About Barco NV

Barco NV engages in the design and development of solutions for large-screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. It offers display and visualization solutions for professional markets. It is active in the markets of medical imaging, defense & security, traffic management, avionics, media, events, digital cinema, presentation, simulation & virtual reality, edutainment, traffic & surveillance, utilities & process control, broadcasting and textiles. The company has operations in Europe, America and Asia-Pacific. Barco designs and manufactures hard and software visualization solutions, integrating all aspects of the imaging chain, from image acquisition and processing to image display and management. BarcoView Medical Image: The company offers 3D software and softcopy display technology for digital imaging modalities and PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System). The company provides 3D software solutions, FDA-approved LCD displays, radiology display and projection systems, and imaging boards. Defense & Security: The company supplies and supports Operational Display Systems to the defense system integrators. Barco designs, manufactures and markets display solutions for operational decision-making in airborne, shipboard and ground-based applications. Its range of sensor processing hardware and software, rugged computers, Human Machine Interface software, graphics generators, flat panel displays and integrated consoles has been especially designed and tested for use in extreme environmental conditions. Traffic Management: The company designs, develops and manufactures real-time graphics display systems and software components for air traffic management, vessel traffic control and coastal surveillance. Barco's range of components and services goes from sensor interfacing and information visualization to recording, archiving, playback and system management. Barco solutions, integrated by system integrators in control towers and area control centers, are the reference for approximately 50 Air Navigation Service Providers worldwide, including the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Eurocontrol. Avionics: Barco offers a range of color cockpit displays, based upon a modular, open system architecture. Developed for crucial flight applications, its product range includes video display units, smart display units, multi-purpose control display units, electronic flight instrument systems and electronic flight bags. Barco Media & Entertainment Media: Barco's networked LED and LCD solutions are used by the world's major brands to maximize their visibility. Barco's solutions are used for large-scale events, including car shows, corporate exhibitions, concerts and fashion shows. High profile brands like Versace, Corvette, Audi, BMW, Nokia, Armani, Playstation, Subaru, Ralph Lauren and Mercedes and artists like Bon Jovi, Van Halen, The Corrs, Britney Spears, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Paul McCartney and U2 rely on Barco equipment to render their message with unprecedented impact. Events: Barco offers premier, large-format visualization equipment to rental and staging companies worldwide. The Barco product range includes the MiPIX modular LED blocks. It further features LED displays, projectors and image processing systems that form a rental range of display solutions for indoor and outdoor events. Digital Cinema: The company offers digital cinema solutions from digital mastering to premier feature film screenings, from business and sports presentations in the auditorium to advertizing and information displays. Digital cinema projectors have been installed worldwide for Eng Wah in Singapore, Kinepolis in Belgium, Sathyam in India, the China Film Group, Nordisk Film in Denmark, Soho Images in London, T-Joy in Japan, TekoFilms in Russia and Dolby Screening Room in the United States. Barco Presentation & Simulation Simulation & Virtual Reality: Barco is a partner for simulation and virtual reality. Its projection equipment is used to recreate reality through computer-generated images in training applications and research environments. Barco visual display solutions are used for flight, ship, ATC and driving simulators, digital prototyping and scientific research. Edutainment: Barco's Edutainment offering helps leisure centers, museums and planetariums in creating a new interactive world for their visitors. Barco Control Rooms Traffic & Surveillance: The company offers solutions in control rooms for traffic, surveillance and command & control. Its networked solutions display critical information to operators in command & control centers of police, fire brigades and other organizations. Maps with positions and alternative routes, as well as video feeds of events, are displayed on screen and communicated to the entire operations command staff. Barco’s solutions are also optimized for Homeland Security and Defense applications. They enable shared situational awareness in real-time from the field up to the (central) command in Joint Operations Centers. Utilities & Process Control: Providing operators with all key information at a glance, is business critical in utilities and process control. Real-time signals and information sources (data, schematics and video) are visually presented, and help operators identify problems and properly respond to events. In electricity, water, oil and gas plants, Barco visualizes all dynamic data, from detailed network distribution information to topological overviews. In process control, Barco equipment collects and processes all data from the production site, resulting in total control of the manufacturing process. Barco's control room solutions even feature direct network connectivity, allowing to share and exchange contents between control centers. Broadcasting: Barco's rear-screen projection walls offer a total solution for managed monitoring of a range of incoming signals from various sources, and are also optimized as a backdrop solution for interactive use in content-rich productions. BarcoVision Textiles: The company engages in sensor- and camera-based quality management from raw material to final product. The company offers a range of computerized production and quality management solutions for spinning, weaving, knitting, tufting, dyeing and finishing. Versions of Barco's manufacturing solutions are also available for the plastics industry. Strategic Alliance The company has signed an agreement with CDW Healthcare to build and distribute integrated medical imaging solutions based upon Barco medical displays, Barco advanced visualization software solutions and workstations from HP and IBM. This product package provides advanced visualization and analysis of CT, MR and PET images. The integrated package bundles Barco's Coronis and Nio lines of diagnostic imaging displays, Barco's advanced visualization software for 3D viewing of CT, MR and PET images and workstations from HP and IBM. Significant Events Snell & Wilcox, Inc. and Barco NV formed a collaboration on an integrated monitoring system that offers multichannel broadcasters advanced quality control. The two companies have completed the integration of the Barco Hydra display processor with the Snell & Wilcox RollCall control and monitoring software suite and the Hyperion content monitoring system. Customers The company’s customers include medical integrators worldwide like Philips, GE, Fuji, Agfa, Kodak and Toshiba. Barco is a visualization partner of defense integrators like Lockheed Martin, EADS, Raytheon, Thales, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Kongsberg, Atlas Elektronik, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, Embraer, General Dynamics and Alenia Marconi Systems. History Barco NV was founded in 1934.