Polychrome Corporation, a brainchild of Mr. Halpern, is now a major part of Kodak Co. and continues to live on. But the small company spirit died on Jan 1. 1998 when the company became a part of DIC-Kodak joint venture. This blog is dedicated to the memory of those who proudly call themselves "Polychromer". ..... Ken Shimazu shimazukenichi@gmail.com
Friday, September 18, 2015
1994 DIC World Wide Technical Forum
DIC organized a technical forum ... a poster session at the Kawamura Institute inviting all the group companies to participate. Dan Carlick of Sun Chemical earlier organized successful world wide ink technology meetings aiding technical information flow among the group company. So this world wide DIC technical forum was said to be the DIC's response. I believe it lasted about 3 years and died quietly while John Rooney continued ink tech meetings. Perhaps the focused meeting was more effective than the general forum as DIC's business coverage was quite wide from basic resin to graphic arts to health supplement. In 1994 there were groups of DIC personnel in Polychrome R&D. This was a good forum for them to highlight their work at a very visible internal meeting.