Filtrona
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Filtrona PLC is a supplier of plastic and fibre products. The company operates internationally; its headquarers are based in Milton Keynes, UK. Filtrona is listed on the London Stock Exchange, and included in the FTSE 250 Index.
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[edit] Payne Security
Payne Security produces ID cards and security labels.[1] The company employs 390 people.
Payne Security was formed in 2005 from the merger of the three companies: PP Payne, Morane and Laminex.
Morane was a manufacturer of coated film for print protection, and security film for authenticating documents such as passports and national IDs, established in 1935.
Laminex is a supplier of personal ID systems, cards and visitor solutions for the education, healthcare and local government, established 1971.
PP Payne, established 1911, was a manufacturer of tear tape. Tear tape has the ability to provide a combination of easy opening, tamper evidence, product promotion, brand enhancement, and security features in one medium.
[edit] Filtrona Fibertec
Filtrona Fibertec is a division of Filtrona plc that develops and manufactures customized liquid handling components that control and manipulate small quantities of fluids or vapors within consumer and industrial products. Filtrona Fibertec products, classified as bonded fiber components, are found in end-use devices that require the precise absorption, retention, transfer, or release of liquids or vapors.
Application examples include writing instrument or marker reservoirs that contain and release ink; wicking media for lateral flow and other medical diagnostic testing devices; ink reservoir media for consumer inkjet printing cartridges and hardware components; and evaporation components for household liquid air freshners.
Dating back to 1954, all Filtrona Fibertec products are custom and engineered to the specific performance demands of its customers' end product applications.
Filtrona Fibertec maintains offices and manufacturing facilities in Richmond, Virginia; Reinbek (Hamburg), Germany; and Ningbo, China.
