Manufacturer Honors Founder

Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG), Norwalk, Conn., has dedicated its printing plate manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ga., the nation's largest such site, as the Edward E. Barr Building, honoring the company's first chairman at its creation in 1998.

Barr, who advocated construction of the Columbus facility, which now employs 285 people and occupies more than 200,000 square feet, was instrumental in forging a joint venture between Sun Chemical and Eastman Kodak that founded KPG.

He retired in 2002 as chairman of Sun Chemical Group B.V., the holding company of Sun Chemical. During his 11-year term as president and chief executive of Sun Chemical, sales grew from $600 million to more than $3 billion.