Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation (Sony DADC) is a manufacturer of CDs, DVDs, UMDs, and Blu-ray Discs, operating numerous plants worldwide. While primarily serving Sony Music Entertainment-owned record labels, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, and Sony Interactive Entertainment, it also produces discs for other labels, home entertainment distributors, and video game publishers.
History
Sony DADC's first plant, located in Terre Haute, IN, opened on May 2, 1983,[1] and produced its first CD, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A., in September 1984.[2] It was the first CD manufacturer in the United States and serves as the company's principal CD manufacturing facility and its research and development center.[1]