Holography News articles from August 2007

Holography News archives from August 2007

ABNH launches next generation card hologram.(NEWS IN BRIEF)
August 1, 2007... American Bank Note Holographics has announced the launch of HoloStripe[TM], its latest innovation for card security, branding and design. According to the company, its first customer is one of the ten largest banks in the world. Shipment of...

Optaglio sold, but business as usual.(COMPANY NEWS)
August 1, 2007... Optaglio Ltd has announced that there has been a change in its majority ownership and a recent injection of cash by Vladimir Zhukov, a Czech-based investor. Founded by Philip Hudson, formerly CEO of De La Rue Holographics, Optaglio...

The joys of legislated demand.(EDITORIAL)
August 1, 2007... In the early days of secure holography, the challenge of selling holograms was threefold: getting the customer to recognise that they had a counterfeiting problem; persuading them that a hologram was the solution; convincing them your company...

Sales up for Hologram Industries.(COMPANY NEWS)
August 1, 2007... Hologram Industries reported a very strong first half compared with the same period last year. Sales for 2007 to end June were [euro]9.5m, compared with [euro]7m for the first half last year, an increase of [euro]2.5m (+ 28.6%). Operating...

New partnership for OpSec.(COMPANY NEWS)
August 1, 2007... OpSec has announced a strategic partnership with Licensing Resource Group (LRG), to resell its Trademarx suite of online trademark management tools. LRG is a trademark management firm specialising in brand protection and promotion within the...

Intrepid Global Imaging 3D.(NEWS IN BRIEF)
August 1, 2007... Intrepid Global Imaging 3D, which trades on the US Bulletin Board market, is no longer involved in holography, so we are no longer tracking its shares. The company was created by a reverse takeover orchestrated by James Fischbach of Intrepid...

API losses increase.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Financial report)
August 1, 2007... API, the UK-based foils and laminates group with a significant holography division, reported increased losses for its first half ended March 31. Compared with the same period last year (for continuing operations), sales fell [pounds...

Nigeria looks to serialised holograms.(NEWS IN BRIEF)
August 1, 2007... NAFDAC, the National Agency for Food & Drug Administration and Control in Nigeria, has announced that it is planning to introduce uniquely-numbered holographic labels to be used on all licensed medicines distributed in the country. This...

Online authentication for Bosch.(NEWS IN BRIEF)
August 1, 2007... Bosch, a leading manufacture of automotive systems and components amongst other engineered products, is using KeySecure from Schreiner ProSecure to authenticate its range of oxygen sensors, crankshaft generators and exhaust gas sensors....

New system aids holo exposure.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
August 1, 2007... UK-based company Instrumentation Design Ltd (IDL) has introduced an active phase control system, which--although originally designed for the mastering of optical gratings--should ease the requirement for vibration damping in optical hologram...

60 years a celebration of holography 1947-2007.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
August 1, 2007... According to Dennis Gabor, he first thought of holography on Easter Day 1947. His early experiments culminated in him making a small hologram in 1948, and he published his first paper in Nature in that year. Holography News[R] will mark this...

Turmoil but ABNH and K Laser strong.(STOCKWATCH)
August 1, 2007... As we go to press, the world's equity markets are in turmoil. Following a couple of weeks of uncertainty, on Friday August 10, Europe's markets had their largest one day fall (-5%) in four years. Only the intervention of the US Federal...

Raising the Standard for holography.(CONFERENCES)
August 1, 2007... The programme for this year's Holopack * Holo-print[R] has now been posted to the conference website and can be viewed at www.holopackholoprint.info. The conference will cover three aspects of the Raising the Standard theme: achieving higher...

Exhibitions and conferences.(CONFERENCES)(Conference news)(Calendar)
August 1, 2007... 2nd Authentication Connections Forum September 18-20, 2007 Minneapolis, MN, USA www.acf-acd.com HoloExpo 2007 September 25-27, 2007 Moscow, Russia holoserv@mail.ru Labelexpo Europe September 26-29,...

The first Lightgate.(10 YEARS AGO)
August 1, 2007... In summer 1997 Westmead Technology Ltd was set up in the UK to market embossed hologram production equipment, and one of its key products was the Lightgate 1270, a computerised dot matrix hologram design and exposure system. Westmead, run by...

Digital holographic underwater camera.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
August 1, 2007... The University of Aberdeen in Scotland, working with laser manufacturer Elforlight, offshore instrumentation company CDL and the FRS Marine Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, has built a digital holographic underwater camera to assist in the...