Kodak has reopened its film manufacturing factory after a planned shutdown to improve its manufacturing equipment. Typically the word “shutdown” in a sentence on film cameras isn’t a good thing, but in this case, Kodak actually shut down in order to add more equipment and update the film sensitizing machine to meet rising demand for film. The reason? Kodak says that film demand has doubled in the last five years.
The shutdown, which began in November and finished in December, was needed because the updates to the film sensitizing machine needed to happen in the dark. Kodak Chief Technical Officer Terry Taber said that the upgrade had been in the plans for more than a year and the company had stockpiled film to cover the lapse in production while the upgrades were taking place.
