Agfa-Gevaert to disinvest its Nondestructive Testing Business Group

摘要

Agfa-Gevaert announced that it will disinvest its business group Nondestructive Testing to GE Aircraft Engines, a division of General Electric Company (USA). The transaction will be completed upon receipt of regulatory approvals. Agfa is a global provider of analogue and digital X-ray and ultrasonic inspection systems to test the structure and tolerance of materials without damaging or deforming them. Its main customers are in the aerospace, automotive, railway, energy and petrochemical industries. In 2002, this business group's revenues of approximately 220 million Euro represented about 4.5 percent of Agfa's sales.