Kurz launches kinegram dynamic.(Security Product)

Kinegram Dynamic [R] is the latest in Kurz's optically variable offerings to protect banknotes, and the company chose Banknote 2011, held in Washington DC to launch it. Kinegram Dynamic, which combines Kinegram with micro-optics, joins Kinegram Zero-Point-Zero[R] (see HN Vol 20 No 6) and Kinegram VoLume [R] (see HN Vol 23 No 10) in the Kinegram Banknote Platform (as the company now refers to it).

DOVIDs or holograms have in recent years come under pressure in the banknote industry as new and ingenious security features have emerged. A banknote can only carry so many high security (and normally high cost public (or overt) verification features and so suppliers do battle to have …