Our Sponsors, Exhibitors & Partners

Madras Security Printers

Madras Security Printers is a 31 year old company well equipped with the advanced facilities of global standards with accreditations from global authorities for the manufacturing process.

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OpSec

Working closely with key commercial partners, government agencies and security specialists, OpSec Security has gained a reputation as innovators in optical and material science. OpSec’s portfolio includes the industry’s most comprehensive range of authentication technologies and proprietary imaging processes. Each year these technologies protect billions of tax stamps, ID documents and banknotes. In the three decades since formation, OpSec have successfully protected over 50 governments customers and 300 leading brands. A global network of partners and agents ensures a local service to a global customer base. Quality and security are at the heart of OpSec processes who are certified to both ISO 9001 and ISO 14298, the international standards for quality and security management.

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Authentix

As the authority in authentication solutions, Authentix helps customers thrive in supply and distribution chain complexity. We provide advanced authentication solutions for governments, central banks and commercial products, ensuring local economies grow, banknote security remains intact and commercial products have robust market opportunities. Our partnership approach and proven sector expertise inspires proactive innovation, helping customers mitigate risks to promote revenue growth and gain competitive advantage.

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De La Rue

De La Rue’s purpose is to enable every citizen to participate securely in the global economy. As a trusted partner of governments, central banks and commercial organisations, De La Rue provides products and services that underpin the integrity of trade, personal identity and the movement of goods.

As the world’s largest designer and commercial printer of banknotes, De La Rue designs, manufactures and delivers banknotes, banknote substrates and security features to customers in a world where currency will continue to be a key part of the developing payments eco-system.

De La Rue is the world’s largest commercial printer of passports, and also creates and delivers secure product identifiers and ‘track and trace’ software for governments and commercial customers alike to help to tackle the challenge of illicit or counterfeit goods and the collection of revenue and excise duties.

De La Rue is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LON-DLAR).

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Jura / HP Indigo Security

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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About HP Indigo
HP Indigo pioneered digital printing, unveiling the world’s first digital printing press in 1993. It triggered a revolution by eliminating the plates and setup needed for offset printing while opening new possibilities for businesses, brands and customers in commercial printing, labels and packaging, photo products, and publishing.

Digital Security Powered by HP Indigo
HP Indigo offers a vast portfolio of unique features for different security levels and segments leveraging Indigo’s outstanding digital print quality and versatility. In collaboration with various leading security service partners, HP Indigo offers end-to-end solutions with reduced human error, minimum waste, a small footprint and a low total cost of ownership.

Tax Stamp with The Digital Protection
The all-digital Tax-Stamp press solutions offer Covert, Overt and Forensic security elements on-press in ONE-PASS with the highest quality and integrity. By combining the power of variable data, serialization, 7 spot colors including unique security inks, HP Indigo provides differentiated security protection while offering full design freedom over short and long runs.

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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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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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Baldwin

Baldwin Technology Company Inc. is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of process-automation equipment and related consumables for the printing, packaging and other industrial segments, including technical textiles, chip and fiberboard, and film extrusion. Through our global footprint, Baldwin offers our customers a broad range of market-leading technologies, products and systems that enhance the quality of industrial-produced products, with a focus on improving the economic and environmental efficiency of the production process. As a total solutions provider, Baldwin not only provides new equipment to its customers, but also dedicates extensive resources to maintaining and servicing existing equipment with quality replacement parts, highly engineered consumables and engineering services that include upgrades and retrofits in addition to regular maintenance.

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KURZ

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.

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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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OPTEL

TRACEABILITY TECHNOLOGIES FOR A BETTER WORLD

A leading global supplier of track-and-trace technologies to some of the world’s top pharmaceutical, mining and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, OPTEL provides a growing number of industries with innovative digital traceability solutions and vision systems to achieve regulatory compliance, optimize operational efficiency and ultimately create the Intelligent Supply Chain.

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Security Fibres Ltd

Security Fibres Ltd are the leading manufacturers of security features for paper. Our Rainbow Fibres, Planchettes, Threads and StarLites create an integrated security feature that is highly resistant to counterfeiting and forgery.

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DREWSEN SPEZIALPAPIERE

DREWSEN SPEZIALPAPIERE is focused on the development and manufacture of woodfree uncoated speciality papers, with a worldwide reputation for quality and service. This traditional, family-owned company was founded in 1538 and has as a result been in operation for over 475 years.

PROSECURA is the DREWSEN brand for high-quality security papers which are used for applications such as passports, cheques, certificates, postal stamps and tax stamp base papers for the production of revenue stamps for tobacco and alcohol. For more detailed information you are sincerely welcome to visit us in the exhibition.

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INEXTO

INEXTO is a leading provider of software and services for Authentication, secure Serialization, Track & Trace and Production Volume Verification. Our technology is already securing over 100 billion products annually.

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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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Pantec

We believe that with the right technology, you can build a better future. That’s why our products, systems and services are all built with our customers and users in mind. Our goal is to make your job easier, safer and more productive—whatever your demand and wherever you are.

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POLAR Mohr

The POLAR Group is a group of independent, family-run companies with headquarters in Hofheim near Frankfurt. They are specialized in the design of innovative and future-oriented solutions in the post-press and packaging technology sectors.
The POLAR Group employs around 500 people worldwide at sites in Hofheim and Shanghai, and offers its employees diverse roles and good career development opportunities in administration and production.

POLAR was founded in 1906 as “Adolf Mohr, Maschinenfabrik”. Since then, the company has undergone a transformation, not only in terms of the products it focuses on. It has grown from a regional provider to the world’s number one for high-speed cutters and associated peripheral equipment for the graphics industry.

POLAR develops efficient solutions for the post-print sector and is a future-oriented technology company with a global presence. The product range includes components and systems that link up and automate all processes, from loading, jogging, cutting and die-cutting through to unloading and banding.

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Securikett

SECURIKETT® is a leading provider of security solutions to combat counterfeiting and illicit trade.

We provide proof of origin by our One-Stop-Shop concept: tamper evidence against manipulation or reuse, authentication, plus traceability and identification by unique codes.

CODIKETT® is our multilingual, web-based authentication system for real-time verification via the internet.

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Thymaris

Thymaris is a Swiss-based solution provider for authentication technologies. We offer world class patent-protected security solutions for integrators or large enterprises.

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U-NICA

Founded in 2004 with the goal of bringing the expertise of banknote protection and authentication to other industries, U-NICA further improved the associated methods and technology to make it accessible to all those threatened with forgery.

As technology advanced, U-NICA also progressed to combat counterfeiters. Through a wide range of experiences, U-NICA has discovered that a multi-technology, multi-aspect, and multi-zone protection is the best at battling counterfeiters. This gives you a much higher level of security at a highly affordable price and is superior to any protection solution relying on a single-feature mechanism.

Scientists, engineers and others are cooperating to develop and refine the open solution suite.

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Wista Werkzeugfertigungs-GmbH / GTS GmbH

The Wista® Group was founded in Bad Rappenau by Gerd Staudinger and Karl-Heinz Wimmer back in 1991. Today we are among the world leaders for technically sophisticated solutions in the area of perforation systems. Our product portfolio also includes toolmaking for the construction of modern production systems that adhere to the highest quality standards.
Products manufactured using Wista® technology are found in a wide variety of applications and industries. They include: Automotive, textiles, hygiene, medicine, stamps, sound insulation, building services, outside advertising and many more.

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GTS was founded in 1990. From the earliest beginnings, developed with the construction of the first counting machines, which today operates globally operating companies. The unique counting principle using a rotating counting disc has since been perfected. Thanks to the high reliability of its products, GTS is considered one of the most important partners of the worldwide securities and banknotes printing industry

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Xeikon

At Xeikon, we’re all about customer-centric innovation. Rather than prescribe a particular technology, we focus on providing you with the best total solution for your applications. We’re digital printing pioneers with the agile mindset of a start-up. All businesses are unique and we’ve got the tech, the flexibility and more than 30 years’ worth of expertise to meet your specific needs.

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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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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.

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