Holography News articles from October 2007

Holography News archives from October 2007

Nigeria commits to hologram.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
October 1, 2007... At a recent two-day conference in Lagos, Nigeria, the National Agency for Food & Drug Administration & Control (NAFDAC) enlisted the companies it regulates in the specification of the proposed new serialised hologram that it will require on all...

20 years of Holography News.(TECHNOLOGY FEATURE)
October 1, 2007... Allow us some front page space to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Holography News[R], first published in September 1987, making this, we believe, the longest continuous publishing history of any specialist holography periodical (and proving...

Hard work guarantees markets.(EDITORIAL)
October 1, 2007... In the August 2007 issue of Holography News we examined the joys of legislated demand--ie. the specification of a product or service by national, or even international, mandate. Legislated demand, which is a response to a national (or...

Cash problems at API.(COMPANY NEWS)
October 1, 2007... API Group plc, the specialist packaging products company which owns API Holographics, has issued a series of announcements in the past month reflecting difficult trading conditions. First, at the end of September, it announced that it faced a...

Rolling Stone's holographic celebration.(COMPANY NEWS)
October 1, 2007... Rolling Stone--the self-titled voice of popular music and culture--has celebrated its 40th year of publication with a three-part holographic series which has earned its holographic supplier Vacumet a top prize in the annual Gold Ink Awards....

Holo industries reports 19% Q3 growth.(COMPANY NEWS)
October 1, 2007... French embossed hologram producer Hologram Industries has reported that year-to-date sales for the quarter ended September 30 2007 were [euro]14.5m, a 19% increase on the same period last year. According to Hugues Souparis, chairman and CEO,...

Opals provide alternative path to optically variable features.(TECHNOLOGY FEATURE)
October 1, 2007... Optically variable devices or features are created by a number of different optical phenomena, the most common (and, for the purposes of this publication, relevant) of which is diffraction. But holograms aside, there are a number of other such...

60 years: a celebration of holography 1947-2007; "Off-axis" laser 3D holography.(TECHNOLOGY FEATURE)
October 1, 2007... Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks, of the University of Michigan, have shown true 3D holograms that they have made with a laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). The Leith/Upatnieks hologram is a truly amazing image,...

Statements affect share prices.(STOCKWATCH)
October 1, 2007... The stock markets around the world seem to have adapted to the uncertainty in the financial markets and the demise of the US dollar. This month it has not been so much the market situation affecting the share prices of the stocks we follow, but...

Practical Holography XXII.(CONFERENCES)
October 1, 2007... SPIE's Practical Holography XXII conference will take place in San Jose, California, on January 20-21 2008, as part of the Photonics West symposium. Conference chairs are Hans Bjelkhagen, of Optic Technium Wales, and Raymond Kostuk of the...

Exhibitions and conferences.(CONFERENCES)(Conference news)(Calendar)
October 1, 2007... 6th Asian High Security Printing Conference October 31-November 1 Hong Kong www.cross-conferences.com Cartes 2007 November 13-15, 2007 Paris, France www.cartes.com Holo-pack * Holo-print 2007 November...

A hit: HI launches HoloCIS.(10 YEARS AGO)
October 1, 2007... In October 1997 Holography News reported the issue of a French and PCT patent to Hologram Industries for its Holographic Car Identification System, or HoloCIS, a method of linking the registration information of a car as shown on the licence or...

A miss: direct's photopolymer holograms.(10 YEARS AGO)
October 1, 2007... The same issue reported that Dan Norton, founder of Polymer Image, and Jacques Phillips, a holographic publisher and distributor operating as Direct Holographics Inc, in Pennsylvania, had agreed to move DH into production of holograms on...

'One of Hershey's most successful promotions'.(10 YEARS AGO)
October 1, 2007... Those were the words of Mike Kinney, Hershey Foods' spokesman, assessing the impact of the company's promotional tie-in with the Lost World: Jurassic Park[TM] movie, which featured holographic wrapping on chocolate bars and other confectionary....

International Holography Fund.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
October 1, 2007... The International Holography Fund has been set up to support creative holography and it has announced its first grants. Funding for the IHF is from unnamed sources in the USA, but it is administered by Andrew Pepper, in Nottingham, England, as...