Insight and Innovation
De La Rue Currency's commitment to research, innovation and development keeps its customers' banknotes at least two steps ahead of the counterfeiter.
In 1940, Portals produced the first banknote paper to carry a security thread. De La Rue Currency has maintained this compelling track record in innovation into the present day:
| 1976 |
Viking 2 lands on Mars |
Magnetic / Metallic
embedded thread |
Delacode Delachrome |
 |
◄ Machine-readable
inks |
| 1984 |
Mrs Indira Gandhi assassinated by
members of her own bodyguard |
Stardust® windowed thread |
Novel numbers |
| 1986 |
Launch of the core
module of the
Mir space station |
 |
◄ Metallic luminescent ink |
| 1987 |
World population
reaches five
billion people |
 |
◄ Multi Layer Latent Image
(LIFT® Twin) |
| 1989 |
Tim Berners-Lee
invents the
World Wide Web |
|
Toned metallic inks |
| 1990 |
F.W. de Klerk
announces an end
to apartheid;
Nelson Mandela
released from prison |
Cleartext® thread |
Multi Image™ hologram |
 |
◄ Micro Engraved
Lettering Tint |
| 1992 |
Mauritius becomes a republic within the Commonwealth |
Colourshift thread ► |
 |
| 1996 |
Dolly the sheep
is cloned |
Platinum® Starwide® thread ► |
 |
| 1997 |
Diana, Princess of
Wales, dies in a
car crash in Paris |
FACET® thread ► |
 |
| 1999 |
Scottish Parliament
resumes business
in Edinburgh |
 |
◄ Intaglio Gold |
| 2002 |
euro banknotes and coins enter circulation |
StarChrome® thread ► |
 |
| 2003 |
Concorde makes its last commercial flight |
Cornerstone® |
Dual Image™ hologram |
 |
◄ D-Plex™ |
| 2004 |
Ten new states
join the
European Union,
making it the
largest trading
bloc in the world
by population |
Optiks™ thread |
Gemini™ |
| 2005 |
Kyoto Protocol on
measures to control climate
change comes
into force |
Magtext® thread Scroll™ thread |
Mask™ Depth Image™ hologram |
 |
◄ Kaleidoscope™ |
Kaleidoscope™, Cornerstone®, LIFT®, Platinum®, StarChrome® and Stardust® are registered trademarks of
De La Rue International Limited.
Cleartext®, FACET®, Magtext® and Starwide® are registered trademarks of Portals Limited.
Depth Image™, D-Plex™, Dual Image™, Gemini™, Kaleidoscope™, Mask™, Multi Image™, Optiks™ and Scroll™ are trademarks of De La Rue International Limited.