Hear Hear.....In an era when anything old fashioned is sold hard as cool and boutique - with a price to match - it's good to find a company that packages their products in plain cardboard with black and white labels. It's why I like Tetenal, Foma and the late, great Orwo films.
In September they kind of revived that idea by publishing this broshure. However I wonder where to find it. So far I only found it at their website. And only by going into their blog. And that I only found by accident. At their homepage is not the slightest hint at the blog, not even at the site map...
https://blog.tetenal.de/news/sonderdruck-best-of-classics/#more-3516
If tenenal goes under, i guess Kodak and Ferrania can pick up the pieces, both companies will be wanting to sell E6 chemistry anyway
If I understand things correctly, Germany.Where is/are Tetenal's film chemistries produced?
If I understand things correctly, Germany.
At their own plant in Germany.Where is/are Tetenal's film chemistries produced?
I'd like to go back to one of the earlier posts in this thread. Where someone said that one of Tetenal's major supplier's could not supply them for several months with one of their main products. This product being color RA4 paper made by Kodak Alaris.
I have no personal knowledge of the situation, but it is hard for me to believe that KA was unable to supply paper to its sole European distributor without the shortage being discussed on Photrio.I'd like to go back to one of the earlier posts in this thread. Where someone said that one of Tetenal's major supplier's could not supply them for several months with one of their main products. This product being color RA4 paper made by Kodak Alaris. I was under the impression this product was made by Alaris or by Carestream Health (former Kodak Healthcare and maker of X-Ray films, according to some myths makes all of Kodak's production emulsions under contract from Alaris). Does this foretell a problem with Alaris?
Matt,
probably due to my horrible English I may have not been precise enough.
Tetenal explained in their letter adressed to their business partners that one major problem has been that a "color paper manufacturer" could not supply them for about five months. They don't mention a name. Tetenal is active in distributing both traditional silver-halide color paper (RA-4 process) and inkjet paper. Concerning silver-halide color paper they are distributor of Kodak Alaris paper.
But there is no official statement from them which supplier had the problems.
Best regards,
Henning
I'd like to go back to one of the earlier posts in this thread. Where someone said that one of Tetenal's major supplier's could not supply them for several months with one of their main products. This product being color RA4 paper made by Kodak Alaris. I was under the impression this product was made by Alaris or by Carestream Health (former Kodak Healthcare and maker of X-Ray films, according to some myths makes all of Kodak's production emulsions under contract from Alaris). Does this foretell a problem with Alaris?
The londoL plant closed down years ago. RA4 paper is manufactured in USA now. In Italy it is nearly impossible to find Kodak paper, everybody stock Fuji. Years ago everybody was using Kodak paper.It may well be because Kodak shrank production of RA4 paper from both Harrow & Windsor to the Windsor site only. Apparently Fuji Europe has significantly shrunk production of RA4 too - and production transitions will always prioritise the availability of the manufacturer's own branded product rather than a third party rebrand.
The Kodak color chemistry I haved had my hands on in recent years (mainly Flexicolor and Ektacolor kits) was all manufactured by Kodak Wuxi in the PR China.
The londoL plant closed down years ago. RA4 paper is manufactured in USA now. In Italy it is nearly impossible to find Kodak paper, everybody stock Fuji. Years ago everybody was using Kodak paper.
...nowhere in this thread has anyone worked out who it was who could not supply them with paper.
Since 2004 Tetenal is distributor for Kodak colour papers. Since 2016 sole Europe distributor for these.
I have no personal knowledge of the situation, but it is hard for me to believe that KA was unable to supply paper to its sole European distributor without the shortage being discussed on Photrio.
I am one of the few who prints colour. Paper comes indeed only in rolls from the manufacturers, but luckily enough it is easily available in cut sheets (at least in europe) at most online dealers. You can buy Fuji or Kodak in any size.Maybe I’m wrong, but i believe most active Photrio members print only black and white. Or, put in a different way, just a few active Photrio members print color.
From what I know, color paper is still sold mainly to labs, in rolls made to work with mini labs and such. I guess Kodak doesn’t even offer color paper in cut sheets anymore.
Im pretty sure that Kodak was producing e6 chemistry, and they certainly have the resources to produce it.Since there are fairly strong hints that BOTH Kodak and Ilford use Tenenal as a contract manufacturer for their major chemistry line, they would both be scrambling to qualify another supplier. E-6 home kits are incidental to the market. UNICOLOR probably has that little nice under control.
Are you saying that tetenal is the company that is making fuji Crystal Archive?It was two years ago - it should also be noted that Tetenal also sells Fuji papers too, and that nowhere in this thread has anyone worked out who it was who could not supply them with paper. It may well turn out to be a popular Crystal Archive product that was the problem. Or it may have been due to something like a substrate supply issue, not anything about business relationships - one of the most important, but often overlooked aspects of photo paper making is the supply of adequate base material.
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