Experience and security in feature design
By combining decades of experience with the latest high-tech solutions, we achieve the extraordinary: Banknote design that really works.
When you collaborate with Louisenthal you gain a decisive advantage, as our leading expertise in security elements is seamlessly merged with Giesecke+Devrient’s comprehensive proficiency in banknote design.
Working with Louisenthal means you can rely on an established team of specialists who take charge of every aspect of the process: Feature designers, technology experts, machine-readability specialists – we involve all disciplines right from the start. From choosing the ideal substrates to integrating cutting-edge security features, we have everything it takes to bring your vision to life and optimize it for the entire cash cycle. We work with you to deliver a holistic and seamless approach that encompasses independent consultancy, strategy and design.
The result is design that works: Banknotes which not only look outstanding but also function reliably and with maximum security at every stage – from production to circulation, anytime and anywhere.
Impressive stories that work
Your banknotes are your country’s calling card; they reflect its history, profile, culture, and values. With that in mind our teams design every banknote to be a genuine work of art – starting with the security features. But it is never a matter of art for art’s sake: All our concepts excel thanks to highly complex, next-generation security design. After all, you need your banknotes to not only be exceptionally beautiful, but also exceptionally secure.
Kasachstan 5000 Tenge, RollingStar® Patch
Suriname 200 Suriname-Dollar, RollingStar® LEAD
Aserbaidschan 50 Manat, RollingStar® LEAD
Aserbaidschan 100 Manat, RollingStar® LEAD
Guatemala 1 Com Quetzal Com, varifeye® Patch
Lesotho 200 Loti, RollingStar® i+ Thread
Mongolia 100.000 Tögrög Com, RollingStar® Thread
Suriname 500 Suriname-Dollar, varifeye® Patch
Zimbabwe 200 Kwacha, RollingStar® i+ Thread
Eswatini 50 Lilangeni, RollingStar® Patch
Tadschikistan 100 Somoni, RollingStar® Patch
Security features – part of your script
How can your country’s culture and history be most effectively and impactfully represented? Our teams harness the power of beauty and put it to work for you. Security threads, watermarks, foil elements, printed security features – every component elaborates on the story while measurably increasing the banknote’s protection.
Using this palette of options we can offer you maximum design freedom paired with maximum security. It is virtually impossible to counterfeit even a single one of our innovative features. Our solutions can be used flexibly as a complete package and integrated seamlessly into new as well as existing banknote designs.
Explore our security features
Our 360° view shows how you can combine design and security to tell your story effectively.
Security features in depth
Louisenthal offers a wide range of security features in your banknote design that act like characters in the story you want to tell.
Our three-dimensional, highlight and pixel watermarks can be used singly or combined – and we’re always working on new, advanced technologies that allow for a creative design. That results in higher protection and faster verification for everyone.
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Our threads help the public to check their note is authentic. And security is not the only benefit: the gleaming threads are both attractive and eye-catching. They can also be equipped with functional properties to enable machine processing.
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Easy to recognize and available in different dynamic colours and effects, Louisenthal foils enable you to position striking designs across the banknote. They are based on exclusive and counterfeit-resilient origination technologies that bring your customer-specific designs to life.
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Louisenthal’s unique varifeye® windows are innovative security elements with surprising optically variable effects in reflection and transmission. They can be incorporated into a patch or a foil stripe and offer secure window effects as well as additional front-to-back verification.
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Louisenthal’s innovative, covert security features can be integrated in security threads to boost a banknote’s functionality at different authentication levels.
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Iridescent and colour-changing inks create alluring security effects, making them ideal for rapid authentication and very difficult to forge. Depending on the viewing angle, the printed elements are either visible, invisible or change colour when the note is tilted.
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Do you have any questions, requests or suggestions about our products or solutions? Please feel free to contact us. We would be happy to be of assistance.