Our Sponsors, Exhibitors & Partners

KBA-NotaSys

KBA-NotaSys 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.

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.

Jura / PARVIS

Jura offers the following products:

Graphic software packages – for intaglio and offset design of all security documents:
High-resolution CTP – the most modern devices for producing offset plates
Direct Laser Engraving (DLE®) – the state-of-the-art intaglio plate-making technology
Covert security features – protection of banknotes and other high-security products
Personalization – unique patented solutions to protect photo ID documents
Pre-press QC – total security quality control including 3D plate checking
Brand protection – track & trace solution and anti-counterfeiting tool

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PARVIS offers a number of systems and services, in particular: ABACO, NUMERO and PROXIMA.

ABACO controls the operation of equipment in a banknote printing plant; NUMERO is used for typographic numbering control; and the family of systems PROXIMA provides offline accurate control of offset print, intaglio print and substrate features. Together, these systems offer: banknote track & trace, sheet counting and barcoding, materials traceability, printing quality control and operations management.

ABACO is a Manufacturing Execution System that fills the gap between shop floor and company ERP allowing the direct and bidirectional transfer of data. This is the key to process optimization, from orders to finished banknotes, always keeping people and processes well synchronized.

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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.

Orell Fussli Security Printing

Founded in 1519, Orell Fussli Security Printing is a leading provider of security technologies, security products and solutions for identifications documents and systems, banknotes, and secure documents.

Orell Fussli Security Printing began printing securities as early as 1827 and has been supplying banknotes incorporating state-of-the-art security technology to the Swiss National Bank since 1911.

Since then, Orell Fussli Security Printing has continually tested technical innovations and developed unique new techniques and security features

Our in-depth knowledge allows us to offer our customers the full range of products and services, from basic concept to the design and the printing of banknotes. With its superb infrastructure, Orell Fussli Security Printing can fully exploit all security printing technologies either on paper or polymer substrates

Banknotes must meet toughest security standards, and the development, production and issuing of banknotes has become a complex and demanding task.

Since we know how to meet these standards in a customised way, we are the ideal partner for such projects.

SICPA

Every day, governments, companies and millions of people rely on SICPA to protect the integrity and value of their currency, personal identity and consumable goods, in a world where anything that can be purchased can also be counterfeited or tampered with.

Our customers need partners they can trust who are capable and dynamic, as well as leaders in security solutions.

At SICPA, we are trusted advisors to central banks for selecting and integrating security features into upgraded and new banknote series. Today we provide security inks and integrated security solutions for most of the world’s currencies, including the Euro, US Dollar and Swiss Franc.

We also provide the security printer with a wide range of security ink solutions and technologies that together with his know-how and unique design and printing skills result in counterfeit- and tamper-proof, easy-to-authenticate documents and products.

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.

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.

OVD Kinegram / KURZ

OVD Kinegram AG is the leading full-service provider of physical and digital security solutions for government documents. The company’s proprietary KINEGRAM technology is recognized as the most advanced counterfeit-protection available. The resulting security features are easy-to-use in visual inspection and fully suitable for machine authentication. Unique in its innovative capacity, the company also provides sophisticated solutions for mobile verification (KINEGRAM App Applications). OVD Kinegram AG is a Swiss subsidiary of the German KURZ Group.

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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.

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Papeteries De Vizille

Located in France, Papeteries de Vizille (Vizille Paper Mills) belong to the VICAT Group.

Based on our experience, our security papers meet the continually evolving requirements for authentication, verification and anti-counterfeiting required for many documents (tax stamps – certificates – vouchers – visas – tickets – cheques, ..).

We provide customized solutions based on our technical expertise to meet every security concern. Our production site benefit from constant technological enhancements, ensuring the perfect control of the manufacturing process.

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.

Authentication Solution Providers Association (ASPA)

Authentication Solution Providers’ Association (ASPA) is a self-regulated, non-profit organization of authentication solution providers.

Founded in 1998 as Hologram Manufacturers Association of India (HoMAI), it was re-launched in 2014 as ASPA to more accurately represent the transformation of products and services offered by its existing member companies. The broader scope of ASPA also covers a wide array of other technologies that have evolved over the years.

As the world’s first and only industry body of its kind, ASPA aims to comprehensively covers the interests of the entire authentication solutions industry worldwide, including, but not limited to, holograms, optically variable devices (OVD’s), taggants, security inks and substrates, watermarks, nanotechnologies, RFIDs, barcode/ QR code-based digital tracking and verification solutions, security and tamper-evident labels and any other brand protection and authentication solutions.

ASPA works closely with global authorities such as International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA), Counterfeit Intelligence Bureau (CIB) and Interpol. ASPA members protect over 10,000 brands worldwide through the identification of genuine products and documents.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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