Kodak's international plants

For ¾ of the 20th century Kodak was the world's dominating power in photography industry. It was based in the USA's optics industry capital Rochester. Soon after its first successes it founded plants elsewhere in the world. Mainly the plants in Great Britain and Germany were developing own Kodak camera types. So this article is dedicated to the Kodak plants in other parts of the world. The British and the German plants and their products are covered in the articles Kodak Ltd. and Kodak AG.

Australian Kodak Brownie Flash II	Mexican Kodak KB 10	Argentinian Instamatic 154X
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In 1980 the international plants outside U.S., U.K. and Germany were (according to the 1980 Kodak brochure "Kodak Milestones"):

Canada, France, Australia, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Further plants are or were in Spain and China.

Canada

• adress: Kodak Canada Limited, Toronto
• products: photographic films, papers, chemicals and cameras

France

• adress: Kodak Pathé, plants in Vincennes, Sevran, and Chalon-sur-Saône
• products: photographic films, papers, chemicals and magnetic tape

Australia

• adress: Kodak Australasia Pty. Ltd., Coburg (Melbourne)
• products: photographic films, papers, chemicals and cameras

Argentina

• adress: Kodak Argentina S.A.I.C., Buenos Aires
• products: cameras

Brazil

• adress: Kodak Brasileira Comércio e Indústria Ltda., Sao Paolo
• products: photographic papers

Mexico

• adress: Kodak Industrial, S.A. de C.V., Guadalajara
• products: photographic films

Spain

• adress: Kodak S.A., Madrid
• products: cameras

China

• adress: Kodak (China) Co. Ltd., plants in Chengdu, Xiamen, Shantou, Wuxi, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou
• products: disposable cameras, digital cameras, "document imaging products", photographic meterials