Agfa-Gevaert, the Glossary
Agfa-Gevaert N.V. (Agfa) is a Belgian-German multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, and distributes analogue and digital imaging products, software, and systems.[1]
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103 relations: Agfa Ambiflex, Agfa Clack, Agfa Optima 1535 Sensor, Agfa Optima 1a, Agfa Optima Flash Sensor, Agfa-Gevaert, Agfacolor, Agfacontour Professional, AgfaPhoto, Allies of World War II, André Leysen, Aniline, Ansco, Antwerp, ASEAN, Bankruptcy, Bayer, Belgium, Berlin, Boston, Business administration, C-41 process, Camera, Carl Alexander von Martius, Chief executive officer, Chinon Industries, Christian Reinaudo, Compugraphic, Device driver, Digital imaging, DuPont, East Germany, Electronic health record, Euro, Felix Mendelssohn, Ferrania, Forced labour under German rule during World War II, Fujifilm, GAF Materials Corporation, General Electric, Germany, Gevacolor, Ghent, Greater China, Health care, Hoechst AG, IG Farben, IG Farben Trial, Image scanner, Information system, ... Expand index (53 more) »
- Agfa
- Companies listed on Euronext Brussels
- Multinational companies headquartered in Belgium
- Photographic film makers
- Photography companies of Belgium
- Technology companies established in 1964
Agfa Ambiflex
The Agfa Ambiflex was a SLR for 35mm film, made by Agfa in c.1960.
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Agfa Clack
The Agfa Clack is a box camera produced by Agfa from 1954 to 1965.
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Agfa Optima 1535 Sensor
The Agfa Optima 1535 Sensor is a 35 mm rangefinder camera manufactured by the German company Agfa in 1977.
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Agfa Optima 1a
First produced in 1962, the Agfa Optima 1a or Agfamatic was one of the first fully automatic scale-focusing 35mm film cameras.
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Agfa Optima Flash Sensor
The Agfa Optima Flash is a fixed-lens 35 mm viewfinder camera manufactured in Germany by Agfa from 1981 to 1983.
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Agfa-Gevaert
Agfa-Gevaert N.V. (Agfa) is a Belgian-German multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, and distributes analogue and digital imaging products, software, and systems. Agfa-Gevaert and Agfa-Gevaert are Agfa, Belgian brands, companies listed on Euronext Brussels, German brands, multinational companies headquartered in Belgium, photographic film makers, photography companies of Belgium and technology companies established in 1964.
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Agfacolor
Agfa-Farbenplatte dated 1933 from Bad Kreuznach, Germany. An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from café in Oslo, Norway. An Agfacolor slide dated 1937 from Paris, France. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Hungary. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Zakopane, Poland. An Agfacolor slide dated 1938 from Sweden. Agfa-Gevaert and Agfacolor are Agfa.
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Agfacontour Professional
Agfacontour Professional was (as of 2002 not anymore produced) a special emulsion sheet film which, after exposure and development in the Agfacontour developer, produced direct equidensities.
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AgfaPhoto
AgfaPhoto GmbH is a European photographic company, formed in 2004, when Agfa-Gevaert sold their Consumer Imaging division. Agfa-Gevaert and AgfaPhoto are Agfa.
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Allies of World War II
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.
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André Leysen
André Leysen (11 June 1927 – 11 July 2015) was a Belgian businessman.
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Aniline
Aniline (and -ine indicating a derived substance) is an organic compound with the formula.
Ansco
Ansco was the brand name of a photographic company based in Binghamton, New York, which produced photographic films, papers and cameras from the mid-19th century until the 1980s. Agfa-Gevaert and Ansco are photographic film makers.
Antwerp
Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
ASEAN
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia.
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts.
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Bayer
Bayer AG (English:, commonly pronounced) is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies and biomedical companies in the world. Agfa-Gevaert and Bayer are German brands.
Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Boston
Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
Business administration
Business administration is the administration of a commercial enterprise.
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C-41 process
C-41 is a chromogenic color print film developing process introduced by Kodak in 1972, superseding the C-22 process.
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Camera
A camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.
Carl Alexander von Martius
Carl Alexander von Martius (born 19 January 1838 in Munich; died 26 February 1920 in Nonn by Bad Reichenhall) was a German chemist and entrepreneur. Agfa-Gevaert and Carl Alexander von Martius are Agfa.
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Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.
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Chinon Industries
was a Japanese camera manufacturer.
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Christian Reinaudo
Christian Reinaudo (born 1954) is a French businessman. Agfa-Gevaert and Christian Reinaudo are Agfa.
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Compugraphic
Compugraphic Corporation, commonly called cg, was an American producer of typesetting systems and phototypesetting equipment, based in Wilmington, Massachusetts, just a few miles from where it was founded.
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Device driver
In the context of an operating system, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton.
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Digital imaging
Digital imaging or digital image acquisition is the creation of a digital representation of the visual characteristics of an object, such as a physical scene or the interior structure of an object.
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DuPont
DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours.
East Germany
East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.
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Electronic health record
An electronic health record (EHR) is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically stored health information in a digital format.
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Euro
The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
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Ferrania
FILM Ferrania s.r.l. is a photographic film manufacturing company located in Ferrania (Liguria), Italy. Agfa-Gevaert and Ferrania are photographic film makers.
Forced labour under German rule during World War II
The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale.
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Fujifilm
, trading as, or simply Fuji, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operating in the areas of photography, optics, office and medical electronics, biotechnology, and chemicals. Agfa-Gevaert and Fujifilm are photographic film makers.
GAF Materials Corporation
GAF is an American manufacturing company based in Parsippany, New Jersey.
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General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Gevacolor
Gevacolor is a color motion picture process. Agfa-Gevaert and Gevacolor are photographic film makers.
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Ghent
Ghent (Gent; Gand; historically known as Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
Greater China
"Greater China" is an ethno-linguistic term describing a geographical area sharing cultural and economic ties with the Chinese people.
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Health care
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.
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Hoechst AG
Hoechst AG was a German chemicals, later life sciences, company that became Aventis Deutschland after its merger with France's Rhône-Poulenc S.A. in 1999.
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IG Farben
I.
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IG Farben Trial
The United States of America vs.
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Image scanner
An image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image.
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Information system
An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information.
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Information technology
Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage.
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Inkjet printing
Inkjet printing is a type of computer printing that recreates a digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper and plastic substrates.
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Lichtenberg
Lichtenberg is the eleventh borough of Berlin, Germany.
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Lieven Gevaert
Lieven Gevaert (28 May 1868 – 2 February 1935) was a Flemish industrialist. Agfa-Gevaert and Lieven Gevaert are Agfa.
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Limited company
In a limited company, the liability of members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company.
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List of discontinued photographic films
All the still camera films on this page have either been discontinued, have been updated or the company making the film no longer exists.
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List of photographic equipment makers
This list of photographic equipment makers lists companies that manufacture (or license manufacture from other companies) equipment for photography.
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List of photographic films
This is a list of currently available photographic films in a still camera film format.
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Magnetic tape
Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic storage made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.
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Mammography
Mammography (also called mastography: DICOM modality.
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Management buyout
A management buyout (MBO) is a form of acquisition in which a company's existing managers acquire a large part, or all, of the company, whether from a parent company or individual.
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Medical imaging
Medical imaging is the technique and process of imaging the interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention, as well as visual representation of the function of some organs or tissues (physiology).
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Medical record
The terms medical record, health record and medical chart are used somewhat interchangeably to describe the systematic documentation of a single patient's medical history and care across time within one particular health care provider's jurisdiction.
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Mixlink
Mixlink (Mixlink II) is a computer used with Agfa scales.
Monotype Imaging
Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., founded as Lanston Monotype Machine Company in 1887 in Philadelphia by Tolbert Lanston, is an American (historically Anglo-American) company that specializes in digital typesetting and typeface design for use with consumer electronics devices.
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Mortsel
Mortsel is a city and municipality close to the city of Antwerp located in the Belgian province of Antwerp.
Multinational corporation
A multinational corporation (MNC; also called a multinational enterprise (MNE), transnational enterprise (TNE), transnational corporation (TNC), international corporation, or stateless corporation,with subtle but contrasting senses) is a corporate organization that owns and controls the production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.
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Munich
Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.
Naamloze vennootschap
Naamloze vennootschap (correctly abbreviated NV) or (in the French Community of Belgium) Société anonyme (SA) is a type of public company defined by business law in the Netherlands, Belgium, Indonesia (where it is known as perseroan terbatas, correctly abbreviated PT and allows for private companies), and Suriname.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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Negative (photography)
In photography, a negative is an image, usually on a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film, in which the lightest areas of the photographed subject appear darkest and the darkest areas appear lightest.
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Nursing
Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering through compassionate presence".
Offset printing
Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface.
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Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
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Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology is a clinical and surgical specialty within medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders.
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ORWO
ORWO (for ORiginal WOlfen) is a registered trademark of the company ORWO Net GmbH, based in Wolfen and is also traditionally known for black-and-white film products, made in Germany and sold under the ORWO brand. Agfa-Gevaert and ORWO are photographic film makers.
Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (born Paul Felix Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy; 18 January 1841, Leipzig – 17 February 1880, Berlin) was a German chemist and a pioneer in the manufacture of aniline dye. Agfa-Gevaert and Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy are Agfa.
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Photographic film
Photographic film is a strip or sheet of transparent film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing microscopically small light-sensitive silver halide crystals.
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Photographic paper
Photographic paper is a paper coated with a light-sensitive chemical formula, like photographic film, used for making photographic prints.
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Picture archiving and communication system
A picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is a medical imaging technology which provides economical storage and convenient access to images from multiple modalities (source machine types).
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Public company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets.
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Reversal film
In photography, reversal film or slide film is a type of photographic film that produces a positive image on a transparent base.
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Rollei
Rollei was a German manufacturer of optical instruments founded in 1920 by and in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, and maker of the Rolleiflex and Rolleicord series of cameras. Agfa-Gevaert and Rollei are German brands.
Rummelsburg
Rummelsburg is a subdivision or neighborhood (Ortsteil) of the borough (Bezirk) of Lichtenberg of the German capital, Berlin.
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Shanghai
Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.
Speech recognition
Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers.
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TA Associates
TA Associates, is an American private equity firm and was one of the early modern-era private equity firms in the United States.
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Takeover
In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company (the target) by another (the acquirer or bidder).
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.
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Toy camera
A toy camera is a simple, inexpensive film camera.
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Typeface
A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display.
UFA GmbH
UFA GmbH, shortened to UFA, is a film and television production company that unites all production activities of the media conglomerate Bertelsmann in Germany.
Ultrasound
Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kilohertz.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
VueScan
VueScan is a computer program for image scanning, especially of photographs, including negatives.
Waterloo, Ontario
Waterloo is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Web browser
A web browser is an application for accessing websites.
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Women Are Better Diplomats
Women Are Better Diplomats (Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten) is a 1941 German musical comedy film from the Nazi era.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Wuxi
Wuxi is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China.
X-ray
X-rays (or rarely, X-radiation) are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.
Zyklon B
Zyklon B (translated Cyclone B) was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s.
See also
Agfa
- Agfa impax 6
- Agfa-Commando
- Agfa-Gevaert
- Agfa-Gevaert Tournament
- Agfa-Gevaert Tournament (Germany)
- AgfaPhoto
- Agfacolor
- Carl Alexander von Martius
- Christian Reinaudo
- Curlz
- Edith Weyde
- Franz Oppenheim
- Lieven Gevaert
- Momme Andresen
- Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Rodinal
Companies listed on Euronext Brussels
- AB InBev
- Ackermans & van Haaren
- Ageas
- Agfa-Gevaert
- Barco (manufacturer)
- Bekaert
- Bpost
- Cofinimmo
- Colruyt Group
- D'Ieteren
- Dexia
- EVS Broadcast Equipment
- Elia Transmission Belgium
- Euronav
- Fagron
- Fluxys
- Galapagos NV
- Greenyard Foods
- Groupe Bruxelles Lambert
- KBC Group
- Kinepolis
- Lotus Bakeries
- National Bank of Belgium
- Nyrstar
- Orange Belgium
- Proximus Group
- Sofina
- Solvay S.A.
- Syensqo
- Telenet Group
- Titan Cement
- UCB (company)
- Umicore
- VPK Group
- Van de Velde N.V.
- Viohalco
- Zetes (company)
Multinational companies headquartered in Belgium
- AB InBev
- Agfa
- Agfa-Gevaert
- Aviapartner
- Etex
- KBC Group
- Lhoist group
- Louis Delhaize Group
- Solvay S.A.
- Syensqo
- Tessenderlo Group
- UCB (company)
- Umicore
Photographic film makers
- ADOX
- Agfa
- Agfa-Gevaert
- Ansco
- Azomureș (photosensitive materials)
- Bergger
- China Lucky Film
- Efke
- Ferrania
- Foma Bohemia
- Fujifilm
- Gevacolor
- Hindustan Photo Films
- Ilford Photo
- Kodak
- Kodak Alaris
- Konica
- Maco (film company)
- ORWO
- Polaroid B.V.
- Polaroid Corporation
- Svema
- Tasma
Photography companies of Belgium
- Agfa-Gevaert
Technology companies established in 1964
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agfa-Gevaert
Also known as AGFA, AGFA paper, Agfa Gevaert, Agfa Perutz, Agfa-Gevaert Group, Agfa-Gevaert N.V., Agfa-Gevaert N.V. (Agfa), Gevaert & Co, IMPAX (software), N.V Gevaert Photo-producten.
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