Origin of the 'Fuji Hunt' brand?

Tom Kershaw

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I have recently started to use more of the Fuji Hunt product range and wondered about the origins of the 'Hunt' brand. Does anyone here know?

 

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Hunt Imaging originated as the Philip A. Hunt Chemical company in 1909. Founded in Brooklyn, New York by Philip Arthur Hunt, the Company traded in raw "fine" chemicals and mixed chemistry for the motion picture industry. In the late 1950's, the Company added both a research and development laboratory and a new manufacturing plant at the headquarters in Palisades Park, New Jersey.

Shortly thereafter, four operating divisions were established:

Photographic chemicals for the emerging color photography and growing x-ray markets...

...In 1965, Hunt Chemical entered the color photo finishing chemical business with the introduction of liquid concentrate developers for film and paper which offered significant advantages over the powder products available at the time....

...In 1989, Olin sold the photochemical portion of Hunt, later renamed Fuji Hunt Photographic Chemicals, Inc....

http://huntimaging.com/history

 

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Oren Grad said:

...In 1989, Olin sold the photochemical portion of Hunt, later renamed Fuji Hunt Photographic Chemicals, Inc....

http://huntimaging.com/history

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Oren,

Thanks for the link. I was looking at it from the Fuji POV and didn't see much.

Tom