Holography News articles from April 2004

Holography News archives from April 2004

High quality euro hologram counterfeits revealed at conference.
April 1, 2004... Dr Vitaliy Bilorus of the National Bank of Ukraine was at the recent Pan European High Security Printing Conference in Berlin to present a paper on Ukraine's new issue of banknotes. During the presentation he referred to their choice of...

IHMA launches secure producer certification.
April 1, 2004... The International Hologram Manufacturers' Association has joined with Intergraf, the European Printers Federation, to introduce a certification scheme for secure hologram producers. The intention is to make it easier for customers to recognise...

A new paradigm for authentication holograms.(Editorial)
April 1, 2004... Many readers will know that Reconnaissance International, publisher of Holography News, also works on anti-counterfeiting activities with the pharmaceutical industry. This is an unusual industry in many respects: its high R&D costs and the...

Record profit for ABNH in 2003.(Company News)
April 1, 2004... In reporting its results for 2003 on March 18, American Bank Note Holographics (ABNH) announced its highest profits since becoming a public company. Sales for the year at $18.3m were 2% down on 2002 ($18.6m) but operating income at $1.65m...

Mantegazza taken over by Italian papermakers.(Company News)
April 1, 2004... Mantegazza Antonio Arti Grafiche, the Italian security printer, is to be taken over by the Fedrigoni Group in a deal which involves a leasing arrangement leading, subsequently, to an acquisition. The arrangement will be operated through...

Hologram Industries' 2003 results--sales increase, profits fall.(Company News)
April 1, 2004... Hologram Industries (HI) reported sales for 2003 at [euro]16.6m, up 11.3% on 2002. Sales in Poland of [euro]10.8m were virtually unchanged but sales from the 'rest of the world' at [euro]5.8m showed a healthy increase of 35% on 2002. This is a...

De La Rue reorganises.(Company News)
April 1, 2004... De La Rue has reorganised its thread and hologram business by separating this into two separate operations. De La Rue Tapes and Holographics was established in 2001 under the Global Services Division to bring together the production, marketing...

API profit warning.(Company News)
April 1, 2004... Just two months after its AGM, API was forced on March 24 to make a trading statement advising that the results for both the first half and full year were likely to be below current market expectations. Various reasons were given for the...

New holographic film from AET.(Technology News)
April 1, 2004... AET has announced the introduction of Mirage[R]--a new range of wide web embossed and embossable holographic base films. The range is intended primarily for labels, but according to the company is also suitable for folding cartons, gift wrap...

Newmec launches foil application systems.(Technology News)
April 1, 2004... Italian printing machine manufacturer Newmec has introduced a range of new hologram application systems ranging from 300-1000mm wide which can apply foil as continuous stripes and patches, as well as full-surface holographic laminates. The...

New contracts for Dimuken.(Technology News)
April 1, 2004... Dimuken has recently announced two new contracts for its holographic foil application systems. First is Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda (INCM), the Portuguese state mint and security printer based in Lisbon. It has invested in a hologram...

Fraudhalt hologram verification system sent to market.(Technology News)
April 1, 2004... Fraudhalt is making final plans to send its prototype counterfeit hologram detector to market, with a particular emphasis on credit card companies and the validation of holograms used on payment cards. The Fraudhalt system is a desktop unit...

Profit statements have little impact.(Stockwatch)
April 1, 2004... This was a period of announcements--two companies, ABNH and Hologram industries announced their results for 2003, API gave a profits warning, AOT made a statement basically confirming its previous statement while CFCI announced an improved...

The holographic industry at DRUPA 2004.(Drupa Preview)
April 1, 2004... DRUPA, the world's largest tradeshow for the printing industry, takes place this year from May 6-19 in Dusseldorf, Germany. It is held every four years; the last event, in 2000, hosted nearly 2,000 exhibitors from 50 countries and 428,000...

Snooky: Monaghan memorial children's book.(Publications)
April 1, 2004... Proma Technologies and the Monaghan family (through a new publishing company, Brian J Publishing Inc) have combined to produce a children's rhyming story-book with holographic illustrations. Adventures of Snooky Under the Sea (ISBN...

Holography study on CD-ROM.(Publications)
April 1, 2004... Reconnaissance International has now published a CD-ROM version of its Holopack * Holo-print Industry Study and Market Report 2002-2007. The CD comprises a pdf file of each of the volumes of the Report: Global, Regional and Company Profiles....

New database of security hologram and OVD patents.(Publications)
April 1, 2004... Honnorat Recherche and Services (HRS), the security patent surveillance specialists, have introduced a new database of patents for security holograms and OVDs. The database has been extracted from the company's flagship product--Security...

Holo-pack * Holo-print: Maintaining Market Leadership.(Conferences)
April 1, 2004... This year's Holo-pack * Holo-print conference and trade show takes place at the Corinthia Towers Hotel and Conference Centre, Prague, Czech Republic, on November 16-18. The theme for the programme is Maintaining Market Leadership, an important...

10 years ago real-time 3D displays.(Conferences)
April 1, 2004... In April 1994 the front page article in Holography News focused on exciting news about real-time 3D displays, reporting that two companies, Holovision Systems Inc and American Propylaea were close to practical use of interactive systems....

Diary - exhibitions, conferences and meetings.(Conferences)
April 1, 2004... SVC 47th Annual Technical Conference April 24-29, 2004 Dallas, TX, USA www.svc.org DRUPA 2004 May 6-19, 2004 Dusseldorf, Germany www.drupa.com Optical Holography and its Applications May 24-27, 2004 ...

DuPont upgrades holo photopolymer with Izon.(Technology Profile)
April 1, 2004... DuPont Authentication System (DAS), the joint venture responsible for all the company's hologram authentication activities, has launched an improved version of its holographic photopolymer authentication products under the brand name Izon[TM]...