MATERUS develops cutting-edge security features for tax stamps and banknotes, ensuring the authenticity of excise goods and national currency.
Advanced holographic and UV printing alone no longer provide the highest level of protection for tax stamps. RFID does. MATERUS offers next-generation excise control systems designed for total security and compliance.
Ensure authenticity and security of excise and government-issued documents with RFID tech, not printing only.
Advanced holographic and UV printing technologies add a critical layer of security to tax stamps and official documents. These visible and covert features – such as holograms, microtext, color-shifting inks, and UV-reactive patterns – are difficult to replicate and widely used for forgery protection. But to achieve full traceability and real-time verification, RFID technology is essential. By deploying RFID technology, enforcement moves from manual inspection to automated control, enabling modern, data-driven and most important 100% tamper proof excise system management.
Serialized tax stamps for accurate tracking of excise goods.
Enable precise excise tax compliance and product traceability with serialized identifiers.
Serialized tax stamps integrate unique barcodes or QR codes linked to centralized databases, allowing for real-time tracking of tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, and other excise-regulated products. This system enhances transparency, simplifies audit trails, and supports automated verification through handheld or fixed scanning systems at customs or retail points.
Anti-Counterfeiting measures for national banknotes and official documents.
Protect currency and high-security documents with multi-layered authentication features.
National banknotes and legal documents are secured with a range of anti-counterfeiting technologies such as embedded threads, optically variable inks, watermarking, UV fibers, and RFID integration. These layers work together to prevent duplication, alteration, and unauthorized reproduction, ensuring trust in financial systems and national identification programs.
We provide any secure product design, material sourcing, and production coordination for tax stamps, banknotes, and related high-security printed products tailored to governmental and institutional needs.
Yes, all our solutions meet or exceed ISO and Intergraf security printing standards, ensuring tamper-evident features and multi-layer protection against counterfeiting.
Absolutely. We tailor tax stamps to match country-specific legislation, product categories (such as tobacco or alcohol), and integrate track-and-trace systems where required.
Yes, we incorporate a wide range of security features, including holograms, UV inks, microtext, guilloche patterns, and secure QR codes to enhance authentication.
Yes, our solutions may support digital authentication via RFID systems (amongst standard) to ensure end-to-end traceability.
Yes, we offer full design support, including layout planning, integration of overt/covert elements, and adaptation to national symbolism or branding requirements.
We work with certified high-security printing partners and supervise every stage—from pre-press to post-production logistics—ensuring confidentiality and compliance.
We use secure substrates such as high-durability paper, polymer composites, and polycarbonate layers, depending on the product type and required durability.
Yes, we help governments and central banks transition to more secure, cost-effective, and digitally integrated systems through step-by-step modernization strategies.
Lead times vary depending on complexity and volume, but initial design and prototyping typically take 12–18 weeks, with full production ranging depending on the volumes.
In the field of Security Printing, MATERUS cooperates with leading manufacturers of security products to analyse and promote their technologies globally. The vast experience gained over the years allows MATERUS, as an independent expert, to consolidate the best solutions for consumers of modern printing technology.
