This is news to us. Are you referring to KodakAlaris selling the Kodak photo chemical business, or are you meaning to say that the new owner, Sino Promise Holdings, won't be offering Kodak photo chemicals in the future.
Sandra, as we have said here or in another thread we do not have full data on this yet. The XT-3 development programm runs since about 6 months (since we were informed by Alaris that all Kodak Chemicals would be stopped). What we see in comparison and ageing tests is that our product with the...
All the bags going forward will be Sino Promise bags, because it is there business now.
Looks like little change though in the fact that the employees who were former Kodak employees, and then became KodakAlaris employees are now Sino Promise employees.
...they fed, clothed, educated and sheltered me for all my formative years.
The problem with wrapper offset taxed Eastman Kodak and KodakAlaris' resources. PE posted a few times about what the insiders were willing to share with him. If they could have solved the problem that you are having...
...who worked for Kodak Canada in the long ago past. I also currently have some contact with people who work either for Eastman Kodak, KodakAlaris or Sino Promise.
I have worked for companies that dealt with a lot of Kodak product, and I have used a lot of that product for decades. Many years...
They also ship from Colorado. I think they have a shipping center/warehouse there. A bunch of film I got from one of my suppliers had stickers on the box that showed that they got it originally from an address in CO. I've also seen boxes from the shipping department in Rochester.
I'm not worried about Kodak developers because there are lots of alternatives. What terrifies me is the supply of film and paper. No particular problems at the moment, but what's in store for us?
KodakAlaris only sells to distributors. And as far as I know, they don't warehouse product - the distributors get it from Rochester.
It is the distributors and the retailers that are determining the final price.
Kodak pricing for film in the UK is very strange, they used to be competitive with ILFORD but the 'Kodak premium' has risen ever further, more than can be explained by currency fluctuations or sales tax / VAT differences. I suspect one reason is the convoluted distribution of Kodak products and...
It might be because that is what KA has decided the market will bear and until a lot of customers do the "shop around" it will continue this way
Capitalism tends to be "red in tooth and claw" in this way and in the words of the group "10cc" in the "Wall Street Shuffle" "Dow Jones ain't got...
Just keep in mind that with all the mistakes that have happened with the black and white chemistry. That The Eastman Kodak company still is the manufacturer of all Kodak branded films sold anywhere in the world. It all comes from Rochester New York.
It must be miserable for people, who most...
Hi Wayne, It seems absurd that KodakAlaris appear to have fixed the price of their products at an all time high in the UK. I have learned to shop around for Ilford stuff too and get the best price, as some vendors discount to a greater extent. Ilford also deal direct, and depending on seasonal...
Yes, that’s my understanding... Eastman Kodak evidently still makes the film. I could certainly be wrong... and in any event, I still need (desire) other films... but at least it’s a start.
I'm new to priting, so maybe I just don't know what to expect. My cool, glossy papers are all bright white compared to my warm pearl paper. I interpreted that to be a difference in the paper alone, but maybe not. I'm using all Ilford MG RC.
Hi! I bought two packages of Dektol around 5 months ago, but I still had some of the old "good" chemistry to finish before I run into this problem last week.
As the notice from Kodak-Alaris says that it does not have an impact on the end result, I put up with the disgusting colour and used it.
I...
FWIW, my contact information for the people in KodakAlaris' chemical department is now no longer functional.
I think they have been totally disrupted by the sale of that part of the business.
I'm interested to see what comes out with respect to the incredibly tiny portion of their business that...
Oh yeah, I've been using China made KodakAlaris Flexicolor C-41 chemistry for years, same with the RA-4 color paper chemistry. These plants have been in operation for a long time, I suspect that some sites were Eastman Kodak plants that survived the digital mess.
The black and white chemistry...
...(no different than US bailouts of private pension plans) no one wanted things to turn out this way. I wouldn't be surprised to see KodakAlaris maintain the still film business. Ektachrome seems to be successful.
What I've come to realize is Sino Promise and Fujifilm don't give two s*#ts...
...never got this dark in color before I discarded it. I'll go back to my original post. It is the lack of communication on the part of KodakAlaris or Sino Promise or whoever is responsible, to at least acknowledge with some kind of reply to a customer. They have yet to respond to my follow up...
One note, nothing to do with the topic. The Japanese company that bought the last of the Ilford Swiss works going after the Ilford moniker for ink jet media, sells a genuine Platinum printing kit, (or it appears on the web last I looked). It's interesting that the Ilford company was willing to...
...Kodak also sells huge bins of certain components, for the motion picture lab crowd.
The rest of the Kodak photo chemistry - formerly KodakAlaris, now KodakAlaris via Sino Promise - is mostly oriented toward commercial labs. They still sell some products that are packaged in sizes and ways...
...who don't have serious challenges. Every single player is undergoing change of some sort, and some of the changes don't go well.
Like KodakAlaris, Harman Technology briefly lost their chemical manufacturer when Tetenal went bankrupt. The new Tetenal seems to have restored Harman's source...
Had a bad batch of Dektol (like many others). Contacted KodakAlaris this past January. Sent them an email requesting replacemet of the packages I purchased. Just like the responses others have received from Sino Promise regarding the Xtol fiasco, I was told they would be replaced by...
...photographic products, other than the motion picture films and chemicals. They also owned a lot of the manufacturing capacity that KodakAlaris contracted with for the colour photo-chemicals. With the completion of the sale, Sino Promise now source and distribute the black and white...
You'd have to wonder, "Why isn't KodakAlaris paying attention to the ever-shrinking film developer audience and giving us regular updates to their work on XTOL II"? ... um, so maybe they are? Could it be that product development is proceeding apace without premature marketing announcements...
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