2015-12-14 Mon

Have you ever wondered what your banknotes are made of? Or what materials are used to make them? It’s not paper!

Indian Currency notes are not made of Paper but of a pulp made from cotton and cotton rags! The cotton and the cotton rags are blended and dyed with other textile fibres to make the currency notes durable and difficult to fake!

Initially, the paper was imported from Sweden, Norway and Finland and the printing was done at the Security Paper Mills located in Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh and Nashik.

This paper used for making banknotes is a dense 80 to 90 grams per square meter starch paper, sometimes mixed with linen, abaca, or other textile fibres. A specific formula for the ink and paper combination is used to give the currency its distinctive texture. And during making of the currency notes, these papers are instilled with gelatin to give strength to the currencies.