The Innovation Keeps Flowing

As described in the Banknote of the Month feature in the February issue of Currency News™, Kazakhstan’s new 20,000 tenge is memorable on a number of fronts – not least because the use of the Durasafe® substrate enabled the first ever application of a stripe in a vertical orientation, but also because it is the world’s first circulating note to incorporate SICPA’s new SPARK Flow® feature.

SPARK Flow® is the latest generation of SPARK®, and is available in three versions – PRIME, DIMENSION and CONFLUENCE.

The Banknote Factory (BNF) of the National Bank of Kazakhstan decided to upgrade its NotaScreen II screen press from Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions to benefit from the advantages of this optical technology, through the retrofitting of the new SPARK Inline UV Dryer II and both modules for SPARK Flow PRIME and DIMENSION.