[pure-silver] Re: News about Agfa Photo
- From: "Edward C. Zimmermann" <edz@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:17:52 +0100
Quoting DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I haven¹t heard or read any details yet, but the local (Leverkusen) radio
> station announced today, that parts of Agfa Photo have been purchased by A&O
> in Neuss, Germany. The company is taken over 60 employees and has bought the
It was a mid sized IT (Information Technology) company (140 employee) that
earlier in the year took over a service unit of Siemens: Sinitec (which at
the time had 1400). Via Sinitec they got a large hardware support network and
some big contracts with SBS (Siemens).
Their interest I'd suspect is in IT services for digital imaging to keep their
Sinitec people busy. They got the spare parts for the machines. I suspect that
they'll try to find a partner to take over the marketing of the non relevant
chemicals or perhaps sell that off. I don't know the deal but I'd guess that
they would not get the use of the Agfa brand (which is still under the control
of AgfaPhoto Holding and will probably return back to Agfa or whatever Agfa
becomes since the Agfa-Gevaert Group too is about to be "redefined") for the
chemicals. A new brand "Vaihingen" (as Calbe is to OrWo is to Agfa)?
What is, I think, nearly clear is that "Agfa Rodinal" is history (just perhaps
not what's in the bottles).
Fuji took over the "big machines" (and as we know they produce paper and
chemicals and have, alongside Kodak, won most of the customers for supplies
over the past months anyway).
> rights to produce and market all? Photo chemicals formerly produced by Agfa
> Photo. Film and paper production is not included in the deal.
Film and paper, I think, is the only one that really matters to most of us and
its, unfortunately, a more difficult object to sell given the great size of
the operation and the vast overcapacity of coating and the decline of demand
for colour films and papers (despite the need of RA-4 papers by digital
minilabs demand has fallen like a brick thrown from the Empire State Building).
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