- 11 January 2008 -
Additive technology aims to tackle counterfeiting

Honeywell has introduced customized covert authentication additive technology to help protect high-value documents and products -- such as consumer goods, bank cheques, equipment components and legal documents -- from counterfeiting. Estimates put the annual cost of global counterfeiting at around $600 billion. This includes fake products moving across borders, as well as those produced and sold domestically and traded on the Internet.

The company adds that the proprietary anti-counterfeiting technology is based on a library of more than 200 ceramic compounds, which can be embedded into plastics, as well as integrated into inks or added to fibres to create an invisible coded authentication mark. This mark identifies the material as genuine.

Honeywell; www.honeywell.com