Originally Posted by
Bob Salomon
The name of the tank is the Combi-Plan-T. Depending on who owned the tank it could have been the Krause Combi-Plan-T (the original model made in Germany be the inventor, Krause) or the Gepe Combi-Plan-T (Gepe bought the system from the invetor and moved the production to Sweden) or the HP Combi-Plan-T (we bought the system from Gepe and moved production to Newark, NJ originally and then back to the factory in Sweden.
Combina is the name of the developing tank system that the Combi-Plan T and L 4x5 tanks and the Combi-Plan 5x7 system were part of.
There were also 35mm and 120/220 single and multiple processing tanks with self-loading center feed reels (like stainless steel but far easier to load then any other type of metal or plastic reel).
We discontinued all of the systems except for the Combi-Plan-T 20 odd years ago and destroyed the tools to make any of the other versions.
All Combi-Plan or, as some still call them, Combina products are sold and billed, worldwide, through HP Marketing. North American dealers, including B&H as well as ditributors such as Daymen in Canada are shipped from our warehouse in Germany. All European distributors are dropped shipped from the factory. All Asian suppliers are shipped from the U.S.
There is no Grey market Combi-Plan product in the U.S. as the factory is part of the Gepe Group of companies which include HP Marketing Corp. and only ships to our authorized distributors in Europe, or their own dealers in Sweden. They do not ship to addresses in the U.S. Additionally production quantities are controlled by HP Marketing Corp.
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