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Sony DADC Austria
AADD CCDD
AUSTRIA
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4. Sony DADC –
The Company
Sony DADC Austria AG, is a hundred percent
daughter company of the Sony Corporation, was
founded in 1986 to cater to the requirements of the
European CD market. Since then, the Compact Disc
has emerged as the dominating sound-carrier. In
1996 more than 900 million units were sold in
Europe. The CD has also become the basic techno-
logy for other optical storage products like Laser
Disc, MiniDisc, CD-ROM or Play Station Disc that
were introduced on the market.
With a quantity of more than 300 million CDs ship-
ped annually Sony DADC is one of the leading
Manufacturers of optical storage media in Europe.
With two plants in Salzburg and the worldwide net-
work with subsidiaries in Japan, Hongkong,
Australia, USA, Canada, Mexico and Brazil, we
guarantee supply to our customers with the highest
quality and top serviceability.
A separate development division with world-
wide networking ensures the step ahead in
production technology and is ready to meet specific
customer requirements. But above all, here we
create the basis for new products in the future so
that we can ensure that the Sony group will be your
partner in the future, too.
Sites: Factory I - Anif/Salzburg
Factory II - Thalgau/Salzburg
No. of employees: 1997 approx. 950
Capacity: 1997 1,2 mio/day
Production quantity: more than 300 million
annually
Customers: approx. 2500
(International and European music and film com-
panies, publishers, multimedia and information
providers as well as computer and video game
companies and the majority of software and
hardware manufacturers)
ISO 9002: Certification 1995
Facts and Figures:
Product Use Size Specification
Compact Disc Audio 12 cm max. playing time 77min.
8 cm max. playing time 21min. 50sec.
Laser Disc Video 30 cm max.playing time 120min.
(two sides)
CD-ROM Information processing/ 12 cm max. 680 MB
CD-I
Multimedia, Interactive
Entertainment 8 cm max. 192 MB
Video CD Video/Film 12 cm depending on combination
audio/video/data
MiniDisc Portable Audio 6,4 cm playing time approx. 74 min.
PlayStation Interactive
Disc Entertainment 12 cm max. 680 MB
CD EXTRA Multimedia, Audio, 12 cm max. 74 min. 30 sek.
Video, Data 8 cm max. 655 MB
MD Data like CD-ROM 6,4 cm max. 140 MB
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