Oberthur Brochure_Anima_Product, Feature or Process Owner Release Date (Date made available to public)
03/10/2024
Project Description
Anima™ is a lenticular based micro-optical thread that offers instant recognition through dynamic movement effects with tailor made customer designs.
Improvement of the Banknote or Printing Process
Securing banknotes always requires more innovation to tackle counterfeiting.
Anima™, a world class micro-lenses security feature, allows central banks to incorporate a highly secure thread to their banknote family: both complex, yet easy to authenticate by the end user. The imagery generated for Anima™ effects s 100% customisable: foreground combined with background effects as well as a wide selection of colors, tailored by denomination offers central banks particularly interesting bespoke design options.
The integrated optical elements eliminate issues of thread soiling and allow varnishing of the banknote.
By choosing Anima™, a secure and durable technology, central banks create confidence in banknotes.
Innovation and Unique aspects
Anima™ is at the forefront of lenticular micro-optical innovation. A large library of moving effects (of which some can be combined) complements the library of colours and thread width to create countless thread design permutations.
Our philosophy is to then to combine Anima™ threads with customized designs of your choice, in order to create unique, stunning and distinctive Anima™ threads for your banknote series.
Environmental Impact
At 0.05% of a banknote, the security thread was not our first sustainable solution priority. However, Our R&D department is pushing metal free optical effect as threads and foils increase in size, their relative mass becomes more significant.
Image of the new feature shown on at least one issued banknote or an image of the new product
