The State of Kodak/SinoPromise Chemistry

logan2z said:

I recently bought a bottle of the 'new' HC-110 from Glass Key in San Francisco. The bottle only mentions 'Kodak Alaris', no mention of Sino Promise. The expiry date is 2023/12 and I *think* the manufacturing date is some time in 2021, although the ink is a bit smudged on the bottle and hard to read.

Is there any more data on whether or not this new formula has the shelf-life of the original viscous formula? I doubt I'm going to use it up in the next 5 months. Also, are the developing times supposed to be the same as the old formula? I guess I'll have to shoot/develop a test roll to see how things turn out when using the same developing times I used for the old formula (which I'm quickly running out of).

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MattKing said:

Kodak Alaris were totally out of the photo-chemical business by the end of 2020 - where does the bottle say it was made?

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DREW WILEY said:

I suspect the Midwest mfg source for some of this is the same one which used to be called Champion. Not a newcomer.
And just because Sino bought out Kodak's marketing rights with its logo, doesn't mean they have to manufacturer something themselves. They can simply farm it out too, and make a token profit on it, even when their own manufacturing capacity is seemingly as flat as a pancake. All kinds of brand label products which people buy are due to that kind of arrangement.

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