Holography News articles from May 2002

Holography News archives from May 2002

DuPont referred to UK OFT.(Office of Fair Trading)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... British graphics hologram producer Op-Graphics (Holography) Ltd has referred DuPont to the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) on the grounds that it is threatening to cease the supply of holographic photopolymer to Op. This follows the setting up...

Photopolymer display R&D under threat. (Editorial).(Editorial)
May 1, 2002... Since the early 1990s, DuPont has been presenting papers at optical, display and holography conferences describing the improving characteristics of its holographic photopolymer, which it used to call OmniDex. Since the mid-I 990s, this has...

Security (?) Holograms on the web. (Web Marketing).
May 1, 2002... Using the worldwide web to locate suppliers and gather information is now a natural first step for many prospective users of hologams, including customers looking for authentication designs. Holography News recently searched the web for...

Digital dieLESS foiling from API. (Production Processes).(API Foils)
May 1, 2002... API Foils has introduced Digital dieLESS foiling -- a development of its dieLess[TM] foiling technology which enables the application of variable information in the form of foil rather than conventional print. API first introduced dieless...

SRL cold foils open new markets. (Production Processes).(Surrey Roll Leaf)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Surrey Roll Leaf (SRL) , a long-standing British manufacturer of conventional and holographic hot-stamping foils for the printing and packaging industries, reports increasing interest in its cold foil, the application of which can be integrated...

JRP moves into wide-web UV equipment. (Production Processes).(James River Products)
May 1, 2002... James River Products (JRP), the US equipment company, is currently building a one-metre wide UV casting relief hologram production machine which is pre-sold to a customer as part of a rotogravure print and emboss line. JRP's narrow-web 'hard'...

Awards for Excellence in Holography, 2002. (Production Processes).(contest information)
May 1, 2002... Application forms are now available for the IHMA/Holography News Awards for Excellence 2002. These awards -- the 'Oscars' of the holographic industry -- are made in recognition of outstanding innovations in holography -- whether in technology,...

Holography protects Xbox. (Authentication).(Microsoft product)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Microsoft has again turned to holography to protect its long-awaited answer to Playstation - Xbox[TM] - using its proven approach of dual protection, one device on the product itself, the other on the packaging. Xbox was launched in the USA...

Holo-stalwarts form HOE venture. (Corporate News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Dan Cifelli, Richard Rallison and Lee Dickson, longtime innovators from different sectors of the holography industry, have joined together to create Wasatch Photonics, a dichromate gelatin (DCG) HOE venture aiming to sell its high quality...

National Science Foundation publishes holo-training course.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently published a ten unit Fundamentals of Photonics for use in training undergraduates, industry technicians and community college students. Unit 10 in this series is 'Basic Principals and...

Shareholder buy-back at HSM. (Corporate News).(Holographie Systems Munchen)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The private shareholders in Holographie Systems Munchen have bought back from authentos/Bundesdruckerei (BD) the 51% that the former state security printer acquired in 1997 (see HN Vol 11 No 7). Founder and CEO Gunther Dausmann now has 30.5% of...

API loss but reverses trend. (Corporate News).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2002... API plc announced in its interim (half year) results on May 16 an operating loss of [pounds sterling]0.9M ([+ or -]US$1.3M) in the six months to March 31 2002 compared with a profit of [pounds sterling]0.3m in the same period the previous year....

Light impressions small loss for 2001. (Corporate News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... British embossed hologram company Light Impressions International Ltd has filed its results for the year-ending August 31 2001. As a privately held company it has chosen to file abbreviated accounts, but Holography News spoke to CEO John Brown...

Where is May's blossom? (Stockwatch).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... May must be one of the quietest months on record for trading in holographic shares. When there is a lull, people begin to think, to consider, to reason and then to question. It seems this is happening with holographic shares just now. Are...

Marketing opportunities for Holographic suppliers. (Conferences).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The theme of this year's Holo-pack.Holo-print Conference is From Creative Solutions to Customer Satisfaction -- Strategies for Growth and the focus for the accompanying tradeshow will be on the suppliers of materials, services and equipment who...

10 years ago.
May 1, 2002... Holography News, May 1992 The front page was shared by two lead stories: the setting up of US Holographics as an exclusive distributor of DCG holograms from Holographic Products and Advanced Holographics; and FLEXcon's expansion of its...

AOT sales up [pounds sterling]2M. (Corporate News).[Applied Optical Technologies PLC].(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Atplied Optical Technologies has published its results for the year-end March 31 2002, showing sales up [pounds sterling]2M to [pounds sterling]30.6M ([+ or -]US$44.4Mm/[euro]60M), producing an operating profit of [pounds sterling]400,000 ([+...