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] CMC produces CD and DVD storage media products, including CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM, and floppy diskettes.
CMC produces the Mr. Data line of optical media, which is or was commonly rebranded and sold by HP, Maxprint, Imation, Memorex, Philips, TDK, BenQ, Verbatim Life Series, Staples, Office Depot, Datamax, Optimum, Auchan and other OEM brands.
[2] Europa Magnetics Corporation Limited, a CMC group company, operated floppy disk, CD-ROM and CD-R production facilities in Cramlington, Northumberland, UK in the 2000s.
[3][4] CMC also operated a CD-R production plant, MC Infonics in Limerick (Republic of Ireland), which it had previously acquired from Mitsubishi Chemical/Verbatim.