[net.audio] CBS/Sony CD production plans

kek@mgweed.UUCP (Kit Kimes) (10/02/85)

	"Toshio Ozawa, CBS/Sony/Japan president, recently stated 
	that his company would increase its CD software production
	in its Shizuoka factory from 1 million/month to 1.5 million/
	month, by May or June of 1986.  By the end of 1986, production
	should be upped to three million discs/month in Japan.
	Moreover, Ozawa stated, the company's Terre Haute, IN plant,
	which currently produces 500,000/month, will increase its
	production to 1 million CDs/month by the end of this year.
	The production target for the U.S. plant is two million
	discs/month by the end of 1986, Ozawa stated.  He added that,
	if all goes as scheduled, the total CBS/Sony U.S./Japan 
	production of CDs will near 40 million for the whole of 1986."

			AudioVideo International, Sept. 1985, page 8