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索尼投资7580万美元扩建BD盘片工厂
2007年04月22日
索尼近期决定在美国印地安纳州（Indiana）的盘片工厂投资7580 万美元用于生产BD光盘，堤尔荷特（Terre Haute）市议会已经同意取消了索尼数字音频光盘公司(Sony DADC)两个税点，这将使该公司在十年之内的纳税值逐渐减少。索尼的申请理由是：减少税收对于维持该工厂的1233个工作岗位非常重要。
“你们可以看到索尼的两个决心，一是继续扩建该工厂，二是转向BD产品。”索尼的律师Ric Shagley告诉议会：“我们将会进行从旧生产线到新生产线的人员转换。”
该工厂的扩建和转换将在5月到10月之间进行。
索尼DADC目前在美国拥有三条BD复制生产线，每月BD盘片产量可达75万张，而印地安纳工厂的相关运作完成之后，预计月产量将达到500万张。
“索尼DADC公司成正成为美国光盘生产工厂的领袖，拥有全面的BD-ROM生产线，”索尼DADC总裁Dieter Daum说，“BD正在改变消费者享受和体验高清娱乐内容的方式，我们非常乐意在这重要的发展中扮演关键的角色。”
堤尔荷特市议会主席Jim Chalos对Tribstar新闻报说，他对索尼的扩建感到“非常兴奋”。
http://www.stor-age.com/dongtai/hangye/htm2007/07042201YXYQ.asp
http://www.cd-time.net.cn/viewthread.php?tid=21&extra=page%3D1
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Sony to expand Blu-ray disc production in Terre Haute
4/19/2007 6:45:00 PM
(Terre Haute) Tribune Star
By Austin Arceo, The Tribune-Star
TERRE HAUTE - One of Terre Haute's largest employers will evolve to reflect the growing electronics market.
Sony Digital Audio Disc Corp. will undergo an estimated $75.8 million renovation to expand capacity for existing product lines. Blu-ray discs, which are used by the Sony Playstation 3, are a "next-generation" disc format meant for high definition video and data storage that are produced by Sony DADC.
The City Council voted last week to adopt two tax abatements for the renovations, which will allow Sony DADC to phase in the taxes over a decade.
The council still needs to confirm the abatements, or approve for a second time, next month before they become official.
"What you're seeing with these two resolutions is the continued expansion of Sony and ... a conversion over to the Blu-ray production," attorney Ric Shagley, who represents Sony DADC, told the council during the meeting.
"We're seeing a transfer of personnel from the older lines to the new lines," he told the council.
Sony DADC will spend an estimated $59.6 million in new machinery and equipment and an estimated $16.2 million to remodel and expand its facility, the abatement proposals report.
The corporation will retain 1,223 jobs worth about $53.3 million in salaries, according to the proposals. The expansion is estimated to start May 15 and end Oct. 1, the proposals added.
The proposals do not indicate that new jobs will be created from the renovations.
If the abatements are approved, the company would pay an estimated $2.9 million in new taxes, with an estimated $5.9 million abated, figures in the proposals indicate.
Sony DADC is the city's fourth-largest employer with more than 1,200 employees, the Terre Haute Economic Development Corp.'s Web site reports.
Michael Mitchell, executive vice president and general manager of Sony DADC, declined an interview on April 9, instead requesting a Tribune-Star reporter to fax questions to him.
Shelley Klingerman, spokeswoman for Sony DADC, said in a phone message left for a Tribune-Star reporter Friday that company officials decline comment. She said in another message left Wednesday that officials were unavailable for comment.
City Council president Jim Chalos, D-at large, called Sony DADC "a great partner" in Terre Haute. His father, the late Pete Chalos, was mayor when the corporation settled into the city.
"It's one of our major employers," said Chalos, who was one of the eight council members to approve the abatements, "so I'm very excited about any kind of expansion that they do out there."
http://www.indianaeconomicdigest.net/main.asp?SectionID=31&SubSectionID=237&ArticleID=33495
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Sony to invest $75 million in Blu-ray disc plant
2:13PM, Friday 20th April 2007
Sony has been given the go-ahead to invest $75.8 million in Blu-ray production at its Indiana disc production facility.
Terre Haute city council granted Sony's Digital Audio Disc (Sony DADC) unit two tax abatements that will enable the company to phase in taxes on the new plant over a decade. Sony convinced the council that the tax abatement was necessary to preserve the plant's 1,223 jobs.
'What you're seeing with these two resolutions is the continued expansion of Sony and a conversion over to the Blu-ray production,' Sony attorney Ric Shagley told the council. 'We're seeing a transfer of personnel from the older lines to the new lines.'
The expansion and conversion of the plant will take place between May and October.
Sony DADC currently has three Blu-ray replication lines in the US turning out a maximum of 750,000 Blu-ray discs per month. This capacity is expected to increase to nearly five million discs, including double-layer 50GB discs, per month once the work at the facility has been completed
'Sony DADC is thrilled to be the leading optical disc manufacturing facility in the US and have a full Blu-ray BD-ROM line ready for production,' said Dieter Daum, Sony DADC president. 'Blu-ray is going to revolutionise the way consumers enjoy and interact with high definition entertainment content, and we are pleased to play a critical role in this important development.'
City council president Jim Chalos told the local Tribstar newspaper that he was 'very excited about any kind of expansion that they do out there'.
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