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Note Printing Australia (NPA) has its origins in an organisation that was first established in 1913 to print banknotes for Australia. NPA has printed banknotes for Australia on paper for 75 years until 1988 after which it introduced polymer banknote technology.

Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) introduced polymer banknotes to increase the security of Australia's paper currency against counterfeiting. This introduction has seen a landmark reduction in the level of counterfeiting, and appears to have virtually stopped the casual counterfeiter. The inclusion of security features unique to polymer such as clear windows, vignettes, shadow images, permanent embossing, Optically Variable Device (OVD) and a number of other overt or covert machine readable security features, make the polymer banknotes among the most counterfeit deterrent available on the market.

NPA prints all of Australia's currency notes on polymer substrate, which is produced by Securency Pty Ltd, a joint venture between RBA and Innovia Films, a polypropylene film manufacturer based in the UK. Securency is responsible for globalising this technology, and polymer has now been successfully implemented in over 20 countries over the last ten years with more than 6 billion polymer banknotes circulating worldwide.