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The Landa Group and ALTANA AG today announced that ALTANA has acquired Landa's Metallography technology.

El Grupo Landa anuncia que ALTANA ha adquirido la tecnología Metallography de Landa. Esta nueva tecnología para la producción de gráficos metalizados es una alternativa sostenible a los procesos de transferencia de láminas, permitiendo que los gráficos de metalización lleguen a la mitad del precio de la estampación convencional. Landa transferirá progresivamente el resto de los trabajos de desarrollo e ingeniería a la división de recubrimientos y selladores ACTEGA de ALTANA, que llevará al mercado la tecnología Metallography en los próximos años.

Altana has acquired Landa's Metallography technology, an alternative to the foil transfer processes for producing metalized graphics.

Spezialchemiekonzern will das Verfahren zur Marktreife führen

Die Metallografie-Technologie von Landa erlaubt die material-, kosten- und zeitsparende Erzeugung metallischer Effekte. (Bildquelle: Landa Corp.)
Der Spezialchemiekonzern Altana (Wesel/Niederrhein) hat die Metallografie-Technologie von der Landa Corporation erworben.

“We are delighted that ALTANA has embraced our zero-waste Nano-Metallography technology, for there can be no better owner for this business than ALTANA,” said Benny Landa, Chairman of the Landa Group.

“This transaction is also a testament to the outstanding collaboration between Landa and ALTANA, which is also our partner in Landa Digital Printing. It will enable Landa to focus on Nanography, our breakthrough digital printing technology…”

One of the best known identities in the global print industry Benny Landa has been awarded entrepreneur of the decade by Israeli business daily Globes. Landa is also one of Israel’s major technology investors, a sizeable chunk of his $830m has been set aside to invest in Israeli start up tech businesses. He is also a major philanthropist.