Delivering Banknote Security Through Technology… Louisenthal´s Solution

Readers will recall in earlier editions that we addressed a number of significant highlights following G+D`s Currency Technology Symposium held in July. This is the final story, focusing on key elements of the day dedicated to Louisenthal, G+D’s substrate and feature subsidiary.

The messaging was simple but sophisticated: the best security solutions are a combination of embedded, printed and applied features integrated into a cotton-based substrate.

The design of a banknote plays a central role in both their affection and their authentication, two of G+D’s five requisite ‘A’s for cash. The claim that a banknote contains more technology than an iPhone rests squarely on how designers bring together the technical specifications with the themes, motifs, colours, formats of each banknote and the series they sit within. To work they need to tell a story and deliver to a formula. The Magic Triangle incorporating Security, Durability and Sustainability was presented as the formula for future banknotes.