Company Australia
The company's technology consists of a group of molecules that can be integrated into the structural composition of most manufactured materials. When the material is illuminated under a special light frequency, a unique emission spectrum, similar to a fingerprint or DNA, is detected by a hand-held digital reader. In doing so, an individual marker invisible to the naked eye can be assigned to identify product authenticity.
As the product is bonded to a product's molecular structure, it is chemically inert, safe and strong enough to persist in any conditions. The product can be added to a wide range of materials to ensure product management, manufacturing process and logistics control, inventory management and control, quality assurance management and control, pollution control and for verifying the authenticity of products and materials.
Applications
Multiple applications for manufacturing, coating, and mixing
The company can be incorporated homogeneously in the manufacturing process to enable authentication of a product for its entire lifespan and beyond. Another form of the technology is a spray-on lacquer that can be applied to most materials post-manufacture.
The technology can also be used to test homogeneity of bulk products by utilizing combinations of our molecular markers and using the portable reader to confirm when mixing has been achieved. This application of the product has widespread implications for efficiency and safety in industries that need to accurately monitor batch mixing, including concrete, paint, chemicals, and explosives.
Food and Drink
It's becoming vital for consumers to be confident they are consuming genuine products as counterfeit food and drink has been responsible for numerous deaths all over the world. The product is an inert, non-toxic molecule, ideal for application to food and drink packaging to ensure authenticity.
Paper
Paper is a communication medium that we all take for granted but which often conveys highly secure or confidential information. The product can be incorporated into the lacquer or inks used in the printing process to enable proof of authenticity at any stage in production or distribution.
Glass
Many consumers aren't aware of the extent of counterfeiting or substitution of glass products designed for specific applications such as car windscreens or high-rise building windows. Poor quality glass being substituted where high quality glass should be used is a genuine threat to safety that can be addressed by the incorporation of the product during the manufacturing process. Any form of glass bottling or packaging can also be treated and verified by the product reader.
Pharmaceutical Drugs
There are many documented cases of counterfeit drugs causing serious illness and deaths, particularly in developing nations. As a result, the pharmaceutical supply chain must be strengthened to ensure only authentic medications are purchased and consumed. The product can be applied during the pharmaceutical drug manufacturing process and product packaging.
Fabric: Cotton, Wool, Nylon, Polyester and Silk
Walk through almost any shopping precinct in the world and you will be able to purchase counterfeit copies or grey market over-runs of global fashion and apparel brands. Consumers and even trademark owners have no simple way of knowing whether an expensive fashion item is really genuine. Fashion brands struggling with counterfeiting and over-runs can apply the product to either the fabric or label, simplifying the process of proving authenticity at any stage in the supply chain or at point of sale.
Paint
The product provides paint manufacturers the ability to identify different grades of their products to ensure authenticity and correct application. With many products including high value protective paints, substitution by brand and grade is a common and expensive problem. A product failure through use of a counterfeit or lower grade product can lead to large rectification costs and loss of brand reputation.
As the product is bound to the molecular structure of the paint, it can be tested at any point in the lifespan of the product, pre or post application, and can also be used to test the homogeneity of a paint mix.
Packaging
One of the most cost-effective methods of providing product security is to incorporate the product in the lacquer that is applied to packaging or to use the product packing tape. Proving the authenticity of tamper-proof packaging is a strong measure of proof that the contents are also authentic.
Cosmetics
Brand name cosmetics have been counterfeited for decades, a problem that is now exaggerated by internet sales and distribution, robbing designers of revenue and damaging brand reputation. The product can be used in the packaging, containers or caps for cosmetics and enables authenticity to be proven instantly at any point in the supply chain.
Chemicals
The chemical industry plays a critical role in our daily lives and many government agencies are now actively working on ways to closely monitor the origin and use of chemicals. The product is ideal for chemical manufacturers who need to ensure their products are traceable and verifiable from the moment they are created and through the life of their application. Blend homogeneity can also be tested by using the product in the mixing process.
Cement and Concrete
In cement and concrete construction, the product can be used to determine the position of specific concrete batches within a structure along with the original manufacturer and the grade applied. As a result, verification can be performed to determine if the correct concrete has been used in any given part of a structure for the lifetime of the concrete. Concrete manufacturers can also use the product to determine concrete mix homogeneity has been achieved during the mixing process, leading to huge gains in safer, more efficient manufacturing and construction.
Timber
Timber is graded according to factors affecting appearance and strength, but close timber grades are often impossible to tell apart and these materials can be easily diverted, miscounted and replaced with inferior timber. Suppliers and builders who believe they have used correct grade timber can carry product liability for products that have been switched without detection.
Applying the product using lacquer enables millers and builders to monitor authenticity, ownership and quality at each step of the sales and construction process.
Adhesives
As with other materials, the product can be used to identify the origin or grade of adhesives. This is important in mission critical applications such as aircraft and motor vehicle manufacture.
The identity of the adhesive is read with the hand-held digital field reader and can occur while the adhesive is in either an unhardened or hardened state.
Polymers: Plastics and Removable Media
One third of all music discs sold worldwide are counterfeit with an estimated global value $US4.6 billion and software piracy is estimated to be $US12 billion annually. the product can infuse the polymer substrate of removable digital media such as CDs and DVDs to authenticate the ownership of intellectual property and copyright.
The same approach can be taken with any form of plastic, allowing for mobile counterfeit detection in transit or at the point of sale. Mixing homogeneity is also possible when applying the product during polymer batch manufacturing.
Coatings and Lacquer
the product is easily incorporated into the manufacture of coatings and lacquers, enabling verification of the coating and the product it has been applied to at any stage.
A secondary use for the product in this industry is to manage homogeneity in the mixing process, using our digital hand held reader to verify optimum mixing. Bulk material manufacturers will appreciate the efficiency of having a scientific method for determining when homogeneous mixing has occurred.
Explosives
Public concern about national security and anti-terrorist protection has intensified demand for high-level tracking and verification of explosive materials. the product allows materials capable of being used in explosives to be closely monitored at all stages of their production, distribution, warehousing and use.
As explosive materials bearing the product have a permanent verifiable identity, their movement can be cross-referenced with all personnel who handle them in the supply chain. This information enables very precise security and stocktaking processes, including after the explosives have been used. Homogeneity of mixing can also be applied to explosives manufacture, leading to increased safety and production efficiency.
Microdots
Microdots provide an excellent overt form of authentication. To be absolutely confident of the veracity of microdots the product can be incorporated in the adhesive that carries the microdots, providing an irrefutable method for proving authenticity.
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