News & Insights
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Technology
The Fusion Between Art and Engineering
The chance to develop and explore technology attracted Kara Zona, who has been at Crane Currency for five years. She is the Design Team Lead for a small, but growing team of experts creating micro-optic designs using Crane’s award-winning, micro-lens-based security technology.
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Technology
New MOTION SURFACE® Secures It All
Crane’s MOTION® micro-optics have an unrivalled record of performance in protecting some of the world’s most valuable banknotes – and is scientifically proven to enable banknotes to be authenticated by the public’s untrained eye within a fraction of a second. The new MOTION SURFACE on polymer underscores Crane’s commitment to customer choice.
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BEMs Speak for the Public
The ability to recognize very quickly the denominations of banknotes, in just a glance, belies the complexity of the act. Common banknote validators or “bill acceptors” perform the same act of recognition and authentication impressively when one considers these machines, even top performers, cost less than $900 and are expected to reject 100% of forgeries while still accepting 100% of all genuine banknotes
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Technology
Meet the 3D Animation Experts Creating Next-Generation Banknotes
It all boils down to software. Whether you have digital meetings with colleagues around the world, put your feet up to enjoy a great movie or drive away in your new electric car, endless lines of computer code make it possible. It’s the same thing with banknote security.
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Company News
Inspirational House Notes – Genuine Works of Art to Demonstrate Creativity and Complexity
Banknote printers and substrate suppliers around the world take great pride in creating concept notes to showcase their technical capabilities and latest features. They are often called house notes and Crane Currency’s Design Team has been able to create an average of one new house note every year
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Technology
Crane Currency Presents MOTION® Detect and RAPID® Detect
The new products MOTION Detect and RAPID Detect are an extension of Crane Currency’s award winning micro-optic technology. They are a natural complement to human authentication of banknotes and build on a modern, IR-based approach for machine verification.
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Technology
Company News
Reimaging Banknote Security with MOTION SURFACE®
Crane Currency has launched a new and very exciting security feature built on the proven MOTION® micro-optics technology. The feature is MOTION SURFACE®.
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Banknotes
Technology
First banknote issued with MOTION SURFACE®
The first banknote to use MOTION SURFACE is the Kyrgyz Republic 2,000 Som commemorative banknote, which has just been issued to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the independence of the Kyrgyz Republic and the establishment of its national currency.