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13 March 2019
Another Plate Manufacturing Plant Closing
EUROPE—
Fujifilm is set to close one of its offset plate production lines in Europe at the end of the year, resulting in the loss of more than 100 jobs. The difficult financial situation of graphics market in Europe as one reason given for the cuts. The high raw material prices and increasing market pressure and the associated price erosion were reasons also given .
Agfa Graphics closed its offset printing plate manufacturing facility in New Jersey at the end of of 2019 as part of its plan to optimize its global production capacity for offset plates. The Agfa-Gevaert is one of the three major suppliers of offset plates in North America and Europe along with Kodak and Fujifilm. How much the US tariff on aluminum had to do with any thing to do any of these plant closure decision has not been mentioned .
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