API Foils UK and API Laminates Purchased from Administrators

VOLUME 34 – NO 3 / MARCH 2020 API Foils UK and API ‘Holographic’ Lift Buttons Laminates Purchased A technology company in the city of Hefei, west of Shanghai, has from Administrators developed ‘holographic’ lift buttons as a way to avoid touching surfaces that may harbour the Covid-19 virus.

Picture of holographic lift button device, from API Group – the UK headquartered Last month the API group of companies, Tencent Video. manufacturer and distributor of foils, including API Americas which filed for laminates and holographic materials that Chapter 11 protection, were placed in The manufacturer, Easpeed, says went into administration at the end of administration (see HN February 2020) that the system is compatible with all January – has had its UK business (API in January with the loss of over 100 elevators and only takes 30 minutes Foils Europe) purchased by Aldus – an jobs. This was due to the demise of the to install. Australian manufacturer of packaging business related to changes in regulations, The device works by projecting an and labelling equipment. API Laminates particularly around cigarette packaging image of buttons in the air and allowing UK has been acquired by JPF API rules, and loss of some major customers. users to ‘touch’ them. Easpeed says Laminates UK Ltd. it can be fitted to all elevators, and API Foilmakers has a response time of less than The API Foils acquisition excludes API’s The new company API Foilmakers will be 30 milliseconds. Dutch and Asian operations and will led by Will Oldham, who was the managing be named API Foilmakers Limited, with director of API Foils between 2012 The system costs around $2,000, production soon to restart at the company’s and 2015. which may reduce further as mass production begins. factory in Livingston, Scotland. Oldham said: ‘I am delighted to be back Aldus is an Australian company that has leading the API’s European foil business The technology uses lenses and the manufactured Tronic label applicators which has been at the forefront of quality principle of light field reconstruction and other equipment for 49 years with graphic stamping foils for many years. to re-converge divergent light into operations throughout Australia, New Joining the Aldus Group will give our team a real image in the air. According to Zealand, Malaysia and USA. It also the financial strength and support to ensure the requirements, different image purchased Australian foil manufacturer and the we can continue to deliver the highest presentation angles can be set with the global distributor Milford Astor Foilmakers quality product to our customers across imageable size and imageable distance last year. This latest acquisition expands the Europe and the world.’ set by the size of the lens. company’s global footprint. Continued on page 2 > easpeedtech.com

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2 HOLOGRAPHY NEWS | COMMENT Uflex to Complete Overseas Expansion by 2021 Uflex – India’s largest flexible packaging For 2018-19, Uflex reported a consolidated Overall, operating EBITDA margins of company – expects to complete its revenue of Rs 7,957.22 crore ($1.1 15% were achieved for the quarter, international expansion plan by the next billion) and standalone revenue of Rs driven by higher margins in the Packaging financial year, resulting in an increase 4,220.97 crore, which consisted mainly of Films Business and higher volumes in in overseas contributions to the total domestic revenue. the Packaging Business. In FY21, the revenue in the coming years. Besides ramping up overseas expansion, company’s greenfield plants in Russia, Over the last few years Uflex has made Uflex is also focussing on capacity utlisation Nigeria and Hungary will become operational significant investments of $301.7 million of the domestic manufacturing units at and will add to the topline and profitability.’ (approx Rs 2,167 crore), which includes Noida, Jammu and new unit at Sanand, Some key product launches in this $86.5 million in Nigeria, $81.2 million in Gujarat and expects the domestic business quarter included: Hungary and $75 million in Russia. In to grow as well. The development of registered de- addition, it has also invested $59 million on The Noida-headquartered company aims metalised holographic anti-counterfeit capacity expansion in Poland. to have a ratio of 55:45 between domestic tape which is hot stamped onto product Holography and foreign contribution to its total revenue labels. This solution is aimed at the In 2017 the company inaugurated a in the next two years. domestic market and export markets. 72,000 sq ft plant in Jammu dedicated Uflex is also shifting one of its production Dhoop Chaon design for hot stamping foil to holography (see HN September 2017), line from its Dubai plant to Russia to help developed by the holographic business set up manufacturing facilities in Europe reduce freight costs. enables hot stamping coatings on 12 micron PET base film to give special (Poland), partnering with Wavefront (see Quarter 3 financial results HN July 2016), and Russia, in the Stupino effects, without holography. In a separate announcement Uflex Kvadrat industrial zone south east of the declared its earnings for the quarter ended Multi-colour rainbow stamping foil that Russian capital Moscow, that will also December 31, 2019. Consolidated EBITDA enhances the aesthetic and shelf appeal include hologram production (see HN (earnings before interest depreciation and of products has been developed for April 2019). In addition, Uflex also has a amortisation) showed a 21.4% increase stationery products. Achieved by hot manufacturing set-up in Mexico, dedicated year on year to INR 276.4 crore ($37.1 stamping on a 12 micron PET base film to holograms. million) while its consolidated net profit was with multi-colour printed foils, the solution Uflex Global CFO Rajesh Bhatia said: ‘we up 56.7% year on year at INR 84.6 crore also serves as an anti-counterfeit tool are going to complete our expansion, which ($11.4 million) and is advantageous for cartons, labels, we have announced. Financial year 2021 stationary industry. Rajesh Bhatia, Global CFO, UFlex Ltd. Said: is going to be another defining year as we ‘Q3 FY2019-20 was extremely exciting for commission our new projects and look for us, from being ranked at 188 among India’s higher revenues and profitability.’ Fortune 500 to India Ratings upgrading us to IND ‘A’ ratings. www.uflexltd.com

Award Winning Banknote Incorporates KINEGRAM HDM Metallisation Technology At the recent High Security Printing This novelty in the security foil industry EMEA Conference, held in Lisbon, the enables the creation of exceedingly precise Best New Commemorative Banknote metallic shapes and images. HDM is accolade went to the National Bank especially suitable for projects requiring of Poland (NBP) for its 19 Zloty, which great freedom for banknote designers, commemorates the 100th anniversary as in the case for the new 19 zloty of the Polish Security Printing Works commemorative banknote, which is legal (PWPW) being established. tender in Poland. The banknote, which went into circulation in The front of the banknote includes a The 19 Zloty commemorative banknote incorporating a Kinegram HDM foil stripe. October 2019, is the world’s first banknote portrait of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in ® to incorporate a registered KINEGRAM intaligo printing. To the left of the portrait, By combining the foil stripe with a window, HDM (High Definition Metallisation) foil stripe there is a stylised image of the Order the banknote offers enhanced security from KURZ applied over a die-cut window. of the White Eagle and the inscription incorporating the latest technologies. This KINEGRAM HDM is an innovative ‘niepodległa’ (independent), which serves HDM innovation allows new degrees of demetallisation solution that produces as the logo of the official celebrations of freedom in creating sophisticated design unique partially metallised foils. The the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining patterns and motifs, as is demonstrated by proprietary technology enables new its independence. On the right side of the PWPW’s commemorative note. possibilities for Kinegram features as, for banknote is the KINEGRAM HDM foil stripe www.kurz.de the first time, metallic designs and patterns that displays the image of an eagle visible with an extremely fine line resolution of in a die-cut window as well as the note’s www.nbp.pl below 10 microns can be created. unusual face value of 19 zloty, which refers to 1919 – the founding year of PWPW.

COMPANY NEWS | VOLUME 34 – NO 3 | MARCH 2020 3 Australia Launches New $100 Note with Advanced Window Technology The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has revealed the design of the fifth and final denomination – the $100 – in the new polymer series of banknotes, incorporating a top-to-bottom advanced transparent window feature from KURZ. The new note will be issued into circulation in the second half of 2020. As with the existing banknote, the new $100 features portraits of Dame Nellie Melba (on the front of the banknote) and Sir John Monash. Dame Nellie Melba was an internationally renowned soprano who performed in Australia, Europe and the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th century. The banknote includes an image of Melba in costume as Rosina in Rossini's Barber of Seville and the monogram from the cover of her homecoming concert tour program of 1902. Sir John Monash was an engineer, soldier The new 100$ note showing a close up view of the foil-over-window feature. ©RBA. and civic leader. and a significant figure in the construction industry. Monash is also widely recognised for his service as a Like the new $5, $10 $50 and 20$ notes The use of these highly advanced foil commander in the First World War where issued in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 stripes as key overt security feature on the he led the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) (see HN September 2016, March 2017, RBA’s new banknotes is the result of a during its successful campaigns in 1918 March 2018 and March 2019) the new high level technical collaboration of several $100 features a top-to-bottom transparent project partners, said KURZ. Governor Philip Lowe said, ‘Australians window with a partially demetalised should feel proud of our banknotes. They Other security features incorporated KINEGRAM ZERO.ZERO® foil stripe are innovative and contain world-leading within the new banknote include tactile applied on top, that can be viewed from security features that keep the banknotes intaglio print and a tactile feature in the either side of the banknote The foil was secure. The new $100 banknote celebrates form of raised bumps to help the visually developed and supplied by KURZ and is the contributions that two outstanding impaired distinguish between different applied as a registered stripe onto clear Australians – Sir John Monash and Dame denominations, ultra-violet fluorescent print, Guardian™ polymer substrate, supplied by Nellie Melba – made to our society.’ microprint and a rolling colour effect visible CCL Secure. from both sides of the banknote. Also as with the $5, $10, $20 and $50, the The Bank has been working closely with new banknote includes representations of a various parties in recent years to ensure wattle and a native bird. The optical security that the new banknotes can be used features in the foil comprise an Australian in a broad range of typical day-to-day masked owl (Tyto novaehollandiae) and transactions across the country, including in Australia's national floral emblem, the machines that take or dispense banknotes. Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha), which As part of this campaign, a new ‘RBA is native to south-eastern Australia and Banknotes’ mobile app has been developed southern inland areas of New South Wales. as an interactive tool to explore all current The wattle frames the edges of the top-to- Australian banknotes. The app enables bottom window on the banknote, which users to learn about banknote design features a number of dynamic security and security features, and how to handle elements such as a 3D fan, a flying owl counterfeit and damaged banknotes. The new 100$. Top picture shows the front of the new that moves its wings in a defined motion All banknotes issued by the Reserve Bank note and bottom picture shows the reverse of the and changes colour. This is followed remain legal tender and can continue to new note (©RBA). by a colourful owl that on tilting reveals be used. colour changes within the owl’s wings. At the bottom of the foil is an image of a banknotes.rba.gov.au shrine; when tilted this reveals the number ‘100’ inside the building which, in an ‘Image Flip’ effect, is alternately appearing forwards, disappearing, and then appearing backwards and a reversing number ‘100’.

4 HOLOGRAPHY NEWS | COUNTRY NEWS Windows of Opportunity for Banknotes From Kurz Foil manufacturer KURZ, which unveiled its banknote window feature – KINEGRAM® APL (Applied Patch Label) at the 2018 Banknote Conference – has applied the feature onto two sample notes designed and produced by the Hungarian Banknote Printing Company/ Pénzjegynyomda Zrt (HBPC). Holography News® readers may recall that KINEGRAM APL enables banknote printers to create window features for paper banknotes in their own premises, thus retaining both process control and value creation (see HN May 2018). With the increasing popularity of window features in banknotes, not least after their prominent addition into recent polymer banknotes such as the latest New Zealand ‘Brighter Money Series’ and the Bank of HBPC’S new sample banknote incorporating KINEGRAM APL technology (designed by György Pálinkás). England £5, £10 and £20 notes, (see HN Hungarian sample notes In addition to the Flux effect, the foil also May, June 2016 August 2017, February The two most recent sample notes contains delicate fine line movements and 2020) as well as their use in the new €20, designed and produced by HBPC the virtual 3D effect surface relief. €50, €100 and €200 paper banknotes, incorporates Ottó Herman, one of the most windows are gaining wide acceptance. For the second sample banknote the APL productive and internationally well-known depicts a spider which is again applied However, the options for central banks Hungarian scientists. Reflecting Herman’s over a die-cut window. KINEGRAM ZERO. who wish to specify windows are limited passion for birds, insects and spiders, ZERO® partial metallisation technology to the use of either polymer or composite both sample notes illustrate the world’s is also incorporated, allowing filigree line substrates, or to having the foil applied over biodiversity. Kurz provided two KINEGRAM resolution down to 40μm, and perfect the window at the paper mill instead of APL features for these sample notes, registration of the optical effects with the the print works, which confines the design applied on the latest GIETZ FSA 1060 Foil metallisation. The authentic impression to use as a stripe application format. This Commander foiling machine. of the spider is produced by the surface limitation has now been solved with the The first of the sample notes includes an relief 3D effect combined with pumping KINEGRAM APL feature. eye-catching butterfly designed APL that and transformation movements. On the The new patented technology allows was applied over a die-cut window. The reverse side the spider includes KINEGRAM banknote printers to create window features patch incorporates KINEGRAM COLORS® COLORS technology. for paper banknotes in their own premises, technology, showing different colours Both sample banknotes were industrially thus retaining both process control and on the front side of the foil. The feature produced under real-life banknote printing value creation. also included a FLUX effect that exhibits conditions, and tested against banknote In addition, KINEGRAM APL eliminates several eye-catching movements in industry quality standards. other mechanical barriers in foil application, different directions. so that the latest foil-based security www.kurz.de features, which up to now could not be used on banknotes, are now available for central banks and banknote printers. In short, KINEGRAM APL enables elements deemed technically impossible to now be applied onto banknotes, claims KURZ.

KINEGRAM APL technology applied onto HBPC’S new sample banknote (designed by György Pálinkás).

TECHNOLOGY NEWS | VOLUME 34 – NO 3 | MARCH 2020 5 Holographic Telepresence – Is this the Future for Meetings and Events?

What is Telepresence? Telepresence can be thought of as a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they are present, or to give the appearance of being present. The idea is not new and describes a broad range of approaches which can be categorised as follows: 1. 2D video conference systems which can now include eye tracking to help create presence for participants who are still seen on a monitor. 2. Robotic telepresence describes any remotely operated vehicle with a driver’s view such as remote ARHT’s Virtual Global Stage. underwater vehicles (RUVs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or RPAs (remotely piloted aircraft). As the world battles coronavirus Recently the company launched its Virtual (COVID-19), a number of national and Global Stage™ (VGS) platform which is Remote expert uses augmented 3. international events and meetings have a premium digital on-stage experience reality (AR) to view without other been postponed or cancelled with knock online that eliminates the need for a venue, users being able to view users. on effects to the hotel and hospitality travel, or the gathering of presenters and Live feeds can be augmented with sector, airlines, other sectors and the attendees. The technology includes the drawings and real objects can be wider world economy. So, is holographic following features and options: intereracted with in real time. telepresence the future? A number of Presenters and audiences can be .Virtual reality (VR) telepresence 4 companies provide this technology, gathered from across the globe without enables the sharing of a virtual and it has often been cited as being the need to travel. world where users can be one of the next big revolutionary Online secure streaming with no represented by an avatar. communication technologies, so will this visible latency. 5. AR telepresence enables two latest pandemic provide the stimulus or more remote people to have and opportunity for the adoption of Interactivity with the audience and volumetric presence in the this technology? presenters through a moderated chatbox. same room, which Microsoft Two companies who provide this Integration of 3D graphics for premium calls Holoportation, when using technology are US-based ARHT Media and engagement and storytelling. their HoloLens device. This has DVE Holographics who each provide their Incorporation of PowerPoint and other been reliably demonstrated, and own platforms. dynamic visual aids. now companies are seeking Multi camera production to bring that technology to ARHT Media’s solutions for a more polished and business conferencing. Virtual Global Stage ARHT’s patented holographic telepresence professional presentation. 6. ‘Holographic’ telepresence, technology is a complete end-to-end According to the company, VGS is is illustrated in Star War’s and solution that creates a sense of presence designed for clients that require a premium Minority Report films. This unaided for audiences – as though the holographic on-stage experience online, without the ‘holographic’ presence uses presenter was actually live in the room. need for a venue, travel, or the gathering holographic projection, mirrors, of presenters or attendees. The multipoint and usually an invisible projection With no noticeable latency, the technology broadcast solution, enables multiple 3D, surface - a modern day Pepper’s enables two-way live communication with a life-size presenters to a virtual stage, side ghost which works well under 3D holographic presenter anywhere in the by side, as if all parties were physically very specific circumstances. The world possible. Pre-recorded content can next to each other, while actually being participants usually don’t perceive also be played back and 3D animations can in completely different locations around each other, but to people outside also be incorporated displays to deliver rich the globe. Panel discussions, fireside the simulation, it is completely ‘holographic’ experiences. chats, training events, town halls, product real. The audience observes launches and more, can all be executed in a people in remote locations in real completely virtual environment. life, interacting, on stage, without headsets, in a shared 3D space. However, the participants don’t see each other, they’d be looking past the reflections at a monitor.

6 HOLOGRAPHY NEWS | TECHNOLOGY NEWS From the Archives 10 years ago… Bobst Pushes the Envelope on Holo Hot-Stamping Swiss print and packaging equipment company Bobst introduced a new sheet-fed Visionfoil machine dedicated to hologram hot-stamping which it claimed delivered new levels of positioning accuracy at high speeds. The Visionfoil 104 H machine was a aimed at all markets with a need for document or product protection. The line featured a running speed of up to 7,500 sheets per hour, 12 individually controlled heating zones and six foiling lines, allowing the application of small or relatively large holograms. The 104 H registers holograms – or other hot-stamped films – with an An example of DVE HDR Studio Stage. accuracy of ±0.3 mm linear positioning and ±0.15 mm lateral positioning, although Bobst specified that this ARHT CEO Larry O’Reilly said: ‘clients The HDR SS combines holographic depends on the stability of the substrate use our holopresence platform to create telepresence with converting hotel used. Registration accuracy was greater engagement, more excitement, ballrooms/convention centers into through a combination of Bobst’s and better recall of content. And now they temporary and/or permanent broadcast Registron® cameras and a newly- can do so even easier, and at a lower cost, streaming studios. Corporations now have designed foil un-wind and transport by addressing their audience in their own an alternative to virtualise their events and system. office or home over the internet. Clients not resort to webcasts. Executives and The Registron cameras are positioned have asked us to deliver something more speakers appear live from their homes or over each of the six individually geared compelling and interesting than talking offices virtually on a real event stage which hologram stamping lines, where they heads on a screen, with Virtual Global is then streamed to hundreds and even tens capture the registration mark on the Stage we deliver full body presentations of thousands of online attendees. A first hologram and its stamped position as you are used to seeing on a major generation of live holographic telepresence relative to the substrate, to compare conference and event stage around was proven when DVE teleported live with a stored reference image to ensure the world.’ Stephen Hawking from his home in the UK that the positioning is accurate. This to the Sydney Opera House. Starting at $23,000 for a fireside chat, town process was patented by Bobst in the hall, or conference presentation with two CEO of DVE Steve McNelley, said: mid-1990s and evolved to result in the presenters at any of its studios located in ‘for many years our developments in latest version now being used on the Toronto, London, New York, Los Angeles, holographic telepresence were a glimpse Visionfoil 104 H. Hong Kong or Singapore, the company of the technology of the future. It is now The machine handles sheets up to believes it is addressing the immediate and obvious that what we do is vital to connect 1,040 x 740 mm (41” x 28”), using long-term needs of many existing and new people and may become, in part, a new paper and label stock from 80 gsm clients at an affordable cost, especially normal. Our aim is to help elevate our carton board to 2,000 gsm and when compared to the combined cost of colleagues in the business conference corrugated up to 4 mm thick. travel and a venue. event industry during this difficult time and keep the wheels of our industry turning. Bobst positioned the 104 H for the DVE Holographics Corporations now have a virtualised event banknote and other document markets The DVE Holographics (DVE) HDR Studio alternative that enables them to think big and for high volume, high value-added Stage™ (HDR SS) offers corporations a and to create quality productions for their packaging such as pharma, cosmetics new way to create impressive business streaming events.’ and tobacco. conferences and live events. It also ensures that speakers, executives, employees, www.arhtmedia.com partners, and clients dramatically reduce dveholographics.com exposure to the coronavirus (COVID-19).

VOLUME 34 – NO 3 | MARCH 2020 7 WayRay Moves Forward WayRay, a Swiss developer of a Strategic partnership Collaboration with Doosan Bobcat holographic augmented reality (AR) with Covestro WayRay also announced a new joint technology for automobiles, recently WayRay and Covestro have agreed on collaboration with Doosan Bobcat, the unveiled the latest version of its a strategic partnership. Covestro is one global leader in compact equipment. holographic AR holographic technology of the world-leading suppliers of high- WayRay and Doosan Bobcat are teaming in full-spectrum colour. The company tech polymer materials, focusing also up to develop a new add-on holographic also announced a partnership with on the development of new holographic AR HUD technology solution based on the Covestro to develop new holographic photopolymer products for automotive AR core AR technology already presented for material to embed in windshields and HUD (head-up-display) applications. automotive embedded solutions. side windows, and a collaboration The Covestro product line Bayfoll® HX This device will display AR information in with Doosan Bobcat in a move beyond is already in commercial use for several front of an operator while seated in Bobcat automotive applications. applications. The partnership will develop equipment, which will enable them to new products to be embedded in operate the equipment more efficiently and windshields of future passenger cars and productively. This collaboration will allow other means of ground transportation. WayRay to expand its technology beyond Moritz Winterstein, Head of Development the automotive industry, bringing new AR Business Holographic Light Guiding at applications to construction, agriculture and Covestro Deutschland AG, said: ‘creating transportation industries. new solutions for automotive HUD require Joel Honeyman, Vice President Global An example of WayRay’s AR holographic display in close collaboration. We develop products Innovation at Doosan Bobcat, said: ‘this full colour. enabling far field augmented reality is an example of how Doosan Bobcat displays and support WayRay’s vision is partnering with new cutting-edge The latest full colour AR holographic and approach.’ technology providers outside our industry display is an enhancement to the previous to bring the latest innovative solutions to version and now includes a blue laser to our customers in an effort to help them provide a complete RGB (red, green, blue) accomplish more.’ experience. It was showcased earlier this year at the CES (consumer electronics wayray.com show) exhibition in Las Vegas.

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