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De La Rue Extends Australian Passport Contract

De La Rue plc has announced that it has entered into a five- year extension of its contract with Note Printing Australia (NPA) for the sole-source supply of polycarbonate data pages for Australian passports.

The contract originally went live in February 2022 and had a five- year duration; it has now been extended to 2032. The agreement will result in De La Rue investing further to expand production at its Malta facility to meet increased volume demand, with the additional investment being covered by incremental cash flows. The expanded capacity is expected to be in place around the beginning of financial year 2023/24.

Clive Vacher, CEO of De La Rue said: ‘we are grateful to Note Printing Australia for their confidence to extend our relationship to a full decade. This extension helps to underpin management’s confidence in the company’s long-term outlook for the division. We are already in the process of delivering highly secure and durable polycarbonate data pages for the Australian passport programme, and we will ramp up this production further in the coming months.’