Protect your brand by identifying it using security taggants

Protect your brand by identifying it using security taggants

Monday, 16 April, 2018

If you need to protect your brand and beat the counterfeiters, Comindex is enabling you to identify your products using security taggants.

Olnica –the company that manufactures these taggants– designs a specific taggant for each customer and application; in other words, every single one is unique.

In terms of security there are four primary levels of protection:

Level 1: Overt (visible): taggant detectable by observation, for instance, a logo or barcode.
Level 2: Covert (invisible): taggant detectable by simple UV-light readers.
Level 3: Covert (invisible): optical fingerprint detectable by specific readers, such as a spectrometer.
Level 4: Forensic (invisible): molecular DNA detectable only by specific laboratories by means of a scanning electron microscope (SEM).

OLNICA security taggants incorporate the three security levels: 2, 3 and 4; in each case, the level of protection we wish to detect may be defined. In the case of level 2, OLNICA taggants bear the specific trait of solely being detectable by specific UV-light sources.

They may be incorporated into countless systems, such as inks, paints, plastics, textiles, and so on, because they are effective under the conditions specified below and offer the following properties:
- Temperature resistant: up to 450ºC
- pH range: 3-14
- Colourless and cloudless where incorporated (micron size particle, D50 approx.1µm).

Why consider using these tags?

To benefit from traceability of the product from origin to point of application, avoiding false claims.
To control potential product tampering.
To endow products with a detectable seal or mark of authenticity either by using a single taggant for a manufacturer’s full production output or by using several taggants to distinguish between product lines and distribution channels.

For further information about these products, please contact our Technical Sales Advisers.

URL: www.olnica.com

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