Orwo Family

In 1909 the Filmfabrik Wolfen was founded as part of the Aktien-Gesellschaftfür Anilin-Fabrikation (Agfa) and belonged to I.G. Farben from 1925. The Agfa Wolfen plant developed one of the first modern color films, with incorporated color couplers, Agfacolor, in 1936, one year after Kodachrome (which was a color reversal stock).

 

During the last decade, ORWO has become renowned for its cutting-edge range of black and white film products which incorporates negative film for motion picture production, duplicating film, print film, sound recording film, and film leaders for the processing and distribution business. 

 

ORWO continues to produce a wide range of film products on the site where motion picture film manufacture has been a tradition since 1910, and where continuing innovative development in film technology has been a feature of the ORWO brand since 1964 (when the ORWO trademark was established, patterned after ORiginal WOlfen).

 

Fast forward to today, the sleeping giant that is ORWO has truly been awoken!