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Security Labelling

Security labelling produces an efficient and versatile response to threats against brand image and revenue as well as consumer purchasing power and safety. Security labels address these threats with the following functionalities, which are often combined.

Threat Label functionality
  • Product tampering
  • Counterfeiting 
  • Diversion to grey
    market channels
  • Tamper evidence
  • Authentication
  • Track and trace
Tamper-evident label materials

Tamper-evident labels may be used as package seals, or to prevent the transfer of the label and the features or information it carries to another package.

  • VOID films, standard or customized, leave a text, pattern or logo on the labelled substrate when the label is partially or fully removed; they cannot be smoothed back down in a way that would avoid detection.
  • Destructible papers and films either break into pieces or split into layers when tampered with.

Anti-counterfeiting label materials

Anti-counterfeiting labels provide proof of authenticity for the simple reason that they are difficult to reproduce. Specific properties or combinations of features are incorporated into the label face material. The available materials and features include:

  • Security papers 
  • Holograms
  • Optically variable
    face materials
  • Taggants
  • Shadow Print:
    between the underside
    of the label face and
    the adhesive

Anti-counterfeiting label materials can incorporate more than one of these features, as well as tamper evidence, and these features can be customized.

The selected or project-developed label material serves as a foundation for security print work, which adds further technology layers to produce the finished security label. An anti-counterfeiting label may also carry tracking and tracing functionality through variable information printing.

The security features built into anti-counterfeiting labels can be classed according to who is able to check them. Fully overt features are apparent to everyone, the semi-covert and covert demand particular knowledge or equipment, and a forensic level of security requires laboratory analysis.  


Tracking and tracing label materials

Tracking and tracing with labels is based on printing variable information as a unique identifier: variable information itself provides a valuable security feature. This information also provides a window onto possible goods diversion, lost inventory and misplaced shipments, improving the overall accuracy of the supply chain.

Most UPM Raflatac films and papers may be used for standard tracking and tracing applications. Variable information may also be printed on anti-forgery paper, which reveals attempts to remove the print, or used to add track and trace functionality to more complex security labelling solutions.

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