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Fidelity Printers and Refinery is a security printing and gold refinery company wholly owned by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe established in 1966. FPR operates from a printing and gold refinery plant located in Msasa Industrial area in Harare and a coin minting facility in Bulawayo ==History== After the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Ian Smith in 1966 the British private banknote printer Bradbury Wilkinson & Co was ordered by the British government to cease printing currency for Reserve Bank of Rhodesia as part of sanctions against the Unilateral declaration of independence. The Rhodesian government then went on to sign a contract with Giesecke & Devrient which the first order was seized by the British Secret service as counterfeit Reserve Bank of Rhodesia subsequently refused to pay Giesecke and Devrient for the seized noteds. This forced Giesecke & Devrient CEO Siegfried Otto to quickly make arrangements to source and supply an old intaglio and background printing lines while he sourced for a new Super printing line as a sanction busting move. The equipment was delivered in secrecy to a South African registered proxy company. By the time the British secret service realised the printing machines had already been shipped across the border from South Africa into Rhodesia. A few months later Siegfried Otto sourced and delivered five new printing lines for Rhodesia. This arrangement further strengthened the position of Lousenthal, a Gisecke and Devrient subsidiary, as a banknote paper supplier. A contract was then signed with Lousenthal being the banknote paper supplier to Rhodesia and subsequently Zimbabwe after attainment of Independence The printing operations were to print banknotes and were done in total secrecy in the basement of the old reserve bank building. In a few years of establishment, Fidelity Printers with the help of technical partners in Giesecke & Devrient, Koenig & Bauer, SICPA and many others FPR achieved recognition as one of the best banknote printing operations in the world producing high quality, secure notes. The company was then incorporated in 1978 when the Central Bank board decided to privatise and commercialise its printing operations. Fidelity Printers was then established in December 1978. After this the company was then moved from the basement of the Old Reserve Bank Building in the then Salisbury C.B.D. to Msasa Industrial area at number 1 George Drive. The new printing complex was designed in Germany and modelled around leading bank note printing plants in Europe. Construction of the building commenced in April 1980 and, was completed at the end of 1981. The plant was opened by the then Prime Minister Mr Robert G. Mugabe on the 11th of February 1982 Products include currency, passports, examination papers, travellers cheques, Commercial Bank cheques, passbooks and a wide range of other government security documents, gold and silver bullion. Some products are made to customer specifications and produced to international standards for domestic, regional and international markets. Dr L. Tsumba reported that The foreign exchange saving, arising from these activities, were impressive hence the decision in 2001 to establish a local coin minting plant. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fidelity Printers and Refinery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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