I see. I had the year 2003 in my mind, but its possible that this was the years when the company was sold to someone else... i only wanted to point out that the factory was abandoned and partially ruinous when the founders of Ferrania got there.
I see. I had the year 2003 in my mind, but its possible that this was the years when the company was sold to someone else... i only wanted to point out that the factory was abandoned and partially ruinous when the founders of Ferrania got there.
I think the LRF may have been last used around 2003 (which is where they are making the film now) I believe i read on their post somewhere that it was last entered by someone back in 2006 or something!
It would have been in a pretty poor shape by that stage as it was evident they were not performing any R&D and they were simply coating film in very poor conditions.
I have been wondering how in the heck they have been staying in business. I had no idea they made other things that generated income.
Hopefully it starts to work out for them.
You mean old Ferrania or new Ferrania? If I understood correctly from the interviews it seems that old Ferrania was very strong in the medical sector, and stuff started to crumble seriously when it was sold/closed.
Quite possible, another post here by Agulliver says they closed around 2009, so that would sound about right.AFAIK, but I can be wrong, last coatings happened around 2009-2010. In the second video about building H a comment says it is 2009, but obviously I can't say if it's true.
Well the business was split up AFAIK, they had several divisions, a chemical company and a solar company (Ferrania Solis, even using the old logo) IIRC, they are operating just across from where the LRF stands, I think the chemical division still stands as Ferrania Technologies.I have been wondering how in the heck they have been staying in business. I had no idea they made other things that generated income.
Hopefully it starts to work out for them.
Quite possible, another post here by Agulliver says they closed around 2009, so that would sound about right.
Well the business was split up AFAIK, they had several divisions, a chemical company and a solar company (Ferrania Solis, even using the old logo) IIRC, they are operating just across from where the LRF stands, I think the chemical division still stands as Ferrania Technologies.
Not sure if going back to Page-1 would help me or not.
I had never even heard of this company until this thread got started.
I did not realize how "diverse" they were. I thought they were a small and defunct film manufacture and that was it.
Must be frustrating for the new owners.
Good Luck to them again.
They were a *huge* company....but many of us never heard of them because the millions of rolls of film they produced every month mostly ended up with other brand names on them. For example, many of the British and Continental European labs would do a deal "free 100ASA C41 film with D&P"....and *very* often that was Ferrania film disguised with the name of the lab as it's brand. Supermarkets also used them as an OEM. As did Scotch/3M when they owned Ferrania. The old Ferrania company also manufactured cameras and was a chemical company, even manufacturing acetate base for it's films. But unless you bought an actual Ferrania branded film or a 50s/60s Ferrania camera, you might not have heard of them.
I also think that the Ferrania name would have been even less common outside of Europe/UK. I certainly did see and occasionally use Ferrania branded film but I used way more branded "Prinz Color", house brand of the Dixon's group who ran the huge lab I used in the 70s and 80s. I bet any Ferrania made film that reached the USA and Canada was Scotch branded.
But for a time they were the biggest producer of photo film in Europe. And the last in the world to make 126. It's just that 90% of their output had other brand names applied to it.
The solar energy thing is news to me but appears to operate out of part of the old Ferrania campus with the classic Ferrania logo so is probably connected.
Here in Canada, Zellers and K-mart sold 3M made film packed as their own brand.
yes, and as usual the ratio of Dots to crosses indicated the version. I recall seeing a number like 87-2 or 87-7 to also indicated the version. the 87-7 is the same as used in the DX code to mention the exact version.This was a typical Ferrania private label film edge marking, from around the late 1980s/early 1990s.
at the risk of Matt King being after me for image size
HI Matt, I think it was during the Kickstarter that FF posted a piture that they had found in the building showing labels from some of the Private brands. Both Sears, and also "Sooters" which was a regional chain of Minilabs (at least one store still exists in Ottawa) were represented.Sears as well.
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at the risk of Matt King being after me for image size, this is a magnification of the Markings for the diagram above. I think that I have seen that particular Ferrana logo being used by one of the OTHER Ferrania companies, so I doubt we will see it on Ferrania film in the future.
One barrier is that their "Mini-Jumbo" rolls really are Mini, so would not provide many Bulk rolls. when assked, they indicated that bulk was a lower priority than getting other formats.Would be nice to be able to get 100' bulk rolls of P30...
One barrier is that their "Mini-Jumbo" rolls really are Mini, so would not provide many Bulk rolls. when assked, they indicated that bulk was a lower priority than getting other formats.
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