Carestream Prepares for the Closure of its Manufacturing Site in Windsor, Colorado

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Interesting the location to which these services will "transfer" is not mentioned.
 

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It's not impossible that they will move production back to Rochester, subcontracting out to Kodak. There aren't very many organizations left that can coat film and paper.
 

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cmacd123 said:
I believe that this was the site that was contract coating some of the Kodak Colour paper.
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The only remaining plant in the recent SinoPromise era, in fact.

Kino said:
Interesting the location to which these services will "transfer" is not mentioned.
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Because in all likelihood they won't be transferred. They're terminated. Nothing much seems to have been going on there anyway over the past two years or so.
 

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There's still a bit of a market just not at a price point to justify so many companies, especially with a US plant.
 

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cmacd123 said:
I wonder what the market is for medical X-ray
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Developing nations. It may take some time yet before a clinic in rural India can afford a digital x-ray imaging solution. You get the picture, I'm sure.

I don't think the Carestream plant that's shutting down produced x-ray film btw.
 
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cmacd123 said:
other than dental, I wonder what the market is for medical X-ray. Probably still a market for NDT but radiation exposure is not as critical there.

note the comments about market share on this page -- https://www.foma.cz/en/dental
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AFAIK, X-Ray films represent the biggest and most important business for Foma. Not standard still photography.
 
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halfaman said:
AFAIK, X-Ray films represent the biggest and most important business for Foma. Not standard still photography.
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Looking at their site, they do have a detailed page for both Dental x-ray, and NDT films. (industrial x-ray to check things like welds) no mention of "Medical" x-ray, (like for a broken arm)
 
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