I think there's up to 8 layers available on each head - tricky to tell exactly from the image - and it's definitely curtain, not bead coating - Ilford, Agfa/ Inoviscoat, Ferrania use slide bead coating as far as is known.
I've got a question as there are some people who seem to know a bit about Kodak here :
- Film's now a niche, and it seems it became a stable one. Why won't Kodak size down their real estate to only one small building to do everything in it like Ilford does ? As they may save a lot.
I understand the Rochester plant is a lovely place, yet how much does it costs to them ? Kodak may future proof themselves more by sizing down on every aspect ?
Please understand that those are uneducated questions, I'm only a curious amateur photographer.
I see 7, but you are right there could be another.
Eastman Kodak spun off Eastman Chemical , apparently EK thought making plastic was just a commodity business. Eastman Chemical had the expertise in polyesters. When Bis Phenol A became a health concern, Eastman Chemical was ready with Tritan brands of BPA free plastic . Eastman polyester went from being the cheap alternative to polycarbonate to a premium high profit material. When you have people willing to pay 30 dollars for a water bottlesee for the whole complex here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Business_Park
Furthermore you cannot compare companies as Agfa, Fuji or Kodak to a company as Ilford. They are far, far more complex. Film making, once their initial business, has developed to one business amongst others. It already has been put in a seperate department. To scale it down and run it as a niche business necessitates an optimistic outlook on the film market and its profits and enthusiasm. Enthusiasm by who? Young managers who got no relation to that business? Chemists and engineers at the verge of pension?
Kodak already reduced years ago their production to pictorial photography, whereas Agfa still serve the complete non-consumer photographic market.
And Iford, though being a small manufacturer, but still with too big premises, does not produce economic figures industry investors are dreaming of.
Eastman Kodak spun off Eastman Chemical , apparently EK thought making plastic was just a commodity business. Eastman Chemical had the expertise in polyesters. When Bis Phenol A became a health concern, Eastman Chemical was ready with Tritan brands of BPA free plastic . Eastman polyester went from being the cheap alternative to polycarbonate to a premium high profit material. When you have people willing to pay 30 dollars for a water bottle.
Inside the facility where Kodak brings film back to life
Welcome back, Ektachrome!
There are coating machines at EK with up to 3 coating heads and capable of all methods of coating. This is done by control of viscosity. Turn around is effected by means of an air bearing which can cause up to 90 degrees of change in direction at speeds of over 1000 ft / min. BTDT.
PE
Viscosity control is (amongst other things) used to inhibit mixing of layers, correct?
Thanks. Robert Shanebrook refers to the turn-arounds as "suction boxes" (vacuum rolls?) in his diagram.
Nice information -thank you much.New update from Kodak Alaris on Facebook:
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Hope this will definitifly end some neverending dicussions about bunkruptcy a.s.o.
This curtain appears very stable. Some curtains will become unstable if disturbed.
Curiosity by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr
Don’t they have child labor laws in Rochester?
I won’t buy Ektachrome until the commit to ethical labor practices. Or at least afternoon naps for those employees.
So this is the EK coating machine? Doesn't look too sophisticated. In fact it looks uncannily like a water fountain on a public park. How the mighty have fallen!! Terrible budget cuts at Kodak!!
Try coating 15 to 20 layers of stuff.
PE
Don’t they have child labor laws in Rochester?
I won’t buy Ektachrome until the commit to ethical labor practices. Or at least afternoon naps for those employees.
So this is the EK coating machine? Doesn't look too sophisticated. ... How the mighty have fallen!! Terrible budget cuts at Kodak!!
But is made from granite. It will last !
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