Compact Disc Technologies: version 1

Saved 2026-09-26 14:22 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the South African CD + DVD edition of Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine (Epic / Clean Slate CDEPC6969, barcode 6007124454430), completing a variant named by family/extraordinary-machine. Ident. This is the current version.

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# Compact Disc Technologies <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Compact Disc Technologies
disambiguation: South African CD and DVD replication plant in Midrand, trading as CDT
summary: South African optical disc manufacturer in Midrand, founded in February 1991 and trading as CDT; it presses CDs and DVDs for record labels.
country: ZA
website: http://www.cdt.co.za/
founded: 1991-02
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind  | address                                             | country | source       | note                                 |
| ---- | ----- | --------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------ |
|      | plant | Unit E, Lanzerac Estate, Old Pretoria Road, Midrand | ZA      | ^discogs-cdt | Manufacturing plant and sales office |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name   | type | locale | from | until |
| ------ | ---- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| CDT    | name |        |      |       |
| C.D.T. | name |        |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref              | url                                                              | title                                                                                               | accessed   | publisher | kind         | published  | record_id | locator                                                     | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| cdt-2016         | https://web.archive.org/web/20160323194704/http://www.cdt.co.za/ | CDT: CD and DVD Replication and Duplication (archived 2016-03-23)                                   | 2026-09-26 | CDT       | manufacturer | 2016-03-23 |           | home page, footer                                           |         |             |          |
| discogs-15401167 | https://api.discogs.com/releases/15401167                        | Discogs release 15401167: Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine (CD + DVD, Album, South Africa, 2005) | 2026-09-26 | Discogs   | catalogue    |            | 15401167  | identifiers, labels, companies, credits, formats, tracklist | CC0     |             |          |
| discogs-cdt      | https://api.discogs.com/labels/219445                            | Discogs label 219445: CDT (2)                                                                       | 2026-09-26 | Discogs   | catalogue    |            | 219445    | profile, contact info                                       | CC0     |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Compact Disc Technologies, known as CDT, is an optical disc manufacturer in Midrand, South Africa, founded in February 1991 and described on Discogs as the first and largest disc plant on the African continent.[^discogs-cdt] Its 2016 website called it the largest independent manufacturer of digital discs in Africa, offering CD and DVD replication, duplication, authoring, printing and packaging, and stated that CDT was a Times Media Group company.[^cdt-2016] Discogs credits it as the manufacturer of South African pressings such as the 2005 CD + DVD edition of Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine.[^discogs-15401167]
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