[pure-silver] Re: AgfaPhoto Insolvency

Quoting Snoopy <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxx>:


> We at the AGFA Photo Club noticed because a lot of materialy were quietly=20
> being removed from the list, basically the Brovira Speed RC papers in fixed=
> =20

Fixed grade papers where killed off and staff put into retirement long long
before the spin-off.

> gradation as well as fixed gradation baryt papers were gone. They only=20
> wanted to support multi-contrast (in RC anf FB).

This has been the case for at least 2 years--- and the word was out at least
a year or so before that.


> Don=B4t know what will happen to Rodinal and the paper developers.

Why? Easy to make, good margins. 


> Incidentally I think this might also hit other film manufacturers because=20
> AGFA makes the 35mm-film CARTRIDGES for a lot of other film companies (also=
> =20
> Fuji, Kodak etc).

One needs to understand that in the management buy-out there was an influx
of venture capital investment and unless AgfaPhoto was a "freak show" they
got no less than 1/2 of the total from Kreditanstalt für Weideraufbau and other
German government sources, tax credits etc.. The trick is to "invest" without
really putting any "real" money in, cut costs, increase short term profitability
and quickly sell for a profit.


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