CMC Magnetics

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CMC Magnetics Corporation (Chinese: 中環股份有限公司, Central Ring Public Limited Company) is a Taiwanese company that manufactures optical discs. Established in 1978, its factories are located in Taiwan (Memorex, HP, Philips, TDK, Maxell) and Hong Kong (Memorex, Philips). In December 2015, Taiyo Yuden, one of the inventors of the recordable CD and inventor of the original cyanine dye for CD-R, sold its optical disc brand and intellectual property to CMC Magnetics, ending its own production in Japan.^[1]