Kodak ending acetate base manufacturing

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Kodak ending acetate base manufacturing

Now this is an indiginity. At a yard sale last Saturday, I bought a box of cassette tapes from the '60s, '70s, and '80s and an aftermarket Minolta-mount 135 mm lens for $1. For both, not each. The lens will fit Minolta film SLRs. I am aware that with adapters it can be used on some digital cameras.

Jun. 13, 2013

As camera film joins the ranks of cassette tapes and answering machines as a niche product, Eastman Kodak Co. is ending its in-house manufacture of one of the key components.

The Rochester-based printing and imaging company plans to shut down its acetate base manufacturing operations next week. The acetate base is made in Eastman Business Park’s Building 53 and is the essentially the foundation for photographic film, as light-sensitive chemicals are spread on it.

In a statement, Kodak spokesman Christopher Veronda said the company has “an inventory of years of acetate base, and are looking at options for external supply beyond that.”
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Because of the discontinued acetate base work, Rochester-based Kodak filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification notice with the state Labor Department earlier this month indicating it would be laying off 61 workers by the end of August.