DADC, Terre Haute, Indiana

PLEASE NOTE: This label entry should ONLY be used for releases that identify the Terre Haute location by name on the artwork. Do NOT credit this label entry based solely on SID codes, which is forbidden by [g5.2.d]. If you believe that there is credible primary evidence to support the identification of this specific pressing plant in the absence of a direct credit printed on the release, please open a forum discussion.

First CD manufacturing facility established in the United States.

After incorporating Digital Audio Disc Corporation (Sony DADC) as a joint venture between Sony Corporation Of America and CBS Inc. on November 4th, 1983, production in the facility started on September 21st, 1984 with [r8491482]. In 1985 CBS Inc. sold their share in Sony DADC to Sony. After the purchase of CBS Records Inc. by Sony Corp. of America in 1988 CD production also started in the newly acquired and adapted sister plant in Pitman (the former Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman) which shut down again on March 31st, 2011. Sony DADC ceased CD production at Terre Haute in early 2018.

About SONY DADC, Terre Haute:
'The $21 million facility began production with a capacity of 300,000 discs per month and a full time staff of 100 employees. After more than twenty years, Sony DADC's 678,000 square foot* plant in Terre Haute remains at the cutting edge of technology as Sony DADC's Research & Development facility and the largest US disc production plant at over 60 million discs - now CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc and UMD - a month.'**

The facilities were formally owned by DADC (Digital Audio Disc Corporation) until 2004 when Sony Disc Manufacturing and Sony DADC unified worldwide production under the name Sony DADC, except in Japan where it remained Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.

Matrix Codes (valid for Terre Haute and Pitman, as well as for other CD manufacturing facilities):
BVDL: Dual-layer Blu-ray Discs
BVSS: Single-layer Blu-ray Discs
CTDP:
DIDC: Classical recordings released on Sony-affiliated record labels
DIDP: Popular (i.e., non-classical) recordings released on Sony-affiliated record labels
DIDX: Recordings pressed by DADC for release on non-Sony-affiliated record labels
DIDY: Recordings pressed by the US division of DADC for the Columbia House Record Club
DIDZ:
DVDL: Dual-layer DVDs
DVSS: Single-layer DVDs
LDTA, LDVS: Laserdiscs

* 63.000m²
** as per info from sonydadc.com, 2015

Mastering SID Codes (1995-2005):
IFPI L322 L323 L324 L325 L326 L327 L328 L329
IFPI L330 L331 L332 L333

Mould SID Codes (1995-2005):
IFPI 50**