When You Can’t Win For Losing: Kodak And The Reshoring Of US Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Kodak, Fujifilm and startups Civica Rx and Phlow fight with grit, vision and government support to restore US pharmaceutical manufacturing.

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Kodak makes some calls, sees what develops … • Source: Shutterstock

When top corporate officials began cold-calling federal agencies during the March 2020 pandemic lockdown to see how Eastman Kodak Co., which manufactures chemicals, could help reduce expected shortages of essential medicines, it was a changed company from the consumer photography giant that had come to serve as a lesson in what can go wrong when you are overconfident and slow to adapt.

There was a hunger to find the next new thing for an iconic business that had fallen on hard times,...

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