07.28.20
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: $375 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: Philippe Amon, executive chairman; Jean-Paul Vionnet, COO and member of the Executive Committee.
Number of Employees: More than 2,000.
Comments: SICPA Holding S.A., Prilly, Switzerland, is the world’s largest 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 and plastic cards.
Since its beginnings in 1927, the privately-held company is under the third generation of Amon family leadership. SICPA has more than 30 offices around the world. The company reports that it secures 90 billion products annually and has more than 4,200 patents. Among its products are intaglio inks and special effect inks such as optical effect and luminescent inks.
The company consists of three divisions. The SICPA Security Inks Division provides security solutions for banknotes, official ID documents such as ID cards, passports and birth certificates, postage stamps, tax banderoles, product markings and security labels. SICPA’s Government Security Solutions Division provides security for tax revenues for tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceuticals and other highly counterfeited products.
Trying to control the COVID-19 pandemic is of tremendous importance, and SICPA is bringing its Certus authentication and secured traceability technologies to a collaboration on the “COVID-19 secured health passport,” showing that people have been tested. The results are printable and digitized, and can be used with a smartphone app.
1008 Prilly, Switzerland
Phone: +41 21-627-5555
Fax: +41 21-627-5727
www.sicpa.com
E-mail: info@sicpa.com
Sales: $375 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: Philippe Amon, executive chairman; Jean-Paul Vionnet, COO and member of the Executive Committee.
Number of Employees: More than 2,000.
Comments: SICPA Holding S.A., Prilly, Switzerland, is the world’s largest 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 and plastic cards.
Since its beginnings in 1927, the privately-held company is under the third generation of Amon family leadership. SICPA has more than 30 offices around the world. The company reports that it secures 90 billion products annually and has more than 4,200 patents. Among its products are intaglio inks and special effect inks such as optical effect and luminescent inks.
The company consists of three divisions. The SICPA Security Inks Division provides security solutions for banknotes, official ID documents such as ID cards, passports and birth certificates, postage stamps, tax banderoles, product markings and security labels. SICPA’s Government Security Solutions Division provides security for tax revenues for tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceuticals and other highly counterfeited products.
Trying to control the COVID-19 pandemic is of tremendous importance, and SICPA is bringing its Certus authentication and secured traceability technologies to a collaboration on the “COVID-19 secured health passport,” showing that people have been tested. The results are printable and digitized, and can be used with a smartphone app.