This page is dedicated to James E. Huffaker who graciously donated years of research and photos for this project.

James E. Huffaker was a former chemist who was in research and development his entire professional career of about 40 years.  He worked for Eastman Chemical Company, formerly a Division of Eastman Kodak.  He had a wide variety of assignments but found that the most interesting one was as Director of Asia Pacific Technical Center in Osaka, Japan. 

In 1988, the Company decided it needed a Technical Center for the entire Pacific Rim and Jim Huffaker was asked to build it.  He hired the staff and took on the challenge of training and servicing customers from Japan to Pakistan down to Australia and New Zealand and everywhere in between.  He traveled extensively and his wife accompanied him on most trips.  He returned in 1993 and retired soon after.  In 2002 his older brother died and left a large library of Huffaker research to him.  Now he would like to share that history with you.