Alcoholic Beverage Company

Situation
Our client is an international alcoholic beverage producer. The company wanted to increase the security levels on their premium brand vodka to prevent counterfeiting and refilling.
Our mission was to design and deliver a security sticker that could be manually applied to the bottle cap and the bottle itself during the packaging stage.

Our Solution
LK Forensic Competencies, in collaboration with our partners, proposed a temper resistant sticker that could be placed horizontally or vertically on the bottleneck and the bottom of the bottle cap.

With many security options available for the protection of the brand, we have designed a product that contained a mixture of multi-level security solutions, combined with an easy manual application to the product:

1- Physical Protection
The sticker was designed with a special security layout and specific material that prevented it to be entirely detached from the bottle without disruption of it’s integrity.

2- Optical Security
In order to optimise the security features on the sticker, we have opted for a double protection: A hidden information, in this case the client’s logo, was printed using a thermo-chromic ink that appears by rubbing the area, and was masked by an additional layer of OVI, a color shifting ink that could be seen by the naked eye.

3- Traceability Feature
In order to add a security layer and traceability function to the product, a colorless FlashyShape™ was applied on the sticker. This technology allows the client, distributor, or re-seller to identify, authenticate and trace the client’s product by using a corresponding unique digital filter.

Results
With the proposed sticker, the customer, distributor, and re-seller would be able to identify an original unopened product. Additionally, the technology used allows the client to trace and track his products along the distribution and selling stages of the product.

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