Key Features:
- The global security printing market has seen an average annual growth of 2% over the last five years to reach over $30 billion in 2022
- The market is forecast to see an annual average growth of nearly 3% to 2028, when the market will stand at $36 billion.
This report provides insight into the key drivers and trends behind the security print market, and historical and forecast data across security technology, geographic markets and end use markets. It analyses all of the leading questions in the security print market, covering use of cash and polymer vs paper banknotes. As the market develops across the next five years, there will be a shift both in end-user demands and commercial technology that result in different prognoses in each major end-use segment - banknotes, personal ID, stamps, payment cards, and brand protection packaging. These contrasting outlooks highlight the opportunity for companies across security print supply chains to diversify, securing new revenue in an increasingly interconnected world.
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- Biometric data and digital credentials are increasingly common for all types of ID, impelling security print companies to innovative and adopt service businesses models
- Banknotes was the largest end-use sector for security printing in 2022 and although digital payments are replacing cash payments in some parts of the world, cash is still widely used globally. There is a growing number of countries adopting polymer banknotes with longer life expectancy than the paper notes they are replacing.
What will you discover?
- The growth in e-commerce has highlighted the need for brand owners to increase their anti-counterfeiting security measures on packaging
- The global increase in counterfeiting has driven a rapid growth in additional security measures for brand protection and tax stamps
- The effects upon the security printing industry from the pandemic, as well as the increased use of digital payments and identity documents.
Who should buy the report?
- Suppliers of security components, inks and substrates
- High security printers and print suppliers
- Converters and technology integrators
- State printing works
- Public and private sector issuance organisations
The Smithers methodology
This report is based on extensive primary and secondary research. Primary research consisted of targeted interviews with material suppliers, converters and experts drawn from key markets. This was supported by secondary research in the form of extensive literature analysis of published data, official government statistics, domestic and international trade organisation data, company websites, industry reports, trade press articles, presentations, and attendance at trade events.
About the author
Keith Jacques is a consultant with Smithers, specialising in market research projects covering security printing, graphics and packaging print, and raw materials industries. This is backed up by over 40 years' industry experience in both technical and business development roles.
Table of Contents
Executive summary
Introduction & methodology
- Introduction
- Report scope
- Report objectives
- Methodology
- Definitions
- Abbreviations
Key drivers and trends
- Introduction
- Impacts of global events
- Post-pandemic impacts
- The war in Ukraine
- Cash versus other forms of payment
- Financial crime
- Polymer banknotes
- Trends in digital currencies
- Trends in electronic, digital & mobile IDs
- Change from phygital to virtual
- Identity theft & document fraud
- Automation of borders
- Diversification of physical print to digital platforms
- Secure QR codes
- Regulatory developments
- Global initiatives in tax stamps
Security technology markets and forecasts
- Overview
- DOVIDs
- Substrates
- Inks
- Taggants
- Watermarking
- Threads
- Biometrics
- RFID & coding
- Print process
End-user markets and forecasts
- Overview
- Banknotes
- Payment cards
- Cheques
- Personal ID
- Ticketing
- Brand protection
- Stamps
Geographic markets and Forecasts
- Overview
- Western Europe
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- UK
- Other Western Europe
- Eastern Europe
- North America
- South and Central America
- Asia
- China
- India
- Japan
- Other Asia-Pacific
- Middle East
- Africa
- Australasia
Tables
- Security printing technology transition, 2023-28
- Economic growth by region and country (%), 2018-28
- Preferred payment methods for e-commerce/online transactions in selected countries
- Selected border control automation efforts worldwide
- US identity theft complaints, 2016-20
- Global security printing market by technology ($ million), 2023-28
- Substrates: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- Substrates: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- DOVIDs and holograms: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- DOVIDs and holograms: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- Security inks: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- Security inks: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- Taggants: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- Taggants: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- Watermarking: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- Watermarking: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- Threads: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- Threads: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- Biometrics: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- Biometrics: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- RFID and coding: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- RFID and coding: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- Types of printing processes used for security printing
- Printing process: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- Printing process: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- Global security printing market by enduse sector ($ million), 2018-28
- Payment cards: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Payment cards: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- Cheques: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Cheques: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Personal ID documents: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Personal ID documents: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- The world's most and least powerful passports, 2023
- Ticketing: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Ticketing: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- World's busiest airports by passenger numbers, 2019-2020
- World's largest sports stadiums by capacity, 2023
- Brand protection packaging: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Brand protection packaging: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- Stamps: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Stamps: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- Global security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- Western Europe: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Western Europe: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- Eastern Europe: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Eastern Europe: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- North America: Security printing market by technology, ($ million), 2018-28
- North America: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- South and Central America: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- South and Central America: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- Asia: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Asia: Security printing market by enduse sector ($ million), 2018-28
- Middle East: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Middle East: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
- Africa: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Africa: Security printing market by enduse sector ($ million), 2018-28
- Australasia: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Australasia: Security printing market by end-use sector ($ million), 2018-28
Figures
- Global security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018 and 2028
- Global security printing market by technology (% value), 2023
- Global security printing market by enduse sector ($ million), 2018 and 2028
- Global security printing market by enduse sector (% value), 2023
- Global security printing market by region ($ million), 2018 and 2028
- Global security printing market by region (% value), 2023
- Average share of customer interactions taken by digital channels (%), 2020-22
- Global e-commerce payments by type (% volume), 2022
- Status of CBDC projects worldwide, 2021
- Key technological drivers in the move to digital platforms
- Main types of document fraud
- Global security printing market by technology (%), 2018 and 2023
- Louisenthal: Micromirror LEAD stripe hologram for banknotes
- mouveGSI security ink for banknotes
- RollingStar i+ security thread from Giesecke+Devrient
- Global security printing market by enduse sector (%), 2018 and 2023
- Banknotes: Security printing market by technology ($ million), 2018-28
- Banknotes: Security printing market by region ($ million), 2018-28
- Volume of banknotes in circulation in the UK (millions), 2018-23
- Volume growth rates of UK banknotes by denomination (%), 2018-23
- Value of banknotes in circulation in the UK (£m), 2018-23
- Volume of banknotes in circulation in the Euro region (millions), 2018-23
- Cinema banknote solution from CCL Secure
- World's leading payment cards by number of purchases (billion), 2022
- Fake documents by type (%), 2022
- New Estonian ePassport
- Apple's proposed digital driving licence
- Children under 5 without a registered birth and without a birth certificate (million), 2018/2019
- Electoral Identity Card (EIC) for Northern Ireland
- EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC)
- International and domestic air travel (billions of passengers), 2012-22
- Ticketmaster SafeTix digital ticket
- New QR code postage stamps from Deutsche Post
- Global security printing market by region (%), 2018 and 2023
- Value of banknotes issued by the Bank of England (£m), 2016/2017-20/21
- Canadian payment transactions by volume (%), 2022
- Payment methods by US consumers (%), 2020-22
- Next Generation US passport from Keesing Technologies
- Main payment methods used by Japanese consumers (%), 2022