Disc Manufacturing, Inc., Huntsville

Disc manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Alabama, from 1990 to 1997.

History

Quixote Corporation, a Chicago based parent company, acquired the Anaheim, California and Huntsville, Alabama plants in full on April 30, 1990 from Disctronics Manufacturing, Inc. and the name was changed to Disc Manufacturing, Inc..
On December 8, 1996, Quixote Corporation entered into the negotiation process of selling the two pressing plants to Cinram, Ltd. The purchase by Cinram was completed March 27th, 1997.

Matrix Details

An example for a typical matrix is: DISC MFG., INC. (H) W.O. 123456-1 ABCD1234

An (H) in the matrix runout indicates the disc was pressed at the Huntsville location. If there is a number present together with the plant letter (e.g. H5), this represents both the plant location and Laser Beam Recorder (LBR) that cut the master. The internal identifier for their CDs is the "W.O." (Work Order) number seen in the matrix, followed by a dash and the master cut number. Example above is 123456-1. Sometimes the cut number may include a letter after it. Example: 123456-1V. This letter would indicate a side project of a DMI employee. Following the W.O. number is the customer (normally catalogue) number, sometimes with an "S.O" prefix. In the example above, it is ABCD1234

SID Codes

SID codes used at this plant are the same as at the sister plant in Anaheim. It is not known if assigned mastering SIDs IFPI L801 to L810 were used until 1997.
Known discs glass mastered by Disc Manufacturing, Inc. have mould SID codes IFPI 2F**