NASPS – Build It and They Will Come

The African Currency Forum (ACF), held in Luxor, Egypt in January, gave the host country a chance to showcase its new Printing House and Cash Centre, and the National Company for Advanced Industries and Integrated Strategic Printing Solutions (NASPS). NASPS has already set up full service holographic production facilities, which has to be said went largely unseen and unreported by Holography News® – so we decided to investigate a bit further and find out more.

The idea behind the creation of NASPS was to unite under one roof the production of a wide range of ID and travel documents, excise stamps, holograms, security paper, payment cards, personalisation systems and the development of information systems and storage. Described as one of the most advanced sovereign security printing facilities in the world, the ultra-modern complex is intended to make the country fully independent in terms of the production of state and ID documents and forms a central part of the government’s strategy for digital transformation and automation.