AGFA GRAPHICS

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Agfa Graphicsat InPrint 2015 – integrating print in manufacturing

The power of inkjet printing in industrial applications.

Mortsel, Belgium – October30, 2015

Agfa Graphics, during InPrint, arepositioning themselvesas a partnerfor integrating print into manufacturing. Agfa acts as a key partner and connector to anyone involved in the production flow, helping to integrate printing in a production process. Introducing digital print in manufacturing, contributes to just-in-time delivery and personalized or variable content, in an environment-friendly and sustainable way.

At InPrint 2015, Agfa will put a wide selection of industrial products on display, representing areas in which inks and fluidsare used to producedigitally printed industrial products. Whether UV curable or water based, Agfa inks deliver the functional requirements for flooring and furniture on melamine base. Thanks to the consistent color and the low metamerism they behave similar to conventional gravure printing. Agfa also shows printedtubes and containers, customized shoes andpersonalized PET bottles, using itsaward winning patentedlow-migration inks, offering unique image quality and substrate adhesion for food packaging applications.

Agfa Graphics has a history as complete solutions provider in the graphics industry, also offering a portfolio of chemical consumables. They develop a wide variety of fluids including inkjet inks, primers and coatings. These inks are certified for many applicationsas diverse as product printing, packaging and interior decoration for example.

The list of applications for industrial inkjet is growing day by day across a wide variety of industries. This can involve Agfa Graphics’ state of the art wide format printers like Jeti Titan, Jeti Tauro,Jeti Miraor the Anapurna systems.; In other industrial marketsthere may be a need for specific printing equipment that needs to be custom-designed—all enriched with targeted ink formulations to match specificapplicationneeds.

“Industrial customers enjoy the competitive advantage of having access to a process or solution that their competitors have not even thought about,” saysTom Cloots, Manager Marketing Industrial Inkjet. “Requirements can be quite different. Some inks must be compatible with coatings designed by the substrate supplier for instance. We have dedicated research teams to designspecific inks or ink sets with the optimal performance. Case by case we decide to collaborate with a number of companiesto integrate print in aspecific industrial process.”

Visit Agfa Graphics at InPrint 2015 Munich in Hall A6, Stand F21. Inprint is collocated with the Productronica tradeshow and both shows can be visited using the same fair ticket. Productronica is the world’s leading trade fair for electronics development and production. Agfa is also arecognized supplier of films and inkjet inks to the PCB market. Agfa is exhibiting on the booth of CCI Eurolam in Hall B1,booth 255.

About Agfa

The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading companies in imaging and information technology. Agfa develops, manufactures and markets analogue and digital systems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), for the healthcare sector (Agfa Healthcare), and for specific industrial applications (Agfa Materials). Agfa is headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries around the globe. The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 2,620 million euros in 2014.

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About Agfa Graphics
Agfa Graphics offers integrated prepress solutions to the commercial printing industry, the newspaper printing and publishing industry and the sign and display, decoration and industrial inkjet printing industry. These solutions comprise consumables, hardware, software and services for production workflow, project and process management, cloud software and image processing.

Agfa Graphics is a worldwide leader with its computer-to-film, computer-to-plate, digital proofing and security solutions for commercial and packaging printers.

For newspaper markets Agfa Graphics is leading supplier of automation for printed and mobile publishing workflows.

Agfa Graphics has also developed a prominent position in the new segments of industrial inkjet. It offers a wide range of inkjet presses and a complete assortment of high-quality inks.

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Paul Adriaensen

Agfa Graphics Press Relations Manager

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