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6 unusual facts about Agfa


ADOX

In 1999, Sterling was bought by the German company Agfa, and was absorbed into Agfa's Health Sciences unit.

Armand Massonet

He produced numerous posters and publicity drawings for companies such as Philips and Agfa-Gevaert.

Gevacolor

Both the companies merged in 1964 to form Agfa-Gevaert, and continued producing film stock till the 1980s.

John Fraser Secondary School

John Fraser has community partnerships with General Motors, Unifirst, Unisource, Agfa, and Computers for Schools.

Rohini Khadilkar

She came first in her cohort, earning a Gold Medal, and was given Printing Diploma by Agfa-Gevaert.

SBB-CFF-FFS Re 460

Despite opposition from some quarters, the money that could be earned swayed the decision and the first such locomotive, Re 460 015 was unveiled in 1994 in Agfa livery.


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AP-41

Ap-41 process, an obsolete colour reversal process used generally until 1983 for photographic films such as Agfa CT18

Bipack

Eastman, Agfa, Gevaert, and DuPont all manufactured bipack film stock for use as a colour process from 1920s onwards.

EMTEC

1991 - The German chemical company BASF acquired Agfa-Gevaert's magnetic tape business, creating BASF Magnetics.

Film recorder

CCG, formerly Agfa film recorders, has been a steady manufacturer of film recorders based in Germany.

Hyosung

Contracted with Goodyear for the long-term supply of Tire Cords and Contracted to take over four Factories around the World; acquired an Agfa photo production facility in Germany; acquired the Nantong Hyosung Transformer Co., Ltd. in China; acquired Dongguk Trade's spandex factory in China

ORWO

The basis for ORWO was the Agfa Wolfen plant, where the first modern colour film, with incorporated colour couplers, Agfacolor, was developed in 1936.

In 1953 the plant became the property of East Germany, and in a trade agreement settlement, the East German company, VEB Film- und Chemiefaserwerk Agfa Wolfen, was given the right to sell its products under the Agfa brand in Eastern Europe, while the newly re-established Agfa in West German Leverkusen had the right to the name in the rest of the world.

Paul Wessel

From 1929 to 1932 he was a worker and foreman at Chemische Werke Wolfen, then foreman of an artificial silk plant in Athens, and during the years 1939 to 1945 he was a foreman in the Agfa film factory in Wolfen.

PEDOT:PSS

Commercially available PEDOT:PSS products are produced by Heraeus with the trade name Clevios and by AGFA with the trade name Orgacon.

Raz-Lee

The company's clients include Fiat, Agfa, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Avnet, AIG, Dun & Bradstreet and the Israel branch of American insurance company American International Group, among others.

Steve Matteson

In 1990 Matteson began work at Monotype Corporation (later Agfa-Monotype) contributing to the creation of the Windows 3.1x core TrueType fonts: Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New.


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