Holography News articles from December 2008

Holography News archives from December 2008

GE/SABIC's hologram in hard thermoplastic.
December 1, 2008... At Holo-pack * Holo-print in Toronto, Moitreyee Sinha of GE Global Research and Gordon Van Dyke of SABIC Innovative Plastics announced and described their work on making holograms within the volume of hard thermoplastics. They also showed...

Smart launches SHOPS product protection Holograms.
December 1, 2008... Smart Holograms, the UK-based company that has developed sensor holograms (see HN Vol 18, No 10), has turned its attention to product protection and developed a range of Smart Holograms Optically Programmable Sensors (SHOPS) for...

2008--good news among the bad.(EDITORIAL)
December 1, 2008... There is considerable doom and gloom around at the moment, the recent traumatic events in the world's financial markets now beginning to impact economies around the world as one after another falls into recession. No-one knows how these events...

Energy efficient holo lighting.
December 1, 2008... De Montfort University (DMU) has begun a research project valued at [pounds sterling]1.6m for innovative holographic lighting units which could bring significant savings in both money and energy. The project, which is being led by Martin...

Sparkling results for two out of three.(COMPANY NEWS)
December 1, 2008... De La Rue's interim results, to September 30 2008, were every bit as good as the market and industry has come to expect of the company, judging by its performance in recent years. Sales increased by 14% to [pound sterling]245m compared with the...

Holographic version of Varifeye.(COMPANY NEWS)
December 1, 2008... In keeping with the trend in the currency industry towards windows in banknotes combined with optically variable effects that change according to whether the note is viewed in transmission or reflection, security papermaker Louisenthal has...

Renewed interest in photopolymers as producers multiply and quality rises.(TECHNOLOGY FEATURE)
December 1, 2008... At Holo * Pack Holo * Print 2008 three unrelated presentations gave pause for thought and signaled either a new direction in holography or events turning full circle, depending on one's point of view. All three presentations centered around...

Can it get worse?(STOCKWATCH)
December 1, 2008... We mentioned last month the impending demise of some of the world's largest companies, in particular the US automakers, and the impact this could have. These US automakers are still in limbo at the time of writing, while the European car makers...

Optaglio wins award for feature with sensory paradox.(AWARDS)
December 1, 2008... UK/Czech producer Optaglio is one of eight winners in the 2008 Czech Head Science and Technology awards for Nanogravure(TM) and related features. These are the result of a special nanotechnology facility established by the company to create...

Exhibitions and conferences.(Conference news)(Calendar)
December 1, 2008... Photonics West January 24-29. 2009 San Jose, CA, USA www.spie.org Security Printing in Central/Eastern Europe and Russia/CIS January 27-29, 2009 Vilnius, Lithuania www.security-printing.com Tax Stamp Forum...

Foilmark & HoloPak merge.(10 YEARS AGO)
December 1, 2008... The last issue of Holography News in 1998 reported that two large American hologram embossing companies, Foilmark and HoloPak Technologies, were to merge, through Foilmark's acquisition of HoloPak for Sl2m in stock and cash. The terms of the...

Holographic vision products.(20 YEARS AGO)
December 1, 2008... In December 1988, Holography News reported on moves by three large opto-medical companies to use holographic optics in vision correction lenses. As we commented at the time, the baby-boom generation was reaching the age when vision correction...