Highlights 2021

January
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Innovation

Making (remote) reading versatile with new 12 MP diagnostic display

The versatile Nio Fusion 12MP puts diagnostic flexibility and reliability at radiologists’ fingertips. It boosts the workflows of the radiologists, while helping them take confident decisions.

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February
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Innovation

Frost and Sullivan award for ClickShare Conference

With the award, Frost and Sullivan recognize Barco’s leadership position in the market and the innovative character of our one-click wireless conferencing solution.

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February
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Sustainability

Science Based Targets initiative formally approves our carbon reduction target

Our carbon reduction target is confirmed to be consistent with the levels required to keep global warming to below 1.5°C – the most ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement – a great acknowledgment of the ambitious journey we have been accelerating since 2016.

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April
Outcomes

Enabling surgical teams to collaborate remotely with game-changing platform

Meeting the growing need for hybrid collaboration, NexxisLive enables participants to talk, chat and annotate as if they’re all in the same OR, with excellent audio and video quality and minimal latency.

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April
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Outcomes

IMAX reconfirms its trust in Barco

As a long-term partner, Barco and IMAX will optimize the use of our laser light source technology to help power IMAX systems globally.

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June
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Innovation

Leading through innovation with the world’s first stand-alone digital pathology display

Our new ultra-high definition MDPC-8127 display offers pathologists an exceptionally high-quality digital tool to alleviate their growing workloads, while ensuring the best health outcomes.

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September
Innovation

Barco weConnect accredited as top-quality learning solution

The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) officially accredited Barco with the Gold Standard for providing top-quality learning products, solutions and services via our teaching and training solution.

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September
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Sustainability

Performance meets sustainability in new LED rear-projection cube

Ensuring a 55% increase in light output at the same power consumption, the MVL-721 is an impressive re-engineered version of our successful LED RPC video wall, answering all the needs of modern control rooms.

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September
Outcomes

Celebrating the prestigious 100,000 digital cinema projectors milestone

Since the first release of our digital cinema projector prototypes in 1999, Barco has manufactured over 100,000 projectors – a milestone acknowledged by the entire cinema community.

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October
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Outcomes

Tianfu International Airport takes off with Barco OpSpace in 14 control rooms

The new Tianfu International Airpoirt in Chengdu (China) sets a milestone for intelligent transportation. An impressive stack of Barco technology helps controllers keep the skies – and the airport – safe.

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November
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Innovation

Barco F400-HR is the world’s first single-chip native 4K simulation projector

Native 4K resolution, up to 240Hz processing speed, laser illumination and extreme reliability: the new F400-HR ticks all the boxes for use in even the most demanding training and simulation applications.

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January
MDNC vertical 83 preview
Innovation

Making (remote) reading versatile with new 12 MP diagnostic display

The versatile Nio Fusion 12MP puts diagnostic flexibility and reliability at radiologists’ fingertips, boosting radiologists’ workflows while helping them take confident decisions.

Read more

February
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Innovation

Frost and Sullivan award for ClickShare Conference

With the award, Frost and Sullivan recognize Barco’s leadership position in the market and the innovative character of our one-click wireless conferencing solution.

Read more

June
Barco MDPC 8127 m pathologist 6 A5 preview
Innovation

Leading through innovation with the world’s first stand-alone digital pathology display

Our new ultra-high definition MDPC-8127 display offers pathologists an exceptionally high-quality digital tool to alleviate their growing workloads, while ensuring the best health outcomes.

Read more

September
Innovation

Accreditation for Barco WeConnect

The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) officially accredited Barco with the Gold Standard for providing top-quality learning products, solutions and services via our teaching and training solution

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November
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Innovation

Introducing the world’s first single-chip native 4K simulation projector: F400-HR

Native 4K resolution, up to 240Hz processing speed, laser illumination and extreme reliability: the new F400-HR ticks all the boxes for use in even the most demanding training and simulation applications.

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July
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Performance

Welcoming our new co-CEOs

As Jan De Witte decided to step down as CEO, Charles Beauduin, Chairman of the Board of directors, and executive director An Steegen took over his role and were appointed as the new co-CEOs.

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July
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Performance

Half-year results 1H 2021: solid order intake but lagging conversion to sale

The order intake for the first half of 2021 was significantly above the 2020 results thanks to solid growth in the Entertainment and Healthcare markets. Still, that growth was fully reflected in sales due to component shortages.

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October
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Performance

Redesigning our organizational structure

After assessing Barco’s capabilities, market effectiveness and growth strategy, our new co-CEOs decided to review the organizational structure in order to enhance market responsiveness. The redesign included changes to the leadership team.

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November
Performance

Informing stakeholders during hybrid leadership update powered by our own portfolio

To introduce our new co-CEOs and share their vision with external stakeholders, we set up an engaging hybrid event, relying on the strengths of our own portfolio. All participants praised the session for being ‘much better than other hybrid experiences’!

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March
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Outcomes

Going for reliable outcomes with a revised service offering

From installation support at the set-up to in-depth deployment trainings. From on-site assistance to remote device management platforms: our new service offering highlights that we support our customers from start to finish.

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April
Outcomes

Enabling surgical teams to collaborate remotely with game-changing platform

Meeting the growing need for hybrid collaboration, NexxisLive enables participants to talk, chat and annotate as if they’re all in the same OR, with excellent audio and video quality and minimal latency.

Read more

April
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Outcomes

IMAX reconfirms its trust in Barco

As a long-term partner, Barco and IMAX will optimize the use of our laser light source technology to help power IMAX systems globally.

Read more

July
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Outcomes

Barco laser projectors enlighten GCC’s largest digital art center

Infinity des Lumières, Dubai’s new immersive digital art center, is the latest brainchild of Culturespaces. The secret to the mesmerizing projections: 130 Barco laser phosphor projectors.

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September
Outcomes

Celebrating the prestigious 100,000 digital cinema projectors milestone

Since the first release of our digital cinema projector prototypes in 1999, Barco has manufactured over 100,000 projectors – a milestone acknowledged by the entire cinema community.

Read more

October
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Outcomes

Tianfu International Airport takes off with Barco OpSpace in 14 control rooms

The new Tianfu International Airpoirt in Chengdu (China) sets a milestone for intelligent transportation. An impressive stack of Barco technology helps controllers keep the skies – and the airport – safe.

Read more

February
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Sustainability

Presenting our 2020 annual report in a new, integrated format

To underpin our commitment to sustainability and long-term value creation, we replaced the annual and sustainability report by one, single, state-of-the-art integrated report.

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February
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Sustainability

Reaching all of our ‘planet’ sustainability goals for 2020

By February 2021, we had achieved all of the sustainability goals in the field of planet that we had set in 2015: -20% carbon footprint of our operations, -27% energy footprint of our products and 48% of new product releases with the Barco ECO label.

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March
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Sustainability

Science Based Targets initiative formally approves our carbon reduction target

Our carbon reduction target is confirmed to be consistent with the levels required to keep global warming to below 1.5°C – the most ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement – a great acknowledgment of the ambitious trajectory we have been accelerating since 2016.

Read more

June
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Sustainability

Winning the ‘Best ESG materiality reporting’ award in the small to mid-cap category

The prestigious IR Magazine Awards honor excellence in the investor relations profession. In June, we took home the award in the ‘Best ESG materiality reporting’. It confirms that integrated reporting at Barco is definitely on the right track!

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June
MVL V3 DB 11
Sustainability

Performance meets sustainability in new LED rear-projection cube

A 55% increase in light output at the same power consumption: the MVL-721 is an impressive re-engineered version of our successful LED RPC video wall, answering all the needs of modern control rooms.

Read more