An example of what Irisafe looks like when copied. Not so brilliant.

In response to this demand, Fortress Paper has developed Irisafe – a security feature that cannot be duplicated by colour copiers or scanners.

Irisafe is an iridescent striped coating that is integrated into security papers and is characterized by brilliant and changing colours when you change the angle of view.

If an Irisafe stripe were present in a $20 bill, for example, the radiant colours on the stripe would change when you moved the bill at various angles – easily visible to anyone, even in less than optimum light conditions.

To further enhance the security feature, more than one stripe can be used on the same security paper.

By placing two or three different coloured iridescent stripes next to each other, the colour change between the different stripes is amplified and intensified to the naked eye when the angle is changed.

A colour copier cannot reproduce either the brilliancy or the change of colour. At best, a photocopied forgery will show spotty stripes instead of the trademarked Irisafe qualities.

On top of all this, various machine-readable invisible tracer substances and pigments can also be integrated into the stripes, further increasing the safety provided by Irisafe.

This week Fortress Paper Ltd. announced a 52 per cent rise in quarterly profits, showing that while many companies are struggling during this period of economic downturn, they are thriving.

The company – which produces non-woven wallpapers as well as security and specialty papers (such as bank notes) – reported net income of $3.5 million for the third quarter of 2009, an increase of $1.5 million from the same quarter last year. The increase in profits earned shareholders $0.38 per share, up more than ten cents from last year.

Fortress Paper credits a strong quarter in banknote paper sales from its Lanqart mill coupled with consistent positive results at their Dresden mill:
“As the year has progressed it has become apparent that our mills have been able to endure the economic crisis and produce healthy results,” the company said in a press release this week. “The market for security papers, which includes bank notes, passport paper and other high security papers, continues to show strength and our order book for wallpaper base is experiencing its highest level of demand since the economic downturn.”

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Fortress Paper
FORTRESS PAPER ANNOUNCES RECORD THIRD QUARTER 2009

Posted By: T. Murphy