Solutions | Passports

World leading experts in passport and visa paper solutions

Your passport is the most important and valuable identity document you will ever own.

Internationally recognised, a passport verifies that your identity is true and genuine, authorises your right to travel around the world and provides access to a wealth of social rights and opportunities.

That is why it is vital to ensure security is built in at every stage of a passport’s design – and that starts, quite simply, with the paper it is printed on.

It is such an inspiration to know our products are helping to protect citizen identities, ensure their access to services and enable their freedom to travel around the world!

Andrew Nash, Managing Director

Secure foundations

To combat the escalating threats of counterfeiting, dismantling / reassembly and data alteration, passports are designed to be the most secure documents they can possibly be.

At the very foundation of a passport’s physical solution is the substrate that the document is produced from – the paper that forms the pages of the booklet, secures it to the cover and frequently contains the personal details of the passport holder. The vitally important tamper-evident properties of the sheet must also work in unison with excellent printability and durability characteristics.

The printed elements of the passport can be extensive, therefore all our papers are specifically designed to ensure maximum printability, easy running and optimal performance.

Requirements of a passport

Your choice of security

Cylinder Mould Watermark

Cylinder Mould Watermark

Recommended by Interpol, cylinder mould made paper is recognised as being the most secure paper type available and despite developments in counterfeiting technology the three dimensional multi-tonal watermark remains virtually impossible to simulate.

Electrotype Watermark

Electrotype Watermark

A highly effective additional feature to an overall watermark design, easily incorporated alongside a multi-tonal cylinder mould made watermark.

Textmark™

Textmark™

Textmark™ is an innovative watermark feature that delivers a combinational effect of positive and negative (light and dark) text, numbers and characters within the watermark.

Cornerstone® & Edgestone™

Cornerstone® & Edgestone™

Innovative features which help prevent splitting, curling, folding, creasing of document corners and splitting and tearing of document edges.

Skylight™

Skylight™

Skylight™ is a complex and unique tamper proof feature where small areas of the paper are specially engineered to be lighter and thinner than the surrounding area and background sheet.

Chemical Sensitisation

Chemical Sensitisation

If a chemical substance is used to attempt to alter the information printed on the sheet, the specific area of attack will react to that chemical and show up as a coloured staining, the colour of which indicating the type of chemical being used.

Threads

Threads

Security threads enable the security and aesthetic design of the document to be taken to another level – they are easy to verify and recognise and are obvious if absent or altered in any way.

Fibres & Planchettes

Fibres & Planchettes

The random nature of the fibre and planchette dispersion within the paper means no two sheets or pages are ever the same making counterfeiters attempts to use repetition of layout ineffective.

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