Security by Design
You have a unique advantage when you work with Louisenthal: our unparalleled experience with security features, combined with the overall banknote design expertise of Giesecke+Devrient. That gives you a highly qualified team to design the whole banknote concept: the overall aesthetics of your notes; the selection, design and placement of security features; machine readability; durability and more.
Tell the world your story
Your banknotes are a visiting card for your country – they express its image and values, while highlighting key natural features or prominent citizens. That’s why it’s so important to work with a multi-disciplinary team that understands your project from start to finish, delivering a coherent, secure and beautiful product that you, your country and its people can really be proud of.
Louisenthal guides you in your choice of security features – whether you’re looking to produce a single commemorative note or a whole new series. We offer you maximum design flexibility across all your security features and how they are incorporated into the banknote layout.
Security features – part of your script
Our designers work with you to develop tailor-made solutions that meet all your requirements. Based on their deep knowledge of all the aspects of the entire cash cycle, our specialists have the perceptiveness you need to visualise how all the security features will work together.
The result? A complete set of security features for your banknote paper, along with stunning designs.
What’s one of the best and most concise ways to express your country’s culture and history? With the design of your banknotes.
Louisenthal offers maximum design flexibility across all security features.
Louisenthal offers highly effective security features versatile in their colours and effects.
Individually, or in combination, they offer huge flexibility for creating banknote designs.
When it all comes together, the story is ready to be told.
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.
Watermarks
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.
Security Threads
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.
Foil Elements
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.
Secure Windows
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.
Embedded Covert Security
Louisenthal’s innovative, covert security features can be integrated in security threads to boost a banknote’s functionality at different authentication levels.
Printed Security Features
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.
