uses see agfa disambiguation . agfa gevaert n.v. type public traded as euronext agfb industry imaging and it company founded 1867 aktiengesellschaft f r anilinfabrikation 1894 gevaert & co. 1964 agfa gevaert headquarters mortsel belgium key people christian reinaudo ceo revenue 2 620 million 2014 1 number of employees 11 728 dec. 2011 website www.agfa.com agfa logo . agfacolor slide from zakopane in poland 1938 agfa gevaert n.v. agfa is a belgian multinational corporation that develops manufactures and distributes analogue and digital imaging products and systems as well as it solutions . the company has three divisions . agfa graphics offers integrated prepress and industrial inkjet systems to the printing and graphics industries . agfa healthcare supplies hospitals and other care organisations with imaging products and systems as well as information systems . agfa specialty products supplies products to various industrial markets . it is part of the agfa materials organization . in addition to the agfa specialty products activities agfa materials also supplies film and related products to agfa graphics and agfa healthcare . agfa film and cameras were once prominent consumer products . however in 2004 the consumer imaging division was sold to a company founded via management buyout . agfaphoto gmbh as the new company was called filed for bankruptcy after just one year . 2 the brands are now licensed to other companies by agfaphoto holding gmbh a holding firm . following this sale agfa gevaert s commerce today is 100 % business to business . contents 1 company structure 1.1 agfa graphics 1.2 agfa healthcare 1.2.1 medical imaging systems 1.2.2 it solutions 1.3 agfa specialty products 2 history 3 agfa photographic products 3.1 agfa cameras 3.1.1 slr 3.2 agfa slide projectors 3.3 agfa consumer and professional films 3.4 agfa darkroom equipment 3.5 agfa papers 4 see also 5 references 6 external links company structure edit headquartered in mortsel belgium agfa has sales organisations in 40 countries . in countries where agfa does not have its own sales organisation the market is served by a network of agents and representatives . at the end of 2011 the company had 11 728 employees full time equivalent permanent worldwide . agfa has manufacturing plants around the world . the largest production and research centres are based in belgium the united states canada germany france italy and china . net sales for 2011 totalled 3 023 million euros . agfa is organised into three business groups as follows agfa graphics edit digital and analogue prepress systems software and consumables . computer to film and computer to plate equipment . prepress & publish workflow software . consumables graphic film analogue and digital printing plates . digital proofing systems . technical services . industrial inkjet systems and solutions . wide format printing systems . anapurna and jeti printer families typically used to produce posters banners and displays . m press family high end flatbed presses designed to replace traditional equipment for all possible screen printing jobs . wide format media . agfa healthcare edit medical imaging systems edit conventional radiography . screen films conventional x ray films . developing equipment . chemistry . digital radiography . integrated computed radiography solutions . integrated direct radiography solutions . hardcopy printers and film . it solutions edit developer of medical imaging information systems . agfa healthcare s main offices are in mortsel belgium ghent belgium waterloo ontario canada vienna austria and bonn germany . radiology it brand name impax . picture archiving and communication systems pacs . radiology information systems ris . speech recognition . imaging repositories . cardiology it . pacs for cardiology it and cardiovascular information systems . ecg management systems . enterprise it main brand name orbis . hospital information systems his . clinical information systems cis . laboratory information systems lis . document management systems . agfa specialty products edit agfa specialty products supplies products to a variety of industries . traditional film products sound recording film and print film for the movie industry . films chemicals photo paper and software for aerial photography . microfilm photo tooling films for the production of printed circuit boards . nondestructive testing ndt film as the exclusive manufacturer of general electric s ndt x ray films and related chemistry . new developments synthetic paper synaps brand . materials and consumables for the production of id documents . conductive polymer materials printing inks pastes and emulsions for the production of transparent electrodes used in compact electronic devices orgacon brand . industrial inkjet inks . membranes for the electrolysis of water zirfon perl brand . history edit agfa film holder c. 1910s this article contains embedded lists that may be better presented using prose . you can help by converting the list or lists to prose if appropriate . editing help is available . april 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message 1867 the company aktiengesellschaft f r anilinfabrikation corporation for aniline production was founded in rummelsburg now in the lichtenberg borough of berlin as a manufacturer of dyes and stains . it became a public limited company in 1873 . the founders were paul mendelssohn bartholdy son of composer felix mendelssohn bartholdy and carl alexander von martius . 1894 the company l. gevaert & cie was founded in antwerp belgium arising from the workshop for the manufacture of photographic paper belonging to lieven gevaert . 1897 appearance of the agfa trade mark . 1898 introduction of x ray plates and film products . 1903 production of first cinematographic film . 1925 as part of the consolidation of the german chemical industry agfa became part of ig farben . 3 the photographic activities are combined with those of bayer including a camera factory in munich . 1928 acquired ansco an american photographic manufacturer whose products were sold under the agfa ansco brand name . 1936 agfacolor neu a pioneering color film for amateurs and professionals . 1940 agfacolor negative positive color material is used for the first time for a feature film frauen sind doch bessere diplomaten women are the better diplomats by the german ufa production company . 1941 american assets were seized during world war ii as enemy property and became general aniline and film corp. whose photographic products reverted to the ansco brand name . 1942 introduction of intensifying screen products . 1945 when the allies broke up ig farben to reduce the size of german chemical industry agfa reappeared as an individual business . an agfa plant located in what was to become east germany became the foundation of orwo . 1952 re establishment of agfa ag as a wholly owned subsidiary of bayer in leverkusen . 1964 merger of agfa ag and gevaert photo producten n.v. with bayer ag and gevaert each holding a 50 % interest in the new operating company . 1972 introduction of mammography film screen products . 1981 bayer buys out gevaert and becomes 100 % owner . 1988 acquisition of compugraphic corporation prepress systems . 1990 sale of magnetic tape business . introduction of computed radiography cr products . 1994 introduction of pacs products . 1996 acquisition of hoechst s printing plate and proofing business . 1997 sale of the company s film recorder division to german ccg digital image technology . 4 1998 acquisition of dupont s offset printing and graphic arts film business . sale of the company s copier systems business to lanier worldwide inc. acquisition of cea ab x ray film products . acquisition of monotype typography inc. 1999 acquisition of sterling diagnostic imaging x ray film and equipment . separation of agfa from bayer . initial public offering of agfa gevaert shares on june 1 . agfa listed on brussels and frankfurt stock exchanges . 2000 acquisition of krautkramer a producer of ultrasonic systems for non destructive testing . acquisition of quadrat a ghent based european producer of radiology information systems . 2001 acquisition of autologic an american producer of systems for prepress automation . acquisition of talk technology a producer of medical voice recognition systems . acquisition of the german company seifert and the american company pantak producers of industrial x ray equipment for non destructive testing applications . acquisition of a minority interest in medivision a developer and manufacturer of digital imaging systems for ophthalmology . agfa stopped its desktop scanners and digital camera business in september 2001 . agfa does not provide any further support . 2002 acquisition of mitra imaging inc. a developer of medical imaging and information systems for healthcare . bayer sells its remaining 30 % stake in agfa . 2003 opening of new printing plate factory in wuxi china . sale of non destructive testing business to general electric . 2004 acquisition of dotrix a belgian producer of digital colour printing systems for industrial applications . acquisition of lastra an italian manufacturer of plates chemicals and equipment for the offset printing industry . sale of the consumer imaging division to a company founded via management buy out named agfaphoto and held by an investment company . after one year agfaphoto files for bankruptcy . acquisition of proimage an israeli developer of browser based digital workflow solutions for the newspaper and printing industries . acquisition of symphonie on line a french information technology company and developer of epr electronic patient record systems . sale of agfa monotype corporation a provider of fonts and font related software technology to boston based private equity investor ta associates . 2005 acquisition of gwi a german developer of healthcare information systems for medical records nursing business management and facility administration . acquisition of heartlab inc. a u.s. developer of cardiology image and information management systems . acquisition of med2rad an italian developer of radiology information systems . introduction of industrial inkjet products . 2009 acquisition of insight agents a european developer and producer of contrast media . acquisition of gandi innovations a producer of large format inkjet systems . 2010 agfa graphics and shenzhen brothers create the agfa graphics asia joint venture to reinforce their position in the greater china and asean region . acquisition of the harold m. pitman company a us supplier of products and systems for the graphic industry . 2011 acquisition of wpd a brazilian supplier of healthcare it systems . agfa photographic products edit agfa box in 2004 agfa gevaert withdrew from the consumer market including photographic film cameras and other photographic equipment . because agfa gevaert still produce photographic films for the aerial photography market it is still possible to buy fresh agfa produced photographic films for use in consumer cameras . these are sold by the lomography society and rollei and are branded accordingly . this is because those companies purchase the aerial photography film from agfa gevaert and then cut and package it into consumer photographic formats . as of 2012 such products carry a small agfa logo discreetly on their packaging but are not sold as agfa branded products . by contrast agfaphoto branded photographic films are not made by agfa gevaert at all originally having been made by the now closed ferrania plant in italy . agfaphoto films are now produced by fujifilm in japan for lupus imaging media . agfa cameras edit agfa compur rapid agfa isolette agfa agfamatic 300 sensor various agfa movex 8 mm home movie cameras agfa optima 1035 sensor agfa agfachrome ct18 film for colour slides with original box 1981 agfa produced a range of cameras which included ambiflex silette series clipper billy record isolette isola series click clack optima series e.g. optima 1a optima sensor series e.g. optima 1535 sensor and optima flash sensor selectronic s series agfamatic series agfamatic pocket series agfa mini matching accessories like flashguns slr edit agfa flexilette selectronic series rebranded products of chinon 5 6 agfa slide projectors edit roughly in temporal order including agfa opticus 100 agfa agfacolor 50 automatic agfa diamator series like models h m 1500 agfa consumer and professional films edit black & white films agfa pd16 agfapan 25 100