Micro-Optic Security Threads for High-Demand Banknotes
cBREEZE®
cBREEZE® is a new micro-optic security solution from Crane Currency. Designed to protect low-denomination, high-velocity banknotes, cBREEZE is engineered for maximum durability, robust security, and cost-effectiveness. It ensures fast, unambiguous verification at a low cost.
With exceptional brightness and industry-leading high-contrast movement, cBREEZE offers central banks a fresh alternative to older security features like colorshift threads – features now vulnerable to large-scale counterfeiting. By adopting cBREEZE, central banks reinforce public confidence in their currency.
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HOW DOES IT WORK?
cBREEZE displays secure moving effects – we call Cubic, Ripple, and Stellar – that are distinctly dynamic and easy to authenticate. Each effect is available in six bright colors.
Central banks can customize cBREEZE with text such as the central bank name, currency code, or denomination. And what’s more this familiar, recognizable text is legible by the public in a glance, an improvement over old-fashioned demetallized text which requires the banknote to be held up to the light.
MACHINE READABILITY
cBREEZE security threads include Detect, an infrared material that provides advanced machine readability. Complementing superior public authentication with high security machine verification, cBREEZE® is a cutting-edge security thread for high-velocity banknotes.
ABOUT cBREEZE
BRIGHT, HIGH CONTRAST COLORS
- Attractive and easy to use by the public
- Bright, vivid colors enhance security and aesthetics
- Engaging in all lighting conditions
VISUALLY DYNAMIC AND SECURE
- Ultra-secure, proprietary micro-optic technology from Crane Currency
- High-speed, fluid movement effects
- Free from metallic films or foils
- Three effect options: Cubic, Ripple, and Stellar
- Six color choices: red, blue, violet, aqua, brown, and green
- A breeze to integrate into existing and new banknote designs
READY TO PROTECT
- Durable, sealed micro-lenses resist soiling and can be over-varnished
- Machine-readability enabled by secure infrared Detect material
- Crane Currency Design Team supports trouble-free integration
- Only produced by Crane Currency in accredited, secure facilities
