Two years ago ADOX and FOTOIMPEX started an investment programm to become independant from the public grid and in the mid term CO2 neutral. We installed a combined heat and power plant (blue energy in the long term green running on H2), a giant hot water tank, a 60 kWh buffer battery and today a...
After overhauling the 120 film spooling machine for more than two years we are happy to announce that it is up and running again and CHS 100II is available again in 120 format.Now we need the new slitter to run in order to cut more films. ...
COLOR MISSION HELIOS, der zweite Film aus der COLOR MISSION, steht kurz vor der Markteinführung.COLOR MISSION HELIOS, the second frilm from the COLOR MISSION will soon be released.It is a simplyfied color film with only four layers and a very low sensitivity. So to speak: "Color for beginners".In these days of writing this we coat...
Restarting 120 film production at ADOX reqiured two things: repairing the slitter and the film spooling machine. The first step has been successfully accomplished: the slitter is running like new! The rest of the 120 film finishing is more complex than 35mm: alighning to the backing paper, film cutting, attaching to the backing paper, spooling,...
Pushing and pulling means that you are exposing and developing films other than acording to the manufacturers given speed. The reasons can be that you simply did not have the right films along, accidenatally under or overexposed a roll or to purposely modify the films look or djust the process to a given unusally high or...
The new and larger winding stands were delivered today. This enables us to coat up to 4.000m2 per one run and allows for direct rewinding which is optimizing the workflow. ...
The new PWE liquid emulsion is available. After 10 years of R&D on the revival of Fortes legendary Polywarmtone paper we got stuck due to Corona and could not reach our coating machine in Switzerland during the first lockdown and the folowing months of travel restrictions. Therefore we decided to release a product ahead of...
The Production of MCC and MCP is currently paused because one of our premanufacturers has raised prices to an extend that we cannot continue the cooperation. The solution is to transfer this part of the production to our own factories in Switzerland and Germany. Currently our production team is busy implementing Polywarmtone and Lupex with MCC to...
We have made two more coatings in the meantime and are finetuning the paper´s layer package on the cascade. Paper from the first and second coating has been sent to selected master printers for their testing. We have received back images from Wolfgang Moersch and Lina Bessonova (Florence) sofar. Both are very pleased with the new Polywamtone and...
In the meantime we made several coatings of Polywarmtone II with real emulsions. The last one was May 23rd together with the wonderfull darkroom embassador Lina Bessonova from Florence. The paper is stable sofar and soon the first samples can be send out to selected beta testers. The image below shows MCC in comparison to the new...