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Francois

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Tetenal is closing down
« on: January 30, 2019, 03:07:17 PM »
Well... it looks like Tetenal is going to close down for good.
https://emulsive.org/articles/news/tetenal-europe-gmbh-to-reportedly-cease-trading-after-172-years

I guess that if anybody needs to buy a C-41 kit and various chemicals, it's time to do it...
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Jeff Warden

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Re: Tetenal is closing down
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2019, 03:23:12 PM »
Damn.
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MiguelCampano

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Re: Tetenal is closing down
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2019, 03:35:05 PM »
Are Unicolor kits made by Tetenal?
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Re: Tetenal is closing down
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2019, 03:55:42 PM »
Just went and ordered a one litre kit so I have one in hand for later in the year when I shoot some colour negs.

I did try one of the 'Rollei C41 Colorchem' kits once, but had poor results, the negs way too dense like the bleach/fix hadn't cleared them properly, even after twice as long.

Have always had decent results from Tetenal though. It's a shame.



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Faintandfuzzy

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Re: Tetenal is closing down
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2019, 04:38:25 PM »
News is coming...don’t panic just yet
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Re: Tetenal is closing down
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2019, 07:34:49 PM »
AOK, the news can now be released.  There is an opprtunity for a management buyout of the photochemical part of the business.  New website up....in German only for now...but English coming ASAP

www.new-tetenal.de
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Jeff Warden

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Re: Tetenal is closing down
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2019, 08:18:33 PM »
Quote from: Faintandfuzzy on January 30, 2019, 07:34:49 PM
AOK, the news can now be released.  There is an opprtunity for a management buyout of the photochemical part of the business.  New website up....in German only for now...but English coming ASAP

www.new-tetenal.de

I'm heartened to see this story is evolving. :-)
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Re: Tetenal is closing down
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2019, 09:18:07 PM »
It seems that the workers will put in a bid for the insolvent company one of the first days. It also says that subsidiaries in Leicester, Katowice and Monéteau (France) will not be victim to this insolvency. Crossing fingers and hoping this will get a happy ending.
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Francois

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Re: Tetenal is closing down
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2019, 09:28:32 PM »
I always find it sad that a company has to say they're closing down for good in order to find people willing to save it...
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Re: Tetenal is closing down
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2019, 02:17:55 PM »
I hope that Tetenal will survive this turmoil. Their developers are excellent (I love Tetenal Ultrafin T-Plus). If I'm not mistaken, they also deliver chemical components to other film chemistry related companies so it'd have quite a ripple effect if they went out of business (which hopefully they won't).
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Re: Tetenal is closing down
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2019, 10:52:19 PM »
I sure do hope they can manage to get this working... else there's going to be a lot of disappointed people in need of good chemicals.
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