CINEMA – From Concept to Completion

Launched in 2020, CCL Secure’s new CINEMA™ security feature is gaining many admirers for its ability to combine 3D style depth with movement in a single feature, says the company. Soon after it became available, the feature received its premiere on Banque du Liban’s 100,000 livres commemorative note, issued last December.

Yet according to CCL Secure, the CINEMA story is one of long years of development that led to its ‘overnight success’.

‘The roots of CINEMA can be traced back to a previous innovation, Soft Emboss Technology (SET)’, says Dr Tim Berridge, CCL Secure’s Director of R&D, Marketing and Design.

SET works by embossing a microstructure into a special resin which is then immediately cured to ensure the precise structure and dimensions of the microstructure are repeatedly reproduced. The SET process is part of the substrate production process and is carried out inline so it is fully integrated into CCL Secure’s GUARDIAN™ substrate.