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industries are also failing in their ride side-by side along-side the big boat. Paper of Plastic? In the case of Kodak it’s neither anymore.
Kodak was a boon to the paper and plastic/film industry. The popularity of amateur photography meant greater paper and
film (plastic) consumption, driving more business for many other companies such as Georgia-Pacific, Weyerhaueuser, and Mead.
The global popularity of photography also meant groups such as BASF, Henkel, Dupont and Dow, that supply the feedstock chemicals needed to manufacture the plastic film (the media) and the emulsions (the coating on the film) needed to create the capture of the “Kodak Moment” were selling chemicals more than ever to companies such as Kodak, Fuji and AGFA. These companies also provided the chemicals needed to develop the film (the darkroom chemicals)
Kodak spread its wings because of numerous patents and developments in film and film processing technologies. Kodak was a pioneer in supply-ing film stock to the movie industry, which in its infancy was also the news business.
Unfortunately for Kodak, Kodak was also a pioneer of digital photography.
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