Portrait of a success –
from a unique discovery to solution provider for product protection

Company portrait
“Data storage on regular tesafilm is possible!” This story ran throughout the press – and around the world. Read on the following pages what emerged from the cooperation of resourceful scientists and tesa SE: tesa scribos, the innovative solution provider for modern
product protection.
Within the global tesa network, we can provide our innovative security solutions on a worldwide basis and serve you with our security competence in any part of the world. Anything else is not enough for global markets and global brands - and would not meet the potential of this unique invention in security technology.
COMPANY BROCHURE TESA SCRIBOS® –
PROTECTING YOUR BRANDS AND INTERESTS
Technology and company history
1998: The physicists Steffen Noehte and Matthias Gerspach discover tesafilm as a data storage medium at the University of Mannheim.
1999 - 2001: Development of the technology within a research cooperation of tesa SE, the European Media Lab and the University of Mannheim.
Ende 2001: tesa scribos GmbH is founded by tesa SE together with the inventors.
2002- 2003: Development of the tesa Holospot® system towards marketability.
2004: Market introduction of the tesa Holospot® system as core technology in the solution portfolio for security and identification applications.