Dave Savastano, Editor07.31.15
SICPA Holding SA
Avenue de Florissant 41
1008 Prilly, Switzerland
Phone: +41 21-627-5555
Fax: +41 21-627-5727
www.sicpa.com
E-mail: info@sicpa.com
Sales: $400 million (Ink World estimate)
Major Products: Security inks and features for intaglio, offset, screen, gravure, flexo and inkjet printing of banknotes and value documents. Providers and integrators of security systems for product protection and excise tax enhancement.
Key Personnel: Maurice A. Amon and Philippe Amon, executive co-chairmen.
Number of Employees: 3,000 (Ink World estimate).
Comments: Headquartered in Prilly, Switzerland, SICPA Holding S.A. is the world’s leading supplier of security inks and solutions for most of the world’s banknotes, as well as a wide range of documents, including passports, transport tickets, plastic cards and lottery scratch cards. The privately held company has offices and manufacturing sites in 30 locations on five continents.
SICPA consists of three divisions: SICPA Security Inks Division, which focuses on applications such as banknotes, official ID documents such as passports, ID cards and birth certificates, postage stamps, tax banderoles, security labels and product markings. SICPA Government Security Solutions Division protects tax revenues for products such as tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceuticals. SICPA Product and Brand Protection Division leverages the company’s security technology to help combat counterfeiting and illicit trade of all kinds of products.
In August 2014, SICPA completed the acquisition of Cabot Security Materials Inc. (CSMI) in Albuquerque, NM, a product division of Cabot Corporation, for approximately $20 million. Cabot’s Security Materials products include covert taggants for the anti-counterfeiting industry. CSMI generated $7 million in revenue in 2013.
SICPA South Africa is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2015. Operations there started in early 1990 with branches in Johannesburg and in Cape Town, and included label and publication inks as well as packaging and security inks. Today, SICPA South Africa’s branches are merged into Johannesburg, and its activities are now solely focused on security inks.
Avenue de Florissant 41
1008 Prilly, Switzerland
Phone: +41 21-627-5555
Fax: +41 21-627-5727
www.sicpa.com
E-mail: info@sicpa.com
Sales: $400 million (Ink World estimate)
Major Products: Security inks and features for intaglio, offset, screen, gravure, flexo and inkjet printing of banknotes and value documents. Providers and integrators of security systems for product protection and excise tax enhancement.
Key Personnel: Maurice A. Amon and Philippe Amon, executive co-chairmen.
Number of Employees: 3,000 (Ink World estimate).
Comments: Headquartered in Prilly, Switzerland, SICPA Holding S.A. is the world’s leading supplier of security inks and solutions for most of the world’s banknotes, as well as a wide range of documents, including passports, transport tickets, plastic cards and lottery scratch cards. The privately held company has offices and manufacturing sites in 30 locations on five continents.
SICPA consists of three divisions: SICPA Security Inks Division, which focuses on applications such as banknotes, official ID documents such as passports, ID cards and birth certificates, postage stamps, tax banderoles, security labels and product markings. SICPA Government Security Solutions Division protects tax revenues for products such as tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceuticals. SICPA Product and Brand Protection Division leverages the company’s security technology to help combat counterfeiting and illicit trade of all kinds of products.
In August 2014, SICPA completed the acquisition of Cabot Security Materials Inc. (CSMI) in Albuquerque, NM, a product division of Cabot Corporation, for approximately $20 million. Cabot’s Security Materials products include covert taggants for the anti-counterfeiting industry. CSMI generated $7 million in revenue in 2013.
SICPA South Africa is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2015. Operations there started in early 1990 with branches in Johannesburg and in Cape Town, and included label and publication inks as well as packaging and security inks. Today, SICPA South Africa’s branches are merged into Johannesburg, and its activities are now solely focused on security inks.