Holography News articles from March 2001

Holography News archives from March 2001

Holobit Seeks Development Partners for White Light Holography.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Holobit Ltd, an Israeli company established at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, is seeking partners to join it in developing the white-light holography method invented by Prof Joseph Rosen (with others). Their method converts the input...

Holographic Dimensions Flounders.
March 1, 2001... Florida-based hologram embossing company Holographic Dimensions Inc (HDI, OTC Pink Sheets: HGRM) appears to be floundering and following a failed rescue attempt by a group of investors its future is uncertain. HDI has had a tortured history...

Where Does the Holography Industry Belong?
March 1, 2001... Each year since 1989 Reconnaissance International, publisher of Holography News, has organised the Holo-pack Holo-print conference as a forum for the holography industry. Reconnaissance also organises the Authentication & Counterfeiting...

ABNH Offers Digimarc Protection.
March 1, 2001... At the Authentication & Counterfeiting Protection conference in Prague in March, American Bank Note Holographics (ABNH) launched holograms incorporating a digital watermark, following an agreement with Digimarc Corporation. This means that ABNH...

FraudHalt Hologram Verification System.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... At the Authentication & Counterfeiting Protection conference in Prague, Dr Gerard Lacey of Haptica announced the formation of FraudHalt Ltd, a new Irish company which is completing development of a counter-top hologram verification system...

Laser Reflections: Pulsed Portraits and Masters.(Company Profile)
March 1, 2001... Ron and Bernadette Olson started Laser Reflections in 1990 convinced that with more appropriate laser technology, better display holography (in particular better portraiture) would be possible (see Vol 11 No 7). Now they are also producing...

Pura Integrates Holography into Total Security System.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... The Pura Group, an Indonesian paper, packaging and hologram company, has established a new security division under the title Total Security System which brings under one management group the company's security and authentication paper,...

DuPont Opens New Holo-Facility & Wins Enhancer Marketing Rights.
March 1, 2001... The continuing growth in the marker for holographic display enhancers and other holographic optical elements has prompted DuPont Displays to build a new production facility, which opened in Logan, Utah, on March 7. Later in the month the...

People on the Move.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 1, 2001... Won Heads DuPont Holographic Cheoroo Won is the new president and CEO of DuPont Holographics. He will be a member of the DuPont Displays Leadership Team and will be responsible for the growth and development of the Holography business...

ImEdge Patent Portfolio For Sale.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 1, 2001... ImEdge Technology Inc, which has developed edge-lit holography (see HN Vol 7 No 10 & Vol 9 No 1), has been awarded US patent number 6,151,142, entitled Grazing incidence holograms and method of making the same. This is the company's sixth...

ABNH Sales Fall 10%, Returns to Operating Profit.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... American Bank Note Holographics Inc's accounts for the year 2000 show that its sales of $19.5M fell 10% compared to the previous year, although the company made an operating income (profit) of $0.5M, compared to a loss of $0.6M the previous...

CFC Holo Sales up 27%.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The report from CFC International Inc for the year-ended December 31st 2000, shows that the company's holography division continued to grow, with sales rising 27% to reach $13.2M (10.4M in 1999). This compares with a 3.2% rise in overall sales,...