New venture saves a dozen manufacturing jobs at Kodak

Companies cutting manufacturing jobs usually get all of the attention. Rarely do companies get recognition for saving existing jobs that could have easily gotten the chop.

After a year of cuts, Kodak Colorado Division in Windsor now has 1,600 employees, down from 2005’s 1,650 employees and a recent high of 1,850 in 2002.

But innovations in manufacturing processes will retain some jobs that would have otherwise been lost.

Kodak recently shipped the production of its home media products – paper and ribbon for the printer docks – to a facility in Mexico. The line had about a dozen employees, most of which will…