Company Profile

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Mortsel

Agfa Graphics HQ

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Agfa Graphics is a world leader in prepress solutions for the printing and publishing industries. It provides commercial, newspaper and packaging printers with the most extensive range of prepress and inkjet printing solutions.

In prepress, Agfa Graphics offers workflow automation, project management, computer-to-film, computer-to-plate and proofing solutions. These solutions comprise consumables, hardware, software and services. As the world's largest plate supplier, Agfa Graphics produces analogue plates as well as thermal, visible light, and chemistry-free digital plates to offer advanced solutions for different printing applications.

In addition, Agfa Graphics is rapidly expanding its offerings in the growing digital inkjet market. Its experience in both imaging and emulsion technology has provided the expertise required for making an assortment of high-quality UV and solvent-based inks. Joint development and manufacturing partnerships with industry leaders expand its technological reach and allow the company to develop comprehensive digital solutions for printing posters, banners, signage, displays, labels and packaging materials.

Facts & Figures

Agfa Graphics employs approximately 5,300 employees around the world. It has sales organizations in over forty countries, and representations in more than hundred countries. Manufacturing sites are located in Europe, the U.S.A., Asia and South-America. Research centers are located in Belgium (Mortsel and Ghent) and in the U.S.A. (Thousand Oaks, California).

In 2007, turnover of Agfa Graphics represented 49% of the turnover of the Agfa-Gevaert Group.
Excluding currency effects, sales decreased 2.7 percent (5.6 percent including currency effects) to 1,617 million Euro.

Due to the evolution of the raw material costs, which were 69 million Euro higher than in 2006, and the investments for industrial inkjet, recurring EBITDA was 123.6 million Euro, or 7.6 percent of sales. Recurring EBIT decreased 16.5 percent to 60.6 million Euro. Due to the strict implementation of cost savings and increased production efficiencies, the prepress segment was able to almost completely offset the substantially higher raw material costs. The inkjet segment, on the other hand, continued to face high start-up losses.