Indústria Brasileira de Filmes

Name

Indústria Brasileira de Filmes

Website

https://ibf.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1961

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Indústria Brasileira de Filmes is a Brazilian chemical manufacturer founded in 1961 in Rio de Janeiro, producing sensitized films and offset plates for the commercial printing industry. The privately held company employs 501-1000 people.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Prepress Printing Materials

NAICS

Photographic Film, Paper, Plate, Chemical, and Copy Toner Manufacturing (325992)

SIC

Photographic Equipment & Supplies (3861)

akta.pro primary industry

Production & High-Volume Printing Systems (HDACAEAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Industrial & Protective Film Extrusion (Masking, Surface Protection, Barrier Films) (IMANACAD)

Keywords

• Sensitized films
• Offset printing plates
• Prepress materials
• Printing consumables
• Graphic arts supplies

Headquarters

HQ city

Rio

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Indústria Brasileira de Filmes is a Brazilian chemical manufacturing company that produces sensitized films and offset printing plates for the graphic arts industry. Founded in 1961 and headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, the company supplies prepress imaging materials used in commercial printing and related applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sensitized Films
• Offset Plates

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Emerging players

• Epson: Major participant in digital printing that increasingly competes against offset print for commercial applications. Relevant as a structural competitor reshaping the offset printing demand that drives IBF's plate sales.
• MacDermid Enthone Electronics Solutions: Specialty chemicals company with capabilities in photosensitive coatings and film substrates for electronics and imaging. Comparable in the underlying sensitized-coating chemistry IBF employs.

Broad incumbents

• Toray Industries: Diversified materials manufacturer with significant production of photographic and industrial films. Comparable to IBF's sensitized-film capability at much greater scale across multiple film-based product lines.
• HP (Hewlett-Packard): Through HP Indigo and PageWide, a leading digital press manufacturer displacing offset volumes globally. Relevant as a structural headwind to IBF's offset plate end-market rather than a direct product peer.
• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen: Leading manufacturer of offset printing presses and a consumer of offset plates. Comparable as a major participant in the offset printing value chain that IBF's products feed into.
• Mitsubishi Chemical Group: Japanese chemical conglomerate producing specialty films, printing materials, and sensitized substrates. Comparable in underlying film-coating chemistry and specialty materials positioning to IBF.
• Fujifilm: Global manufacturer of offset printing plates (Fujifilm Graphic Systems) and a legacy supplier of sensitized photographic films. Direct product overlap with both halves of IBF's portfolio, and a key competitive benchmark for specialty printing materials worldwide.

Direct peers

• Kodak: Manufacturer of offset printing plates (Kodak Prosper/Trillian) and historically a dominant producer of sensitized photographic films. Highly comparable to IBF in offset plate chemistry and sensitized-film heritage.
• Flint Group: Global supplier of printing consumables including offset plates, blankets, and inks. Comparable as a downstream consumables supplier serving commercial and packaging printers, though broader in portfolio.
• Agfa-Gevaert: Belgian specialty manufacturer of offset plates (Agfa Graphics) and sensitized films for industrial/medical imaging. Closely comparable in product mix and customer base to IBF, with overlapping technology in photosensitive coatings.

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Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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