Komori Secures 1st Banknote Order with BEP

Komori Corporation has announced that it has won a major order for multiple banknote printing systems from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP). 

This order was awarded following a comprehensive bidding evaluation process and, whilst the company has supplied other security presses to the BEP, this is thought to be the first exclusively for banknotes.

Although the company hasn’t given details of the order, it is understood that it relates to sheetfed offset machines destined for installation at the BEP’s Western Currency Facility (WCF) in Ft Worth, Texas.

According to Steve Craig, Group General Manager of the company’s Security Press Business Group, ‘we are truly honoured to have received this large-scale order from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing under the US Department of the Treasury. We look forward to building a long-term relationship of trust with BEP. Moving forward, we will continue to dedicate ourselves to delivering the finest printing technology to customers around the world.’ Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions has also won an order for sheetfed offset machines for installation at the BEP’s new currency facility (the so-called District Area Currency Replacement Facility, or DCRF) in Beltsville, Maryland. This comes on top of the order they announced last year for a series of new intaglio lines for both facilities.