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 Kodak
(Australasia) Pty. Ltd. is part of the U.S.-based Eastman
Kodak Company. Kodak manufactures and markets photographic
and multimedia products and services throughout Australia,
and exports to Asia and Pacific Rim countries.
The manufacturing site and company
headquarters are on a 27-hectare site in Coburg, Victoria.
The company employs over 1300 people in imaging, information
technology, health services and manufacturing.
The Coburg plant is one of only
nine major Kodak manufacturing plants worldwide, and is
Australia's sole photographic goods manufacturer. Asia Pacific
export markets take around 80 percent of the Coburg plant's
output of Ektacolor paper, Kodak film and photographic chemicals.
The value of these exports has grown from A$50 million in
1980 to around A$385 million in 2000. Goods manufactured
at Coburg are in the high value-added, elaborately transformed
manufactures (ETM) category. Kodak ranks in the top 10 of
Australian exporters of ETMs.
Kodak Australia is structured
into discrete business units to better focus on the needs
of various segments of customers: Consumer Imaging, Kodak
Professional, Digital and Applied Imaging, Health Imaging,
Entertainment Imaging and Document Imaging.
The company has a respected reputation
for the quality of its research work, both at the level
of manufacturing innovation and in the new field of digital
imaging.
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