Those are pretty bold predictions, but OK. I hope you are right.
This is not bold at all. We have the market data, we have the sales numbers, we have done and are doing permanently market research. We have to master the challenges of the significant increasing demand on a daily basis.
Same is valid for all other film manufacturers.
And we "put our money where our mouth is": Since its start as a daughter company of Fotoimpex we are investing in new production facilities and new products. Really big investments for a very small "start-up" company like ours. For example we have bought and modernized one coating line of the former Ilford Imaging factory in Switzerland. And we are currently in addition about doubling our factory space in our headquarter in Bad Saarow, Germany. We have built a second new modern factory building next to our first one.
We do this because of the very positive market outlook concerning demand.
And it's not different if you look at the other film manufacturers: All have invested in reintroduced / additional / new products. Kodak, Ilford, Fujifilm, Foma. All are active in this regard.
For example why has Kodak invested much more than a million $ in the new Ektachrome? Because the demand is there. It has been even higher than anticipated. Our colleagues from Fotoimpex see the orders for Ektachrome every day, and they are really very good.
And a permanent problem for quite some time now is that demand is surpassing supply (converting capacities) with certain color films. Fotoimpex and the other distributors are not getting enough of these films. Kodak and Fujifilm have problems to produce the needed volumes the market demands. Therefore new investments in increased film converting capacities.
APUG is one of if not THE premiere film forum.
We should be realistic and broaden our point of view: Photrio (apug) belongs meanwhile to the smaller film photography online communities with its about 88,000 members. The online-world has changed fundamentally in the last decade.
On instagram there are more than a million film photographers active.
For example model / celebrity Gigi Hadid loves to use single-use film cameras. She has an instagram page only for these SUC film photos: And there are more than 176,000 people following this single page. About double the amount of Photrio members. There are several other (enthusiast) film photographers with more followers than Photrio members.
Even some of the film labs have more followers there (like The Darkroom, RPL, Indie). Kodak, Ilford, Polaroid, Lomography all have also much more followers there.
On facebook and youtube there are several hundred thousands film photographers active. For example the Vietnamese facebook film photographer group "FILM PHOTO CLUB" has alone more than 130,000 members. On youtube there is a Vietnamese photography channel with almost 150,000 subscribers, which on a monthly basis publish film photography videos, too.
In total there are meanwhile more than 100 different film photo youtube channels. And the biggest of them have more subscribers than Photrio.
ADOX - Innovation In Analog Photography.