Holography News articles from February 2005

Holography News archives from February 2005

Centre for Modern Optics on the move.
February 1, 2005... The Centre for Modern Optics (CMO), founded at the De Montfort University in Leicester, England, has expanded and re-focused through a move to the Technium Optic business incubator at St Asaph in North Wales (location of the Thales/Pilkington...

Record sales and profits for CFCI.
February 1, 2005... On February 15 CFC International reported record sales of $82.6m for 2004, an increase of 32% over the previous year. It also reported preliminary net income of approximately $3.5m and although this result represents a considerable...

Display holography on the rise.(EDITORIAL)
February 1, 2005... We feel for Nick Hardy and Valerie Love of OpGraphics, the British company that has listed its DuPont photopolymer hologram production equipment for sale on eBay. Op has been producing display holograms for the gift and promotional trade...

Hologram Industries' reports 2004 sales.(IN THE NEWS)
February 1, 2005... In an exceptional fourth quarter and in line with the company's forecast, Hologram Industries recorded sales of [euro]5.3m, an increase of around 75% over the same period last year. This produced sales for the year of [euro]18.6m compared...

Shearwater Foundation closes.(IN THE NEWS)
February 1, 2005... Since 1987 the Shearwater Foundation has distributed over US$1.5m to support art holography, but regrettably it ceased activities at the end of last year, on the death of its last trustee. The Foundation has always sought anonymity, never...

AOT renews major contracts.(IN BRIEF)
February 1, 2005... Applied Optical Technologies has signed multi-year brand protection extension programs with the US National Football league (NFL) and the National Hockey league (NHL). The contracts, which will last until March 2010 and December 2008...

Liti's new reflection film.(IN BRIEF)
February 1, 2005... Liti Holographics, which offers low cost portrait hologram kits selling for $99 (see HN Vol 18, No 9), has launched a new hologram film. According to the company, this film has all the 'instant hologram' qualities of its previous film but is...

Light Impressions 2003/04 success.(IN BRIEF)
February 1, 2005... British embossed hologram producer Light Impressions Ltd has reported that in the year to August 31 2004, sales totalled [pounds sterling]3.8m ([+ or -]$7.4m; [euro]5.5m), and according to the new managing director Alan Stratton,...

Nigeria's new pharma certificate.(IN BRIEF)
February 1, 2005... NAFDAC, the Nigerian Food & Drugs Agency, has introduced a new certificate to be issued to authorised imported and domestically produced pharmaceuticals. The new certificate is being produced by a security printer in the UK and includes a...

Holograms authenticate AMD microprocessors.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
February 1, 2005... Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a California micro-processor manufacturer, is redesigning packaging to help protect its products following a spate of counterfeiting attacks around the world. The boxes of its microprocessors will now include a...

NASCAR begins new hologram programme.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
February 1, 2005... The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) will implement a hologram program for licensees as an authentication measure against fake merchandise. The program will require all licensees producing NASCAR-licensed merchandise to...

HRS expands OVD patent database.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
February 1, 2005... Honnorat Recherche & Services (HRS), security patent surveillance specialists and suppliers of the data for this month's Patent Update supplement in Holography News, has substantially updated and expanded its patent database for OVD and...

What a difference a year makes!(STOCKWATCH)
February 1, 2005... In February 2004 API Group was in the news with rumours of a deal with AOT to combine the two companies' UK holography operations (see HN Vol 18, No 1), primarily based on an announcement by AOT that it was in an 'advanced stage of...

J Patton delivers combined technology authentication system for US college sports.(CASE STUDY)
February 1, 2005... J Patton, a Georgia-based brand management company, has been fighting counterfeits and gray marketers in the massive US college sport's merchandising area for over two years. The company has developed a system that relies on the overt...

New Horizons for Holo-pack*Holo-print 2005.(CONFERENCES)
February 1, 2005... The annual holography conference Holo-pack*Holo-print will take place in Shenzhen, China from 6-8 November. The theme for the 2005 conference is New Horizons--Global Opportunities, reflecting the fact that the industry is now truly global...

Exhibitions and conferences.(Calendar)
February 1, 2005... Vacuum Coating and Metallizing Industry Conference March 2-4, 2005 Berlin, Germany www.awa-bv.com Opto Ireland April 4-5, 2005 Dublin, Ireland www.spie.org EMA Spring Meeting April 7-8, 2005 ...

10 years ago CD holograms ...(CONFERENCES)
February 1, 2005... In early 1995 Applied Holographics and CD producer Nimbus Manufacturing introduced a CD with a hologram design across the whole surface. This followed the introduction four years earlier of a hologram on the inner ring of the CD. The all-over...

Renaissance in Richmond?(TRAINING AND PUBLICATIONS)
February 1, 2005... Holographic artist Patrick Boyd is heading a project to re-establish holography courses for creative people and others who want to learn holography, in Richmond, south west London, at facilities provided by Spatial Imaging Ltd. Spatial now...

Computer optics & Computer Holography.(TRAINING AND PUBLICATIONS)
February 1, 2005... Described as a 'monograph' by its authors, this is a dense, lavishly-illustrated book of 290 pages (English edition) by Prof Alex Goncharsky and his son Anton, who are currently producing some of the most imaginative and high quality e-beam...

Security hologram and OVD Patent Update: information supplied by Honnorat Recherches & Services.
February 1, 2005... JULY-DECEMBER 2004 WO04041546A1 -- Security Element and Method for Producing Said Element Giesecke & Devrient GmbH (Germany) The invention relates to a security element embodied in the form of superficial structures which...