2001 - now: Prepress and printing in the third millenium

Agfa Graphics gains momentum at the turn of the third millenium. It acquires a number of companies, thus reinforcing its market and technology leadership in prepress. The company also opens a state-of-the-art factory in China, and enters the industrial inkjet printing market.

In 2001, Agfa buys the American company Autologic, a US manufacturer of prepress systems for the newspaper market.

In 2003, Agfa Graphics opens a wholly-owned, state-of-the-art plate manufacturing plant in Wuxi, China. It also starts cooperating with the companies Thieme and Mutoh in the field of industrial inkjet printing, and it invests in the inkjet head manufacturing plant of Xaar in Sweden.

In 2004, Agfa introduces :Azura, a chemistry-free Ctp plate based on ThermoFuse technology, another milestone in the development of new CtP plates. The same year, Agfa Graphics strengthens its market and technology leadership in the graphic markets by acquiring Lastra, an Italian manufacturer of analogue and digital printing plates and ProImage, an Israeli developer of browserbased solutions for digital workflows in printing companies. In inkjet, Agfa takes over Dotrix, a Belgian specialist in digital colour printing solutions for industrial inkjet applications.

In 2006, more than 40% of all printed matter in the world is produced using Agfa products and systems. More than 60% of Agfa Graphics' revenue stems from digital technologies.