Holography News articles from September 2007

Holography News archives from September 2007

Race gets going for 2012 olympics.
September 1, 2007... The tender process for anti-counterfeiting technology for the 2012 Olympic Games' merchandise has begun with an invitation to potential suppliers by the organizing committee to register 'expressions of interest'. All merchandise will be...

Shiner sets cap at international market for holographic film.
September 1, 2007... Shiner International, Inc, a Chinese-based manufacturer of polymer-based packaging films, printer and producer of holographic security film, has started trading on the US Stock Exchange. In a classic case of gaining access to the market though...

Calling a hologram a hologram.(EDITORIAL)
September 1, 2007... There have been two tender documents in as many weeks that have both referred to holograms--the merchandising programme for the 2012 Olympic Games and the new Canadian tax stamps. What is interesting about both (other than the commercial...

Obituary: Dr Chandra Vikram.(Obituary)
September 1, 2007... The recent deaths of pioneers like Leith, Denisyuk, Bention, Greguss, and Lessard have hit holography hard. On August 17th, one more name was added to that list- Dr Chandra Vikram, aged 57 and apparently in good health. Vikram had worked...

New security for Canadian tax stamps.(IN THE NEWS)
September 1, 2007... The Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) has announced a tender inviting bids for the supply of tobacco tax stamps which incorporate a number of authentication features, both overt and covert. The summary of the tender document refers specifically...

CEN workshop launch meeting.(IN THE NEWS)
September 1, 2007... The European Standards Committee (CEN) has announced that the launch meeting for its proposed CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) on Anti-Counterfeiting: Protocols for Detection of Counterfeits will be held at its premises in Brussels on October 2nd....

Pharma packaging company adds holographic films to range.(IN THE NEWS)(Company overview)
September 1, 2007... Indian pharma packaging company Ess Dee Aluminium Ltd is launching a new range of anti-counterfeiting products that it says will double its annual turnover. The company is currently applying for patents on the products, which include blister...

New security solution from Schreiner.(NEWS IN BRIEF)
September 1, 2007... Octapharma, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, has introduced a new secure form of packaging and identification for its blood plasma products sold into China. These are dispensed via infusion bottles, the new packs for which combine an integrated...

Authenticating melons.(NEWS IN BRIEF)
September 1, 2007... A Russian region famed for its watermelons has introduced a hologram copyright label for the fruit to guard against 'fakes'. The labels will be affixed to the skin of each watermelon sent out side the Astrakahan region to confirm that they have...

Vote for holograms.(NEWS IN BRIEF)
September 1, 2007... The Jakarta Election Commission's use of a Braille ballot in recent elections been assisted by a hologram that both authenticated the ballot papers and helped visually-impaired and blind people to use them. These voters slip the ballot paper...

Crackdown on fakes in Kenya.(NEWS IN BRIEF)
September 1, 2007... Holley-Cotee Pharmaceuticals--a Chinese company that manufactures the anti-malaria drugs Duo-cotecxin and Gotecxin--has recalled 20,000 doses from the Kenyan market and issued an alert over the sale of counterfeits. The existing stocks are...

Denisyuk's wave photography using volume techiniques.(60 YEARS A CELEBRATION OF HOLOGRAPHY 1947-2007)
September 1, 2007... Yuri Denisyuk's is recognized as the inventor of white light reflection holography. The following faux-contemporary news article from 1962 takes liberties with the announcement of his early achievements given that his work was not published...

Sax3D: Innovation in DCG; The July issue of Holography news[R] included an item about the window-mounted holographic display screens at Lewisham library in London. These screens were made by Sax3D, profiled here.(COMPANY PROFILE)
September 1, 2007... Sax3D was established in 1998 by Ralf Bottcher, Rolf Muller and Ronald Dittrich. Muller has a background in business development, while Bottcher and Dittrich were holographers who had been working at Lasatech, a DCG hologram producer. HOEs...

Uncertainly affects all shares.(STOCKWATCH)
September 1, 2007... Last month as we went to press we reported that Europe's market had their largest one day fall (-5% on August 10) in four years. In short, this was caused by a liquidity crisis triggered by an increasing number o high risk loans defaulting in...

Optical document security.(CONFERENCES)
September 1, 2007... Optical Document Security, the conference on optical security and counterfeit deterrence, will be held in San Francisco, California, on January 23-25 2008. Under the active Chairmanship of Rudolf van Renesse, this bi-annual conference has...

10 years ago: machines come & go.(CONFERENCES)
September 1, 2007... UK process equipment manufacturer Molins ple announced details of a new high-speed machine for cold-foil application of holograms to banknotes and other substrates, the Delta OVSF Applicator. The company, one of the largest producers of...

New narrow web machines from Eskay.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
September 1, 2007... Eskay Holographics, which with Henderson Engineering (both UK companies) has made a name for itself as a designer of wide-web holographic embossing machines, has now introduced its first hard-embossing narrow web machines, the HSK310H and the...