CCL Secure Makes Multi-Million Investment

CCL Secure is cementing its leading position in polymer production for banknotes with major additions to the capabilities of its production lines.

The company is investing £9.5 million to include support for its latest two innovations. First is SPARTAN™, an ultra-durable banknote engineered specifically for the note/coin boundary (see CN May 2021). Second is CINEMA™ – a novel security feature available with its GUARDIAN™ substrate.

‘We’ve made these investments so that we continue to be at the forefront of polymer banknote technology,’ says Dr Tim Berridge, CCL Secure’s Director of R&D, Marketing and Design. ‘With new security features such as CINEMA that can only be achieved in polymer and the introduction of SPARTAN, this level of investment makes sure that we can meet global demand using our existing production lines, based on three continents.’ SPARTAN is the company’s new polymer substrate to meet the demand for an ultra-durable, cost-effective polymer banknote specifically for the note/coin boundary. Although GUARDIAN (which is used in more than 75 billion banknotes in circulation worldwide) is already renowned for its durability, the engineering brief for SPARTAN was to create a polymer that would be even tougher in order to stand up to the rigorous experience by a high transaction velocity banknote, constantly changing hands.