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The Beauty of Life House Note Receives Prestigious IOTA Award
New MOTION SURFACE® – “Best Integrated Technology”
Crane Currency’s latest house note, “The Beauty of Life”, has received the prestigious award “Best Integrated Technology” from the International Optical Technologies Association (IOTA). The award was handed to Sam Cape, Innovation Director at Crane Currency, during the Optical & Digital Document Security (ODDS) conference, organized by Reconnaissance International in Warsaw, Poland.
The house note has an astonishing MOTION SURFACE® micro-optic stripe and was seen by the jury as the best example of an integrated security feature technology in the market:
“The strength and number of submissions reaffirm the role of optical technologies at the forefront of innovation in authentication.”
“We are very happy to receive this award as recognition of the importance of security feature integration,” says Tod Niedeck, Global Marketing Director at Crane Currency. “Crane’s micro-optic features are world-class because they customize and integrate well.”
Sam Cape gave credit to a cross-functional team and “our advanced micro-optic design software that allows central banks to create a totally new class of modern banknotes. The notes message authenticity and trust in an intuitive and fun way.”
A Crane Currency team of banknote and micro-optic feature designers closely collaborated with its Malta-based printing works on the creation of the Beauty of Life house notes. The notes meet all industry standards for durability and were made possible through the support of Crane Currency’s project partners from CCL Secure, GSI Security Inks, JURA and SICPA.
“We’re always appreciative of and thank our industry partners for their contributions,” said Niedeck, “The product of this collaboration, these striking house notes, demonstrate that central banks can immediately access an award-winning marriage of technology and design.”