Tape-Disc Business back issues from September 1997:
May you live in interesting times. (eclipse of analog cassettes by CDs)
Sep 01, 1997; ... The eclipse of the analog cassette by the CD during this 10-year period encompasses a number of trend stories that made reporting on this industry fascinating.In 1987, the analog cassette was still the dominant prerecorded music format, and would remain so for another three years ....
Friend to the industry: Tape/Disc Business honors Larry Finley. (founder of the International Tape Association)(includes related articles)
Sep 01, 1997; ... In a celebratory issue looking back at ten years of the tape and disc industry it seems appropriate to express appreciation for one industry leader who was there when it all began, and who played in y ways a major role in encouraging the industry to become at it is today. That man is Larry ...
The immediate future is spelled ... D-V-D. (digital video discs)(includes history of DVD's emergence)
Sep 01, 1997; ... Much of the focus of this 10th Anniversary issue of Tape/Disc Business is on the past, but it would be remiss not to take a moment and delve into the future. It is the ability to look forward and anticipate the needs of the industry that most often determines success or failure. ...
Acme Magnetic Tapes Ltd.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... ACME Magnetic Tapes Ltd. has been developing and producing magnetic tapes since the early 1970s. At first the company focused on magnetic tape slitting. Then, in cooperation with Magna Tek Corp., two coating lines were brought in to produce audio tapes in 1975, Next ACME expanded its ...
Arburg GmbH.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... The historical evolution of Arburg, a company that has existed for more than 70 years, is characterized by many successes that have been achieved due to development and production efforts in plastics injection molding machinery suited for practical application.Customer specific ...
Audio Development.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Audio Development has always been dedicated to responding to the needs and demands for quality control systems. Since 1987, the company has provided the industry with one of the most complete, most accurate and reliable automated test systems for all compact disc formats and stampers. The CD ...
Auriga Aurex, Inc.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... A major worldwide manufacturer and distributor of magnetic media and precision plastic molded products for the duplication and replication industries, Auriga Aurex was founded in 1969, Headquartered in Mexico City. the company has annual sales revenues exceeding $100 million in the U.S. and ...
Autoroll Machine Corporation.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Autoroll has a long history of innovation in the specialty printing field. In the 1960s, we pioneered screen printing on plastic bottles, printed circuit boards, and semi-conductor devices. In the 1970s, Autoroll introduced UV curing to plastic bottle printing and revolutionized sporting ...
Basler Image Processing.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Basler Image Processing was founded in 1988 by its president Norbert Basler. Within 9 years, Basler has become one of the world's leading inspection equipment suppliers to the CD industry. The growth of the company can also be seen in its personnel development. From its start as a two man ...
Carl M. Rodia & Associates, Inc.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... When Tape Business debuted in 1987, Carl M. Rodia & Associates, Inc. (CMR) was already two years old. By 1987 the firm's founder, Carl M. Rodia, had been assisting CD-Audio start-ups with his one-man engineering consulting business in the planning and start-up of CD-Audio plants worldwide ....
Automated Packaging Systems.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Founded in 1962, Automated Packaging Systems, Inc. provides a total systems approach to packaging designed to increase productivity and reduce costs. The privately held company offers machinery to bag, imprint, count, sort, weigh and dispense along with system-matched materials such as ...
Carthuplas.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... The story of Carthuplas dates back to 1952, when Henri Lammerant founded the Cartonneries de Thulin, Belgium, which manufactured cardboard for binding and packaging. From 1963, Cartonneries de Thulin specialized in cardboard containers for powdered cleansers, mostly for exports. In 1972, ...
Clear-Vu Products.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... The past decade stands witness to the evolution of our company from a small supplier to "Mom and Pop" retailers into an industry leader in designing and manufacturing innovative packaging solutions. Working intimately with the retail community, Clear-Vu quickly realized that our greatest ...
CMC Magnetics Corporation.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Taiwan-based CMC Magnetics Corporation was established in 1978 and in 1986 became the third largest OEM videotape manufacturer worldwide, with licenses from JVC and Sony, and the exclusive right to use the M.G.M. Lion trademark. The company started production of 3.5-inch floppy diskettes in ...
Data Disc Robots.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Today and tomorrow, the market reality decides which production strategy is the appropriate one. Times of fast and fundamental changes and increasing competition do not have omniscient strategies and indisputable positions. Every day sets the task of finding answers to these challenges. New ...
Del Mar Avionics.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... The replication industry is well aware of Del Mar Avionics, the company that developed the FireTrac[R] Laser Beam Recorder (LBR) to produce CD masters. Few people in the industry, however, know about the company's rich history, as evidenced by the many diverse product innovations spawned by ...
DIC Trading.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... DIC originated as Kawamura Ink Manufacturing, established in Tokyo in 1908 by Kijuro Kawamura and his wife Kayo. After World War I, Kawamura was forced to start producing organic pigment in Japan, rather than importing pigments from Germany. By 1925, the company was moving into the synthetic ...
Digital Matrix.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... The dawn of the Age of DVD heralds the arrival of a new level of consumer satisfaction. At the same time, it imposes previously unmatched demands for preciseness and excellence on those who produce the masters from which the discs are produced.Those who thought the pits on a glass ...
DiscoVision Associates (DVA).(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... The DVA story begins with David Paul Gregg, who founded Gauss ElectroPhysics in 1965. In 1965, 1967 and 1968, Gregg made patent application filings directed to an optical disc system capable of recording and reproducing pictures, sound and data. Lew Wasserman, chairman and chief executive ...
E Media.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... E Media of Kennebunk, ME was established in 1988 as a product and business development company specializing in electronic media products and technologies. E Media was founded by Paul Gelardi, who in the 1970s co-founded Shape, Inc., a manufacturing company also headquartered in Maine. An ...
EAM (Engineered Automation of Maine, Inc.)(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... EAM was formed by Steve Swinburne and Jim Robinson in the fall of 1988. It took just a few months before EAM outgrew Swinburne's basement and was moved to an office in Scarborough, ME. The original plan was to supply custom automation machines, but Andrew Powell approached the company with a ...
EMTEC Magnetics GmbH.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... EMTEC Magnetics GmbH, formerly BASF Magnetics GmbH, has since January 1, 1997, been part of the Korean KOHAP group, one of South Korea's largest companies. BASF Magnetics was founded on January 1, 1991 when BASF AG, which first developed magnetic recording media 60 years ago, took over its ...
Gauss/Electro Sound.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Gauss/Electro Sound, based in Sun Valley, CA, claims to be the world's largest manufacturer of duplicating equipment, including audio and video duplicators and loaders, Gauss' fully automatic video loader, Model CD 9002V, for example, features a unique means of air ionization to continuously ...
Fairchild Technologies.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... For the past 20 years, Fairchild Technologies has conducted leading-edge research in optical disc equipment technology, enabling the company to bring to market innovative manufacturing solutions. Headquartered in Nanterre, France, the company has grown into an international organization with ...
First Light Technology, Inc.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Founded in 1989 by Netstal Machinen of Switzerland and a technically driven team of engineers in the United States, First Light has shown significant growth and progress in the rapidly changing replication industry. The original Uniline products evolved with the industry and are all still in ...
Golden Rule Printing.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Started in 1981 with three employees and two small presses in a small rented facility (a former convenience store), Golden Rule Printing has enjoyed continuous growth in the past 16 years. Its product lines were expanded in 1987 to include compact disc graphics, which has proven to be a ...
Goldstar/LG Electronics.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... LG Electronics envisions a future where life is convenient and pleasant. Where living spaces are full of happiness. And where the promise of the future we all dream of comes true. From convenient, timesaving home appliances to the multimedia products which will help usher in the information ...
Kao Infosystems.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Kao Infosystems began manufacturing and shipping commercial DVD product from its Northern California-based production facility, located in Silicon Valley, in July. Kao, a worldwide software manufacturing and distribution services supplier, has produced titles in the new DVD format for a wide ...
KOCH Digitaldisc.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... KOCH Digitaldisc, Elbigenalp, Germany, was founded in 1985, as the optical media manufacturing and technology company of KOCH International Enterprises. KOCH Digitaldisc works independently, offers a complete line of products and services in the audio and data postproduction, compact disc ...
Eastman Kodak Company.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... An old adage says, "There are three types of leaders: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened." George Eastman - who introduced Kodak cameras and film to a mass consumer audience over a century ago - was a leader who made things happen ....
Krauss-Maffei.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Krauss-Maffei has been one of the pioneers of compact disc development since 1982. In the early eighties, when CD manufacturing was still an exciting undertaking, Krauss-Maffei eagerly participated in the development of fast and reliable injection molding machines. In 1982, the normal cycle ...
Langen-Kyoto Inc.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Langen-Kyoto, Mississauga, Ontario, CN, is a joint venture company formed by Langen Packaging Inc. in Canada and Kyoto Seisakusho Co., Ltd. of Japan. The two companies, with their combined experience of more than 90 years in the packaging equipment field, realized that a dedicated company ...
Leybold Systems.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... When the first attempts for metallizing CDs had been made at the end of the 1970s, metallization of plastic parts was an established industry, Leybold Systems had significant expertise in building those lines from its history. Therefore it came as no surprise that Leybold Systems was one of ...
Memorex.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Memorex is the core brand name of Memtek Products, a division of Hanney Holdings Ltd. of Hong Kong. Memtek has manufacturing plants in the United States, Asia and Ireland. The company also produces the Dysan product line, which includes CD-R, diskettes and tape back-up products. The Dysan ...
MATRIX Inc.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... MATRIX, Inc. is the U.S. sales representative for Chinese manufacturer Viva Magnetics Ltd., marketing the VD-Album (known as Bookbox in Europe), as well as providing technical and logistical support for customers. Manufacturing CD jewel boxes in China since 1987, Viva has grown with the CD ...
Netstal Machinery, Inc.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Netstal Machinery, Inc. is known worldwide for building fast, precise and reliable molding machines, dominating in technical applications such as the medical industry, In 1973 the company introduced its SYCAP closed loop control of all key process variables, Netstal used this technology and ...
Multi Media Masters & Machinery.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Since operations began in the early 1990s, Multi Media Masters & Machinery, known as 4M, has been a source of manufacturing technologies, equipment and services for optical media formats. After starting with prerecorded CD formats, 4M began offering complete packages for CD-R manufacturing ...
Optical Disc Corporation.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Optical Disc Corporation (ODC) was founded in 1982 and this year marks ODC's 15th year in business.The founders of ODC have been leaders in our industry from the very start: Leading the first research and development team to produce optical discs. Demonstrating the world's first ...
Otari.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... It is a high honor for a company to become known in its industry for its daring breakthrough technology. For the same company to also win the plaudits of its peers for the reliability and durability of its products is rare indeed.Otari is such a company.Founded in Japan ...
Panasonic Factory Automation.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Panasonic Factory Automation is a division of Matsushita Electrical Corporation of America. Panasonic Factory Automation is a leader in developing automated manufacturing systems for factories of all kinds. Its electronic assembly equipment, industrial robots and metal fabrication and ...
Philips Mastering & Duplication (M&D).(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Philips, the leading player in the development and introduction of the hugely successful audio CD industry (a market now worth more than $6 billion a year for discs alone), has not rested on its laurels. The Eindhoven-based company is again at the forefront of the latest consumer digital ...
ReynoldsTech.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... The pictures of our facility speak many words as to the history and growth of ReynoldsTech. This next year will commence the twentieth year of operation for ReynoldsTech. In a number of aspects, Reynolds is similar to other companies involved in the fast moving area of high technology. That ...
ROBI SYSTEM.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... From CD to DVD and Rewritable Discs, ROBI System manufacturers state-of-the-art integrated production systems for optical media products. ROBI's production systems offer unsurpassed Swiss quality and dynamic flexibility, increasing the bottom line and assuring successful business for ...
Saehan Group.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... If past is prologue to the future, the outlook for Saehan Group is bright indeed.We did not become the world's largest producer of private label magnetic tape by accident, Companies do not lightly put their names on a product; rather only after they are satisfied it embodies all ...
Dr. Schenk GmbH.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... In 1985, a group of scientists and engineers joined Dr. Christoph Schenk, who had already developed the first fully automatic CD inspection system in cooperation with Polygram, to form a new company in Martinsried, a suburb of Munich, Germany. Dr, Schenk GmbH worked to apply the latest ...
SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... On January 1, 1996, SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES was formed as a new company around a core of knowledgeable staff and a well-known, respected product line for CD/CD-ROM metallization.SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES aggressively pursued a marketing plan to expand its product line and to set-up a ...
SKC America, Inc.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... SKC America, Inc., Mount Olive, NJ, was established in 1986 in New Jersey and California, and in 1987 introduced video pancakes to the North American market. TMD video pancakes were added to its product line in 1989, the same year SKC America moved to new headquarters in Mount Olive. The ...
20th BOK.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... The success has been phenomenal, as 20th BOK has grown to become the global leader in custom information packaging. Countless companies have come to 20th BOK with packaging ideas and challenges that simply never have been done before. 20th BOK made its strong claim to fame through an uncanny ...
Tapematic S.p.A.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... In 1972, Luciano Perego, an electrical engineer, and his wife Tina formed Tapematic in Ornago, Italy. In those early days, the company focused on not only building loaders, but also offered a custom loading service for nearby Milan-based audio duplicators. Within the first few years, ...
Trace Optical.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... The name Trace has always been big in the software duplication business, but with the arrival of Trace Optical just a few short years ago, the new spin-off company is now one of only a few in the industry capable of the development, manufacture, and marketing of a complete range of ...
Univenture, Inc.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Univenture, Inc. was founded in 1988 by Ross O. Youngs. The Columbus, OH-based company develops and manufactures innovative optical disc packaging and storage products. It offers full-service software/disc packaging for CDs and floppy disks. Univenture's exclusive Safety-sleeve product line ...
Toolex Alpha.(A Salute to T/DB Supporters)(Company Profile)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Toolex Alpha has been an equipment supplier to the music and entertainment industry for more than 35 years. The company was a pioneer in the introduction of an injection molding machine dedicated to CDs, replication systems with double molding machines, and a fully functional in-line DVD ...
MPEG LA to license. (MPEG Licensing Administrator)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Denver-based MPEG Licensing Administrator, better known as MPEG LA, has begun licensing its MPEG-2 patent portfolio license. "MPEG LA is not an organization of the DVD Forum although some of the DVD Forum members happen to also be members of MPEG LA, "according to Forum spokesman Yasuo ...
Nimbus announces DVD-9 capability. (Nimbus CD International, Inc.)
Sep 01, 1997 ... Nimbus CD International, Inc., Charlottesville, VA, is the second replicator to announce DVD-9 capability (See Considering Dual Layers, T/DB, August 1997). New equipment in support of DVD-9 will add 4 to 5 million DVDs to Nimbus' existing capacity as well as further expand the company's ...