Slow to change, Kodak now clings to a future beyond film

New York

OF THE roughly 200 buildings that once stood on the 526-hectare campus of Eastman Kodak's business park in Rochester, New York, 80 have been demolished and 59 others sold off. Terry Taber, bespectacled, 60, and a loyal Kodak employee of 34 years, still works in one of the remaining Kodak structures, rubble from demolition not far from its doors.

Mr Taber oversees research and development at Kodak. Many people might be surprised to know that Kodak is still in business at all, much less employing someone in the hopeful-sounding enterprise of developing new technology ideas. But if the film company, which emerged from bankruptcy in 2013, has any light in its future, Mr Taber is likely to have something to do with it.