Eastman Kodak Co. will move its X-ray film-coating production work to Windsor but will not add any new jobs.
The Rochester, N.Y.-based photography company will cut 330 jobs at its French facility as a result of the shift, said Kodak spokesman David Lanzillo.
The move will be completed by March 2007. It will cost the company $86 million.
“We think we will be able to handle this additional production with the employees we have now,” said Lucille Mantelli, a spokeswoman for the Windsor plant. Kodak employs 1,600 people in Windsor.
The remaining 1,030 workers at Kodak’s plant in Chalon-sur-Saone, France, will continue to perform other processes on X-ray film.
Kodak, the world’s biggest maker of film used for X-rays, is making the cuts as part of a plan to eliminate as many as 25,000 jobs as chief executive Antonio Perez turns the firm’s focus away from film-based technology and toward digital photography, medical imaging and commercial printing.
Staff writer Kristi Arellano contributed to this report.
