The ambassador congratulated
Agfa on its 30th anniversary, "It's a great honor to celebrate 30 years of
Agfa entering the Chinese market.
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Agfa HealthCare is developing bringing Al to the modality level to enable "first time right" imaging in optimal conditions.
The signed contract includes a business transfer from
Agfa Graphics to Siegwerk of a selected OEM customer list, access to know-how, intellectual property and services in the domain of UV curable digital inkjet inks for the single pass packaging and labels industry.
The MoU was signed by Humaid Al Qutami, Chairman of the Board and Director-General of DHA, and James Jay, President Imaging IT at
Agfa HealthCare, in the presence of Dominique Mineur, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to the UAE, and senior officials from both sides.
Jean-Pierre Slabbaert,
Agfa HealthCare's director of IT for the Export region, said: "The ICIS technology enables healthcare providers to create, collaborate, exchange, and manage a comprehensive medical imaging record through the continuum of care.
We are the first graphic communications company to launch an e-commerce site that has this level of innovation and functionality for the customer," said Deborah Hutcheson, director of marketing,
Agfa Pitman.
As a result, Schiller will make available
Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX HeartStation solution to hospitals, clinics and physician practices.
The combination of
Agfa Healthcare's clinical information management system Orbis Medical, which is already installed at 900 healthcare centres in Europe, with WDP's IT systems will create an advanced clinical information system that will offer Brazilian clinicians a wide spectrum of medical information, WDP's CEO Walter Amorim said.
With the acquisition,
Agfa HealthCare will step into the fast-growing Brazilian hospital information systems sector, adding to its local presence in the field of imaging and IT systems for radiology, the buyer said in a press release.
Agfa, a developer, producer and distributor of analog and digital imaging systems and IT solutions, will expand by 100,000 s/f, going from 175,000 to 275,000 s/fin the 419,000 s/f building.
Sales grew last year by 7% in annual terms to EUR 2.948 billion, fuelled by the
Agfa Graphics division which reported a 16.7% increase to EUR 1.565 billion thanks to its joint venture in China and the Pitman acquisition.
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