Getting Ready for the Future

Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions (K&B BNS) has pre- launched its new production platform called ‘AKTINA’.

Readers may have seen a LinkedIn video post last week from Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions, telling us that; ‘something big is coming’.

That ‘something’, says the company, turns out to be a totally new way of producing banknotes that meets the rapidly changing needs of banknote printers, central banks and cash ecosystem stakeholders. The platform has been given the name AKTINA, a Greek work meaning ‘light beam’ and K&B BNS hopes this will illuminate the pathway to a more sustainable future for banknotes and their customers.

Emmanuel Thony, leading the AKTINA development team, explains this innovation as ‘the first step towards a new future for our community where the printer leaves past limitations behind and concentrates on the future, by shifting the conversation away from individual machines to an interconnected, highly efficient process. AKTINA transforms ‘What if’… into ‘I Can’… and puts the printer in control by empowering them to create new value propositions for society.’