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WINDSOR--Rob Gray has worked at Kodak "forever" and has been at the Windsor facility nearly as long.
Gray, who took over as site manager of Kodak Colorado Division at the start of the year, has seen the company evolve through several decades. But the company's most recent evolution--a restructuring to bring it into the digital age--has been the most drastic.
In May 2003, then-Chairman and CEO Dan Carp said during his state-of-the-company address that "the company's challenge is to link strongly film's unparalleled capture technology to a digital imaging world that's evolving rapidly."
The next year, Kodak announced restructuring plans that led to a work-force reduction of about 27,000 positions. Windsor has been spared any major loss of jobs.
"Our plant has been fortunate," Gray said. "We've had very few layoffs in Colorado."
While the individual job losses are painful, he said, overall Kodak Colorado Division only had to lay off about 50 workers as a result of the restructuring. In 2004, the site employed about 1,700. At the start of this year, there were around 1,600 Kodak employees in Windsor. Most of the positions have been eliminated through attrition, Gray said.
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