Hybrid ADDvance® – Creating Long Lasting Confidence

In February’s Currency News™, Clemens Berger of Louisenthal wrote about the importance of embedded security features and how they are the benchmark for the overwhelming majority of banknotes. This month, he follows up with more information specifically on how their substrate family – Hybrid ADDvance® – is part of that story.

There is increasing demand for more durable and security-scalable banknote solutions, but without embedded security concepts this demand is met with compromises. We must stay ahead of the counterfeiter. Add to this the strains of increasingly complex cash cycles and demanding environmental and circulating conditions.

Issuers are faced with this conundrum, but there are ways to address durability in a sustainable way, which is consistent with the proven cotton-based security.

Durability dilemma? Unmatched security from within

Cotton banknotes are still now the substrate for 95% of the world´s banknotes and continue to be the basis for substrate-embedded innovation which has harnessed both security and durability. We know durability of cotton substrates has been a growing requirement of issuers seeking a more cost-effective solution, so these benefits are all now packaged in Hybrid ADDvance®.