stamp printers by country

FINLAND 

     = Understood to be a current stamp printer.

 First postage stamp issued: 1856.

Finnish Stamp Office, [Where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when?].


Finnish Treasury, [Where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1856 for Finland.


Oy Frenckell Security Systems Ab, [Where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when?].


Frenckellska Tryckeri Ab, [Where?].
English language translation of name: Frenckell Printing House.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1984 for Aland Islands and Finland.


Senate Printing Office, [Where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1875 for Finland.


Setec Oy, Vantaa and Helsinki.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when?].

Setec Oy changed its name from Setelipaino Sedeltryckeriet (Bank of Finland Security Printing House) in [when?].


Setelipaino Sedeltryckeriet, Vantaa and Helsinki.
English language translation of name: Bank of Finland Security Printing House.
Founded: on 22 May 1885.
Renamed: Setec Oy in 19[when?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1923.
Main printing process(es): Litho.

By 1879, the idea of printing bank notes in Finland gained ground. The Diet of 1885 approved the establishment of a security printing house an appointed a body to oversee the operations of the Bank of Finland. Two years later, production trials commenced, utilising German and Austrian printing presses.

By the early 1920s, it was decided to expand the range of products manufactured and so postage stamp production started in 1923. Previously, the Finnish Stamp Office had been responsible for stamps.

Stamps continued to be produced in much the same way until the early 1950s when new premises were acquired and new intaglio equipment was purchased from WIFAG of Switzerland. Special sample labels were produced during the press commissioning trial period, as catalogued below.

New Stif rotary intaglio presses from France were installed in the early 1960s followed in 1964 by a French Chambon press for production of stamp booklets which came on line in 1966. Iceland was the first overseas country to place a stamp order (in 1965) and others followed suit including Faroe Islands and Sweden.

A green-field site was purchased at Vantaa and from 1980, most production was relocated there.  

Production volumes as a percentage of overall factory output (including bank notes, securities, etc) has varied substantially over the years from a high of 32.2% in 1923/5 and a low of 9.2% in the 1945-55 period. In the first year of stamp production (1923) 17.52 million stamps were produced; whilst by 1984, 307.84 million stamps were produced.


Stamping Department, Helsingfors (now Helsinki).
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1875 for Finland.


State Bank Note Printing Works, Helsingfors (now Helsinki).
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1917 for Finland.
Main printing process(es): Litho.


Suomen Pankin Setelipaino, [Where?].
English language translation of name: Bank of Finland Security Printing House.
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: [when?]. Known to have printed Singapore National Day issue in 1972.


F. Tilgmann & Company, [Where?].
First stamp(s) traced by compiler: 1901 for Finland.