, information on case studies and successful applications, interviews with key figures involved in specification, production, issuance and examination of ID and travel documents. ID & Secure Document News also features in-depth commentary and analysis to give you the inside track on the key players and winning technologies for the protection, production and issuance of travel and identity documents.

Secure Identity Alliance

The Secure Identity Alliance is dedicated to supporting sustainable worldwide economic growth and prosperity through the development of trusted digital identities and the widespread adoption of secure e-Services.

The Alliance offers leadership and advisory services to governments and other public bodies; supporting the implementation of digital ID projects to accelerate the wide range of economic, public health, electoral and sustainability opportunities offered by the shift to digital service provision.

The Alliance brings together public, private and non-government organizations to foster international collaboration on Digital ID challenges and the issues of data security, citizen privacy, identity, authentication and more.

The Alliance plays a key role in sharing best practice and uncovering the new generation of eIdentity and eDocument technologies crucial to building the trusted framework on which to drive eGovernment, and global economic growth, forward.

Smart Insights

Smart Insights, by Intelling: a blog about the Secure Transactions industry.

Smart Insights covers the smart card and secure transactions industry, its businesses, its technologies, its markets as well as its technology suppliers. Smart Insights covers all the major trends in the industry, it encompasses worldwide business, standardization bodies …

Smart Insights is brought to you by Intelling, the secure transactions industry expert. Intelling proposes services in communication, strategy, marketing and market intelligence, with a strong focus on all markets relating to the secure transactions industry.

More information atwww.smartinsights.netandwww.intelling.com

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