Our Sponsors, Exhibitors & Partners

IDEMIA

IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, provides a trusted environment enabling citizens and consumers alike to perform their daily critical activities (such as pay, connect and travel), in the physical as well as digital space.

Securing our identity has become mission critical in the world we live in today. By standing for Augmented Identity, an identity that ensures privacy and trust and guarantees secure, authenticated and verifiable transactions, we reinvent the way we think, produce, use and protect one of our greatest assets – our identity –  whether for individuals or for objects, whenever and wherever security matters. We provide Augmented Identity for international clients from Financial, Telecom, Identity, Public Security and IoT sectors.

With 13,000 employees around the world, IDEMIA serves clients in 180 countries.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Covestro

Covestro is among the leading suppliers of premium polymers. Our materials and application solutions are found in nearly every area of modern life. Innovation and sustainability are the driving forces behind the continuous development of our products, processes and facilities.

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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.

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Hunkeler Systeme AG

Based in Wikon, Switzerland, Hunkeler Systeme AG develops and manufactures waste disposal systems in an incredibly wide range of sizes. The systems range from small baling presses and press containers, through to large extraction and compression systems and high-performance systems for destroying securities and bank notes. Hunkeler Systeme AG operates around the world, providing products and services for a range of customers including business and service enterprises, printing companies, packaging manufacturers, local authorities, major distributors and national financial institutions.

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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.

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International Reference Systems BV

Established in The Netherlands, IRS is a pioneer in the field of document security with their extensive online reference database. Our solutions are not only used by forensic experts using all detailed security information but also in day to day trade in the commercial and retail environment.

Through its commitment to innovation, project delivery and customer service, the company has built an enduring, international network of partners and customers through which it delivers its broad range of products and services.

The company is financially strong and is pursuing an ambitious domestic and international growth strategy.

IRS occupies market leading positions in a number of geographies and across various products within its portfolio. Its businesses receive regular industry recognition The company maintains close links to the communities in which it operates and is committed to creating and maintaining sustainable employment in these communities.

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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., 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.

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Lake Image Systems

Lake Image Systems is a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of imaging and scanning technologies for the world’s printing, labelling and packaging industries. By reading and processing the variable data now commonplace on many printed items our systems inspect, verify, track and report on millions of documents, printed pieces, plastic cards and packages daily using codes such as OCR, barcodes, 2D codes, QR codes and many more.

With over 3000 installations worldwide, our products have given data traceability and variable print integrity confidence to our customers for 20 years, optimising their processes, enhancing their product quality and increasing their profitability.  With manufacturing in Europe and the USA, Lake Image Systems provides turnkey integrity solutions which identify defective labels, generate detailed audit trail reports.

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Luminochem

Security pigment supplier

In today’s world of rapid scientific and technological progress, security solution providers need the very best materials to make their products secure. Luminochem has a team of highly qualified researchers to develop top quality luminescent materials for different applications such as security printing, brand protection, coatings, fibers etc.

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MagVision

Driving Innovation in Secure Documents

MagID is a simple, yet effective technology to secure ID cards, voting forms, tax stamps or certificates.

MagID is very simple to integrate into documents and has many different applications. It is possible to identify documents inside sealed envelopes without the need for windows. MagID can also be used as a hard-wired pin inside secure cards, for example bank cards, membership cards and key cards. But it cannot be read or copied from a distance, unlike NFC security.

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Regula

With over 25 years on the hi-tech market, Regula offers trustworthy security equipment for identity checks and authentication of all types of security documents including ID cards and passports. The company also develops software for automated recognition and verification of security documents. In addition, Regula experts conduct in-house training courses for customers using Regula solutions

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ZEISER

ZEISER ensure that passports, banknotes, ID documents, checks, revenue seals, lottery tickets or branded products actually deliver on their promise, we turn each document and every single product into a unique item. ZEISER is focused on the development of modular based individualisation solutions for different security market-segments.

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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.

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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.

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InterCrim-Press

InterCrim-Press is one of the leaders in Russia in providing information and publishing reference material on currency identification.

The reference books published by InterCrim-Press provide comprehensive information on currency circulation in about 240 countries and territories around the globe giving the detailed description of all current notes and used security features. The particular emphasis is made on examination on the banknotes and description of the detected counterfeits (euro, dollars, rubles). The information on the notes is obtained form the Central Bank of Russia, the Ministry of Finance of Russia, the Forensic Science Center of the Ministry of Interior of Russia and the central banks of the individual countries.

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Keesing Technologies

Keesing Technologies is a specialist provider of verification tools that helps international organisations to analyse and authenticate security documents such as travel documents, banknotes and driving licenses. The organisation was established in 1923 and has amassed unparalleled expertise in the field of document security. Keesing offers an exclusive online database: www.documentchecker.com. Documentchecker.com offers descriptions and pinpoint-sharp images of thousands of ID documents and banknotes from over 180 countries. The database is continuously updated and available in: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian or Russian.

In addition to a broad range of verification solutions, training modules, manuals and reference works, many of which are available in electronic format, we publish a bimonthly magazine that keeps professionals abreast of the latest developments in the document security and identity industry, Keesing Journal of Documents & Identity. The journal is a forum for prominent industry professionals to share their ideas, announce market developments and review security document and identity programmes.

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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.

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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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Tax Stamp & Traceability News

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