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Every time I see
the tower I just think:
God, what if ...?
What if somebody else would have been
a little bit more innovative?
Or what if the board
would have thought
let's think a little bit further out?
Every one worked for Kodak.
Whether their father did
or their mother had or their uncle did
or their older brother did.
And so, when Kodak
started to show
signs of faltering
parents didn't know
how they were going to survive.
And that must have been just a stab in the heart
because it was really
the end of an era.
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You know, there are some mixed emotions.
We took down 40 buildings and
about 6 million square feet of space.
In my 34 years I worked
in a lot of these buildings.
You know, I've got to be honest,
it was a little bit tough to see
some of that going down.
When you go to Eastman Business Park --
it used to be called Kodak park --
you're standing in a place
that once had tens of thousands
of employees working there.
Now it has fewer and more diversified
but it's still an exiting place.
We still have over 6.500 people.
The difference is, three quarters of those
people are non-Kodak workers today.
All around us are other companies,
not Kodak.
What used to happen in this facility,
where we are now making sauce and salsa:
Kodak used to make camera bodies.
Initially it was a little eerie
and now it's just normal.
In my last 5 years at Kodak
I used to manage the decline.
I used to manage declined sale buildings,
cut costs...
It was depressing.
It's just the shadow of its former self.
What it is today
is very different.
Obviously Kodak is a
pretty interesting company
and it was a brand that was very warm,
very personal, because these were
your memories they were capturing.
Part of me says, you know,
we need to carry on that legacy.
In the next generation
of products that we make
we will have Eastman technology in there.
We have 7.000 patents.
We make our own inks,
we make our own toners,
we also make the fastest commercial
printing inkjet machines in the world.
We're using film and putting
silver halide in a grid on it.
We then print touch sensors.
Putting glue on a piece construction paper
and sprinkling sparklers on top
is very similar to what is going on here.
The glue is our ink, the sparklers in
this part of the process is the metal.
It's a little more high tech than that
but fundamentally that's what's going on.
Ektacolor paper, Kodacolor
film, Vision Motion Picture film.
There are all kind of products
but they are with the right cycle.
This is now the next generation|
of great Kodak products.
Part of me would love, you know,
to have the business we had.
While I enjoyed the nostalgia,
I am beyond that now and ready to move on.
Kodak will be offering more jobs here
but I think the real job growth will
likely come from other companies coming in
utilizing the capability here.
At one time there were 30.000
people manufacturing film.
We now have 300 people manufacturing film.
There has to be a sense of renewal
sometimes you have to prune the tree
to get it to grow stronger.
This is a real exiting change for us.
Touch sensors -- you see them everywhere.
Whether it's on a phone, a tablet,
just in the airport,
where ever.
I jumped ship and came
over to the food and beverage industry.
Unlike anything I've ever done before.
Food and bev is, you know --
the one thing that like about it
the most is people have got to eat.
It won't be replaced
by digital technology.
And that, I like.
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