Normal procedure when a product is discontinued is to have the companies own folks have a quick look to see if they can re-purpose it., then junk the rest.
Case in Point, many year ago one of my relatives worked as maintance forman in a beer plant, the plant closed and he was sent to Calgary. when he surveyed the plant there he decided that the old Battle washing machine here was in better shape and bigger. The called to see if he could get it shipped out and found that it had already been cut in half and sold to a scrap dealer in Montreal.
Second story. Philips electronics closed a CRT plant in Ottawa Ohio. plant made BIG 30 inch Colour TV tubes, and was equipped to build almost any CRT that Philips or Sylvania (the former owner) had ever made. The plant had been built before WWII. Most staff were laid off but some were kept on for several weeks to smash all the machinery with sledge hammers. No piece was to be bigger than a fist. Philips did not want a competitor getting a leg up even if the product was mostly out of fashion.
Third case, Kodak had two coating alleys left, the one in Building 38 and a fairly new one in an adjacent building, there were pictures her of that building being demolished and the (state of the art) coating line being converted in to twisted scrap Stainless steel.
One can assume that if the decion way made to discontinue the Pakc film, the equipment has been written off, both in the companies accounting (remember an accountant would be happy to take the amount received for the scrap and subtract the cost of getting it in a state that they can feel comfortable scrapping and all that the Disposal proceeds {Better if it is negative} and declare a loss between that and what the equipment was showing as deprecated book value. - that comes right off the income the rest of the business earns and if it reduces the income it also reduced the taxes) and physically.
