Holography News articles from March 2007

Holography News archives from March 2007

Holograms to become compulsory on US ID documents.
March 1, 2007... The US Department of Homeland Security has published Minimum Standards for Drivers Licences and Identification Cards Acceptable by Federal Agencies for Official Purposes, a formal consultation document that includes a recommendation for all...

A path to ... the next generation security DOVD?(INDUSTRY NEWS)
March 1, 2007... The US National Research Council has published A Path to the Next Generation of U.S. Banknotes: Keeping them Real, a report from its Committee on Technologies to Deter Currency Counterfeiting (ISBN: 0-309-10575-7) which examines the...

Security holography: future requirements.(EDITORIAL)
March 1, 2007... Two recent reports from US federal government organisations show that holograms--or, strictly speaking in the terms of these reports--diffractive optical devices, are now established in the minds of officialdom as a de facto component of...

New security feature for Meditag labels.(IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2007... A new version of Meditag[R]--the holographic label used to authenticate medicines in Malaysia--has been developed that will enable inspection and verification by in-store pharmacists and the public using a simple polarising filter. ...

Sleever develops new 3D security sleeves.(IN THE NEWS)
March 1, 2007... Shrink sleeve packaging specialist Sleever International has launched Holosleeve 3D[R], a new packaging product incorporating a hologram for authentication and tamper-evidence that is aimed at the wine and spirits sectors and, it says, is...

Digital holographic microscopy.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
March 1, 2007... Lyncee Tec, a Swiss company affiliated with the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, is making digital holographic microscopes, or DHM[TM] products, which--as their name implies--use holographic techniques to display a...

Animat[R] from Louisenthal.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
March 1, 2007... The foil production team at security paper and hologram OVD manufacturer Louisenthal has developed a new optically variable feature for banknotes. Animal[R] comprises an animated matte structure created using the company's e-beam exposure...

Ver-tec develops security AgH holograms.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
March 1, 2007... Ver-tec, the British security hologram development company which is developing the Biometrigram[R] holographic fingerprint & portrait technology (see HN Vol 19, No 8) has added to its development portfolio a full colour, multi-featured silver...

Holography for Industrial Applications.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
March 1, 2007... Global Industry Analysts Inc has published a research report titled Holography for Industrial Applications, available as printed or pdf versions at $3,950. Its 461 pages cover the market and production volumes of holograms for bar-code and...

Industry resilient in crisis.(STOCKWATCH)
March 1, 2007... Well, that was an interesting period! The markets started to collapse as the Chinese economy sneezed and former Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan, for once, made a prediction in line with his facial expression, but the collapse stopped short of a...

New directory for holography.(PUBLICATIONS)
March 1, 2007... Reconnaissance International will be bringing out the Directory of Holography Suppliers towards the end of this year. This new publication will provide an easy one-stop reference source for customers to find hologram producers around the...

Exhibitions and conferences.(Calendar)
March 1, 2007... 4th Pan European High Security Printing Conference March 28-29, 2007 Budapest, Hungary www.cross-confercnces.com 50th SVC Annual Technical Conference April 28-May 3, 2007 Louisville, KY, USA www.svc.org ...

Tax stamps: a technical analysis & market report.(PUBLICATIONS)
March 1, 2007... Reconnaisance will be publishing, in April, a new report that for the first time provides a detailed analysis of the market for tax stamps on tobacco and alcohol. Tax stamps, production of which has traditionally been the domain of...

Expectations of full colour holograms.(10 YEARS AGO)
March 1, 2007... Ten years ago, there were several research endeavours focused on full colour holograms. In a news feature in the March 1997 Holography News, it was reported that DuPont had introduced a new version of its OmniDex photopolymer holographic...

Laza holograms for sale.(10 YEARS AGO)
March 1, 2007... One of the formerly successful film hologram producers had been the o cease production of Holotest materials, Donolo had decided it would require more investment than he was willing to make to develop alternative materials. In the event,...

Syn4D exhibits in Brussels.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
March 1, 2007... In collaboration with Geola, the Anglo-Lithuanian company which worked with Canadian company XYZ Imaging to develop large-format, full-colour silver halide holograms (see HN Vol 19, No 6), Syn4D has opened an exhibition of these holograms in...