Holography News articles from September 2006

Holography News archives from September 2006

Light Logics takes Holography to South India.
September 1, 2006... A new hologram company will launch in India on October 2 (Mahatma Gandhi Day). Light Logics Holography and Optics Pvt Ltd, located in Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala in the south of the country, has been set up by Dr Ajith Kumar with support...

Photopolymer data storage business heats up.
September 1, 2006... Hitachi Maxell has announced that it will introduce a holographic data storage disk and equipment before the end of this year, using the system developed by InPhase, the California company that has developed a volumetric holo-data system using...

IHMA enhances protection against counterfeiters.(COMPANY AND MARKET NEWS)
September 1, 2006... The International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA) has enhanced its Code of Practice by strengthening members' obligation to investigate the legitimacy of new customers and to ensure that the hologram design they ask for is not already...

New focus for OpSec.(COMPANY AND MARKET NEWS)
September 1, 2006... Newly-named OpSec Security Inc has announced a reorganisation of the company into new market-facing groups, and the appointment of a new senior management team. This follows the company's acquisition of GenuOne in June. Jeffrey Unger,...

HolographINK provides low-cost solution for phone cards.(COMPANY AND MARKET NEWS)
September 1, 2006... HolographINK[TM]--the so-called speciality imaging process from XSYS Print Solutions - is being used to protect the authentication codes on pre-paid phone cards in Italy. The process, launched in 2005 (see HN Vol 19, No 7), involves the...

Holography becomes core to API Group.(COMPANY PROFILE)(Company overview)
September 1, 2006... The holographic business of API has traditionally been overshadowed by the activities of the Group as a whole. But API has undergone a change of senior management in the past two years and has initiated a restructuring and investment programme...

New optical variable feature from Optaglio.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
September 1, 2006... Optaglio has launched Nanogravure[TM]--a new overt optically variable foil-based security feature. This is the first result of a special nanotechnology facility developed by the company in 2001 to create unique and novel security features for...

Holorad's focus on medical imaging breathes new life into Voxgram[R].(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
September 1, 2006... Holorad, the Utah company which acquired the business and technology of Voxel in 2005, is building its business by staying focused on its core market of medical imaging. Stephen Hart, Chief Technology Officer and the original inventor of the...

OpSec up, DLR confident.(STOCKWATCH)
September 1, 2006... The last two periods have seen the markets in Europe and the USA recover by some 4%, while in Asia they are roughly the same. All of this has been happening despite rising interest rates, the conflicts in the Middle East, the increased threat...

Industry Study to examine new opportunities.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
September 1, 2006... Reconnaissance International is currently distributing the questionnaire for its survey of the hologram industry and its markets, which will form the core data source for the fourth Holo-pack*Holo-print Industry Study and Market Report to be...

Exhibitions and conferences.(Calendar)
September 1, 2006... European Metallizers Association Autumn Meeting 21-22 September, 2006 Bilbao, Spain www.eurometallizers.org Holo-Expo 2006 September 26-28, 2006 Moscow, Russia holoserve@mail.ru PISEC '06 October 2-4,...

10 years ago.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
September 1, 2006... The Rise of China 10 years ago, the Technology Transfer Group, a division of Bermuda-based Polestar Ltd, announced that it had made the largest single turnkey holographic production line sale to date, with the supply of a wide web plant to...

Russia runs dry as new excise stamps come into force.(MARKET NEWS)
September 1, 2006... The introduction of a new tax stamp regime in Russia, which took effect at the beginning of July, has been marked by shortages of stamps and malfunctioning of the equipment used to record all alcohol production and distribution. The result,...