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>> # Born down in a dead

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man's town #

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>> Indiana's historic stamp on

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music history, the Sony plant

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in Terre Haute cranking out

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the very first ever compact

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disc produced in North

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America. Bruce Springsteen's

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classic born in the USA. Well

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that was back in the early 80s

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when CDs ruled the roost and

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how we listen to music. Sony

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cranking out, get this, a

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whopping 23 billion CDs since

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1983. But technology changed

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and so did work for several

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thousand Sony workers in the

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Wabash Valley. The Sony DADC

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facility has been a fixture in

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Vigo County for a number of

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years but has lost employment.

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Now may be writing a come back

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story with medical devices.

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Business of Health Reporter

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Kylie Veleta is in Terre Haute

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with that story, Caileigh?

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>> Thanks Gerry. The Sony DADC

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facility was once known as the

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CD capital of the world. But

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technology has changed, so

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Sony is now rewriting its

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soundtrack.

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>> Every single PlayStation

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disk in North America comes

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through this plant to be

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packaged, but Sony no longer

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makes them. In fact, no discs

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are made here anymore. It's a

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far cry from the plants glory

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days when production lines

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turned out 4 million discs per

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day.

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>> Whether it would be a DVD,

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whether it be Blu-ray,

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PlayStation games, you MD,

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LaserDisc, every single or

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might has come through this

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Terre Haute facility plan.

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Since 1983.

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>> The plant was in growth

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mode for 30 years, the largest

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employer in Terre Haute for

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2000 workers. But as demands

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dropped for discs in all forms

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a major downturn began in

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2010.

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>> And so we did have to go

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through a dramatic size

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reduction throughout the

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years, and it was very

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difficult because these were

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people that had led Sony blue

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for a lot of years. And we

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just didn't have the work.

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There was nothing we could do.

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>> The plan to let go 90% of

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its workforce in 10 years,

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packaging industry reading

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PlayStation discs have The

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plant alive. PlayStation

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consoles are also packaged

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here. But with more than

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1,000,000 ft. Of space, the

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plant is now hungry for growth

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once again.

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>> For the equipment we took

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out of here, how do we go

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through and fill the space

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with other diversification

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opportunities? Something we've

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never done before, which means

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we have to become something

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we've never been before.

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>> Sony is now looking for

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other companies to fill open

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manufacturing, warehousing and

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distribution space and use

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Sony employees. The biggest

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impact could come from a

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massive clean room, once use

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to make discs, now move-in

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ready for new business, and

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Sony is targeting medical

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device companies.

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>> As we know, our country is

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aging and population and we

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see the Indiana growth and

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medical device fields. Sony

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has one of the largest clean

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rooms in the Midwest, with

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more than 110,000 ft..

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>> As part of the plants pit,

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five new companies and

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projects have already moved

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in.

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>> Hopefully 3 to 5 years from

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now we've got 500 to 1000

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employees because we brought

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in so much new business. So I

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think the message to the

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community is yeah, we've had

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some rough years, we are still

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here. But now we are only

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going to continue to grow.

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>> Leaders here at the

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facility say the clean room

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presents the biggest

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opportunity and not just for

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medical devices. The first

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tenant is connected to

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Indiana's emerging

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semiconductor space. Gerry,

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back to you.

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>> Alright, Caileigh, back to

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Big news in the Wabash Valley,

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and I have news from Sony and

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Sony Columbia Records, I

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pressed records, albums, you

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remember those? Vinyl?

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Midnight to eight shift at the

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clumpy records plant in Terre