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
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Additional memo from Mr. Gumbinner 16 Speidel
Louis Esposito was hired as the financial vice president. He, Cohen and Mike Vasaliko (one of Fred Hozeny’s assistants) formed a company and set up a plant in Mount Vernon which copied the Polychrome tank line. We hired a lawyer Jerry Wanshell to get an injunction against them. He was not successful. Poychrome acquired a company in Fernwood Penn., a suburb of Philadelphia which made blueprint, brown print and diazo coated papers similar to Ozalid. The directors were Ellington Beavers, who had been a vice president of Rohm and Hass, General LeBron, and Bruce Baldwin, who had been an officer of a Philadelphia ice cream company and was one of the managers of the agency that ran the housing development group. I do not remember the names of the Speidel president and vice-president. One of their directors, Bruce Baldwin., Mr. Halpern put on the Board of directors of Polychrome.