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Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

3 min read

Diametryx’s Innovative Colour Change Particles

At the Optical & Digital Document Security (ODDS) conference in April, Michael Natan, President of Diametryx Inc, presented this new company’s intriguing colour-change particles for use as an overt security feature.

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

4 min read

News in Brief

With a focus on developing high end security pigments, Luminochem has released a demo video showing how its LuminoMark UV fluorescent pigments can be applied on medicine blisters for brand protection.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

2 min read

Macau Common Crime – Counterfeit Casino Chips

Macau is facing the common crime of counterfeit casino chips. In the latest incident, police arrested five men for defrauding a casino using 585 counterfeit chips. Each chip was marked with a denomination of HK$10,000 ($1,280), tricking the casino out of at least HK$1.8 million.

Brand Protection

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

1 min read

ISF Signs Agreement to Fight Illegal Seed Practices

At the recent World Seed Congress in the Netherlands, the International Seed Federation (ISF) signed what is being hailed as an ‘historic agreement’ with 12 organisations to combat illegal seed practices.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

2 min read

Digital Printing, Metallisation, Interactivity… All in One Pass

Xeikon, a provider of digital printing presses, has partnered with KURZ and SCRIBOS (part of the KURZ group) to offer a solution that enables digital label printers to combine variable metallic elements, serialised QR codes with embedded copy- protection patterns, and interactive features… all in a single printing pass.

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

2 min read

Smurfit Invests for Brand Protection and Tax Stamps

Smurfit Kappa Security Concepts (SKSC) has invested over €3 million in a brand new custom press (Perfect NT security printing press) from Rotatek.

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

4 min read

Suppliers Change Gear with RFID Growth

According to McKinsey, the global radio frequency identification (RFID) technology market will reach $97.5 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 14.4% between 2022-2030.

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

1 min read

US Post Office Loses $150 Million in Counterfeit Stamps

Following on from last month’s Authentication & Brand News™ article on the mass counterfeiting of barcoded postage stamps in the UK, a woman from California, USA, has pleaded guilty to defrauding the United States Postal Service (USPS) out of more than $150 million in a counterfeit postage scam in Los Angeles.

Authentication

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

4 min read

De La Rue Currency or Authentication – or Both – for Sale?

De La Rue, the banknote printer and substrate manufacturer, authentication solutions provider and producer of security holograms, has announced it is in discussions with several parties interested in acquiring one or both of its divisions: Authentication and Currency.

Companies

Chander S Jeena

13 June 2024

2 min read

New Anticounterfeiting Technique Packs Two Light-Reactive Images into One Material

According to a new research report published in the journal Langmuir, scientists have successfully developed a new photopatterning technique that creates two light-reactive images in one material.

Free Free

Nicola Sudan

30 May 2024

2 min read

Digital Printing, Metallisation, Interactivity… All in One Pass

Xeikon, a provider of digital printing presses, has partnered with KURZ and SCRIBOS (part of the KURZ group) to offer a solution that enables digital label printers to combine variable metallic elements, serialised QR codes with embedded copy-protection patterns, and interactive features… all in a single printing pass.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

30 May 2024

3 min read

Diametryx’s Innovative Colour Change Particles

At the Optical & Digital Document Security™ (ODDS) conference in April, Michael Natan, President of Diametryx Inc, presented this new company’s intriguing colour-change particles for use as an overt security feature.

Free Technology & Systems Free

Nicola Sudan

30 May 2024

1 min read

Here’s to Another 100 Years!

At the end of April, Gelmer Leibbrandt, Managing Director of Royal Joh Enschedé, signed a new contract with the Dutch Customs Authority for the printing of tobacco tax stamps, thereby continuing a service that has already lasted for over 100 consecutive years.

Companies

Nicola Sudan

30 May 2024

6 min read

How to Identify Illicit Cigarettes – Ukrainian Forensic Experts Explain

In a recent Ukrainian National News (UNN) article, Oleksandr Ruvin, Director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, described the steps taken by the institute to identify smuggled cigarettes and counterfeits of well-known brands, with tax stamps featuring high on the list of elements to check.

Illicit Trade

Nicola Sudan

30 May 2024

2 min read

Labels that Go Straight on the Food Itself

A new labelling technology that prints a QR code directly onto food such as fruit has been developed by a team of researchers in South Korea, according to an announcement by the country’s Ministry of Science and ICT.

Technology & Systems

Francisco Mandiola

30 May 2024

3 min read

How Sweet It Is – Chile Tax Authority Blamed for Price Rise on Sweetened Beverages

As of 31 May, Chile’s largest beverage company, CCU, will increase consumer prices on nectars, hypotonic and isotonic drinks, by 9%, to absorb a change in the calculation of value-added tax on non-alcoholic drinks. The change was announced in April by the Servicio de Impuestos Internos (SII), Chile’s tax authority.

Government

Nicola Sudan

30 May 2024

3 min read

White Paper Calls for Stronger EU Alignment to WHO FCTC

In 2023, an informal EU parliamentary working group on tobacco products, led by French MEPs Anne-Sophie Pelletier, Pierre Larrouturou and the late Michèle Rivasi, organised a number of roundtables to discuss how the permeability of some European Commission departments to tobacco industry lobbying was causing delays in the revision of two important regulations (see TSTN July 2023).

Excise Products Regulations

Nicola Sudan

30 May 2024

2 min read

Holography Conference 2024 – Call for Papers

Reconnaissance International (publisher of Tax Stamp & Traceability News™ – TSTN) has announced that the 2024 Holography Conference Online (THCO) will be held on 12-13 November. The call for papers is now open, and delegates are invited to submit a proposal to present by 13 September 2024.

Events

Nicola Sudan

30 May 2024

4 min read

Interview with an ITSA Member – Chanwanich Security Printing

In this month’s interview with a member of the International Tax Stamp Association (ITSA), we delve into Thailand’s tax stamp and security printing market courtesy of Chanwanich CEO Ronnachai Kongboonma, exploring how the nation’s industry has developed over the past century and how it’s likely to evolve in the coming years.

Interviews

Nicola Sudan

30 May 2024

2 min read

80% of UK Smokers Buy Illegal Tobacco

Between October-December 2023, the UK Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association (TMA) commissioned a nationwide poll of 12,000 smokers on their attitudes, awareness and understanding of illegal tobacco. This is the ninth year this survey has been carried out.

Illicit Trade

Latest News

Diametryx’s Innovative Colour Change Particles

News in Brief

Macau Common Crime – Counterfeit Casino Chips

ISF Signs Agreement to Fight Illegal Seed Practices

Digital Printing, Metallisation, Interactivity… All in One Pass

Smurfit Invests for Brand Protection and Tax Stamps

Suppliers Change Gear with RFID Growth

US Post Office Loses $150 Million in Counterfeit Stamps

De La Rue Currency or Authentication – or Both – for Sale?

New Anticounterfeiting Technique Packs Two Light-Reactive Images into One Material

Digital Printing, Metallisation, Interactivity… All in One Pass

Diametryx’s Innovative Colour Change Particles

Here’s to Another 100 Years!

How to Identify Illicit Cigarettes – Ukrainian Forensic Experts Explain

Labels that Go Straight on the Food Itself

How Sweet It Is – Chile Tax Authority Blamed for Price Rise on Sweetened Beverages

White Paper Calls for Stronger EU Alignment to WHO FCTC

Holography Conference 2024 – Call for Papers

Interview with an ITSA Member – Chanwanich Security Printing

80% of UK Smokers Buy Illegal Tobacco

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