New Ownership for a line of film FERRANIA

[larrydressler]

FERRANIA ANNOUNCES NEW OWNERSHIP

 

 

Ferrania Imaging Technologies is delighted to announce that

ownership of the Company has been transferred to FITRA INVESTIMENTI

S.P.A. whose shareholder is a consortium of top Italian

industrialists.

The formal signing of the contract took place on July 2nd; the new

ownership?s investment plan will be communicated within the next few

days.

 

The members of the consortium currently have interests in maritime

transportation, steel industry, general construction with related

infrastructure, energy production and in a number of associated high

technology products. It is because many of Ferrania?s products and

solutions fall into the high technology area, that the company has

proved an attractive proposition to the consortium.

 

Ferrania SpA has been engaged in restructuring over the last 12 ?15

months. It assures the Company?s present and future success, based on

a continuous supply of innovative and high quality products and

solutions, together with first class customer service, tailored to

meet the challenging demands of the consumer photographic, ink-jet,

medical imaging and fine chemicals markets.

 

It is also expected that part of the new business and investment plan

will take Ferrania into new markets and business areas, where its

track record of innovation can be utilised to even greater effect.

 

Ferrania has been supplying imaging products for almost 80 years,

from its site north of Savona, Italy and this announcement confirms

the ongoing utilisation of the facility, and the development of new

opportunities for the Company, based around its core technologies.

 

I still wish they made the old grainey 3M Slide film but their 800

Color/colour Negative film does seem more color/colour saturated. and

less grainey than it was in those days. With alot of films quiting I

expect we may be left with these types of films and have to do our

best with them but then In the past many Photographers had to make

their own film. Maybe with computers we can still keep Some type of

manufactured film alive without reverting to making our own.

 

Rambeling thoughts

Larry

[r.t. dowling]

I was impressed with their ISO 100 color print film the last time I tried it. It seemed like a finer-grained version of Gold 100.

[jv1]

I sincerely hope they do NOT stop producing 126 film! That would mean the end of the Instamatics :)

[Matthew Currie]

I wish them the very best of success. Ferrania print film is a pretty decent dollar store buy, and I'd be glad to see them expanding a little.

 

Hey, how about a revival of Dynachrome?

[larrydressler]

Ya right that stuff was right up there with Kodachrome infact it was an additive color process. Well maybe they will buy out the Kodachrome line from Kodak. And then again maybe monkeys will fly out of my arse. LOL