Holography News articles from October 2010

Holography News archives from October 2010

Toppan introduces Reversegram; gets Chinese certification.
October 1, 2010... Japanese print packaging, hologram and print equipment giant Toppan Printing Co has moved in to mass production with the Reversegram, which it describes as 'an ultra-high performance security label with which anyone can easily determine...

Sitech & Eskay team up as new Lightgate systems launched.
October 1, 2010... Sitech Ltd, British manufacturer and supplier of hologram and OVD mastering systems, has formed a partnership with Eskay Holographics, also British and a leading supplier of surface relief holographic production equipment. Rob Munday, founder...

Holo-packaging - a slow burn.(Editorial)
October 1, 2010... In the early days of commercial embossed holography (the 1980s), the use of holographic packaging by brand owners was the potential market that encouraged hologram manufacturers to scale up their production facilities in the expectation of large...

Holographic packaging for cosmetic and fragrance products.(Holographic Packaging)
October 1, 2010... Since the mid-1990s holographic packaging has been highly visible in the dental care aisles of retailers, but this, and chewing gum, has been one of the few sectors to use holographic packaging as part of product branding, rather than as...

Money wars join economic uncertainty to worry markets.(Stockwatch)
October 1, 2010... This so called money war is not new. The USA has been intimating to China for several years that its exchange rate was fixed too low. Of course it is not as simple as that - there are many more countries in the world than just these two. And...

New project announcements at Holo-pack*Holo-print.(Events)
October 1, 2010... There is still time to book for Holo-pack*Holo-print[R] 2010, on the theme Holography: Threats and Opportunities, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 14-17th. And it will be worth doing so to hear about new projects that will be described at the...

ITW buys Hampshire Holo Paper.(10 YEARS AGO)(Calendar)
October 1, 2010... In August 2000 ITW, the large US conglomerate, purchased Hampshire Holographic Paper Corp, through its ITW Decorating Companies unit, which in turn led to this unit changing its name to ITW Holographic & Specialty Products, as reported in...

Chocolate holograms.(20 YEARS AGO)(Calendar)
October 1, 2010... In October 1990, Holography News reported that Eric Begleiter, an MIT Media Center graduate who had been awarded a patent for the use of holograms on food, had established Dimensional Foods Inc to develop this product. Begleiter's process...

Practical Holography full programme.(Events)
October 1, 2010... SPIE has now published the full programme for its Photonics West symposium in San Francisco, January 23-26 2011, which includes the Practical Holography XXV conference, on Sunday 23 January, carrying over the following morning. The first morning...

Exhibitions, conferences and meetings.(Diary)(Conference news)(Calendar)
October 1, 2010... Nov 14-17 Holo-pack*Holo-print[R] Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia www.holopack-holoprint.com Nov 17-19th Asian High Security Printing Conference Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia www.cross-conferences.com Nov 17-19th Brand Protection...

OKI's Lippmann hologram for brand protection.(Product Protection)
October 1, 2010... On 12 October, 2010, OKI Data Corporation announced that it has introduced a brand protection system using Lippmann photopolymer holograms combined with a tracking code, which together provide 'high-precision assessment of authenticity via...

HI acquisitions drive growth.(Product Protection)
October 1, 2010... Hologram Industries (HI) reported sales of [euro]23.5m for the nine months of the year to September 30, which compared with [euro]20.9m for the same period last year, representing a 12.5% increase. The company stated that the increase was...