Agfa Company

Enhanced Imaging Buys Agfa Division: Enhanced Imaging Technologies Inc. also has its mind on expansion. The Irvine-based supplier of optical filters, specialized films and imaging products for the medical field has completed a deal to buy a medical device division of German film manufacturer Agfa that is based in Ridgefield Park, N.J. Agfa sold the division to Enhanced Imaging for $4.1 million, said Enhanced Imaging Vice President Robert G. Quinn.

Agfa-Gevaert, one of the best-known names in camera film, said it was quitting the industry because of the booming popularity of digital cameras. While international rivals Eastman Kodak Co. and Fuji Photo Film Co. revamp their film divisions to cope with the digital camera craze, Mortsel, Belgium-based Agfa is selling its consumer photography unit to managers for $215 million. Global film sales have fallen 13% since their peak in 2001, while sales of digital cameras have almost tripled.

Enhanced Imaging Technologies Inc. on Thursday confirmed rumors that it is negotiating to buy a medical device division of film manufacturer Agfa as a way to get into the digital imaging industry. Digital imaging is a new process by which images such as X-rays, CAT scans, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging, which are usually stored on film, can be digitized for computers.

Enhanced Imaging Buys Agfa Division: Enhanced Imaging Technologies Inc. also has its mind on expansion. The Irvine-based supplier of optical filters, specialized films and imaging products for the medical field has completed a deal to buy a medical device division of German film manufacturer Agfa that is based in Ridgefield Park, N.J. Agfa sold the division to Enhanced Imaging for $4.1 million, said Enhanced Imaging Vice President Robert G. Quinn.

Agfa-Gevaert, one of the best-known names in camera film, said it was quitting the industry because of the booming popularity of digital cameras. While international rivals Eastman Kodak Co. and Fuji Photo Film Co. revamp their film divisions to cope with the digital camera craze, Mortsel, Belgium-based Agfa is selling its consumer photography unit to managers for $215 million. Global film sales have fallen 13% since their peak in 2001, while sales of digital cameras have almost tripled.

Stepping up the pressure on German industry to compensate aging victims, the American Jewish Committee on Tuesday released a list of 255 companies still doing business that it said used slave laborers during the Nazi era but have never acknowledged a responsibility to pay them.

Enhanced Imaging Technologies Inc. on Thursday confirmed rumors that it is negotiating to buy a medical device division of film manufacturer Agfa as a way to get into the digital imaging industry. Digital imaging is a new process by which images such as X-rays, CAT scans, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging, which are usually stored on film, can be digitized for computers.