Luca Cimatti
Manufacturing Director, Security Components
“Over a hundred Issuing Authorities and expert Security Printers put their trust in us to deliver long lasting, secure and trusted products each year. There is no better testimonial than that! ”
At Portals, we have the flexibility to select the exact security
features that counter against the specific threats they are facing.
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The issue
The importance of providing trusted proof of authenticity, ownership and / or origin is as paramount today as it has ever been. With the continued growth of counterfeit and alteration, and the associated impact on revenues and sector credibility, it is vitally important to always stay one step ahead of the criminals.
The Solution
As security paper experts, Portals is the ideal partner to help you ensure your authentication, ownership and origin certificates are sufficiently robust and resilient to manage your specific security challenges.
The Recommendation
The use of a security focused suite of security features built around a multi-tonal watermark alongside a combination of easy to identify and verify features, making it is quick for users to both understand and authenticate with minimal or no training. We would therefore recommend to include Cylinder mould / VAT made watermarks, security threads embedded into the sheet itself and fibres or planchettes that are integrated into the paper during manufacture.
The issue
Birth certificates, breeder documents and other vital events records are coming under increasing attack of counterfeit documents in order to falsely obtain identity documents with greater entitlements attached to them, for example passports, national ID cards or driver’s licenses.
The Solution
As security paper experts, Portals is the ideal partner to help you ensure your birth certificates and breeder documents are sufficiently robust and resilient to manage your specific security challenges.
The Recommendation
Enhancing the physical security of the certificate is an easy and quick option to implement. In addition, by upgrading these features to include those commonly used in currency and passports means that document checkers are already familiar with them. We would recommend such enhancements include multi-tonal cylinder mould watermarks, embedded fibres, tamper evidence features and document sensitisation treatments to the risk of chemical abrasion.
The issue
Vouchers and financial tokens are used in exchange for an equivalent financial face value. As an alternative form of payment, they come under frequent attack from criminal activity. These threats include both the counterfeiting of documents but also alteration of a genuine token or voucher, with the value amount or expiry date key targets of such an attack.
The Solution
As security paper experts, Portals is the ideal partner to help you ensure your vouchers and other financial documents are sufficiently robust and resilient to manage your specific security challenges.
The Recommendation
Upgrading the physical security of the paper that vouchers and certificates are printed on, brings an enhanced level of protection and trust for both issuer and user. The inclusion of a detailed cylinder-mould watermark, windowed security threads and Portals unique Port-Hole™ all contribute to making the token immediately recognisable and easy to authenticate. Most importantly, adding Portals components make it extremely difficult for criminals to replicate.
The issue
Illicit trade is the unauthorised production or movement of products, goods or services and is becoming an increasingly big issue for brand owners and governments alike, damaging both reputation and revenue streams.
The Solution
As security paper experts, Portals is the ideal partner to help you ensure your brand and revenue protection labels and stamps are sufficiently robust and resilient to manage your specific security challenges.
The Recommendation
The first step in the fight against illicit trade is to prove your article is genuine and to confirm its authenticity. Through the use of security labels and stamps, with a combination of both obvious and hidden security features, products can be verified as authentic and also show that the correct duties have been paid for sale within a specific region or territory. Such features would include high security watermarks, security threads, specialist foils and the inclusion of silk fibres or planchettes.
A VAT formed three-dimensional multi-tonal watermark giving beautiful clarity and high image definition, cylinder mould is the most effective and widely recognised substrate security feature available in the market
Enhancing security, aesthetics and easy authentication, the security thread is integrated into the sheet during manufacture. Threads are available as embedded or windowed options and with a wide variety of different visual effects
Small fibres or silks can be combined into the sheet during production to become integrated into the furnish of paper. Fibres are available in any combination of a variety of colours (including multi coloured), visible or invisible and with long- or shortrange frequency
Highly secure feature consisting of a series of small and purposefully manufactured holes in the paper, within which a security thread that runs through the sheet is deliberately exposed. Virtually impossible to simulate outside of the cylinder mould manufacturing process
Strikingly beautiful metalised foils, threads, patches or stripes can feature multiple combinations of effects and features. Distinctive, eye catching and virtually impossible to replicate, holographic features are also quick and easy to authenticate
Chemical sensitisation dyes can be added during the manufacturing process. These chemical agents are invisible but react when they come into contact with substances used for attempted alteration purposes, leaving a permanent and visible staining on the sheet
A specialist additive, included in the size bath to help absorb and lock in printing inks and improve toner adhesion. This facilitates the subsequent laser printing of personalisation data or barcodes and QR codes on the document or certificate
At the heart of any high security document is the paper it is printed and produced on. It can also authenticate the document itself as being an original, that can be trusted and verified.
With an array of substrate feature and component options available, the watermark is and remains the undisputed king.
Recommended by Interpol for use in high security documents, cylinder mould made paper is recognised as being the most secure paper type available, and despite developments in scanning, photocopying and digital photography techniques our three-dimensional multi-tonal cylinder mould made watermark remains virtually impossible to simulate.
At Portals, with over 300 years of experience and expertise in making high security papers and watermarks, we are proud to be one of the only paper manufacturers in the world dedicated to producing high-security, non-currency paper, on cylinder mould machines.
At Portals, all our papers are specially designed to ensure maximum printability, easy running and optimal performance. With our in-house team of technical experts, we will assist and advise on the most appropriate furnishes and specifications for your specific printing processes and needs.
Our products need to outlive the duration of the document – whether it is a passport that is used for multiple trips over many years, banknotes that are exchanged countless times, or a birth certificate that needs to last for a lifetime.
Through the use of patented technologies, we are able to ensure an improved durability of our papers, protecting corners from folds, strengthening long edges to prevent tears and the use of specialist treatments to enhance overall performance and substrate longevity.
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