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Specialist sector expertise for your security document requirements

The importance of providing trusted security documents is as paramount today as it has ever been.

With the ever increasing threat of document attack and the continued growth of counterfeit and alteration, we need to ensure we always stay one step ahead of the criminals.

As security paper experts, Portals is the ideal partner to help ensure your brand and revenue protection labels, stamps, transactional vouchers and financial tokens are sufficiently robust and resilient to manage any specific security challenges.

By truly understanding the threats being faced, Portals is able to work with you to define the optimal specification for the base paper used in these security document solutions.

Nick Potter, Technical Director

Protecting brands, revenues and financial transactional values

Transactional vouchers and tokens with a financial value continue to come under attack from criminal activity.
These threats include not only the counterfeiting of documents but also alteration of a genuine token or voucher,
with value details being a key target of such attack.

As a result, security needs to be built in at every level to deter the criminals,
protecting brands, revenues and financial transactional values.

Brand and revenue protection

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Vouchers, cheques and tokens

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Brand and revenue protection

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 challenge

The first step in the fight against illicit trade is to prove your article is genuine and to confirm its authenticity.

The recommendation

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.

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Vouchers, cheques and tokens

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.

The challenge

Threats include not only the counterfeiting of documents but also the alteration of a genuine token or voucher, with the value amount or expiry date key targets of such an attack

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 makes it extremely difficult for criminals to replicate.

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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.

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.

Port-Hole™

Port-Hole™

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

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.

Toner Adhesion

Toner Adhesion

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

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