LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG
Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG is the parent company of a group that specializes in the production of hot-stamping decorations and hot-stamping machines. The Group is headquartered in Fürth, Germany.
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Stamping decorations, stamping machines, and stamping tools |
| Founded 📆 | 1899 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Fürth , Germany |
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Key people | Walter Kurz, Peter Kurz |
| Revenue🤑 | 862.1 million euros (2019)[1] |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 5,690 (2019)[1] |
| 🌐 Website | https://www.leonhard-kurz.com/ |
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History
In 1899, Leonhard Kurz founded a company to produce gold leaf. In 1931, his successor Konrad Kurz patented a vacuum-evaporated real gold stamping decoration. Areas of application included bookbinding and labeling pencils. In the 1950s, aluminum-evaporated coating solutions were produced for hot-stamping technology, and from the 1960s, the company entered the mechanical engineering sector. In the 1970s, the first foreign subsidiaries were established for distribution and the group built up a production facility in the US. Further steps were the embossing of magnetic strips (e.g., on the back of Flight tickets or bank savings books), and holographic elements such as kinegrams.[2][3][4]
Production sites (selection)
- Fürth (Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG, PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG)
- Sulzbach-Rosenberg (Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG)
- Rudersberg (Baier GmbH & Co. KG)
- Döbeln (Kurz Typofol GmbH)
- Göppingen (Hinderer + Mühlich GmbH & Co. KG)
- Charlotte (North Carolina), USA
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Hefei, China
- Heidelberg (SCRIBOS GmbH)
Product and brand protection
Leonhard Kurz manufactures security elements for brands, banknotes, and documents.
The tax stamp or protective label consists of a diffractive security device, which is provided with various obvious, concealed, and forensic security features and applied to the respective product using hot stamping, cold transfer, or the digital metal process.[5]
In July 2021, the company announced that it would take over tesa scribos on September 1, 2021 to expand its product range.[6]
Security technology for banknotes
Leonhard Kurz manufactures proprietary security features for banknotes in Germany through OVD Kinegram AG, which has been part of the Group since 1999.[7] The currencies of over 80 countries are equipped with this counterfeit protection, such as the euro, Swiss franc, Turkish lira, Canadian dollar, and the British pound.[8] These security features use a type of DOVID.[9] The underlying technology of the Kinegram was developed by the Swiss company Landis & Gyr Communication, with Gregor Antes named as the inventor.[10] The first use of a Kinegram for securing an identity document was in the passports of Saudi-Arabia in 1985.[10] In 1988 it was used on a banknote for the first time, being applied as a security feature onto the Austrian 5000 Shilling banknote.[11]
In 2016, Leonhard Kurz was recognized as the Central Banking Awards’ Banknote and Currency Service Provider of the Year, as a partner to some of the world's largest central banks.[12]
The diffractive Kinegram security elements, which display[13] different 2D[14] or 3D images when tilted, can be applied to paper, polymer, and composite banknote substrates. Polymer banknotes in particular have gained in importance in recent years.[15] Since 2020, Leonhard Kurz has also been manufacturing banknote security threads using the same technology.[16] These exhibit different movement effects or color changes, and can also be equipped with machine-readable features (for infrared, UV, or magnetic detection).[17]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.bundesanzeiger.de
- ↑ "Company History Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG" (PDF). Retrieved 16 June 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Von Geldscheinen und Bleistiften". www.onetz.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-11-26.
- ↑ "Wirtschaftsstandort Fürth - Stadtmuseum Fürth". www.stadtmuseum-fuerth.de. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
- ↑ "Tax Stamps". www.trustconcept.com. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ↑ "KURZ: Acquisition of tesa scribos". www.coating-converting.com. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
- ↑ "Mikroskopische Streifzüge auf Banknoten". www.mikroskopie-bonn.de. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ↑ "Banknote Technology Report". Banknote Industry News: 3 ff. July 2015.
- ↑ "About KURZ and OVD Kinegram". www.kinegram.com. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Speicher, Christian (2021-06-12). "Mit seinen Kinegrammen macht Gregor Antes Fälschern das Leben schwer". Neue Züricher Zeitung. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
- ↑ "OeNB - Ab Montag neue 500- und 1000-Schilling-Banknoten - Alte Scheine gelten noch sechs Monate". OTS.at (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-11-26.
- ↑ "Banknote and currency services provider of the year: Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co". Central Banking. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ↑ "Polymer £20 note". www.bankofengland.co.uk. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ↑ "Public register of authentic travel and identity documents online" (PDF). Council of the European Union. Retrieved 16 June 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "CCL Industries bereitet Übernahme der Innovia Gruppe vor: Investition in die Zukunft der Banknote". www.packreport.de. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ↑ "KINEGRAM REVIEW for Costa Rica". www.kinegram.com. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ↑ KURZ THREADS – A New Paradigm in Banknote Security, retrieved 16 June 2021
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