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Excellence in Optical Technologies Awards 2025

Award for Best Origination

A VICTORY FOR INNOVATION & TRADITION

Honoured with the Best Origination Award at the International Optical Technologies Association (IOTA) Excellence in Optical Technologies Awards 2025

We are incredibly proud to share that our team has been awarded Best Origination at the International Optical Technologies Association (IOTA) Awards, the world’s leading stage for innovation in optical and digital document security.

Our winning project, The St. George Icon, blends centuries-old spiritual heritage with cutting-edge holographic technology. Inspired by the miraculous Phanuel Icon of St. George the Victorious – the sacred treasure of the Bulgarian Zograf Monastery – we set out to create a truly exceptional work of art and technology.

Through advanced holographic techniques, our team meticulously recreated the sacred image with breathtaking precision, achieving a lifelike three-dimensional effect that brings the icon to life in a completely new way.
This project was a unique opportunity to merge tradition and innovation, paying tribute to centuries of spiritual heritage while showcasing what is possible when art and technology meet at the highest level.

A special thank you to Father Gavriil and the Zograf Monastery for their blessing, and to the entire team whose dedication and expertise made this achievement possible.

We are honoured to stand among the world’s top innovators and to contribute to the future of optical and digital security technologies.

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Excellence in Optical Technologies Awards 2025

ITSA Member

Demax Hologras became a member of The International Tax Stamp Association (ITSA)

ITSA Certificate Demax Holograms 2021

INTERGRAF ISO14298 Certificate

In September Demax Holograms Plc. successfully passed audit according to requirements of the standard for Security Printers

The result of the examination was positive as a result of which INTERGRAF issues again certificate Government level

List of certified companies

Excellence in Holography Awards 2018

During the annual IHMA forum in Minsk, Belarus, Demax Holograms was awarded in two nominations, Innovation in Holographic Technology and Best Origination

Excellence in Holography Awards 2018

Excellence in Holography Awards 2017

Again Number One!

During the annual IHMA forum in Barselona, Demax Holograms was nominated and won the prize for Best Origination

WINNER for 1001 Hollars

The nano-optical feature, Hollars, contains unique visual security features that includes:

• 3D sculpture effect in 2 different pastel colours

• Full parallax motion effect visible in diffusion light

• Interference pastel colours

• Diffractive black colour with flip to rainbow

• 3D motion visible under spot light

• 3D low-chromatic sculpture

• Zero-order colour shift effect

DEMAX HOLOGRAMS was awarded also for K2.bg hologram

This special origination was created to demonstrate the symbiosis between a beautiful design and the highest level of optical security for protection of passport data pages and banknotes.

Nano-optical elements that are as marvellous as Bulgarian embroidery and as difficult and complicated as climbing the peak K2.

https://www.ihma.org/2017-awards.aspx

Excellence in Holography Awards 2016

IHMA awards for Innovation in Holographic Technology and Best Origination

On 28-30th of Novermber was held the annual conference of International Hologram Manufacturers Association (IHMA) in Warsaw for companies all around the world to show off their products and discuss various topics about the industry.

During this time, the association also holds the annual awards in 5 different categories. Demax Holograms participated for the first time in this competition in the 2 most important categories: Innovation in Holographic Technology and Best Origination. We won both of them, which was an amazing achievement for us.

“Egyptian Fantasy”

The Nano-Optical Element is developed by Electron-Beam holographic technology and its resolution is 15 nm. The item combines a number of innovative techniques including 2D pastel colors of the background sub-wavelength structures through which created the black color of the characters, achromatic 3D sculptural effect and others

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Excellence in Holography Awards 2016

New Security Features

As we already announced before, we are armed with new equipment.

Using the advantages the e-beam technology, our team has developed some new security features, unknown on the market.

The concept of our new developments is to impose a completely new image of the protected products.

Target markets are highly protected products such as personal documents, banknotes, tax-stamps.

Now inventions await their customers.

The example of a newly established advertising OVD offer some new techniques: Pastel colors and Holographic black; 3D Motions and reliefs; Lens effects.

For more information please visit our LIDOGRAM site

New Production Base

Implementing the basic strategy for the development of the company, Demax Holograms acquired a new production area in order to perform two basic tasks:

Extension of the production capacity;
Increasing security measures.

The new factory has a territory of 30,000 sq. m and total production area 24 000 sq. m, a separate area with a high level of control (High security zone), especially for holograms and documents manufacturing.

The reconstruction of the building is designed in accordance with the requirements of:

Classified Information Protection Act with level “Secret” and “Confidential” access to the EU and NATO certifications;
Intergraf – ISO 14298 – Security Management printing processes;
The system of quality management ISO 9001: 2008;
System Information Security ISO 27001.

E-BEAM

Company Demax Holograms invests in new Electronic beam lithograph. The new technology will develop our origination system, adding a lot of new security features. The equipment will be installed in June 2014.

ISO 27001:2005

The company was certified with ISO 27001:2005 certificate for Information Security