[nanoPost] Nano-optical Seal for anti-counterfeiting

Company Germany

Molecular Fingerprint

Forged products lead to enormous income losses in diverse business areas, for example consumer goods, spare parts and medicines to name just a few. Over and above, they divert money into dark channels. As has been proven by studies conducted by the IACC (International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition) approx. 7% of all products are forgeries.

This equals a yearly loss of 300 billion €, but the risk consumers are exposed to through counterfeits is possibly even more significant.

The company markets product protection solutions based on synthetically manufactured DNA codes. The according patent coverage includes the use of the high storage capacity for information which DNA offers. The quick, on-the-spot verification using simple reading devices is unique - worldwide.

Within seconds the user receives the information concerning the authenticity of the goods. As the marking is invisible to the naked eye the security sector calls it an hidden (covert) marking.

The DNA codes can either be stuck onto the sales wrapping on a lable or be directly printed onto it.

If the package is sealed with a lable it`s also an efficient protection against fraudulent exchange of the contents. In the meantime, the adjustments to industrial ink-jet techniques have successfully been completed, thus enabling the direct application of the marking onto the wrapping material using a similar technique to that of an ink-jet printer.

Nano-optical Seal 

For the marking of various different surfaces, for example of industrial spare parts, chip cards or banknotes the company offers cluster codes. These are based on exceedingly robust, ultra thin layers which show highly specific, brilliant color effects.

The thus generated spectral codes are quickly and easily machine readable and so guarantee an absolutely high level of protection against forgerys.

Holograms and similar security systems by no means guarantee machine readability and forgery proofness. As all of these markings are openly visible to the naked eye, they are called "overt" features. 
 

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