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Crane Currency - wikipedia Crane Currency Jump to : navigation , search For the National Register - listed property , see Crane and Company Old Stone Mill Rag Room . Crane Currency <Td_colspan="2"> Type Private Industry Paper Founded Dalton , Massachusetts , U.S. ( 1801 ; 217 years ago ( 1801 ) ) Founder Zenas Crane , Henry Wiswall and John Willard Headquarters Boston , Massachusetts , U.S. Key people Annemarie Watson , President Products Currency paper and security features Revenue 450 Million + USD ( 2017 ) Number of employees 1,000 Parent Crane Co . Website Crane Currency Crane Currency is a manufacturer of cotton - based paper products used in the printing of national currencies , passports and banknotes . Crane remains the predominant supplier of paper for use in U.S. currency ( Federal Reserve Notes ) . Contents ( hide ) 1 History 2 Motion 3 Presidents / CEOs 4 See also 5 References 6 External links History ( edit ) Stephen Crane was the first in the Crane family to become a papermaker , buying his first mill , `` The Liberty Paper Mill '' , in 1770 . He sold currency - type paper to engraver Paul Revere , who printed the American Colonies ' first paper money . In 1801 , Crane was founded by Zenas Crane , Henry Wiswall and John Willard . The company 's original mill had a daily output of 20 posts ( 1 post = 125 sheets ) . Shortly after , in 1806 , Crane began printing currency on cotton paper for local , as well as regional , banks , before officially printing for the government . Crane developed a method to embed parallel silk threads in banknote paper to denominate notes and deter counterfeiting in 1844 . In 1879 , Crane grew when Winthrop M. Crane won a contract to deliver U.S. currency paper to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington , D.C. Crane produced both the yellow ( issued in 1883 -- 1884 ) and the white ( 1884 -- 1894 ) watermarked security papers for the nation 's Postal Notes . These early money orders were produced for sale throughout the postal system by the Homer Lee Bank Note Company ( 1883 -- 1887 ) , the American Bank Note Company ( 1887 -- 1891 ) , and Dunlap & Clarke ( 1891 -- 1894 ) . In 1922 , Crane & Co. incorporated , with Frederick G. Crane elected as president . In 2002 , Crane purchased the company Tumba Bruk from the Central Bank of Sweden ( Riksbank ) and operates this today as Crane AB . In 2015 , Crane announced that it would be turning over its stationery division to employees via a `` management buyout '' by the end of December . In 2016 , Crane announced plans to build a new banknote printing facility and customer experience center in the country of Malta . The facility will be 15,000 square meters in size and will have space for 3 print lines . The `` state - of - the - art '' $100 million facility was announced on Wednesday , September 21 , 2016 by Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat . In 2017 Crane Currency was sold to Crane Company . Motion ( edit ) Crane 's Motion security technology is being introduced into high denomination banknotes worldwide . The design involves a micro-lens array interacting with graphics far smaller than any microprinting . Sweden 's 1000 kronor banknote , released in 2006 , was the first banknote to use Crane 's Motion technology . A 2007 AP article reveals that the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing will use a new security thread containing `` 650,000 tiny lenses '' ( now believed to be over 1 million lenses per inch of thread ) in the $100 bill design released on October 8 , 2013 . In 2008 , Crane acquired Visual Physics , a subsidiary of Nanoventions , based in Atlanta , Georgia . This purchase gave Crane exclusive control of Motion micro-optic security technology that is used for the protection of banknotes . Presidents / CEOs ( edit ) Frederick G. Crane ( 1922 -- 1922 ) Winthrop M. Crane , Jr. ( 1923 -- 1951 ) Bruce Crane ( 1951 -- 1975 ) Benjamin J. Sullivan ( 1975 -- 1986 ) Thomas A. White ( 1986 -- 1995 ) Lansing Crane ( 1995 -- 2007 ) Charles Kittredge ( 2007 -- 2011 ) Stephen DeFalco ( 2011 -- 2017 ) Annemarie Watson ( 2018 - present ) See also ( edit ) Crane and Company Old Stone Mill Rag Room References ( edit ) Jump up ^ `` Crane 's - History '' . Archived from the original on 2007 - 08 - 15 . Retrieved 2007 - 09 - 16 . Jump up ^ Dobrowolski , Tony ( December 10 , 2015 ) . `` Crane stationery division to break off from currency operations '' . The Berkshire Eagle . Pittsfield , MA . Retrieved 2017 - 12 - 06 . Jump up ^ `` Currency printer to open $100 m facility in Malta , Prime Minister announces '' . Times of Malta . Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 22 . Jump up ^ Dobrowolski , Tony ( December 5 , 2017 ) . `` Crane Currency to be sold for $800 million '' . The Berkshire Eagle . Pittsfield , MA . Retrieved 2017 - 12 - 06 . ^ Jump up to : `` Crane Currency Technology '' . Archived from the original on 2011 - 07 - 08 . Retrieved 2010 - 03 - 06 . Jump up ^ `` $100 bill getting a high - tech face lift '' . Associated Press . August 27 , 2007 . Retrieved 2010 - 03 - 06 . Jump up ^ `` Federal Reserve Announces Day of Issue of Redesigned $100 Note '' . April 24 , 2013 . Archived from the original on August 23 , 2013 . Retrieved 2013 - 08 - 23 . External links ( edit ) Crane Currency Levulis , Jim ( September 22 , 2016 ) . `` Crane CEO Talks Foreign Expansion and Future of Paper Currency '' . WAMC . Retrieved September 25 , 2016 . 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