[pure-silver] Re: Another one...
- From: "Joseph O'Neil" <joneil@xxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:57:51 -0500
At 07:08 AM 12/10/2004, you wrote:
> From the Toronto Star...
>
>Kodak Canada closing Toronto factory
>Restructuring claims 360 jobs
>Photography giant `adjusting capacity'
-snip-
I suspect this has more to do with the rising Canadian dollar than
anything else. About - oh, 4 years ago it took $1.65 Cdn to make $1.00
US. Today it is closer to $1.20 Cdn, give or take. As a result, many
Canadian manufacturing jobs are quietly leaving the country - example, the
Domtar paper pulp plant in Cornwall, Ontario is shutting down in today's
news. So, if a factory making "real" paper is shutting down, no surpize
photo based paper is disappearing as well.
Also, i suspect this sort of thing may have a lot to do with it
http://www.silverprint.co.uk/bwf10.html
Many of you have seen this before. Along the same line, about 3
weeks ago in the Detriot Free Press, there was a large section on
manufacturing jobs leaving Michigan and going to China. One quoted exampe
ewas a car parts factory - jobs in USA - around $25 an hour, the exact same
job in CHina - 0.43 Cents US an hour.
So that leaves me with mixed feelings - there is apparently large
demand for B&W film overseas,a nd large factories in China might "come to
the rescue" for all of us shooting B&W. Conversely, I hate to see all
those jobs go overseas, out of country.
joe
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