AlpVision Opens North American Regional Office

AlpVision S.A., a provider of technologies for product authentication and counterfeit protection, has opened its North American regional office in Chicago to support the U.S. and Canadian branches of its current customers and to work with new clients. In early 2011, this new regional office will be given the technical resources to become self standing for North American operations, the company reported in a press release.

AlpVision selected Chicago given its high number of branded product manufacturers as well as packaging printers and converters, the company remarked.

AlpVision offers Cryptoglyph, a covert machine readable security solution that can be applied to various packaging layers and components. No special security ink or security substances are needed, which means that users do not have to change existing production process. Standard consumer electronic equipment such as office flatbed scanners are used to carry out “genuine or fake” verification any time, anywhere, the company reports.