TraceTag

MARKING OF FUEL & LUBRICANTS PROTECTING AGAINST COUNTERFEIT & FRAUD

TraceTag International Ltd is leading provider of highly effective security marking and tracing solutions to combat counterfeiting, fraud and parallel trading.

The company launched a new DNA marker concept to support fuel and lubricants security across the marketplace, addressing the supply chain challenges that are being increasingly experienced by the fuel & lubricant industry stakeholders: 

• fraud, tampering or counterfeit of fuel additive packages
•  fraudulent dilution of genuine fuels & lubricants with inferior value products
•  use of unapproved base oils for approved lubricant formulations
•  re-packaging of an oil, including used oil, into the original packaging
•  reduction or even removal/omission of additives required to meet the performance  requirements of fuels

Being able to create and add multiple DNA codes to oils and lubricants allows a forensic fingerprint which enables any marked fuel or lubricant sample to be checked for both integrity and identity or source.  The new tracer package, CypherFuel®, engineered together with partner fuel and lube marking specialists, also includes invisible fluorescent/luminescent tracers, which allow quick product authentication in the field, in a minute test, at any stage of all fuels and lubes supply chain.

This two-level marking approach completes the use of forensic DNA coding for absolute proof of origin or source. Authentication ability remains in used oils or lubricants, thanks to the resilience of fluorescent or luminescent marker components.

All in all, the technology allows the implementation of a secure management system ensuring that only genuine and approved fuel and lube products will reach the end users.

TraceTag International Ltd

UK office:Forest Farm Industrial Estate, Coryton, Cardiff CF14 7HY, UK

French Office:11 bis rue Rousselet 75007, Paris, tel +331 5658 0731

[email protected] – www.tracetag.com