Fatal Equipment Failure

There was a factory in Croatia that was coating sheet film and some types of photographic paper.  This particular factory coated the Efke line of large format films, as well as the recently released Adox CHS films.  These films marketed under the Adox name, were supposed to be the old Agfa formulations.  I have always liked Efke PL25 as it seemed to be very similar to the now discontinued Agfa APX 25 emulsion.  Recently I did some testing with the newly available Adox CHS Art 50 emulsion and really liked it as well.  Late in the summer of 2012, they had a "Fatal Equipment Failure".  All of these emulsions were instantly discontinued...  I have several hundred sheets of each of the two that I really liked, and will now have to reserve those for special situations where the subject matter and the light conditions will be well suited to the characteristics of these emulsions.  I checked with the North American distributor and they confirmed that all of these emulsions are done... never to return.  I was told that the equipment dated back to the Second World War and was beyond repair.  I was also told that this particular coating machinery was quite different from that of any of the other manufacturer's and that these emulsions could not be produced by anyone else.  What a shame...  All the more troublesome given the fact that my most recent batch of Adox CHS 50, processed last week, yielded some spectacular negatives...

All of these are from late 2012...  a few from fall day trips around Edmonton, some from the Labor Day Trip to the Forestry Trunk Road, a couple from the Fall Fossil weekend, and finally a few from the Fall Photo Weekend in Jasper...