[pure-silver] Re: AgfaPhoto Insolvency
- From: Snoopy <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 19:11:02 +0200
Well, no more detailed news here. AGFA Photo was spun off the AGFA=20
conglomerate in November of last year, a management buy-out for 175,5=20
Million Euros (about 140 Million US dollars).
Apparently they had a massive caving in of film sales in the first quarter=
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of this year and this continued throughout April and May. Sales dropped by=
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over 18%...down to about 363 Million Euros (in 2004).
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=
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gradation as well as fixed gradation baryt papers were gone. They only=20
wanted to support multi-contrast (in RC anf FB).
Don=B4t know what will happen to Rodinal and the paper developers.
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=
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Fuji, Kodak etc).
Me? I am going to buy a huge freezer and fill it with as much APX 100 as I=
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can possibly fit. And another freezer for the paer I think...
Love
Snoopy
At 15:13 27.05.2005, you wrote:
>On 5/27/05, Claudio Bonavolta <claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Not really good news from Agfa-Photo as they've announced insolvency.
> >=3D20
> > For those who read german (better than me and maybe can give more infos=
?=3D
>):
> > http://minilien.fr/a0jztp
>
> Well that really sucks. Ilford will be happy though.
>
> You can get a rough translation by piping the URL into:
>http://www.google.ca/language_tools?hl=3D3Den
>
> But it's the same old story: "digital".
>
> *sigh*
>
> J
>
>
>
>--=3D20
>Justin F. Knotzke
>jknotzke@xxxxxxxxx
>http://www.shampoo.ca
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