Qualex Inc. was the largest wholesale and on-site photographic processing company in the world.
Qualex operated a large network of commercial and in-store labs throughout the United States and Canada.
Qualex once operated 53 photo processing laboratories; that number had shrunk to 22 by June 2004, and the company saw further consolidation.
Qualex, however, continued to service over 13,000 on-site retail processing locations.
[2] On December 18, 2008, Qualex announced that it was shuttering all of its film processing facilities, essentially ending send-out film developing by Kodak.