wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources ferrania news newspapers books scholar jstor free images august 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message film ferrania s.r.l. type private company industry chemicals manufacturing founded 1923 headquarters cairo montenotte sv italy products film website film ferrania package of the ferraniacolor reversal roll film type 120 produced by ferrania s.p.a. in the 1950s ferrania 126 format photographic film cartridge film ferrania s.r.l. is a manufacturing company located in ferrania liguria italy founded in 1923 as a maker of photographic film papers and photographic equipment including cameras . the company was purchased in 1964 by the 3m company to become ferrania 3m until it was spun off in 1996 to 3m s imation division . in 1999 ferrania was acquired by schroder ventures and then spun off as a separate company . subsequently it was acquired by a genoese shipping company gruppo messina ignazio messina & co. s.p.a . contents 1 history 1.1 original ferrania 1.2 film ferrania 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit original ferrania edit the roots to the ferrania company lie with the 1882 founded explosives manufacturer sipe societ italiana prodotti esplodenti italian society of explosives products . world war i saw a wide extension of business for sipe including the establishment of a new plant situated in the ferrania hamlet of cairo montenotte . with the production and chemical properties of explosives and early film being very similar towards the end of the war sipe founded a subsidiary called film fabbrica italiana lamine milano italian lamination factory milan co owned by the french path brothers which effectively became the film company ferrania founded in 1923 . in 1932 ferrania acquired the milanese photographic plate manufacturer cappelli to temporarily become cappelli ferrania and soon after also tensi the city s other large photographic plate manufacturer before renaming itself back to just ferrania in 1938 . ferrania s widest expansion and peak in popularity came in the post world war ii era after 1945 producing films such as ferraniacolor or the black and white pancro 30 used by pier paolo pasolini for many of his films . in the later years following the 1964 acquisition by 3m and as part of imation the company manufactured and sold photographic film under the solaris dynachrome and scotch chrome brands as well as private label products . up until 2007 ferrania remained the only manufacturer of 126 instamatic films after kodak discontinued them in 1999 . citation needed in july 2008 the company s president announced to its unions that manufacture of color film products would cease in december 2008 although as late as march 2009 ferrania customer service stated that they were still producing 135 format color film in 200 and 400 asa . however all manufacture of photographic film had ceased by the end of that year and in october 2012 ferrania laid off 198 out of 230 employees formerly working in the manufacture and processing of film . film ferrania edit in 2013 the photographic film production line was acquired by the new company film ferrania s.r.l. which took over some of ferrania s manufacturing equipment and buildings as well as a number of those ferrania technicians laid off in 2012 . film ferrania inherited the historic brand ferrania to launch analog products suitable for the actual needs of the cine photo market . in 2013 film ferrania announced to be intending to restart production of solaris fg 100 plus color negative film and scotch chrome 100 color slide film in a variety of formats with a potential emphasis on cine film . in an interview nicola baldini chief of the new company stated his intention of also bringing back black and white films especially the historical ferrania pancro 30 . on november 19 2013 film ferrania presented the main core of production and r & d formed by eight people with years of experience in the field who are listed by their names biography and photos on the company s website . on september 2014 film ferrania after an online survey announced a crowdfounding on the platform kickstarter to obtain 250.000 from the founders to buy some machines from the old plant of ferrania . 1 on october 29 2014 film ferrania terminated the fundraising campaign reaching 322.420 128 % of the original target 2 and announced that as a prize for the donations they will send films of the first batch of 35mm 120 super8 and 16mm test rolls based on the original scotch chrome 100 in april 2015 . however film ferrania suffered numerous production delays due to unseasonable weather in italy asbestos discoveries and numerous flooding problems due to the unseasonable winter weather in italy and it has not started production so far . in late 2015 film ferrania ceo baldini told german magazine cine 8 16 3 that the new time schedule was to start the first test batch to send to donators by spring 2016 which will include a line of color reversal films based on scotchchrome in the iso speeds and color balances of 64d 100d 200d 400d 640t and 800 3200t in the formats of 135 and 120 for still photography as well as super8 and 16mm . later a negative line based on the solaris stock will follow in speeds of 100 200 and 400 iso . see also edit italy portal companies portal list of italian companies references edit kickstarter . film ferrania . retrieved 2016 07 23 . success . retrieved 2016 07 23 . the cine 8 16 interview . retrieved 2016 07 23 . external links edit filmferrania.it official company website 1 interview to nicola baldini retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title 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