Olnica Taggant
The Invisible Taggant That Makes Frauds Visible
The Olnica Taggant is one of the best in the world. Our unique code taggant is a chemical compound with a unique code associated with your brand. Tamper-proof and undetectable to the naked eye (it does not alter the characteristics of products and materials), it is only visible with a dedicated Olnica reader.
Insert everywhere 
The Olnica Taggant is incredibly flexible as it can be added to materials as wide-ranging as ink, paper, cardboard, 3D metal, concrete and cement, varnish, coatings, adhesive, plastics and textiles, and can be printed on security labels and tax stamps.
Food-contact approved 
It is non-toxic, and is approved for contact with food. It’s ideal to insert into plastics or paper for safe, secure food packaging.
Robust 
The Olnica Taggant is highly robust. Unlike DNA, it’s inorganic, which makes it much more resistant to industrial processes like grinding, pressure and intense heat. It also doesn’t age under UV light.
Discrete 
Incredibly discrete, the Olnica Taggant is odourless, colorless and invisible to the naked eye. It is made visible only by a specific UVB light, not the conventional UVA lights. Highly stable, it doesn’t change a product or material’s characteristics in any way, and only requires a tiny amount to be effective.
A Taggant Insertable Everywhere
While the Olnica Taggant is as unique as DNA – with 1.3 billion unique signatures available – it’s much more robust. It resists light, high heat and extreme conditions, and is stable over time, ideal for the rigors of industrial manufacturing processes.
The Olnica Taggant can’t be removed or reverse engineered. It’s non-toxic and food-contact safe, and naturally, it doesn’t harm the environment.
It can either be integrated into the material or integrated into an invisible marking ink using the GhostPrint System.
Printing
Can be used in a number of low and high-security printing processes in ink, digital ink, flexography, helio-engraving, engraving, offset printing, pad printing, screen printing, lithography, inkjet printing, in Mettler Toledo serialisation machines, high security printing (tax stamps and labels).
Paper and cardboard
Can be inserted in pulp, paper and cardboard products, and is compatible with size press processes.
3D printing metal
Given the increasing number of applications for 3D printing, including for high-value aeronautics and automotive parts, it’s reassuring to know that the Olnica taggant is perfectly adapted.
Varnish, resin
It can be applied in varnishes, coatings and resins to any number of materials, from concrete pipes for the oil and gas industry to luxury accessories. It is insertable into all types of glue and adhesives as well.
Plastics
In the plastics industry, it can be used in processes including blow moulding, injection moulding, blow film, thermoforming, rotational moulding and welding. Certified safe for contact with food, by the EFSA, it’s insertable in all types of plastic.
Textiles
The Olnica Taggant works effectively for textiles, whether applied as a varnish to thread, or as part of synthetic fibres. Making it ideal for applications in the branded clothing industry.
ChemInTag, new joint lab between INSA Rennes-CNRS and Olnica R&D
Olnica, Insa Rennes and CNRS, to invent Taggants of the future , have signed a new research agreement on October 7, 2019 for a 4 year collaboration between Olnica and the ISCR-CSM INSA Rennes laboratory.
The research program of the ChemInTag joint laboratory has two objectives:
> understanding the mechanims that govern the luminescence of coordination polymers based on lanthanides and the search for new efficient systems;
> technology transfer and the development of the most promising systems Taggant with a view to their commercialization.
Need a Taggant partner for your research consortium?
At Olnica, we constantly looking for partners to implement taggants in their projects.
We develop taggants for different research applications, including connected devices for point-of-care authentication. As a plus, we are familiar with the submission process and experienced in proposal writing.
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