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| From | pop@anotherplanet.ca |
| Subject | 2" Tape |
| Date | Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:30:41 -0500 (EST) |
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Cut and pasted from Jack Endino's mail-out thing.
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EXTRA: SKY FALLS!!!
Speaking of negative... Today came word that the Quantegy plant in
Opelika, AL was shuttered and padlocked over the weekend. Employees
greeted the new year with no jobs. Quantegy (formerly Ampex Corp.)
was the last remaining manufacturer of two-inch analog tape for
multitrack recorders!
EMTEC (formerly BASF) in Europe shut down a couple years ago, after
having bought out AGFA a few years before; and before that, 3M (aka
Scotch) sold their tape manufacturing business to Quantegy and became
Imation. So, from the standpoint of the recording industry, the sky
has fallen, and much sooner than anyone realized. My guess is that
the Quantegy tape manufacturing facilities will go on the auction
block, and someone in China will be making 2 inch tape within a year.
But this is pure speculation; no one is talking yet. Newspapers have
not been able to reach management for comments about the surprise
shutdown over the holidays. Stay tuned: search "news" at Google,
keyword "Quantegy".
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