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.
IDEMIA Smart Identity, a division of IDEMIA Group, is a leader in identity solutions. Based on decades of expertise in biometrics and cryptography, we provide services for enrollment, systems, physical and digital credentials and authentication. We have been the trusted partner of governments around the world for more than 40 years.
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.
OVD Kinegram AG, based in Zug/Switzerland, is a highly innovative, globally leading supplier of advanced physical and digital solutions for protecting identities.OVD Kinegram, a subsidiary of the German KURZ Group, specializes in the design, production and supply of the KINEGRAM optical security feature to protect passports, ID cards, visas, driver's licenses, and banknotes against counterfeiting and fraud.For over 40 years, more than 140 countries have placed their trust in KINEGRAM security features. As an industry pioneer, we have consistently set standards for innovation, security and reliability. Linking the physical and digital worlds, OVD Kinegram also delivers cutting-edge digital solutions.
KURZ Modular Solutions for Revenue Protection
KURZ optical security and software solutions for revenue protection offer a wide range of added value options to tax authorities and security printing companies, with the following modules:
TRUSTSEAL® Protect is a diffractive security foil with overt, semi-covert and covert security features. These optical effects provide high forgery protection for every application, raising a sophisticated barrier against counterfeiters.
TRUSTCODE® is a web-based authentication, information and communication system that connects the real world to the virtual. It designates visual authentication elements that are linked to a comprehensive database. Depending on authorities’ needs, the database contains product information for end users, data on product movements for excisable goods, and product validation data for customs. The data linked to the optical security images can be read by smartphones with a customized app.
KURZ – TRUSTCONCEPT website
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.
Federal Authority for Identity, Citizenship, Customs & Port Security (ICP) was established on Sha’ban 15, 1425H corresponding to September 29, 2004 under the name “Emirates Identity Authority” under Federal Law No. (2) for the year 2004 to establish the “Population Register and Emirates Identity Card Program”, which included recording personal and vital data for all population in the state and keeping them in electronic databases in coordination with the competent authorities, and issuing the Emirates ID Card for each individual to be registered and to contain the Emirates ID number, readable data and data stored on an electronic chip, which can be used in all entities.
Since its establishment, ICP has specialized in providing identification and confirmation services of Identity for individuals to federal and local government authorities and any other entities and determining the means applicable in this regard. The Law has given ICP, for such purpose, the right to request the necessary data and information from the competent authorities in the State to serve its objectives.
The Federal Decree-Law No. 3 of 2017 is a significant and important turning point in the work of ICP after it was decided to change its name to be “Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship” and to add new functions to its Terms of Reference namely citizenship Affairs, passports, entry and residence of foreigners in the state, and transfer the terms of reference and powers assigned to the Ministry of Interior to ICP in this regard.
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.
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:
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.
Angstrom Technologies, Inc., is a proven, international partner for industries involving security, printing, and detection technology. We operate our business based on an unwavering commitment to security and unrivaled customer service. We invite you to learn more about our company, our capabilities, and our products.
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.
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.
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.
Covestro, a leader in the ID and security industry, has over thirty years of experience in material solutions and develops films that meet extremely high security requirements.
The company offers a broad, high-quality range of technical films based on Makrofol® polycarbonate (PC), Platilon® thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), and CERTEVO®, an innovative polymeric substrate that is revolutionizing security printing, covering a wide range of properties.
Our film solutions enable the integration of various security features into ID documents and security prints such as ID cards, passports, driver's licenses, border crossing cards, and banknotes. Covestro focuses on market needs and provides solutions and innovative technologies for future security documents.
The company is committed to becoming fully circular. In addition, Covestro aims to achieve climate neutrality for its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2035, and the Group’s Scope 3 emissions are also set to be climate neutral by 2050.
Covestro generated sales of EUR 14.4 billion in fiscal 2023. At the end of 2023, the company had 48 production sites worldwide and employed approximately 17,500 people (calculated as full-time equivalents).
Established in 1984, trusted in more than 50 countries with over 1,400 systems installed worldwide, Heidelberg Instruments is a global leader in design, development, and production of high-precision laser lithography systems, maskless aligners, and nanofabrication systems.
Our tools range from tabletop solutions to high-end photomask manufacturing equipment and cater to a variety of needs. Our systems enable a broad spectrum of surface structuring on the micro- and nanoscale, including 2D-patterning, the creation of 2.5D features by Grayscale lithography, and 3D structuring through Two-Photon Polymerization.
Due to their flexibility, our systems are valuable assets to the most renowned universities and R\&D institutes worldwide, as well as industry production facilities. Typical fields of applications are in micro-optics and photonics, electronics, advanced packaging, quantum devices, MEMS, microfluidics, 2D materials, photomask production, and many others.
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.
**The company Pro Gravur AG was founded in 1971**
She has a lot of experience in different manufacturing techniques. Combining milling, engraving, photochemistry, electroplating and laser technologies, the company meets the high demands of innovation and quality in the field of technical engraving for micro-applications, printing tools, molds, design, special tools and the security printing industry.We process from the smallest parts (for example, like the watch industry) up to large formats.
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.
SISTRADE – Software Consulting, S.A. is an information systems company with know-how in software development and consulting service for different activity areas, including industry companies. SISTRADE main goal is to offer the market the best information systems tools, in order to help SISTRADE customers to improve performance in all the critical business processes. SISTRADE has a business process consulting team that adds value and helps in developing innovative solutions, mainly web-based, for SISTRADE customers. The knowledge in technology and in business process gives the customers global solutions with real and great value for their business.
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.
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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