Tetenal to be closed - what next?

[Delfi_r]

Tetenal – Wie es weiter geht – NEW TETENAL

Short and in english: there will be a New Tetenal, focused on production of chemicals

[Doremus Scudder]

There's a link to the English translation at the bottom of the page linked to above if anyone is interested.

Here it is: http://new-tetenal.de/tetenal-how-things-will-continue/

[Tin Can]

How much does Tentenal sell to Badge firms, meaning repackagers.

Are they essential for Color Movie film, Hollywood?

Important to me, do they make Rodinal?

[interneg]

How much does Tentenal sell to Badge firms, meaning repackagers.

Are they essential for Color Movie film, Hollywood?

Important to me, do they make Rodinal?

They manufacture(d) a great deal of Ilford & Kodak's BW chemistry & some colour. The old Tetenal was vast - I think Mirko from Adox said they were about 2x the employees of Harman/ Ilford - and the chemical section (which is the bit re-establishing itself) was only about 40 people (approx 10% of the old company). And it was making money, unlike much of the the rest of the company.

Tetenal do make a Rodinal equivalent, but Adox make the genuine article.

[neil poulsen]

Tetenal – Wie es weiter geht – NEW TETENAL

Short and in english: there will be a New Tetenal, focused on production of chemicals

Could still result in a possible temporary lapse of available product. I think I'll stock up.

I use Dektol and D76. If it came to that, I believe that it's possible to make both of these developers from scratch. I found one specifically for D76 in Ansel Adams book, Negative. I also found Dektol substitutes online.

Hopefully though, it won't come to that. (Ever?)

[Tin Can]

I have been using a case of ADOX Rodinol, but just bought 2.5 L of "Rollei Compard R09 One Shot Agfa Rodinal Formula Film Developer - 500 ml' as it was 25% cheaper. I can't read anything on the bottle even with a magnifier. Tiny print, I had to look it up at Freestyle where I always buy one or the other. They say, "Compard R09 One Shot Film Developer is the exact same formulation as Agfa Rodinal".

ADOX Rodinol is out of stock until March.

Very confusing!

They manufacture(d) a great deal of Ilford & Kodak's BW chemistry & some colour. The old Tetenal was vast - I think Mirko from Adox said they were about 2x the employees of Harman/ Ilford - and the chemical section (which is the bit re-establishing itself) was only about 40 people (approx 10% of the old company). And it was making money, unlike much of the the rest of the company.

Tetenal do make a Rodinal equivalent, but Adox make the genuine article.

[Peter De Smidt]

Tim Rudman just posted this on Facebook.

[Tin Can]

Das ist gut

[Keith Fleming]

I have (in storage) a couple of bottles of Rodinal-formula developers. The labels differed, but the plastic containers were identical. My guess is that when Agfa went belly-up, the factory making Rodinal continued production, but sold its products to other companies for commercial sale. There also were some legal issues regarding anyone using the name Rodinal, which apparently have been resolved since Adox is now marketing Rodinal. In any event, I am convinced that RO9 is identical to Rodinal, and manufactured by the same factory.

Keith

[Oren Grad]

I've renamed the thread to be a more accurate representation of the current situation - in view of developments reported elsewhere and linked here, it's premature to say that the part of Tetenal that we care about most here, the photochemical manufacturing division, is "gone".