Holography News articles from January 2007

Holography News archives from January 2007

Launch of new Authentication Association.(COMPANY NEWS)
January 1, 2007... The International Authentication Association (IAA), a new global trade and business association to promote the understanding and use of authentication technologies and services, was formally launched on January 10 in Washington, DC. The...

Russia moves to standards for holograms.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
January 1, 2007... In response to a desire by the department responsible for the safety of information technologies and systems of the Scientific and Technological Centre (STC) in Moscow to apply standard metrics to security holograms, several research...

How large is the holography industry?(EDITORIAL)
January 1, 2007... That was the headline on the first page of the first issue of Holography News[R] in September 1987. So this year marks the 20th anniversary of Holography News, your 'international business newsletter of the holography industry.' That was the...

Widescreen HoloPro launched.(COMPANY NEWS)
January 1, 2007... ProNova, the German company making large holographic display screen enhancing films (see HN Vol 20, No 8) has launched a widescreen version. The new HoloPro[TM] Extra Wide is 2.4 m long and 60 cm high, providing a display of 3072 x 1024 pixels....

New merchandising contract for OpSec.(COMPANY NEWS)
January 1, 2007... OpSec has secured a multi-year contract with the Collegiate Licensed Properties Association (CLPA) to develop and implement a brand protection program for its merchandising portfolio. The CLPA is a university-owned cooperative of 140...

Record 4th quarter for HI, but year sales down.(COMPANY NEWS)(Financial report)
January 1, 2007... Hologram Industries has announced that in the fourth quarter of 2006 sales were [euro]6m, 15% higher than the same period in 2005 and a company record for this period. Total sales for 2006, though, at [euro]18.2m, were 8% down on 2005. The fall...

Currency continues as growth market for holograms.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
January 1, 2007... Diffractive OVDs (both holograms and kinegrams) were in use by 93 issuing authorities on just under 250 banknote denominations at the end of 2005, according to Ruud van Renesse in his presentation on trends and developments in DOVIDs for...

A holographic window on security.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
January 1, 2007... Banknote equipment manufacturer KBA-GIORI has launched OPTI-Windows[R] (One Pass Technology for Integrated Windows), a proprietary technology that enables printers to cut a window in a banknote and then apply a demetallised holographic stripe...

Looking back at 2006--that was the year that was....(2006 ROUND-UP)
January 1, 2007... JANUARY CFC International announces its sale to Quad-C Management for $75.6m--a lower figure than the bid by Audax, which had been made the previous year but called off four months later (as was to happen, subsequently, to this latest...

Great start to 2007.(STOCKWATCH)
January 1, 2007... The FTSE All (Financial Times All share index) has risen 1.5% and NASDAQ 2% over the holiday period, although the Taiwan Stock Exchange lost 2%. But all bar one of our shares increased in value this period, making it a very good and promising...

Exhibitions and conferences.(STOCKWATCH)(Calendar)
January 1, 2007... OPTO 2007: Practical Holography XXI: Materials and Application Conference January 20-25, 2007 San Jose, CA, USA www.spie.org Electronic Imaging January 28-February 1, 2007 San Jose, CA, USA www.spie.org ...

Silver halide producers.(10 YEARS AGO)
January 1, 2007... Following the previous month's announcement that Agfa was to cease production of its holographic exposure materials, the January 1997 issue of Holography News included information on the silver halide plates made by Slavich, the former...

AHEAD enters dot matrix field.(10 YEARS AGO)
January 1, 2007... Meanwhile, AHEAD Optoelectronics Inc (AHEAD--Advanced Holographic Effects And Diffractive), a division of the Wall Lee Industrial Corporation in Taiwan, announced that it would be putting more effort into marketing its Holomaster dot matrix...

HOE position strengthened in barcode readers.(10 YEARS AGO)
January 1, 2007... Symbol Technologies, a leading supplier of barcode readers, and Metrologic Instruments had entered into a cross-licensing agreement for the use by Metrologic of Symbol's laser scanning patents and the use by Symbol of Metrologic's optical...