About De La Rue in Malta

With more than 40 years of proud history of operations and strong relations with the people of Malta, De La Rue has contributed to the country’s economy and its community since 1975.

De La Rue’s relationship here goes back over a century; De La Rue produced Malta’s first stamp in 1860 and became the supplier of its banknotes in 1918, continuing as the sole supplier until Malta entered the Euro in 2008.

Recognising the strategic and geographical importance of Malta for a highly skilled production facility and an export hub to the rest of the world, De La Rue first commenced its operations in the country with a purpose-built banknote factory. This marked the start of a long, strong, and supportive relationship with the people and the Government of Malta.

Our relationship, investment and growth continued, with a second facility to expand our product range opening in 2008 and the creation of a Centre of Excellence for Security Print in 2016. We’ve also made significant progress in reducing the environmental impact of our operations and will continue to focus here.

The site today exports over 14 billion unique banknotes, tax stamps and other high security products and to over 85 countries around the world – that’s over 30,000 items for every single person living in Malta. Planned investments will further improve our capability and increase our production capacity. Our tax stamp capacity will more than double and increased banknote capacity will create a more agile footprint, with the ability to handle surges in demand.

Products produced in Malta include:

Tax stamps
Authentication labels
Banknotes
Polycarbonate data pages

Malta in focus

Our journey - A culture of continuous improvement

Purpose built in 1975 to produce currency, De La Rue Malta has continued to invest in its facilities and its people. Here are some of our more recent highlights.

2002: Banknote SuperLine

The site was selected to be the recipient of a banknote “SuperLine” from the Group’s operations in Singapore, in response to an increase in demand and the strengthening of its position as a gateway to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

2016: Strategic Investment

The site has remained critical to the Group and core to the overall business strategy with on going investment into its manufacturing capabilities and continued training and up-skill of its employees.

2018: Multi Product Centre of Excellence

Most recently, De La Rue Malta has seen substantial enhancement with new state-of-the-art plate making facilities, a new polycarbonate production line to meet the growing needs of the identity sector, a high security logistics centre and achievement of ISO14298 for the management of security printing processes at the highest available Central Bank accreditation level.

2021: Major facilities upgrade

De La Rue Malta is delighted to announce a major upgrade to our existing facilities in Malta to become a 29k sqm state-of-the-art manufacturing site. This investment is supported by Malta's economic development agency, Malta Enterprise, and the Government of Malta.

Capabilities

De La Rue Malta is the most secure printing facility on the island, working in partnership with the Maltese government, for the people of Malta and the world beyond.

Highest standards of both physical and digital security
Highly skilled staff and experts
In house on-site engineering team, dedicated process managers
Continued and ongoing investment programme in our people and equipment
Competitive edge in terms of service, security, quality and customer value-add
Specialist security production equipment, not commercially available
Lean manufacturing methodologies and approaches

Local community

International Women's Day celebrations

April 8, 2021

Due to COVID 19 situation, there is an even greater focus locally on supporting women who are victims of domestic abuse and have had to move into shelters. To support women in the local community our colleagues in Malta donated good condition handbags and filled them with toiletries to distribute to a number of women’s shelters in the local area run by the Richmond Foundation and the St Jean Antide Foundation.

Malta employees mark World Down Syndrome Day

April 8, 2021

As a company one of our important values is inclusion and diversity. On World Down Syndrome Day, 22nd March 2021, employees in our Malta site raised €875 by purchasing and wearing odd socks with the intention of raising awareness and understanding more about Down Syndrome and helping the Malta Down Syndrome Association assist people who have Down Syndrome to fulfil their potential for successful and happy lives.

Support for Malta Community Chest Fund

January 20, 2021

In December as part of the annual L-Istrina telethon De La Rue Malta made a donation of €2300 to the Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation (MCCFF). The donation came from the generosity of our employees and the company - in part from a collection of bottle tops in collaboration with wasteserv. The MCCFF uses the money raised to help people requiring rare or expensive medical treatment to get the care they need. We are delighted to be able to support this local charity.

Employees receive red carpet treatment

January 20, 2021

During the first week of December De La Rue Malta employees were recognised for their hard work and dedication helping customers all over the world. Employees were recognised in many ways to mark long service, training achievements, contributions to Health & Safety and birthday celebrations. We are very proud of all our colleagues for the contribution they make. Thank you!

Donation to Beyond the Moon

January 20, 2021

In December 2020 De La Rue Malta presented a donation of €4000 to Beyond The Moon, a charity that the site has supported for a number of years. Beyond the Moon offers seriously ill children, their parents and siblings a family vacation to a destination that appeals to the children's imagination. https://www.beyondthemoon.org/en

Employee Appreciation Day

July 14, 2020

Our employees have been pivotal in ensuring the site has continued to meet customer requirements throughout Covid-19. During June we wanted to show our appreciation by celebrating them as our superheroes for an entire week. Activities included ‘superhero’ lunchboxes with personalised messages from the management team, birthday celebrations, employee recognition awards and family financial wellbeing awareness and a quiz! Thank you to all our employees for their part in making De La Rue successful.

Energy Efficiency Partner Initiative

September 1, 2020

De La Rue has been committed to innovation and sustainability for years. For this reason, the company has partnered with the Energy and Water Agency through the Energy Efficiency Partner Initiative within its facilities in Malta. De La Rue has embarked on a number of initiatives to increase its overall energy efficiency in its Malta plant. Among other initiatives, the company has carried out an extensive exercise whereby existing lighting was replaced with more energy efficient lighting solutions. Through this exercise, De La Rue has reduced its annual energy consumption by 630MWh. This is equal to the consumption of around 140 households. The company has also introduced cool roofs which has resulted in lower indoor temperature by as much as 2°C and this reduced the cooling demand for the building. The chilling system has also been upgraded to be more energy efficient. The company aims to further its improvements in energy efficiency with the aim of enhancing competitiveness and ensuring the least impact on the environment.

Food collection for Richmond Foundation

June 3, 2020

We actively contribute to our local community to help and ensure a better future and our employees engage widely in Corporate Social activities in different ways. COVID-19 has hit everyone in the world including our health, social life and financials. With this in mind we have reached out to local NGOs to offer our support. We contacted Richmond Foundation Malta who gave us a list of their clients who are Differently Abled but housed in their Independent Living houses, who due to COVID-19 have lost their income, and have little to no access to government funding, and are in need of food. So we collected food items from our team members in order to support these families. A number of employees then volunteered to join in a distance delivery of the food collected.

Visor donation to Jesuit Refugee Service

June 4, 2020

The Refugee Center was badly hit with COVID-19 having a number of migrants infected who share bathrooms and kitchen facilities. After a long period of quarantine they can now go out from the open center and continue with their day to day lives yet they lack protective equipment. At present visors are the most needed commodity in Hal Far Migrant Center in order for asylum seekers to protect themselves and stay safe within the center and still make it to outside meetings and appointments which they may be required to attend to. Therefore the Malta site looked at assisting this population by donating 500 visors to the Jesuit Refugee Service Malta.

International Women's Day campaign to donate to women's shelters

March 18, 2020

To recognise International Women’s Day we joined up with other major companies in Malta to run a campaign collecting toiletries and items that every woman needs but might not afford, to then be distributed among women's shelters in Malta. International Women's Day is a day to celebrate every woman's dignity. Particularly in light of increased awareness of domestic abuse in Malta, we wanted to do something inhouse to help our employees feel like part of the solution. The donations will then be distributed among a number of sites. Thanks to everyone for your support.

"De La Rue has been manufacturing in Malta since 1975 and we are extremely proud of the skilled workforce we have here. The De La Rue Malta site has a strong track record managing investment, business continuity and consistently meeting targets against our commitments. We continue to be humbled and honoured by the welcome of the Maltese people and government and look forward to long-term continued cooperation."

Clive Vacher, CEO, De La Rue