Holography News articles from October 2009

Holography News archives from October 2009

Nilpeter launches in-line hologram printing.
October 1, 2009... Nilpeter A/S, the Danish supplier of narrow-web presses for labels and packaging, used the recent LabelExpo trade fair in Brussels to launch Holo-Print[R], an add-on unit for its presses which creates a surface-relief hologram on the printed...

Chinese embossing equipment market booms sparks patent dispute.(Industry overview)
October 1, 2009... China is recognised as one of the fastest growing hologram production industries, but in the last few years it has also been a boom market for hologram embossing machines. It is estimated that the leading equipment producers have sold 450-500...

China continues to boom as global holo market reaches $2.5 billion.(Editorial)(Industry overview)
October 1, 2009... The global hologram industry achieved sales of $2.5b in 2007, according to the Holo-pack-Holo-print[R] Industry Study & Market Report, to be published by Reconnaissance International at the Holo-pack*Holo-print conference in November. ...

Scotland's new notes a first for Depth Image.(Special Feature)
October 1, 2009... Clydesdale Bank, one of three bank note issuing banks in Scotland, has introduced the first note of five in its news series, with the remainder following in the next few weeks. The new notes, which are the first redesign for the Bank in 20...

A photopolymer OVD for banknotes.(Special Feature)
October 1, 2009... Yuri Denisyuk discovered the volume reflection hologram in 1962; suchholo-grams can produce bright, monochromatic images when illuminated with white light. The thickness of volume reflection holograms is typically tens of microns up to more than...

Hologram Industries 8% growth defies recession.(Company News)
October 1, 2009... In the first nine months of this year Hologram Industries has increased its sales by 8%, defying the global recession. Announcing its third quarter results in line with its stock market requirements, HI reported growth of 5.0%, which when...

TSSI acquires Ver-tec hologram patents.(Company News)
October 1, 2009... TSSI, which develops products for document security and investigation, personal ID and access control, has acquired a portfolio of patents for volume and true colour holograms from Ver-tec, the authentication security and consultancy company...

K Laser shows growth--with China!
October 1, 2009... Taiwanese hologram company K Laser Technology Inc. announced sales for September of T$281m ([+ or -][euro]382000), an increase of 6.1 % compared with the previous month and an increase of 18.6% compared with the same month last year. For its...

The bull run continues.(Stockwatch)
October 1, 2009... Last month, aware of the fragility of the world's economies despite the rally in the markets, we asked the question -can the bull run last? Well, the markets certainly lost value towards the end of September but they picked up again in October...

Practical Holography at Photonics West.
October 1, 2009... The 24th Practical Holography conference takes place on January 24-27 2010 in San Francisco, as part of SPIE's Photonics West event (its first year at San Francisco's Moscone Center). The conference chairs, Hans Bjelkhagen of Technium Optic in N...

DuPont buys Krystal Holographics.(10 YEARS AGO)
October 1, 2009... In autumn 1999 DuPont acquired Krystal Holographics, its long-time collaborator in photopolymer holograms, as reported in the October 1999 issue of Holography News[TM]. Krystal, a company headquartered in New York, with its primary business...

Markem buys advanced.(20 YEARS AGO)
October 1, 2009... 10 years earlier, the October 1989 issue of Holography News report that Market Systems Ltd, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Market Corporation of the USA and then the UK's largest producer of hot stamping foils, had bought Advanced Holographies...

ODS conference.(Conferences)(Conference news)(Calendar)
October 1, 2009... The second Optical Document Security (ODS) conference, San Francisco on January 20-22 2010, caters to those who want to attend this conference and Practical Holography. ODS, chaired by Rudolf van Renesse, is the continuation of the Optical...

Exhibitions, conferences and meetings.(Diary)(Conference news)(Calendar)
October 1, 2009... Holo-pack * Holo-print 2009 November 11-13, 2009 Budapest, Hungary www.holopackholoprint.info Cartes 2009 November 18-21, 2009 Paris, France www.cartes.com Global Congress on Combatting Counterfeiting & Piracy ...

Eskay embosses direct in to substrate.(Production Technology)
October 1, 2009... British hologram production equipment partners Eskay Holographies and Henderson Engineering have developed their wide-web embossing machine so that it can now emboss holograms directly in to co-extruded films. This means that it is not necessary...