The Acting Governor of the Central Bank of Sudan (CBOS) Badr-Eddin Qurashi Mustafa inaugurated Wednesday the Automated Center for Banknotes Sorting in the presence of Chairman of the Banks Union, former CBOS governors and Director of German G & D Company, the center executor.
Dr. Qurashi stressed, during his address to the celebration, the importance of the establishment of the center to upgrade the banknote management operations and implementation of the clean currency policy, referring to the CBOS implementation to the policy of anti-counterfeiting through automated sorting of the banknotes according to specific and uniform standards, adding that the implementation of a comprehensive policy for the currency management required automation of sorting to save time and effort, praising the role of the CBOS successive leaderships in the building and developing the center, thanking the G & D company for the supply and installation of the center equipment and disposing all the technical and artistic possibilities for the completion of the center, stressing continuity of cooperation with the company, urging the Sudanese Banking Union to adopt establishment of centers for sorting the commercial banks' banknotes to spare efforts and to maintain on clean currency.
For her part, the Director of the General Administration of the Currency Issuance Amina Mirghani said that the idea of the center began in early 1982 and continued on the issuance of different operational cards until the year 2014 where it was equipped by five advanced sorting machines from German G & D company for automatic banknotes counting, checking, sorting, packaging and tying, adding that one of the automated sorting tasks is to discover counterfeited currency and the level of counterfeit to preserve the national currency as well as the preparation of the report illustrating the problems on the level of paper, inks and security marks for quality improvement, affirming extermination of unfit currencies, which are invalid for direct circulation during the sorting process.
Amina revealed that the center operated at a capacity of 1,500 packets a day, referring to the supply of the center with the sophisticated machines raised its productivity from 10% to 55% of the total the commercial banks' banknotes deposited at the CBOS Khartoum branch, pointing out to the advanced training sessions received by the center workforce including engineers, technicians, operators of the automated sorting machines internally and externally by the machines-manufactured company.

Source: SUNA