Sony DADC
Sony DADC is an optical storage media manufacturer and part of Sony Corporation . The abbreviation DADC originally stood for Digital Audio Disc Corporation , but became obsolete with the emergence of the successor medium Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) and has only been used as a brand name in the shortened form since then.
The Digital Audio Disc Corporation (DADC), a joint venture between Sony and CBS , opened in May 1983. her first work in Terre Haute , in the United States . Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA was the first compact disc (CD) to be manufactured in the factory and released in September 1984. As early as October 1985, the Sony Corporation of America (SCA) bought the share of CBS and thus took over the entire plant.
The Terre Haute site was the first CD replication plant in the USA and is now Sony's most important production facility for optical storage media. Accordingly, Terre Haute has also been expanded into the headquarters of the Sony DADC research and development center.
In 1988, SCA bought the music division CBS Records from CBS and renamed it in 1991 to Sony Music Entertainment (SME). This also acquired the production facilities of CBS, all of which, however, originally still made vinyl records . These sites have been part of Sony Disc Manufacturing (SDM) and partially upgraded for CD replication. The modernized SDM locations Pitman (1988), Manaus (1992), Toronto (1994) and Mexico City (1994) were finally integrated into Sony DADC in 2004.
The internationally important location for disc replication is Sony DADC Austria, based in Anif. With the restructuring of the Sony replication sites, which began in 2004, the Anif site, which opened in 1986, became the headquarters of Sony DADC Global (excluding the USA and Japan). The restructuring was necessary because most of the replication sites were originally organized as subsidiaries of Sony Music Entertainment (SME), while Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) and Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) now rely just as heavily on the services of SDM / DADC (replication and Distribution). Optical storage media are no longer manufactured in Anif. The Sony DADC is managed from Anif; since 2007, in response to the decline in optical storage media, Anif has developed and produced smart consumables for the pharmaceutical industry.
For the time being, only two locations in Japan remained unaffected by the merger, which never fell under the jurisdiction of Sony Corporation of America (SCA), but belonged to the operationally independent Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) (SMEJ). These are now also part of the Sony DADC network, but operate with the Japanese DADC location under the name Sony DADC Japan (DADJ).
Production sites
- Sony DADC Americas
- Terre Haute (Indiana), USA
- Pitman (New Jersey) , USA
- Toronto , Canada
- Mexico City , Mexico
- Manaus , Brazil
- Sony DADC Europe
- Anif , Austria (1986–2012 Disc, since 2007 Biosciences)
- Thalgau , Austria
- Southwater , UK (since 2006, formerly Deluxe)
- Pilsen , CZ (since 2010)
- Sony DADC Japan
- Yoshida , Shizuoka Prefecture (DADJ-Y) Yoshida
- Yaizu , Shizuoka Prefecture (DADJ-O) Oigawa
- Naka , Ibaraki Prefecture (DADJ-I)
- Sony DADC Australia
- Huntingwood
- Sony DADC India
- Navi Mumbai (since 1996)
- Sony DADC Asia
- Hong Kong
- Shanghai (Sony DADC China, since April 2007)
- Shanghai Epic Manufacturing Operations (Joint Venture, since May 2001)