Holography News articles from May 2008

Holography News archives from May 2008

GE moves to holographic data storage.
May 1, 2008... Electrical equipment giant GE Corporation's Global Research division is combining the resources of its polymer chemistry, materials science, physics, optics and electrical engineering teams to develop low-cost, high-capacity holographic data...

Standards progress at ISO.
May 1, 2008... The International Standards Organisation (ISO) is to consider establishing a specialist group to develop a framework for international anti-counterfeiting standards. This is its response to a proposal from AFNOR, the French standards...

101 Uses of holography as industry expands and diversifies.(EDITORIAL)
May 1, 2008... Back in 1981 Simon Bond published '101 Uses of a Dead Cat', a book containing a series of amusing (and, in most cases, tasteless) cartoons of the various domestic uses to which the said dead cat could be put. It promoted not only outrage from...

Holography drives API recovery.(COMPANY NEWS)
May 1, 2008... API released its preliminary results for the 18 month period ending March 31 2008 on May 21 2008-this reporting period reflecting the Group's decision to change its year end to March 31 from September 30. Group sales were [pounds...

K Laser growth continues.(COMPANY NEWS)
May 1, 2008... K Laser's audited consolidated results for 2007 show year on year sales growth of 14.7% from TW$3.214 billion (US$105.3m) to TW$3.686 billion (US$120.8m), with operating profit excluding non-operating income and investment gains increasing...

De La Rue flying high.(COMPANY NEWS)
May 1, 2008... De La Rue announced strong preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2008, more than meeting expectations for the fourth year in succession. Sales grew by 9.6%, from [pounds sterling]687.5m in the year to March 31 2007 to [pounds...

Alan Lake.(People in the News)
May 1, 2008... * API Holographics is relocating Business Development Manager Alan Lake from its UK based Salford operation to Virginia. According to the company, the move reflects the globalisation of the holographic industry and will capitalise on recent...

Ed Dietrich.(People in the News)
May 1, 2008... * Ed Dietrich, formerly Director for North America for Reconnaissance and before that with Flex Products, OPSec and American Bank Note Holographics, has joined Hologram Industries as Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing, North America.

Thomas Kleindienst.(People in the News)
May 1, 2008... * Thomas Kleindienst has joined Leonhard Kurz as Sales Manager for Banknotes. He was formerly with German banknote printer Bundesdruckerei.

H John Caulfied.(People in the News)
May 1, 2008... * Following the death of Chandra Vikram last August (see HN Vol 21, No 9), H John Caulfied has become the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Holography and Speckles

Terri Mock.(People in the News)
May 1, 2008... * OpSec has appointed Terri Mock to the position of Director of Marketing.

Holographic concentrators for solar power.(TECHNOLOGY FEATURE)
May 1, 2008... Climate change and surging oil prices are focusing attention on the use of renewable energy, of which solar is one of the most readily available. Holography has a tiny toehold in the field of solar energy, with the potential to make a big...

60 years of holography.(TECHNOLOGY PROFILE)
May 1, 2008... To mark the 60th anniversary of the invention of the hologram Holography News is running a series of faux-contemporary articles on some of the most significant developments in holography's history. Not all seminal developments were scientific...

Markets adjust to uncertain times.(STOCKWATCH)
May 1, 2008... Now that most of the shocks associated with the credit crisis appear to be over, the focus has shifted to the rapidly-rising price of commodities (including oil and food), and the negative effects these may have for economies and companies....

Pushing the Boundaries: Holo-pack Holo-print 2008.(CONFERENCES)
May 1, 2008... The Holo-pack * Holo-print 2008 conference and trade show will take place November 18-20 in Toronto, Canada, a return to North America after a six-year gap. The theme for the event is Pushing the Boundaries, and proposals for papers on this...

Exhibitions, conferences and meetings.(CONFERENCES)(Conference news)(Calendar)
May 1, 2008... Holography Expo 2008 July 1-2, 2008 Moscoe, Russia www.holograms.ru 3rd Authentication Connections Forum September 16-18, 2008 Prague, Czech Republic www.afc-acd.com The Future of Secure Documents ...

ABN floats ABNH.(10 YEARS AGO)
May 1, 2008... In May 1998 American Banknote Corporation announced that it was floating American Bank Note Holographies, its wholly-owned subsidiary, aiming to raise $188m. It was reported that ABNH's sales at the time were $30.9m, returning a profit of...

Australia's 'holographic' banknote.(20 YEARS AGO)
May 1, 2008... The May 1988 issue of Holography News reported the issue of a test run of banknotes incorporating a 'hologram' in Australia. The 'hologram' was in fact a Catpix, a proprietary direct-write diffractive pattern of Captain Cooke produced by...

2nd acquisition as OpSec buys P4M.(COMPANY NEWS)
May 1, 2008... OpSec, which purchased Light Impressions last month, has announced a second acquistion-this time of the Munich-based online brand protection company Partners 4 Management (P4M). In April OpSec reported that it had entered into a term loan...

50% growth for Holostik.(COMPANY NEWS)
May 1, 2008... Indian holographic security specialist Holostik has reported a 50% increase in sales for the year ending March 31 2008 to [euro]9.7m. According to the company, which claims to have a 50% share of the Indian hologram market, during the year it...