The Best House Note Award was first introduced at the sister event HSP EMEA last year, but such was the demand and pace of innovation that it has now been extended to Latin America and the Caribbean. The winners of this inaugural award for the region were Casa da Moeda do Brasil, BlendPaper and Hueck Folien for the Cotton Cycles House Note, produced to highlight the importance of using natural resources in the production of banknotes, and reducing resource waste.

These themes were explicit in the design of the note, with the history of cotton cultivation featuring on the front, and the production of security paper from banknote waste on the reverse.

Casa da Moeda do Brasil printed the note on a substrate from BlendPaper made of recycled fibres from shredded Brazilian real  banknotes under the Tran$forma initiative, a pioneering and scalable solution that enables the reuse of banknote fibres as raw material for new security papers. The Optomove® micro-optics security thread was made from recycled PET and aluminium and supplied by Hueck Folien.