IGNITE-ing New Thread Possibilities

De La Rue launched the next effects in its IGNITE® thread portfolio at the Banknote & Currency Conference in February.

The award-winning Qatar series of banknotes, De La Rue’s housenotes and the Bangladesh 100 taka commemorative note have all recently demonstrated the strong colourshift and movement effects of IGNITE, says the company.

IGNITE belongs to the fast-growing combinational thread category that is becoming extremely popular amongst central banks that issue paper banknotes. Precision micro-optic technology combines with colourshift to ensure criminals must overcome double the barrier to any simulation attempts.

The effects already released for IGNITE form part of a geometric range – predominantly based on simple, clean patterns and images that have been designed for high impact. Advancements to the micro-optic structures means that these effects are now even sharper and a new image-based range has now been created.

‘These new effects allow our design team to incorporate intricate customisable shapes that move and alternative sections of text and images into one thread’ commented Mark Spencer, De La Rue’s Technical Product Manager.