Securing the foundations of the world’s banknotes, passports and security documents

Focused on a sustainable future

The topic of sustainability is high on everyone’s agenda – ensuring that we all play our part in meeting the needs of today without compromising our ability to meet the needs to tomorrow. Portals is a responsible business and actively contributing towards a better future...

Working in Perfect Partnership

We all know what a partnership is – an arrangement between two or more parties in pursuit of a shared goal or activity to share its collective gains and losses and / or mutual benefits. But how many forms of partnership and ways of effective working are there?...

The Foundations of a Passport

Passports enable us to travel anywhere in the world on holiday or for business. They give reassurance to the authorities in our home and destination countries that we are eligible to travel and our identity is genuine...

The Fundamentals of a Trusted Identity

Using a birth certificate as the source document for which the issue of other identity documents, that give greater entitlements is based, places great demands on the security and integrity of the certificate...

The Role of Furnish in a Secure Passport

When considering how to protect a passport, many issuing authorities will give significant thought to the choice of security features and the layering of these features, but sitting at the very foundation of a passport is the substrate itself...

Cylinder mould watermarks: universal security

Cylinder mould made watermarks offer an unrivalled defence against counterfeiting, combined with a reputation as one of the most publicly recognised and easily authenticated features in use today...

Big data in manufacturing: a security paper perspective

The industry is abuzz with ‘big data’ and how analytics can help a Central Bank improve its decision making. Data is also critically important for security papermakers and printers...