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Nicola Sudan

28 Aug. 2020

1 min read

Domino Acquires Lake Image Systems

Domino Printing Sciences, a producer of coding, marking and printing technologies, has acquired Lake Image Systems, a producer of automated, inline, vision-based inspection systems.

Companies

Nicola Sudan

30 July 2020

3 min read

Nepal Tax Stamp Provider Fails to Sign Contract

The Indonesian company Perum Peruri, which was selected in March to supply tobacco and alcohol tax stamps to Nepal’s Inland Revenue Department (IRD), has failed to show up for the signing of the contract for the stamps, reports The Kathmandu Post. This situation is made all the more strange considering Perum Peruri’s longstanding relationship with the department.

Companies Tenders

Ian Lancaster

29 June 2020

4 min read

OpSec’s Equinox: Technology Review

In the year following the US state of Michigan’s introduction of a new tobacco excise tax stamp in 2014, tax revenues increased by $15.7 million – when they had in fact been predicted to decline – and exceeded the forecast for the year by nearly $30 million. Furthermore, it took only one year to recoup the costs of introducing this new stamp. Similarly, in Mozambique, alcohol and tobacco excise tax revenues increased by 85% in the first year after the introduction of a new stamp in 2017.

Companies Free Technology & Systems Free

Nicola Sudan

29 June 2020

2 min read

SICPA Wins Contract for Alcohol Excise Solution in Oregon

SICPA has been awarded a new 10-year contract to implement its SICPA Excise Tax System (SETS), which will provide a secure, online platform for the payment, collection, and tracking of Oregon’s alcohol privilege taxes (also known as excise taxes).

Companies Excise Products

Nicola Sudan

9 Dec. 2019

1 min read

SICPA Signs Cooperation Agreement with Kazakh Telecoms Company

During a Kazakh-Swiss roundtable business forum, held on 22 November in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan (and part of the official visit of Swiss President Ueli Maurer to the country), a cooperation agreement was signed between the Swiss company SICPA SA and Transtelecom JSC – one of the leading information and telecom service providers in Kazakhstan.

Companies

Nicola Sudan

9 Dec. 2019

2 min read

SICPA Launches its ‘Brightest Star’

If you ask an astronomer what a ‘quasar’ is, they’ll tell you it’s an extremely bright celestial object emitting an immense amount of energy in the form of, say, light or infrared radiation, from a compact source. Recently, SICPA launched its own ‘brightest star’ – QUAZAR® – which it describes as an optical security technology offering vibrant colours and engaging visible effects that are quick and easy for end users to authenticate, without the need for prior training.

Companies Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

7 Nov. 2019

4 min read

INCM - Art to Machine Readable Coding

The Portuguese Mint and Official Printing Office, INCM SA, in a presentation by Nuno Gonçalves at the recent Tax Stamp Forum™ in Budapest, described its new coding system, but unlike other such systems, this one, UNIQODE®, is artistically as well as technically innovative. (Patents are pending.)

Companies Technology & Systems

Nicola Sudan

7 Nov. 2019

3 min read

Graphi Mecc’s Serialisation Equipment Offerings

Italian equipment manufacturer Graphi Mecc Group (GMG), based in Verona, has devoted many years since its founding in 1985 to devising the most fool-proof way to produce encoded unique serial numbers, ensuring that sequences are correct, no numbers are skipped or duplicated and the encoding in a variety of formats is accurate.

Companies Technology & Systems Track and Trace

Latest News

Domino Acquires Lake Image Systems

Nepal Tax Stamp Provider Fails to Sign Contract

OpSec’s Equinox: Technology Review

SICPA Wins Contract for Alcohol Excise Solution in Oregon

SICPA Signs Cooperation Agreement with Kazakh Telecoms Company

SICPA Launches its ‘Brightest Star’

INCM - Art to Machine Readable Coding

Graphi Mecc’s Serialisation Equipment Offerings

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