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Sony to close US CD pressing plant
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 13 January 2011
Sony Corp’s disk manufacturing business Sony DADC has announced it is closing one of its key North American CD pressing plants in the New Jersey area of Pitman. 300 jobs will go, with the factories CD manufacturing output moved to the company’s Indiana base.
Confirming the closure, Sony rep Lisa Gephardt told reporters: “In light of the current economic environment and challenges facing the physical media industry, Sony DADC is taking additional steps to reduce cost from our supply chain network in order to remain competitive”.
Of course the decline in CD sales is widely documented, and has been impacting on the manufacturing side of the business for sometime. Though that doesn’t necessarily make it any easier on the 300 people soon to be out of work.
