Buy a: Currency Sorting Machine
in Kolkata

Kolkata sits at the centre of eastern India’s currency infrastructure. UCO Bank and Bandhan Bank are headquartered in the city, the India Government Mint operates from Alipore, and one of the country’s banknote presses runs from Salboni in West Bengal. Bank branches across the east clear cash through Kolkata’s chests.

Burrabazar supplies the volume. It is one of Asia’s largest wholesale markets, still overwhelmingly cash settled, and the notes that circulate through Posta, Canning Street and Bara Bazar lanes are among the most worn in the country. That combination, high volume and poor note condition, is precisely where a sorter earns back its cost.

A Maxsell sorter authenticates and grades in one pass, so unfit notes are pulled for return to the chest, fit notes are recirculated, and the counterfeit that would otherwise be absorbed at the counter is caught before it is booked.