AGFAPhoto Heavy Duty; 009

This is another battery from what I think of as a camera / camera film manufacturer; AGFA. 

AGFA Heavy Duty Premium 1

 AGFA, otherwise known as "Agfa" or Agfa-Gevaert (do wish these companies would stick to block capitals, lowercase, whatever and stop the mix and match lettering. It drives the OCD in me into overdrive) is actually three separate companies; "Agfa Graphics" offers integrated prepress and industrial inkjet systems to the printing and graphics industries, whilst "Agfa HealthCare" supplies hospitals and other care organisations with imaging products and systems, as well as information systems. "Agfa Specialty Products" supplies products to various industrial markets and these are all part of the whole that part of the "Agfa Materials" organization. In addition to the Agfa Specialty Products activities, Agfa Materials also supplies film and related products to Agfa Graphics and Agfa HealthCare themselves.

I remember that a number of years ago AGFA were quite a reputable company, and I began to wonder just what happened to them, as I can't recall seeing their logo on anything nor anywhere come to think of it.

Turns out that the consumer imaging division division which I was thinking of and which were once makers of prominent consumer products was sold to a company founded via management buyout in 2004. "AgfaPhoto GmbH", as the new company was called, filed for bankruptcy after just one year.

AGFA Heavy Duty Premium 2

What happened was that the brands are now licensed to other companies by "AgfaPhoto Holding GmbH", a holding firm and because of that, and following this sale, Agfa-Gevaert's commerce today is 100% business-to-business.

Phew, I don't think I could have crammed another business name of theirs into the space above. ;-)

Not sure how old this one is, but there's no "use by" date, suggesting it's pretty old. That would tally with the leakage you can see on it. Not exactly a great advert for them, is it?