Nanotech Security: Leader in Anti-Counterfeiting with Advanced Authentication Products
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ounterfeiting is estimated to be a $650 billion global market that is predicted to swell to over $1 trillion by 2017. To combat fraud, authentication technology needs to continually stay ahead of counterfeiters. And that’s what Nanotech Security is known for all around the globe. Nanotech Security is a leading innovator in nano-optic image technologies for use in anti-counterfeiting applications. The company’s technology counters ever-evolving threats from modern scanning, photocopying or photography based counterfeiting techniques. Nanotech operates through two segments: Optics and Tactical. The Optics segment provides nano-optics and optical thin film for use in anti-counterfeiting and authentication processes and products, including currency, legal documents and commercial products. The Tactical segment designs and sells surveillance and intelligence gathering equipment for the law enforcement and defense industries in the United States and Canada. The company is working to enhance security for banknotes, but also authenticates other potential commercial applications that includes, legal documents, designer merchandise, concert tickets, tax-paid stamps, medical & credit cards, government documents, passports, and pharmaceuticals. Integrated Technology Authenticating Security and Branding Images Nanotech’s KolourOptik® technology, inspired by a unique structure found on the wings of the brilliant Blue Morpho butterfly, creates ease to authenticate security and branding
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images through a unique interaction and manipulation of natural light with a grid of nano-sized indentations. Nanotech uses patented algorithms coupled with electron and ion beam technology to embed hundreds of millions of nano-indentations into a master stamp to create this technology. The technology can be then used to secure and authenticate products of almost any kind. KolourOptik® technology is one of the first nano-optic technologies to seamlessly integrate into the commercial manufacturing process; meaning that organizations looking to add an advanced authentication feature to their products won’t have to invest significant resources to update manufacturing. Every KolourOptik image is unique, because the mastering process involves the most advanced nano-optic technology. This makes the image exclusive and matchless, and nearly impossible to replicate with other technology. In addition to its nano-optic technology, Nanotech also produces optical thin film, which offers a high security device with nano-meter thick layers designed to have precise color replay depending on the angle of view. This color-shifting film has been the standard for document security for over two decades because it is very difficult to reproduce or simulate, yet it is very simple to use. An Innovative Leader Showing the Way Doug Blakeway, CEO of Nanotech, is a lifelong entrepreneur, having launched and profitably sold a number of businesses since the beginning of his career as a draftsman in 1966. In addition to having an unwavering determination and commitment to all his projects, his success can be attributed to independent, innovative
November 2016