Hamilton--Behind the Urge to Merge

The next round came when DuPont decided that graphic arts film and chemistry weren't pulling in enough profits—even though the unit's annual turnover barely qualified as a rounding error in DuPont's net income. Thus Agfa vaulted to the number-one spot as the largest supplier of film and offset plates in the world. This was followed by Kodak spinning off its graphic arts division into a cooperative venture with Polychrome to create Kodak Polychrome Graphics.