Holography News articles from July 2011

Holography News archives from July 2011

Crown hot-stamping on metal packaging.
July 1, 2011... Crown Speciality Packaging Europe, a unit of Crown Holdings Inc. the world's biggest metal packaging company, has developed a method to hot-stamp holographic foil on to metal packaging. The process, which it has called HoloCrown[TM], allows the...

3S integrates Secutag with holograms.
July 1, 2011... German label and authentication tag producer Simons Security Systems GmbH, better known as 3S, is now offering its Secutag[TM] colour-coded taggant for integration with surface relief holograms, providing a combined overt and coded label. ...

Lippmann bites back - but Bragg rules!(Editorial)
July 1, 2011... Holography only grew in to an industry when it became possible to replicate holograms inexpensively and in high volume. Imagery with depth and parallax escaped from the laboratory and came to the attention of the world in the 1980s in the form...

Holograms on new banknotes.(Editorial)
July 1, 2011... Canada and Brazil have both announced new series of banknotes with holograms as anti-counterfeit features. In December 2010 Brazil issued its new 50 and 100 Real notes, both with a 12 mm wide stripe of holographic demetallised foil. Canada has...

Holograms on passports: a document examiner's perspective.(ID Documents)
July 1, 2011... Holograms, which I shall take to include all non-printed optically variable devices, appear on the majority of documents used for international travel. Indeed, many international standards require or recommend that they appear on the data page...

OpSec's profit rises as Orca deal succeeds.(Corporate News)(Financial report)
July 1, 2011... In its Report and Accounts for year ended March 31 2011, Anglo-American hologram embossing company OpSec reported an increase in both revenue and profit over the previous year, a good start for its new majority owners, as Orca Holdings gained...

Europe bails out Greece -- again! Will the USA avoid defaulting?(Stockwatch)
July 1, 2011... This last month was another tense drama for the world's markets with the global economic recovery on a knife edge as politicians in Europe and the USA tried to find a solution to their debt crises. A disaster of unknown proportions has for now...

Forthcoming holography conferences.(Conferences)(Conference news)
July 1, 2011... Over the next few months there are several conferences covering holography, starting with HoloExpo in Minsk, Belarus, at the end of September. This is followed by Holo-pack*Holo-print[R], the Holography Conference, in Las Vegas, USA, November...

30 Passports use holograms.(10 YEARS AGO)
July 1, 2011... Holography News ran our first survey of the use of holograms on passports ten years ago. At that time we identified 30 countries using holograms or similar devices on passports. Of these 17 (57%) used a laminate on the data page, the others...

Manufacturers expand.(10 YEARS AGO)
July 1, 2011... We also reported ten years ago that both Optaglio and Spectratek were expanding their facilities. Optaglio was reported to be moving its all its production to its premises on the Rez Technology Park just outside Prague, Czech Republic. It was...

Developments in display holograms.(20 YEARS AGO)
July 1, 2011... Back in summer 1991 Hans Bjelkhagen made a pulse portrait of US President Ronald Reagan. It was shot at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA, by a team including Michel Marhic, Fred Unterseher and Rebecca Deem. Ernest H...

32% revenue growth for HI in first half!(Coporate News)
July 1, 2011... At the penultimate hour as we went to press. Hologram Industries published its first half results and we were sufficiently impressed to re-edit the Newsletter to include this report Sales in the first half compared with the same period last...