Sony DADC Canada: version 1

Saved 2026-09-26 12:44 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the Canadian CD of Natasha Bedingfield – Unwritten (82876 71564 2, barcode 0828767156422), named by family/unwritten-natasha-bedingfield. Sources: Discogs release 2538798, MusicBrainz release f0. This is the current version.

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# Sony DADC Canada <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Sony DADC Canada
disambiguation: Sony's Toronto CD and DVD pressing plant company, 2005–2011; not Sony DADC US in Terre Haute
summary: Sony's Canadian disc-manufacturing company, founded in 2005 to run the former Sony Music Canada pressing plant in Toronto, which closed in 2011.
legal_name: Sony DADC Canada Co.
country: CA
founded: 2005
dissolved: 2011
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind  | address                              | country | source                | note                                                                                      |
| ---- | ----- | ------------------------------------ | ------- | --------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|      | plant | 1121 Leslie Street, Toronto, Ontario | CA      | ^discogs-dadc-toronto | Multi-year lease announced 26 October 2006; 166,000 sq ft in October 2007; closed in 2011 |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                    | type   | locale | from | until |
| ----------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Sony DADC Canada Co.    | legal  |        | 2005 |       |
| Sony DADC, Toronto      | name   |        |      |       |
| Sony DADC (Canada) Co.  | search |        |      |       |
| Sony DADC (Canada) Inc. | search |        |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref                  | url                                    | title                                     | accessed   | publisher | kind      | published | record_id | locator                         | licence | attribution | upstream |
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | ------------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| discogs-smcpl        | https://api.discogs.com/labels/145343  | Discogs label 145343: Sony Music Canada   | 2026-09-26 | Discogs   | catalogue |           | 145343    | profile (Toronto plant history) |         |             |          |
| discogs-dadc-toronto | https://api.discogs.com/labels/4081986 | Discogs label 4081986: Sony DADC, Toronto | 2026-09-26 | Discogs   | catalogue |           | 4081986   | profile, plant indicators       |         |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Sony DADC Canada was formed in 2005 after Sony Disc Manufacturing and Sony DADC Austria announced, on 30 March 2004, the unification of Sony's disc plants outside Japan under the Sony DADC name; it took over the Toronto plant that had run as Sony Music Canada.[^discogs-smcpl] The plant had begun LP and cassette production in the late 1960s, added printing in 1993 and CD manufacturing in 1994; in October 2007 it covered 166,000 square feet and made over 4 million CDs and 800,000 DVDs a month.[^discogs-dadc-toronto] Its discs carry the glass-master code IFPI LW60 from 2005, mould codes in the 67xx series and sequential S-numbered matrices.[^discogs-dadc-toronto]

The company announced a multi-year lease at 1121 Leslie Street, Toronto, on 26 October 2006 and doubled its DVD replication capacity that year.[^discogs-dadc-toronto] The plant closed in 2011.[^discogs-smcpl]
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