Holography News articles from January 2008

Holography News archives from January 2008

API reports losses and refinances.(Financial report)
January 1, 2008... In mid-December API announced its interim results and a fully underwritten plan to refinance the company. Sales for the first half of [pounds sterling]47.2m were 7.3% down (interim 2006 = [pounds sterling]50.8m). The operating loss...

Security products need certification in China.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
January 1, 2008... A recently-introduced regulation in China requires all authentication or security products, including locally produced and imported holograms, supplied for use on documents and products in the country to be certified by the General...

Review of 2007--industry shifts axis.(EDITORIAL)
January 1, 2008... It is tempting to say that the defining news item of the 2007 holography industry came towards the end of the year, with the announcement that JDSU is to purchase American Bank Note Holographics. This continues the long-term trend of...

IHMA hopes to hit 100.(COMPANY NEWS)
January 1, 2008... Membership of the IHMA at the end of 2007 was nearly 90, and the association is planning a 'Hit One Hundred' campaign during 2008, the 15th anniversary of its foundation, to reach triple figures. In addition to this campaign, the IHMA will be...

Hologram industries sales up 16%.(COMPANY NEWS)
January 1, 2008... It is a peculiarity of the French market that a company releases its sales figures in advance of its results, but it does give a quick insight of performance soon after the year end. Hologram Industries did not disappoint. Sales in the...

Optaglio moves into garment labels.(COMPANY NEWS)
January 1, 2008... Hologram producer Optaglio has joined forces with North African label manufacturer La Griffe Internationale to offer high security garment labels and hang tags. These will incorporate Optaglio's Multimatrix[R] holograms, which combine a...

New 3D microtext from DNP.(COMPANY NEWS)
January 1, 2008... Dai Nippon Printing has begun marketing a new version of its Virtuagram 2 computer-generated hologram with microscopic lettering. Virtuagram 2, launched last year (see HN Vol 21, No 2) is itself a variation on the Virtuagram--a 3D...

Six hologram companies now CWA certified.(COMPANY NEWS)
January 1, 2008... In December OpSec was awarded secure producer certification under the joint IHMA/Intergraf CWA scheme for security printers and suppliers. This scheme, introduced in 2003, aims at providing security printers with standard rules and...

Triple take goes for low-run embossing.(COMPANY NEWS)
January 1, 2008... Triple Take Holographics (TTH), a two-person DCG hologram producer near San Diego, California, has decided to specialise in the production of low-run embossed holograms, seeing a niche that is neglected by the large embossed hologram...

60 years: a celebration of holography; First mass production embossed hologram.(IN THE NEWS)
January 1, 2008... Light Impressions Inc, a California company founded in 1979 by Steve McGrew, has produced and 'published' a 6" x 6" embossed reflective hologram titled Holographic Sunrise. This is believed to be the first mass-produced commercial hologram...

DuPont's new NASCAR program.(IN THE NEWS)
January 1, 2008... DuPont, long a major sponsor of NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Racing), is working with the organization to introduce a new hologram on all NASCAR officially licensed merchandise product in 2008 through its subsidiary DuPont...

Exhibitions and conferences.(Conference news)(Calendar)
January 1, 2008... FSEA National Convention April 10-12, 2008 Scottsdale, AZ, USA www.fsea.com 5th Pan European High Security Printing Conference April 16-17, 2008 Prague, Czech Republic www.cross-conferenccs.com DRUPA 2008...

Stock markets in chaos.(STOCKWATCH)
January 1, 2008... 2008 has not got off to a good start. Although it was the world's financial, rather than stock, markets that were in disarray, the chances of this lasting were never high. The coordinated attempts by some of the world's major central banks to...

A brief review of 2007.(STOCKWATCH)
January 1, 2008... We have constructed the table below to provide a quick and clear comparison of the performances of the various companies showing their growth or decline after one, three and five years and their relative performance compared with the market....

Where have all the public companies gone?(10 YEARS AGO)
January 1, 2008... The first issue of Holography News in 1998 included the first StockWatch. At that time, there were six US and one UK companies covered, of which only the UK company--Applied Holographics then, OpSec now--survives as a traded stock. The fate...

Fujitsu's HOE barcode scanner.(20 YEARS AGO)
January 1, 2008... In 1988, the second year of Holography News, an article announced that Fujitsu had unveiled a compact barcode reader incorporating a holographic optical element. The 3" high scanner, with a footprint of 9" x 12", used three HOEs, laminated...