Holography News articles from August 2004

Holography News archives from August 2004

IHMA certification scheme moves forward.(In the News)
August 1, 2004... The IHMA/Intergraf Secure Hologram Producer Certification Scheme is rapidly moving forward (see HN Vol 18, No 3). Several companies have now applied to Intergraf to start the inspection procedure, and Hologram Industries has become the first...

Strong first half for CFCI, profits warning from AOT.(In the News)
August 1, 2004... CFC International's sales for the second quarter increased 16.6% over the same period in 2003 to $19.4m, primarily due to increased sales of printed pattern products following the withdrawal of a major supplier from the market and the strong...

People on the move.(In the News)
August 1, 2004... * Paul Samuels has left his position as VP, Europe and Asia with CFC International and joined Milan-based Centro Grafico DG as Global Business Development Director. Centro Grafico supplies a variety of security products including thin film...

Holography News goes monthly.(In the News)
August 1, 2004... Holography News is now being published 12 times a year, instead of ten times annually as before. The decision to increase the number of issues was taken in order to provide a truly 'monthly' business journal and also because ten issues were...

1st order for secure image.(In the News)
August 1, 2004... The Teikoku Piston Ring Co has become the first organisation to commercially use Dai Nippon Printing Company's (DNP) Secure Image[R] Foil, its hot-stampable photopolymer Lippman hologram. This thin photopolymer hologram which withstands the...

Equanimity: a portrait of HM Queen Elizabeth II.(Case Study)
August 1, 2004... It is rare for a holographic portrait to get the headline treatment in the general press, but in the UK--and elsewhere--a new work, Equanimity, has received headline media coverage. The reason is that it is a holostereogram portrait of HM Queen...

New OVD patent database.(Technology News)
August 1, 2004... Honnorat Recherche & Services (HRS), the security patent surveillance specialists, have brought out a new database covering over 1,000 patents on optical effects on security papers dating back to 1903. Technologies featured in Security and...

Port-hole paper from Portals.(Technology News)
August 1, 2004... The high security paper division of De La Rue, Portals Bathford, has developed a new window thread paper technology that enables different size apertures to be created in security paper. Port-hole[TM] involves the creation through the cylinder...

Integrated holographic labels.(Technology News)
August 1, 2004... Authentikett[R] is a new marketing-based holographic security label concept from the Austrian company Securikett, which was recently formed as a spin-off from the Ulrich labels group. The concept behind Authentikett is the integration of a...

The value of independence.(Company Profile)
August 1, 2004... 3D AG celebrates its 15th anniversary this year as an independent hologram company. It was originally formed in the mid 1980s as an origination subsidiary of Applied Holographics PLC by David Greenaway, a director of Applied and formerly of...

A tough month for most!(Stockwatch)
August 1, 2004... Overall this has not been a good period for the sector's share prices with only two stocks improving (and one of those from a very low base) and the rest declining between 8 and 17%. I had indicated last month that some shares looked to be...

Holography conferences.(Conferences)
August 1, 2004... Holo-Expo 2004 is a new event that takes place in Moscow from October 19-22 and is supported by, amongst others, the Russian Federal Security Service and the Ministries of Internal Affairs and Justice. The event is being billed as a forum...

HoloPak reports sales up, company for sale.(10 Years Ago)
August 1, 2004... The beginning of a period of shake out and consolidation in the hologram industry, especially in North America, started with an announcement by hot-stamping foil producer HoloPak Technologies Inc that it had retained Wertheim Schroder to advise...

Diary--exhibitions, conferences and meetings.(Calendar)
August 1, 2004... Labelexpo Americas September 13-16, 2004 Chicago, IL, USA www.labelexpo.com EMA Fall Meeting 2004 September 30-October 1, 2004 Barcclona, Spain www.eurometallizers.org Intergraf October 6-8, 2004 ...

Holostik leads hologram charge in India.(Company News)
August 1, 2004... The hologram industry in India continues to expand rapidly. Public sector and brand-owner customers for security holograms are stimulating continuing growth rates around the 25-30% mark, although packaging use of holographic materials is...

Security hologram and OVD patent update: information supplied by Honnorat Recherches & Services.(Supplement)
August 1, 2004... JANUARY-JUNE 2004 HOLOGRAMS and OVD FEATURES EP1411399A2 -- Dai Nippon Printing Co (Japan) Holographic Fine-Ribbon Patterns The present invention relates to a three-dimensional security feature using a hologram which cannot be...