New electronic identity cards Starting 1 July 2018, the State Printing Works of Securities began production of electronic identity cards with an embedded chip. With these new cards, people will be able to handle a number of official acts, such as filing a tax return, claiming [...]

On the world scale the Czech Republic has the seventh most powerful passport Novinky.cz published the results of a study, which compares the so-called Passport Index, i.e. the power of a passport. The Czechs can travel without visas to 173 countries. The Czech Republic thus shares [...]

The commemorative Ninety Crown Note is finally on sale Dear website visitors, collectors and lovers of commemorative banknotes, We are glad to inform you of the unique opportunity to purchase our commemorative certificate in the form of a banknote, which we have issued to mark the [...]

The Minister of Finance visited the STC exhibition Our anniversary exhibition known as “90 years with the State Printing Works of Securities”, which is slowly, but inevitably coming to a close, was honoured this week by a visit from the Minister of Finance JUDr. Alena Schillerová, [...]

The State Printing Works of Securities was not missing at the ISSS 2018 conference Our company was among the attendees of the ISSS Conference, which took place from 9-10 May 2018 at Aldis in Hradec Králove. This year as well, we presented our products and technology [...]

STC (State Printing Works of Securities) has launched its own anniversary exhibit On 5 April 2018, we kicked off with an art show the anniversary exhibit entitled “90 years of the State Printing Works of Securities” which we prepared to mark the 90th anniversary of the [...]

STC shall supply tachographs for the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic The STC and the Ministry of Transport has signed a contract for production and personalization of tachograph digital cards for drivers. The four-year contract is worth approximately CZK 160 million. The STC shall [...]

Our company has significantly joined an inter-cultural project At the press conference in Bishkek last week, the Asia-Czech Chamber of Commerce and Státní tiskárna cenin, s.p. launched the programme known as “Co-operation through inter-cultural dialogue”. Its pilot project is the unique book “Кыргызы в боях и [...]

STC introduces new security elements on Czech Television The state-run security printing works STÁTNÍ TISKÁRNA CENIN, s.p. (STC) has produced banknotes, documents and other security printed items continuously since 1928. STC continuously monitors current trends in the field of protection of banknotes, documents, securities, security printed [...]

Collectors of commemorative banknotes can rejoice The news server tyden.cz reported that the Czech National Bank (ČNB) will get the opportunity to issue commemorative banknotes and business coins in addition to commemorative coins. This is counted on in the amendment to the Czech National Bank Act [...]