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6 unusual facts about Gevaert


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.


Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres

These two were a fair distance behind the business end of the race where world indoor 60 m. champion Gevaert, who had burst out the blocks, was run down by Anim (NR) and Arron who both recorded the same time.

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.

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.

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.


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