Holography News articles from May 2006

Holography News archives from May 2006

European standard for anticounterfeiting?(COMPANY NEWS)
May 1, 2006... The French Imprimerie Nationale (National Printworks) and the French Standards Committee, AFNOR (association francaise de normalisation) have proposed that the European Standards Committee (CEN) establish a Workshop to develop an agreement for...

Visa and non-merger hit CFCI results.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
May 1, 2006... CFCI announced record sales but lower profits in its year-end results statement. These full results were preceded last month by the sales figures released until it could finalise its full accounts following the termination of its agreement to...

Standards for authentication.(EDITORIAL)
May 1, 2006... The first major use of a hologram to deter counterfeiting of a commercial product was probably in 1984, when ABNH supplied the hologram for Johnnie Walker Scotch Whisky. In the 22 years since, the authentication of products has become a key...

The growth of Beijing Creation Science-Technology Development.(COMPANY NEWS)(Company overview)
May 1, 2006... A measure of the growth in the Chinese and Asian hologram industries is seen in the growth of Beijing Creation Science-Technology Development Company, which has rapidly become one of the leading hologram equipment suppliers in the country....

HI's 1st quarter sales down.(IN BRIEF)
May 1, 2006... On April 18, Hologram Industries reported sales for the first quarter of [euro]3.1m, compared with [euro]4.6m in 2004, a 32% fall which it said was primarily related to unfavorable inventory effects on two recurring contracts in Poland...

New partnership for InkSure and NovaVision.(IN BRIEF)
May 1, 2006... InkSure Technologies Inc, providers of covert machine-readable security solutions, have announced a partnership with NovaVision Inc to produce multi-layered security holograms with discrete characteristics. The machine read holograms offering...

Holo-World exhibition delay.(IN BRIEF)
May 1, 2006... Claus Cohnen, lead organiser of the proposed Holo-World exhibition originally intended to open in Berlin, Germany, late in 2006 (see HN Vol 19 No 8), has told Holography News that the opening has been put back a year, partly because he has been...

Holography scoops AIMCAL awards.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
May 1, 2006... Packaged items featuring holography won the lion's share of the 2006 awards for metallised or vacuum-coated products run by AIMCAL (the Association of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators). Of the ten winners, holographic products...

Excellence in Holography 2006 Awards.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
May 1, 2006... Applications are now being invited for the Excellence in Holography Awards 2006, These are held by the International Hologram Manufacturers Association and sponsored by Holography News, and are made in recognition of outstanding innovations in...

Spatial launches new hologram design software.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
May 1, 2006... Spatial Imaging has introduced the Lightgate Pattern Maker V1.0--a new hologram design software program that enables users of the company's mastering systems to generate a range of patterns for packaging and security applications without having...

Depth Image protects US drivers licence.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
May 1, 2006... De La Rue Holographics, one of the leading proponents of classical holography, has strengthened its position with the introduction of Depth Image[TM], its next generation 3D hologram with enhanced and clearly discernible depth and movement. The...

Further falls for ABNH and HI.(STOCKWATCH)
May 1, 2006... Visa Problem Stays Last month we reported in some detail on the problems for ABNH and CFCI caused by static in HoloMag[TM] (see previous issue and page 8). The two companies may be working all-out to develop a non-static version, but the...

7th holography symposium.(CONFERENCES)(Calendar)
May 1, 2006... The full program has been published for the 7th International Symposium on Display Holography, which takes place from July 10-14 at the premises of Technium OpTIC (Opto-electronic Technology and Incubator Centre) in St Asaph in Wales. This...

Exhibitions and conferences.(CONFERENCES)(Calendar)
May 1, 2006... Intergraf May 17-19, 2006 Rhodes, Greece www.intergraf.org International Symposium on Display Holography July 10-14, 2006 St Asaph, UK www.isdh.org.uk Holo-Expo 2006 September 26-28, 2006 Moscow,...

Holo Expo 2006--3rd Moscow forum.(CONFERENCES)(Calendar)
May 1, 2006... The organising committee have announced that the third Russian Holo-Expo will be held in Moscow on September 26-28 2006. It will take place at the Izmailovo-Alfa hotel, which has recently opened a new conference and business centre. A call for...

10 years ago.
May 1, 2006... Patent History 'There is enough business for everyone out there...' Those were the words of Gil Colgate concluding an article on the patent history of holography in Holography News ten years ago. As a director at US Banknote Corporation,...

VISA explains decision to stop HoloMag.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
May 1, 2006... Further to the information published last month regarding the suspension by VISA of the HoloMag[TM] holographic/magnetic stripe from American Bank Note Holographics (ABNH), Holography News' sister publication Authentication News spoke to Karen...