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Fuji terminates 35mm in Greenwood
Fuji announced yesterday that because of loss of market to digital it was stopping manufacture 35mm film in its Greenwood, South Carolina plant, and that some 200 people who worked at the plant would be laid off.
Sandy
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Yep, Fuji is in bigger trouble than anyone imagines Sandy. A Fuji manager quoted in today's Rochester D&C states that he had underestimated the drop in film sales in 2005 by quite a bit. Sounds just like I heard from EK management.
In addition, EK announced that it had overestimated its loss by about 10% - 20% and was reducing the loss in a new statement.
Agfa auctioned off their entire coating facility in the US, even before it got fully operational.
PE
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Fuji announced that around 500 employees would be fired in their Dutch factory. Film production will be discontinued.
Hans
Digital is best taken with a grain of silver.
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Neopan ACROS is out of stock (or down to their last few rolls) of their 120 film at the places I've checked. I hope this is just the result of panic buying. ACROS is my favorite film.
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Searching my way to perplexion
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Lets start a rumor that Fuji is going to stop production of B&W products.
Ahahahahaha.
Or perhaps that they will no longer sell B&W products in the US.
PE
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Ron,
What becomes of all this equipment, coating machines for example, when it is auctioned off? Are there are industrial uses for it or does it just go to scrap.
Just wondering, for example, what happened to the coating machines Kodak used to coat the Dye Transfer matrix film? Some enterprising sould could easily have adapted them for coating carbon tissue.
Sandy
 Originally Posted by Photo Engineer
Yep, Fuji is in bigger trouble than anyone imagines Sandy. A Fuji manager quoted in today's Rochester D&C states that he had underestimated the drop in film sales in 2005 by quite a bit. Sounds just like I heard from EK management.
In addition, EK announced that it had overestimated its loss by about 10% - 20% and was reducing the loss in a new statement.
Agfa auctioned off their entire coating facility in the US, even before it got fully operational.
PE
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Deep Freezer or Refrigerator Freezer
It sounds more and more like I'll need to start stashing away film, not that all of it is going away, but that some of what I like may disappear. How many of you use a deep freezer compared to a refrigerator freezer? Is 10 to 20 below F too cold?
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Originally Posted by t_nunn
Neopan ACROS is out of stock (or down to their last few rolls) of their 120 film at the places I've checked. I hope this is just the result of panic buying. ACROS is my favorite film.
Since Calumet doesn't have any QuickLoad Acros either, I wonder if it is just a shipping issue from Japan.
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Originally Posted by sanking
Ron,
What becomes of all this equipment, coating machines for example, when it is auctioned off? Are there are industrial uses for it or does it just go to scrap.
Just wondering, for example, what happened to the coating machines Kodak used to coat the Dye Transfer matrix film? Some enterprising sould could easily have adapted them for coating carbon tissue.
Sandy
Sandy, making equipment can be used in synthetic organic chemistry or some other chemical operations, and so they go as-is to the best bidder and are used.
Coating machines are usually so specialized that they are scrapped except for a few items such as pumps and motors.
Some color equipment can be used, but usually due to chemical contamination the use is rather restricted. For example, colloid mills that could be used in the food industry cannot be used that way after photgraphic use without extensive reconditioning due to the presence of some contaminants. So, gaskets and seals would be replaced.
The final decision is whether the material is cheaper to recondition, scrap, or part out after the auction price is met.
PE
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Originally Posted by sanking
Fuji announced yesterday that because of loss of market to digital it was stopping manufacture 35mm film in its Greenwood, South Carolina plant, and that some 200 people who worked at the plant would be laid off.
Sandy
http://www.indexjournal.com/news/20060201a_n.html is a fairly throughout take on this. Really, if sales are going down it makes sense to make it where most of it is made - which would be Japan.
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