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Chander S Jeena

23 Feb. 2024

2 min read

SIR Webinar Announced

Following the expansion of the secure registry of holographic images and its relaunch as the Security Image Register (SIR) last month, the IHMA has announced it will be holding a webinar focusing on the SIR and its benefits for suppliers and their customers on 17 April.

Technology & Systems

Chander S Jeena

10 Jan. 2024

3 min read

IHMA Launches Security Image Register for the Authentication Industry

The SIR is an expanded and rebranded 2.0 version of HIR and reflects the changing realities of the global security printing industry. As holograms are increasingly incorporated with other optically variable devices (OVDs) to provide integrated, added value and advanced anti-counterfeiting solutions, the new SIR will include all optical security technologies falling within the general term of OVD.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

18 Dec. 2023

2 min read

KURZ’s Tax Stamp Paper Saves Time and the Environment

While tax stamps often use diffractive effects to protect against counterfeiting, the process for making these stamps can often be time consuming and limited to printing firms with specialist equipment. But that could be about to change!

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

13 Dec. 2023

5 min read

Latest Developments on the EU ‘Green’ Product Passport Front

In the February issue of Authentication & Brand News™, we asked whether EU digital product passports (DPPs) could double as anti-counterfeiting devices, in addition to their primary role of gathering information about a product and its supply chain in order to support the transition to a circular economy.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

24 Nov. 2023

3 min read

Sustainable Colour for a Sustainable Authentication Industry

Authentication and anti-counterfeit technologies rely heavily on inks and surfaces that produce colour, sending visual signals to the viewer to help differentiate between real and fake products. But in a world where toxin additives in manufacturing processes are becoming increasingly unacceptable, we take a look at two companies that are developing a new generation of sustainable colour.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

24 Nov. 2023

2 min read

Robots That See Like Insects

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have developed a rubber-like colour-changing system called Morphable Concavity Array (MoCA), with the potential to bestow robots with compound vision, similar to an insect.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

24 Nov. 2023

2 min read

Crypto Stamps for Germany

Royal Joh Enschedé, an Authentix company, has unveiled its first crypto stamp produced for Deutsche Post, the postal organisation of Germany.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

20 Nov. 2023

2 min read

Demax Pushes e-Beam to the Maximum

Demax Holograms was one of the first manufacturers of security holograms in eastern Europe and now sells its products to over 70 different countries. It took the opportunity to present its latest nano-optical elements for physical security at the recent Tax Stamp & Traceability Forum™ in Tbilisi, Georgia (2-4 October 2023).

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

31 Oct. 2023

3 min read

Bosch Launches Origify Fingerprinting Technology for Products

German multinational engineering and technology company Bosch has entered the brand protection arena with Origify, a solution that optically captures a product’s unique ‘fingerprint’ in order to authenticate and trace it through the supply chain.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

28 Sept. 2023

3 min read

European Agency to Explore Blockchain for Aviation Parts

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has designated blockchain start-up FPT Software Europe as the lead organisation for a project known as VIRTUA.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

26 Sept. 2023

3 min read

Smartphone Report Released

Reconnaissance International is pleased to announce the release of its new publication – ‘Smartphones for Authentication’ – the only publication of its kind.

Authentication Reports & Studies Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

29 Aug. 2023

4 min read

More New Developments for Protecting Gold Bars and Coins

In the ABN March 2023 issue, we looked at four developments to protect gold bars and commemorative coins from counterfeiting. As companies continue their anti-counterfeiting advancement, we look at a few more developments in this area, covering overt and covert features and digital traceability.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

29 Aug. 2023

3 min read

Diamonds are a Counterfeiter’s Worst Enemy

Exploiting the uniqueness derived from the inherent randomness of industrial processes is not a new approach for anti-counterfeiting technologies, but a new breed of physically unclonable functions (PUFs) might just be a step too far for counterfeiters to spoof.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

29 Aug. 2023

2 min read

Nike Joins Surge in NFC Tags on Sneakers

Nike is conducting a pilot programme with AntChain for a new sneaker featuring an NFC chip. The programme enables consumers to access product origin information by tapping their smartphone against an NFC chip on the sneaker.

Technology & Systems

Alan Hodgson

23 Aug. 2023

5 min read

Opportunities in Smart Packaging

Smart packaging is a term that means different things to different communities. The aim of this article is to take a wider look at trends in smart packaging and consider some of the potential implications for tax stamps and track and trace solutions.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

30 July 2023

3 min read

Global Developments Around Palm Vein Authentication

While, as individuals, we all use fingerprint biometrics in our routine life to unlock a phone or the door to the office, verify identities, and gain access to restricted areas, the tech giants have a different agenda. Various cases have been reported globally using palm vein technology for payments in the last few months.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

30 July 2023

2 min read

New Anti-Counterfeiting Fluorescent Marker Developed

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPICI), in Germany, has developed a method that could make it more difficult to counterfeit products. The new and patented method makes it possible to produce unique, non-copyable, environment-friendly fluorescent patterns, quickly and at low cost.

Technology & Systems

Gidi Amir

30 July 2023

4 min read

Raising the Counterfeiting Bar with Double-Exclusive LEP Secure Inks

High security printing is based on features made available exclusively for that market. In the case of special inks, for example, this includes pigments with several modes of fluorescence, rare earth pigments, or different types of color shifting.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

30 July 2023

2 min read

Chemists Develop a New Chiral Structure Creation Method

A strange feature of the molecular building blocks of human (and other species) biology is that at a molecular level they exhibit a behaviour called ‘chirality’ – from the Greek word for handedness. Just like your right hand mirrors your left but will never fit comfortably into a left-handed glove, amino acids and sugars come in both right- and left-handed versions.

Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

4 July 2023

5 min read

Structural Colours Tell Their Own Stories

Structural colours (surfaces structured to control the interference of light), featured strongly in the ‘New Optical Techniques for Security’ section of the Optical & Digital Document Security™ conference (ODDS), which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2023.

Technology & Systems

Latest News

SIR Webinar Announced

IHMA Launches Security Image Register for the Authentication Industry

KURZ’s Tax Stamp Paper Saves Time and the Environment

Latest Developments on the EU ‘Green’ Product Passport Front

Sustainable Colour for a Sustainable Authentication Industry

Robots That See Like Insects

Crypto Stamps for Germany

Demax Pushes e-Beam to the Maximum

Bosch Launches Origify Fingerprinting Technology for Products

European Agency to Explore Blockchain for Aviation Parts

Smartphone Report Released

More New Developments for Protecting Gold Bars and Coins

Diamonds are a Counterfeiter’s Worst Enemy

Nike Joins Surge in NFC Tags on Sneakers

Opportunities in Smart Packaging

Global Developments Around Palm Vein Authentication

New Anti-Counterfeiting Fluorescent Marker Developed

Raising the Counterfeiting Bar with Double-Exclusive LEP Secure Inks

Chemists Develop a New Chiral Structure Creation Method

Structural Colours Tell Their Own Stories

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