Oberthur Demonstrates the Art of Animation with New Security Thread

As covered in last month’s Currency News, in the Spring of 2023 Oberthur Fiduciaire took out a majority stake in Rolling Optics, which was founded in 2005 with solid technical background from research at the Ångström Laboratory at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Since 2002, Rolling Optics has been developing its own micro-optical technology within the micro-optics field, enabling an incredible and crystal-clear 3D effect which it says is virtually impossible to copy. It has around 50 granted patents protecting its own technology and, says Oberthur, today supplies some of the most secure visual anti-counterfeit solution in the world.

Oberthur and Rolling Optics have been actively cooperating since May 2023 to develop a new high-security premium thread called Anima™, which is suitable for all banknote denominations and which they state offers spectacular movement features.