EXCISE STAMPS

Illicit trade in products that generate excise revenue is staggering. In tobacco products alone, it is estimated that $40-50 billion a year is untaxed due to the counterfeiting of poorly secured tax stamps. With access to label making and print technology that enables fraudulent copies of legitimate tax stamps, there is a need for multi-level security features, much like those used for banknotes. Spectra has leveraged its expertise and technologies developed for the banknote industry in a way that provides highly secure overt and covert features for tax stamps.

We supply security printers and hologram makers with high-performance luminescent pigments and dyes for unique, overt visible effects, as well as covert authentication systems comprising invisible markers and verification technology that run on handheld readers or smartphone platforms.