our infrastructure
Our Production Facilities
The company has its headquarters in Abuja. It has two ultra-modern
factory complexes in Abuja and Lagos with adequate capacity and
technologically up-to-date machinery.The two broad divisions under
which production is carried out are the Currency Division and the
Security Documents Division.
CURRENCY DIVISION
The banknotes production facilities consist of the most
up-to-date machines available in the industry. Our high-tech
electronically controlled machines, sophisticated inks and
highly skilled personnel all go to show that we keep pace with
the most current trend in the industry world-wide. To support
our operations and satisfy our clients’ individual demands, The
MINT manufactures its offset and intaglio printing plates here
in Nigeria while the sophisticated production machines and key
raw materials are imported from diversified but highly reliable
dealers overseas.
SECURITY DOCUMENTS DIVISION
The production process in the security document division usually
starts with the highly skilled and innovative graphic artists
who are not only fully conversant with the latest techniques and
materials to counteract forgery and adulteration, but are aware
of the current capabilities of criminals. This knowledge
combined with information on the latest international
counterfeiting methods enable our designers to continually
upgrade the security features and materials to ensure that our
products are constantly ahead of potential counterfeiters. The
company uses modern local letter-assembly facilities to add the
require text matter to these designs. The resultant designs are
then produced on a variety of sheet-fed wet or dry to four
colours at once with the capability of printing on both the
front and the back of the sheet simultaneously. The numbering of
the documents which in itself is a complex operation, involving
the need for absolute accuracy, is available in a variety of
styles. Finishing is carried out in controlled conditions in
line with the importance The MINT attaches to the security and
integrity of its products.
SUBSIDIARY
Part of our expansion strategy is to source raw materials
locally as a logical first step, and this initiative inspired
the establishment of an indigenous company in partnership with a
renown technical partner for the production of security inks in
Nigeria. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on the 19 of
June, 1987, for the formation of a company under the business
name of Tawada Limited. The shareholders in this company being
NSPM Plc (60%) and SICPA S. A. of Switzerland (40%). Tawada
Limited came into existence as a result of the backward
integration policy of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting
Plc (NSPM Plc) and the willingness of SICPA S. A. of Switzerland
to go into a joint venture arrangement for the manufacture of
security and commercial printing inks in Nigeria. The Tawada
Limited has since commenced production of high-quality security
inks.