Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island in the United States, Spectra Systems invents, develops, manufactures and markets advanced technology-based products used primarily to authenticate and process banknotes. The Company has focused on the commercialisation of technologically advanced security products, both covert and public, for banknotes and other documents. Spectra Systems provides an integrated solution, in that it supplies engineered materials for authentication and processing purposes, as well as hardware and software systems which verify the unique signatures of the authentication materials.

The Company has penetrated the currency and document authentication markets through a series of strategic supply and licensing agreements with governmental, institutional and corporate partners. Our customers include a G8 central bank organization and one of the world's largest commercial security printers and papermakers, which supplies the Company's technology to a second G8 central bank and numerous other central banks.

Spectra's materials are available in several forms, including particles, threads, inks and coatings. These materials provide unique engineered signatures which depend on a number of physical, chemical and processing parameters all functioning in concert to produce covert machine readable signatures and codes for use by central banks and other organizations for currency and document authentication. Our software and hardware systems include high-speed currency authentication sensors, of which Spectra Systems is one of the world's leading suppliers. Installed in currency processing machines by central banks, our sensors are capable of authentication at rates in excess of 40 banknotes per second with documented error rates of less than one in 100,000. In addition to sensors, the Company also supplies quality control equipment for use in paper manufacturing and printing with its materials. Spectra is building on its reputation as a supplier of technologically advanced and high reliability sensors by developing a breakthrough banknote fitness sensor. This development is underway and is expected to be jointly evaluated by G8 central banks in the foreseeable future.

Spectra Systems solutions can also be used for authenticating, processing and tracking pharmaceutical products, software, optical discs and branded luxury goods. The Company has developed and has ready for market a number of such security features for use with various primary and secondary packaging materials which include cardboard, plastics and glass and fabrics .