Holography News articles from November 2007

Holography News archives from November 2007

TSSI launches OptiGard holograms.
November 1, 2007... Structured magnetics specialist TSSI has launched OptiGard[TM], a food grade hologram on the back of which a special coating adds a covert machine readable, permanent magnetic signature that provides yes/no authentication. The product can be...

CEN Protocols workshop up and running.
November 1, 2007... The launch meeting of the European Standards Committee (CEN) for its CWA (CEN Workshop Agreement) on Protocols for the Detection of Counterfeits (see HN Vol 21, No 9) took place in October. The objective of this CWA is to produce an Agreement...

Standards in holography.(EDITORIAL)
November 1, 2007... The editorial in Holography News ten years ago was by guest author Steve McGrew, calling for standards for machine readability in holograms. He argued then that with the proliferation of machine readable holograms from different producers, 'the...

Strong 3rd quarter for ABNH.
November 1, 2007... American Bank Note Holographics' sales in the third quarter totalled $8.5m, an increase of 29.4% over the third quarter of 2006 and a 6.9% over the quarter to June 30 this year. Pre tax profits of $2.13m represented a 136% increase over the...

Optaglio and Fargo join forces for ID.(COMPANY NEWS)
November 1, 2007... Optaglio has signed a joint marketing agreement with US-based Fargo Electronics, a developer of ID card issuance systems including card printer/encoders, consumables and software. The agreement covers secure solutions using Fargo's High...

New sports merchandise contract for DLR.(COMPANY NEWS)
November 1, 2007... De La Rue Holographics has been awarded a contract by Copyright Promotions Sport to provide a secure brand authentication solution for the UK's Football Association (FA), enabling it to track and manage all merchandise carrying the England...

Sales up for OpSec, but acquisitions prove elusive.(COMPANY NEWS)
November 1, 2007... In its report on the half year to 30 September 2007, OpSec shows sales up almost [pounds sterling]2m compared to the same period last year, at [pounds sterling]16.3m ([+ or -]$33.6m/[euro]22.8m--a 13% increase), but profit before tax down from...

Holography celebrates another year of technical Innovation.(INDUSTRY AWARDS)
November 1, 2007... Several projects were singled out at the 15th International Hologram Manufacturers Association's (IHMA) Excellence in Holography Awards 2007, presented at a special ceremony during the conference dinner at Holo-pack*Holo-print 2007 in Hong Kong...

Hueck Folien introduces new series of multi-feature foils.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
November 1, 2007... Film and foil specialist Hueck Folien has developed a series of new overt effects for its range of holographic threads and foils for currency, including bimetal, coloured and colour switch foils, and combinations of all three with traditional...

Three set 12 month records!(STOCKWATCH)
November 1, 2007... One day the markets are falling and recession is said to be knocking at the door, the next day one event can send shares back up again and we escape from the abyss! Such are the swings from day to day now that the world's financial markets are...

60 years: a celebration of holography 1947-2007; Benton's single-parallax hologram.(HISTORY OF HOLOGRAPHY)
November 1, 2007... Stephen Benton, a part-time researcher at the Polaroid Corporation, has reported that he has made holograms with horizontal parallax only, thus reducing the information content and so the bandwidth that would be necessary to transmit or...

Exhibitions and conferences.(Conference news)(Calendar)
November 1, 2007... Practical Holography XXII January 20-21, 2007 San Jose, CA, USA www.spie.org 8th Security Printing Conference January 22-23, 2008 Ljubljana, Slovenia www.security-printing.com Optical Document Security ...

Ron Morris on counterfeit holograms.(10 YEARS AGO)
November 1, 2007... The workshop at the 1997 Holopack*Holo-print[R] was given by Ron Morris and colleagues, forensic document examiners at the US Secret Service, whose responsibilities included the examination of fake credit cards. In an interview with Holography...

Calls for registry of holograms.(20 YEARS AGO)
November 1, 2007... At the Optical Systems Conference held in Zurich, Switzerland, in October 1987, Steve McGrew (then of Light Impressions) outlined methods for counterfeiting embossed holograms, but pointed out that the easiest way for a criminal to source...

Web cleaner improves embossing yields.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2007... Teknek, manufacturer of contact web cleaning systems, has introduced the XCHP heavy duty web cleaning head. This, it claims, will improve production yields on embossing lines by preventing particles or contaminants becoming trapped between the...

Holography pre-eminent in US safe packaging.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2007... A new report, carried out by market analysts BCC Research into the US market for 'safe' packaging technologies for food and drugs, including authentication and track and trace, concludes that this is set to grow from $34.2 billion in 2006 to...