Holography News articles from October 2006

Holography News archives from October 2006

Bayer moves into holographic biometric security.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
October 1, 2006... The large German chemistry company Bayer AG, through Bayer Innovation GmbH, has moved into the field of biometric security with the introduction of PhenoStor, a holographic photopolymer storage medium for plastic cards, invented by Bayer...

DNP's Motion Image holograms.(COMPANY NEWS)
October 1, 2006... Dai Nippon Printing Co, the Japanese giant print resources company, has introduced Motion Image, a new variation on its photopolymer range of authentication holograms. This is an animated Lippman hologram, exhibiting all the 3D qualities of a...

The best defence is collaboration.(EDITORIAL)
October 1, 2006... The Product and Image Security Conference (PISEC) was held early in October. The event has historically been a showcase for new technologies and new approaches to the protection of products and images (documents), and this year was no...

Opsec forecasts higher profit.
October 1, 2006... OpSec Security Group plc has said in a trading statement that its European operations have performed very strongly and profitability will be significantly ahead of the first half of the prior year. The company also expects that contribution...

Reconnaissance & French government join forces.(IN THE NEWS)
October 1, 2006... In April the European Standards Committee (CEN--Comite Europeen de Normalisation) held an open meeting to consider a proposal from the French Imprimerie Nationale, and AFNOR, the French standards committee, to develop a CEN Workshop Agreement...

HI Loses [euro]0.5m.(IN THE NEWS)
October 1, 2006... Hologram Industries had already announced that its sales were down in the first half and that its profits would be affected. So its first half results announced on September 20 came as no surprise. Sales revenues down 27% at $7.0m (2006 =...

CFC deal completed with ITW.(IN THE NEWS)
October 1, 2006... ITW completed its acquisition of CFC International on September 6. CFC reported that the existing management team will remain in place and would immediately embark on the adoption and implementation of the ITW 80/20 philosophy in order to...

Embossed HOEs for phototherapy.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
October 1, 2006... French company Hologram Industries is producing an embossed holographic optical element as the key component of Luminette[R] spectacles, a new way to undergo photo- (or lumino-) therapy. This is the therapeutic use of light in conditions such...

PISEC awards recognise OVDs.(AWARDS/PUBLICATIONS)
October 1, 2006... At the recent PISEC 06 awards, presented at the PISEC conference in Barcelona, new technologies involving optically variable effects and technologies won three out of the four categories. These included 3M, which was the winner in the...

New authentication suppliers guide.(AWARDS/PUBLICATIONS)
October 1, 2006... The Authentication Connections Directory, the first guidebook of its kind for specifiers, users and converters of secure documents and branded products--is now available. Published by Reconnaissance, the Directory contains comprehensive...

Holography News in advance.(AWARDS/PUBLICATIONS)
October 1, 2006... Subscribers can now receive Holography News electronically each month under a new site licence arrangement. This gives you a pdf which, subject to the terms of the licence, can be distributed freely within your organisation, ensuring that...

Confidence prevails.(STOCKWATCH)
October 1, 2006... There have been two announcements this month--Hologram Industries' first half year results, and a trading statement by Opsec (OSG previously Applied, AOT) as it enters its closed period. These follow recent trading statements by De La Rue, a...

Holo-pack*Holo-print--The Expanding Universe.(CONFERENCES)
October 1, 2006... The annual Holo-pack*Holo-print conference takes place in Vienna, Austria, on November 15-17 2006. On the theme The Expanding Universe of Holography the programme includes several papers on new or revised techniques for holograms. One...

Exhibitions and conferences.(Calendar)
October 1, 2006... AIMCAL Fall 2006 Technical Conference October 22-25 Reno, NA, USA www.aimcal.org Cartes 2006 November 7-8, 2006 Paris, France www.cartes.com IHMA AGM November 15, 2006 Vienna, Austria ...

In-line hologram printing.(10 YEARS AGO)
October 1, 2006... The business rationale for producing holograms in-line with the printing of the item they are on is obvious: there is no outside producer to deal with, no shipping and storage of holograms, and no off-line process to apply the holograms. So...

In-line production and application.(10 YEARS AGO)
October 1, 2006... The same issue reported Optimation Holographics (of Lawrence, Kansas) developing an in-line embossing, application and printing production line, enabling it to apply embossed holograms and print up to ten colours in register, including...

Krystal moves into authentication.(10 YEARS AGO)
October 1, 2006... Krystal Holographics International, which in 1995 had purchased the business of bankrupt photopolymer hologram producer US Holographics, announced that it was diversifying from its range of decorative holograms and jewellery into the security...

Panchromatic plates from Colour Holographic as it adds Indian agency.(COMPANY NEWS)
October 1, 2006... In 2000 UK company Colour Holographic acquired the rights and processes to the silver halide plates developed by Richard Birenheide and Jeff Blyth (hence known as BB plates), and has continued to improve their sensitivity and grain size since...