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Agfa Films and Developers Back?

Post by foolscape »

I'm confused. Has Agfa's film and chemistry division just come back from the dead? I noticed that there's 35mm APX in the Digitaltruth store. I looked on their web site, but found no mention of it.

Maybe their paper will come back next.

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Post by Fotohuis »

The Agfa chemical plant in Vaihingen-Enz has continued their production under A&O management.

The rest on the market is old stock.

Rollei/Maco bought their complete latest production run 2005 APX100/400 135 micron 35mm material and put it under Rollei Retro 100 and 400 in 35mm and 120 roll film configuration.

At this moment a test is running to produce an Agfa MCP and MCC look alike on a small coating machine (Innovartis) by Impex under Adox brand.

Foma is trying the same for an attempt to produce something like the Forte PW14 paper and Rollei/Maco will put in their program Vintage 111 paper which is bulk Fomabrom Variant. This paper is already close to Agfa MCC and on the market since 2006. Not so strange because it seems to be that the raw material for this latest Foma paper was bought in Leverkusen at huge discount when Agfa Photo went down and was meant in the first place for the MCC production in the Agfa paper factory in France.
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Post by Digitaltruth »

When AgfaPhoto ceased manufacturing in 2005, the chemical production was taken over by A&O in Germany and provides identical products under the Agfa label, allowing for continuous supply. The fact that many dealers in North America stopped importing these products is nothing to due with supply, as the products have been available in Europe without interruption.

Film manufacturing ceased completely in 2005 and the stock we have comes from the final production run. It is cold-stored since manufacture and dated late 2010. Over the next few years, this offers photographers a chance to purchase a top-quality film at a discounted price when compared to competing products of this caliber. Once we reach the end of 2010, there will be no more Agfa film available.

Agfa is no longer manufacturing any of these products, which is why you cannot find information on their web site. You can find information about Agfa photo chemicals on the A&O Imaging site here:

http://www.ao-imaging.com/

Further information about A&O's other business activities is available on their main English language site here:

http://www.ao-services.de/index.php?lang=en
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