Kodak demolishes 92 year old factory from a bygone era

Posted on 22 Jul 2015 by Aiden Burgess

Kodak put paid to an era of its once powerful film manufacturing business this week with the demolition of a 92 year old manufacturing building, which was once one of its main manufacturing sites.

Kodak used 100 pounds of dynamite to bring down the 250,000 square-foot plant at Eastman Business Park in Rochester, New York, which was reduced to 1500 tonnes of steel and concrete in just 20 seconds. The building was once used by Kodak to manufacture acetate bae for camera film, and had 50,000 employees working at…

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