May be that it's all moving to China???
From the mouth of the Owner of my local dealer “buy all the Kodak chems you can afford, they announced me that they won’t produce any for the foreseeable future”.
We can speculate, or it is maybe old news. But now is your chance to buy XTOL, D76, HC110... who knows what’s happening.
So are you saying that this owner of your local dealer is saying that he has an official announcement that all Kodak chemicals are disappearing completely? Did he show you the doc and if so can you say who sent it to him Was it Kodak or SinoPromise who I understand have been the owners for some time now ?
Was he really saying that what we know as Xtol etc will cease to exist completely i.e. Matt's posts explaining the position about ownership etc are untrue. Chemicals with the Kodak names of Xtol HC110 will cease due to a Kodak decision and the only chemicals resembling anything like Xtol, HC110 D76 will only be made by Adox, Foma and Ilford? .
I had always thought that Kodak chemicals as such were not in fact Kodak's to sell as per previous threads and Matt's summary. Either your report based on this owner is truly devastating news or it is for the reasons Matt gave a non event
So in real terms what do you understand this owner to mean?
Thanks
pentaxuser
From a reliable and completely informed but necessarily anonymous source about Kodak branded photo chemicals (now part of Sino Promise Holdings):
1) manufacturing is ongoing;
2) for US manufactured product, there are shipping delays impacting the sourcing of components that must be imported to the US;
3) for photo chemical products manufactured outside the US - particularly colour chemicals - there are shipping delays impacting availability;
4) they expect the situation will improve over the next 6-8 weeks; and
5) they are hopeful that the shipping industry will recover in 2022.
No I was not trying to put words in your mouth but was trying to find what facts surrounding his utterance that you may have found as you did say the owner had an announcement as follows : “buy all the Kodak chems you can afford, they announced me that they won’t produce any for the foreseeable future”.You are putting a lot of words into my mouth. Please refer to my quote in post #1 and make up your own mind.
I made up my own mind, which was to buy the 4 remaining bags of Hypo Clearing agent, and I don’t expect to see new stocks any time soon.
I would imagine the absolute chaos at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports isn't helping.
A lot of the disruption arises from global shipping shortages - particularly of containers and container ships.The EU and UK should step up.
From the mouth of the Owner of my local dealer
Yes, I agree. Still in the case of something like Adox XT-3, they could use air freight. I suspect in that case wouldn't do any good if Freestyle is the distributor and trucks are tied up.A lot of the disruption arises from global shipping shortages - particularly of containers and container ships.
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