Suppliers on Banknotes

Supplier Roles

For each banknote, DataVault records up to four kinds of supplier — the companies behind the design, manufacture, and security components of the note:

• Designer — The studio or organisation responsible for the artwork
• Printer — The security printworks that produced the note
• Substrate supplier — The maker of the paper or polymer base
• Feature supplier — Companies supplying specific security features (threads, foils, inks, etc.)

Multiple companies can fill the same role on a single note (for example, two feature suppliers when a banknote uses a thread from one company and a foil from another).

On the Banknote Detail Page

The Suppliers section of each banknote detail page lists every known supplier, grouped by role. Each name is a link through to the company’s profile in the Supplier Directory, where you can see the full set of banknotes the company is associated with.

Browse by Suppliers

Navigate to Banknotes > By Suppliers (/banknotes/by-suppliers/) to explore the catalogue from a supplier perspective. The page provides cascading filters for region, sub-region, country, year, and four supplier dimensions:

• Designer
• Printer
• Substrate supplier
• Feature supplier

A unified Company filter is also available, which matches a company appearing in any role.

Linking from a Company Profile

From any company profile in the Supplier Directory, you can click straight through to a filtered banknote list using URL parameters:

• ?supplier=<company_id> — All banknotes where the company appears in any role
• ?supplier=<company_id>&supplier_role=designer — Designer role only
• &supplier_role=printer | substrate | feature — Other specific roles

Data Coverage

Designer and printer roles are entered by hand from public sources. Substrate and feature suppliers can be inferred automatically when a brand on a note is linked to a known supplier — this is an ongoing curation effort and coverage will continue to improve over time.