Fact Sheet: Up-converting Phosphors
Product authentication and brand security are growing problems for global brand owners. These companies are turning to brand security specialists who leverage a number of innovative security technologies to protect all manner of products. Unfortunately, most of the older protection schemes have now been well studied by criminals. Others are simply too easy to circumvent. Advances in microtechnology have provided a solution.
BrandWatch Technologies provides brand security solutions in the form of unique, inorganic up-converting phosphors. The company offers a line of microscopic brand security taggant called MicroTagg that offers an effective, covert solution to brand security. Recently, our scientists perfected a line of unique taggant called SpectraTagg, a unique formulation that yields four layers of security in a single taggant.
Unlike other brand protection schemes, which can be easily counterfeited, BrandWatch™ products significantly reduce counterfeiting and diversion by supplying products and services that will quickly and efficiently authenticate all genuine versions.
BrandWatch MicroTagg and SpectraTagg share a set of common properties, as follows:
—Inorganic, inert and non-toxic
—Will not alter the host’s chemical makeup
—Stable at temperatures up to 1000°C
—Not sensitive to sunlight or UV light
—Tightly coupled with company’s handheld detectors
—Easily incorporated into inks, dyes, polymers, yarn, pulp and more
—Extremely long shelf life
—Invisible to the naked eye
—Capable of being detected at low concentrations
—Extremely cost effective
Our proprietary detectors can detect embedded particulates hidden underneath a variety of consumer packaging materials. They are also very affordable.
About BrandWatch Technologies
Established in 2001, BrandWatch Technologies is a global leader in brand security and product authentication solutions. Offering advanced covert technologies for in-field verification, product fingerprinting, and forensic investigation, BrandWatch protects critical infrastructures such as agriculture, government, banking, defense, law enforcement, consumer products, transportation, and public health. The company focuses on securing supply chains, reducing liability, detecting counterfeits, implementing track and trace, identifying grey market diversion, and verifying product recycle chains. Learn more at http://www.brandwatchtech.com or contact:
Steve Delepine
+1 503.285.3890
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