Profile:
AlpVision, headquartered in Switzerland, is a leading supplier of digital security printing solutions for packaging and labeling, developed to combat counterfeiting of branded products.

Its clients include companies which count amongst the top 100 enterprises worldwide and which use the AlpVision proprietary Cryptoglyph® technology to protect already over a billion branded products worldwide, including pharmaceutical and tobacco products.

Cryptoglyph® is the only security process in the world that provides invisible security marking with nothing more than regular visible ink and standard printing processes (offset, rotogravure, flexography, laser, inkjet, etc); the Cryptoglyph® can thus be easily integrated into any existing packaging or labeling production line, without alteration of the printing speed and without modification of the production workflow, namely without extra production cost and without extra energy consumption.

The key feature of Cryptoglyph® is the printing of a pseudo-random pattern of thousands of micro dots (10 to 50 microns) invisible to the naked eye and generated by a digital key of 128 bits. If the varnish layer is used to invisibly mark the packaging or the labeling, micro holes are generated instead of dots.

The entire surface of the packaging or the labeling can be marked without modifying the original design and without modifying the production process of the packaging or the labeling.

To identify a product as genuine or fake, it is only necessary to reveal the presence or the absence of the invisible marking on the packaging or on the labeling. For this, AlpVision product security solutions only use regular low cost office flatbed scanners or camera phones available on the consumer electronics market. An image of part of the packaging or labeling is captured with a scanner or a camera phone and sent to a secured server via Internet.

If the Cryptoglyph® is present: the product is genuine; if the Cryptoglyph® is absent: the product is a fake. The automatic identification of the micro-dots or micro-holes pattern, using the 128 secret key, will uncover the production batch.

AlpVision’s Brand Protection and Product Security solutions are offered to manufacturers of brand products in the form of a license and the associated turnkey software.

Brands:
Cryptoglyph®: Krypsos™

Categories

ADDITIVES, COATINGS, EMULSIONS, INKS, SUPPLIES & SERVICES
• Computer Software & Systems

CODING, DATING, PRINTING, MARKING, STAMPING AND IMPRINTING MACHINES
• Product Identification, Decorating Machine

MACHINERY SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS
• Computer Software

PACKAGING / PROCESSING SERVICES
• Systems Integrator