De La Rue Announces Upgrade to Malta Site

De La Rue has announced a major investment to expand its existing facilities in Malta, in order to create a 29,000m2 manufacturing site. The expansion will double De La Rue Authentication’s manufacturing capacity for tax stamps and brand protection labels, and provide a more flexible, agile and environmentally- friendly manufacturing footprint for its Currency division.

At the announcement of the latest investment in De La Rue Malta are, from left to right: Clive Vacher, CEO of De La Rue, Miriam Dalli, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Sustainable Development, and Prime Minister, Robert Abela.

Today, De La Rue Malta exports to 85 countries around the world and generates €30 million per annum for the local economy. The facility produces tax stamps, authentication labels, polycarbonate datapages for passports, and banknotes. This financial year, De La Rue will produce a total of over 14 billion secure documents at the Malta site.

In addition to doubling its tax stamp and label capacity, the investment will extend De La Rue’s Industry 4.0 journey, with manufacturing fully integrated with the company’s traceability software platforms, DLR Certify™ and Traceology®, it said. This underlines the strong growth experienced by the Government Revenue Solutions business, which has led to the doubling of revenues for the Authentication division in the last three years.