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Wincor Nixdorf promotes ink-staining technology

March 16, 2011

Wincor Nixdorf AGis employing technology to frustrate armored car robbers.

"Transporting cash has traditionally been a source of great risk," Wincor Nixdorf officials said. "Cash-in-transit providers in Europe are the victims of 1,300 robbery attempts every year. Approximately one-third of the attempts occur while an ATM is being replenished, but more than half of robbers target the vehicles used to transport cash."

The Paderborn, Germany-based ATM manufacturer, is making available to its customers integrated ink-staining technology. The technology is available in cassettes installed inside its CINEO line of ATMs and Automated Teller Safes.  With CINEO, an acronym for Cash Intelligence NEO or New, cash is stored inside the cassettes to ensure the safe transport of funds between banks and retailers. Each cassette holds a maximum of 2,200 banknotes of any denomination, including $10s and $20s.

But if gunmen rob the armored car, steal the cassettes, and force them open, they will be in for an angry surprise. An ink-staining system located inside the cassette sprays the banknotes, using a mechanism that is triggered by an explosive charge, said Wincor Nixdorf executives.

"Banknotes stained in this way are useless to the perpetrator, whereas the banknotes' owner can exchange the funds at a bank," the officials said. Wincor Nixdorf developed its inking technology in-house, and it is completely integrated it into its intelligent cash cassettes.