Holography News articles from April 2008

Holography News archives from April 2008

OpSec buys Light Impressions.
April 1, 2008... OpSec Security Group plc has acquired Light Impressions International Ltd (LI) for up to [pounds sterling]6.5m (US$13m/[euro]8.13m) in a move which will expand the Group's holographic sales, in Asia in particular, by up to [pounds sterling]5m....

Wavefront adds 80% capacity.(Company overview)
April 1, 2008... Wavefront Technology Inc (WFT) is installing a 170 cm (68") active-width hologram production line which it hopes to have in production within three months, adding around 80% to its current wide-web production capacity from two 1 metre wide...

Holograms: 1st or 2nd Layer security?(EDITORIAL)
April 1, 2008... Are holograms, as we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century, a security feature aimed at identification by the public (Layer 1) or experts (Layer 2)? This is a question we have often discussed in Holography News(R), and...

Hologram Industries has a good year in 2007.(COMPANY NEWS)
April 1, 2008... Hologram Industries reported strong growth for 2007 in both sales and profits. The former increased by 16% from [euro]18.2m to 21.2m, but operating profit more than doubled, increasing from [euro]2.2m to [euro]4.5m. The operating margin...

Holographic films provides key to shiner's growth.(COMPANY NEWS)
April 1, 2008... Shiner International, the Chinese-based producer of packaging and holographic security films that has recently obtained a US stock market listing, has announced record revenue and profits for 2007. The company, which began trading on NASDAQ...

GonioLabs' novel DOVID reader.(TECHNOLOGY PROFILE)
April 1, 2008... At the 2008 optical document security conference in San Francisco in January, Mikael Lindstrand of gonioLabs (Sweden) unveiled the company's scanning equipment in his presentation entitled "Spatially and Angularly resolved high dynamic range...

60 years of holography.
April 1, 2008... To mark the 60th anniversary of the invention of the hologram, holography News is running a series of faux-contemporary articles on some of the most significant developments that subsequently took place to bring the technology, and the...

Weathering the storms.(STOCKWATCH)
April 1, 2008... Last month we referred to the financial and stock markets around the world being in uncharted waters. They still are--and predictions of the eventual outcome of this credit crisis remain very varied as, daily, new storms are being weathered....

New Directory combines holography with authentication.(PUBLICATIONS)
April 1, 2008... The Directory of Holography Suppliers from Reconnaissance International, originally intended to be combined with the second Authentication Connections Directory. This will be published to coincide with the Authentication Connections Forum which...

New look for IHMA awards.
April 1, 2008... Nominations are now being invited for the 2008 Excellence in Holography Awards, held by the IHMA and sponsored by Holography News. Now in their 15th year, the awards are made in recognition of outstanding innovations in holography which offer...