Know How

Combining art and technology is the central challenge in security printing, and requires very specific know how and a high level of technical knowledge. Oberthur Fiduciaire has been a major player in the printing industry since 1842 and we printed our first banknotes for the Banque de France in 1940.

Our know how and expertise, coupled with integrity and trust, have long been recognized by Central Banks and Governments across the world.

Oberthur Fiduciaire is expert in the entire banknote production process:

Oberthur Fiduciaire develops complete end-to-end products and offers a whole range of modern, secure services and solutions directed against counterfeiting.

We provide complete in-house banknote design and layout, development and integration of advanced security features as well as origination services tailor made to our customers needs.

Each and every customer benefits from the knowledge of our qualified workforce through every step of the process whether they are dealing with our sales team, designers or operators.

Every day, central banks and ministries renew their confidence in Oberthur Fiduciaire and rely on its skills to implement their projects, from analysis and consultancy to production and delivery.

Our company goal is to support and anticipate our customers’ needs by providing them our unique advice, services, and products; this is the reason why Oberthur Fiduciaire is a world leader security printer.

At Oberthur Fiduciaire we have a clear policy to differentiate ourselves from our competitors; below we have set out a few examples

No sub-contracting: Our policy is to produce all our orders within our manufacturing footprint. We do not subcontract customers’ orders to our competitors.

Traceability: We  are able to offer  our customers the opportunity of tracking their production right throughout the process , in real time

Business Ethics: we have succeeded in securing the high standard of ISO 37001 to measure the way we manage our business ethics. This standard measures us against some of the biggest global companies in the world, rather than just our peers within our own industry

Security Features: we have some innovative security features which offer our customers unique characteristics – Avalon, Securicoat Ultra; HD Vision watermarks

Security is our core business and our motto. At Oberthur Fiduciaire, we constantly push the limits of our products to strengthen their quality and traceability.

Our R&D team works very closely with our sales teams to anticipate our customers’ needs. Our strategy is project oriented in order to offer our customers tailor made solutions and securities specifically developed for them.

Printing banknotes requires the highest level of security. Oberthur Fiduciaire’s production sites are characterized by an extremely secure infrastructure, in accordance with the most stringent security regulations.

The company invests heavily in state-of-the-art equipment allowing us to better serve our customers with the latest printing technology as well as to increase our capacity of printed banknotes.

Oberthur Fiduciaire is now the only private security printer to operate two banknote manufacturing sites in Europe.

Our dedicated and highly skilled workforce offer worldwide renown designs coupled with the most advanced technologies and security features.

In addition, Oberthur Fiduciaire has been working for many years with accredited suppliers. Our supply chain therefore is based on a relationship of trust which enables us to complete intricate projects.

We also offer our customers the opportunity of printing on a polymer support. In 2003 Oberthur Fiduciaire obtained the certification PPP (Preferred Polymer Printer).