hsmeets@plex.nl
Date: 08/27/03-02:13:38 AM Z
David,
A few annotations:
Mitsubishi (Japan): Gecko paper?
Oriental Seagull (Japan): AA's favorit, do I need to say more?
Kentmere (UK): only paper, several different types of paper are still made (sold by or as Luminos in the US), also sold as private lable by others but do not know who, I believe a certain Berger paper looks very similar).
Sterling (India): They made the lithpaper "par excellence", sadly stopped making it, but afaik did not fold completely.
Tura: Located in the city of Düren near Aachen. Afaik they now only repackage/relable Agfa products (film and RA4 paper) (and Ilford but that is an rumour).
Forte: Paper is also sold under private lable by fotoimpex and Moersch (www.fotoimpex.de / www.moersch-fotochemie.de)
Tetenal (Germany): sell products from Ilford and Agfa (and Kentmere?) under it's own name.
Huib
In antwoord op:
> From: David Foy <dfoy@marketactics.com>
> To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:54:03 -0600
> Subject: factories: updates and corrections welcome (was RE: Test of J&C
>
>
> Film factories of the world:
> Kodak (USA, Canada (microfilm), Europe, China joint venture)
> Fuji (Japan, USA, Netherlands, China joint venture)
> Agfa (Singapore (?), Belgium, Germany)
> Ferrania (Italy, USA)
> Lucky (China)
> Ilford (UK)
> Ukraine (correct name? Svema? Smena? are they still in business?)
> Russia(??)
> Foma (Czech Republic)
> Forte (Hungary)
> Fotokemika (Croatia)
>
> No longer in business:
> Poland (absorbed by Foma)
> Spain (former Ilford licensee, now vanished)
> Slovenia (former Foma plant? warehouse? I'm lost here.)
> ORWO (Original Wolfen, the East German Agfa, bankrupt recently and now
> reselling Ilford films)
>
> Oddball:
> Tura (they coat something, but what? Everything else sourced elsewhere and
> repackaged)
> Maco (They slit and sheet, but don't coat: everything is repackaged from
> someone else, mostly from Fotokemika?)
> Bergger (repacking Forte, but anything else?)
>
> Big questions:
> South America?
> India?
>
> For sure: factories like Forte or Fotokemika only ship what they make. They
> don't do factory runs of special versions of anything for repackagers like
> Bergger or Maco. If you detect differences between Forte and Bergger
> products, or Maco and Fotokemika products, it's due to something like age or
> batch variation, not due to different processes. Yes, the differences you
> see are real. But they're not different because of different production
> forumulas. Possible exception: Maco may have an exclusive on one or two
> Fotokemika ortho films, if Maco helped finance the emulsion's development.
>
> Lots of guesswork in this list. Can anyone update and correct?
>
> Film consumption worldwide is dropping rapidly, 3% annually and the rate of
> decrease is speeding up (Photo Marketing Association data). I'll leave you
> now, on that cheerful note.
>
> David Foy
>
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