Found in 1927 and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, SICPA is an international organization providing secured identification, traceability and authentication solutions and services.
SICPA has offices and factories in all five continents. With around 3,000 staff of over 50 nationalities, the company provides technologies and services in more than 200 countries around the world. The company is organized around two global businesses: security inks solutions (SIS) and government security solutions (GSS). The executive management team of SICPA, together with several group functions, are based in the Lausanne Headquarters.
SIS manufactures high-performance security inks that protect the majority of the world's banknotes, security documents and value documents from the threats of counterfeiting and fraud.
GSS is responsible for working with sovereign government in implementing product authentication and tax reconciliation systems which integrate ink-based covert features and sophisticated traceability technologies. SICPA production-monitoring systems ensure the traceability of products and secure the collection of excise duties, sales tax and VAT throughout the world. SICPA also provides tailored solutions and services to industry comprising integrated and multi-layered authentication, anti-tampering, identification and traceability with the aim of ensuring product and supply chain integrity.
SICPA Pakistan is a joint venture of SICPA SA, Switzerland and Pakistan Security Printing Corporation, incorporated in 1995. The company operates a facility in Karachi for manufacturing security inks for printing of all denominations of currency notes and other value documents, such as, passports, postage stamps and stamp papers, etc. Security inks plant was upgraded to European standards in 2011, which is a reflection of SICPA's continuing commitment to Pakistan. Work force numbers about 130 with 50 in managerial/staff category.
Brand Protection solution manufacturing facility was set up in 2007. There are more than 75 regular customers in public and private sectors who are using SICPA security solutions for protection against counterfeiting, forgery or piracy. Customers are mainly in fertilizers, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, auto & lubricants and book publishing segments. The anti counterfeiting and anti piracy solutions are developed and produced in house using SICPA security inks under high security environment and are provided to clients through secure supply chain arrangements.
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