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(emphasis mine, quote courtesy of @Henning Serger).
This was in October 2024.
Yeah, I tried to read up on this but the actual situation seems to bee a bit complicated and not clear to me. Inoviscoat and Filmotec seams to have been liquidated during April 2022 but II also think that Orwo released NP100 and NC500 after this, but maybe all the coating was already done?
Both InovisCoat ant Filmotec has been active after this listed liquidation date. So it doesn't make sense to me.
Orwo net also changed from being a AG to a GmbH in November 2021 and thereafter their earnings doesn't seem to as easy to find publicly.
From a viewpoint of business health, there's a massive difference between 'being the same company' and 'being owned by the same entity'. One of the main rationales for having several business entities inside the same group or under the same umbrella of ownership is precisely the possibility of having one or more of them fail without wreaking havoc on the assets and activities of the others.
Very true, that was a sloppy statement from me.
Are they? Isn't it the other way around - Inoviscoat having access to Polaroid-owned coating facilities in Monheim? AFAIK Inoviscoat is at this point basically more or less an empty husk with no assets apart from some IP that may or may not be marketable. Which is likely the whole reason why these companies are presently in the same hands; it's likely more about hopes to license or sell this intellectual property than to actually produce anything.
Yes, My information was from an old statement from ORWO. As I understand it now the company that was InovisCoat, later InovisProject is more or less now Polaroid film GmbH Monheim. (100% owned by Polaroid B.V in the Netherlands ) It is the same facility that InovisCoat previously owned the machinery in, but transfered to Polaroid film GmbH. But InovisCoat still somehow existed as a separate entity with some kind of access to the Monheim facility. Probably like you said, because they still own the IP like Glow-tech and their other patents.
I'm not sure that I'm adding any new, accurate or relevant information here som I will stop digging into this.