SkyMedia Manufacturing factory photos

Some nice photos from SkyMedia's factory in Yvonand (Swiss). The company does not exist anymore, it went bankrupt in september of 2006. These photos were taken by Matus Valter (reviewer of Slovakian magazine PC REVUE), thank you Matus for sending them to me
He had a chance to visit that factory in the autumn of 2004 when SkyMedia sold CD-R lines to Vietnam (at the time of the visit they were moving them from Yvonand's facility) and just few months before SkyMedia stopped also DVD-R production.
Thanks again Matus for pics and info!
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Entrance to company
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climatizing and cooling units made by Piovan
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injection moulding machine Singulus Emould
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cooling of stamped polycarbonate substrate
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dye coating
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dye coating cups
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final in-line scanning of DVD media
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one of the control monitors of Singulus Streamline DVDR manufacturing line

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Last edited by pepst; 02-07-2008 at 23:04.

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bonding of both polycarbonate layers of DVDR media
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DVD dye preparation lab
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automatised packaging of optical media
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manual DVD-R prewriters made by Interaxia
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quality control department - CD Cats devices
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quality control department - DVD Cats devices
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quality control department - Quantized Systems PRO-DVD-R devices

Dang, some of those spindles were huge! LOL

Wow looks pretty thorough. Thanks for the pics.

Nice pepst!

Look at these ones

I'd hate to see the mess if one of those dye coating lines broke

Post 6 looks like my closet. LOL.

This is like media porn. I'm getting so excited just looking at the photos.

same here. And I feel kinda sad that it all went down the drain.

Maybe it was all just PIE in the Sky?

Very interesting pepst.

Me too

It's sad that whole recordable optical media industry in Europe is almost dead now

Thanks guys. I will post similar pictures from Eximpo (CD-R and DVD-R manufacturer from Czech republic) and Must Technologies in the near future.

Not so said.
We still have:
MBIL (bought up Philips production) blu ray manufacturing.
Sony who makes mostly non recordables in austria. Because of profit margins but on occasions recordables.
Quite some technology supplying compannies.
FTI and MAM-A are operating because of european (Swiss) investments.

And lets face it most european manufacturers didn't produce good media.

Yeah but OM&T BV/MBI is only a R&D company, not the real manufacturer. Sony makes a recordable media in a very small amounts, and MAM-A does not exist anymore.
The only important european companies in recordable media manufacturing industry are quality control equipment manufacturers (AudioDev, DaTarius, etc), Ciba (dye manufacturer) and manufacturers or CD-R/DVDR lines and other manufacturing equipment (Singulus, Tapematic, Netstal, etc.).
The only manufacturer of recordable media in Europe now is UEP/Mirex, which is still making CD-Rs in Russia.
Other companies (SkyMedia Manufacturing, OMP S.A., Condor SL, CSI, MAM-E, Digital Disc Dessau, Euro Digital Disc, CDA, 3A Media, CD VIDEO S.A., Trendes, Eximpo, Boca, Digital Valley, MediaSys, etc) either do not exist or do not produce recordable media anymore.
And I know that the quality of most media made in Europe was very bad, but still...

And TDK Luxembourg is R.I.P. now, too

what about MAM-E in France ?

are they dead too ?

yes

strange......I used to be in contact with them quite a lot.

and all of a sudden............phew, history.

any link about that ?! how do u know for sure ?

they made crappy media anyway

just like VIVASTAR, I bitched at them coz they sold me crappy 2X DVD-R.

they sent me replacement discs, that turned up unreadable 2 months later.

in the meantime they went bankrupt.

MAM-E also gave me MBI replacement discs for crappy MCI4XG01 bought a few years earlier........ever seen 200 PIE levels all along the discs ?

Interesting post, leeperry. May I ask you through PM some questions about your experience with Vivastar?

MAM-E: http://www.opticaldisc-systems.com/M...emarket-40.htm

sure, go ahead

well on your link it doesn't say that MAM-E is dead, does it?

strangely enough they sent me MBI replacement discs before going down

annoying you can't edit on this forum.....I meant PIF, not PIE...

"VIVASTAR" and "MCI4XG01" were unreadable dyes after a few months.

gotta love all the sites like the cdfreaks partner romstore.be that said "HIGH QUALITY!!!" and sold the MAM-E "MCI4XG01" 1 EURO a pop

good thing MAM-E gave me replacement discs, but I sold them on ebay

they were shrinkwrapped unbranded MBI -R

Hahahaha! Indeed

Thanks for the threads, pepst

http://www.troostwijkauctions.com/UK...JmaWQBMTEwNw**

damn you're good!

so many machines for such crappy media

I'll dig up if I can find some VIVASTAR discs, and some MAM-E MCI4XG01 quality scans

I might as well scan my oldest MAM-E TTH01, as they were giving fantastic results on my Pioneer 108.

to get back on the Vivastar, I burned them on a Panasonic LF-D311, which Vivastar was also selling as their rebadged burner....so can't really argue about my drive

BTW concerning MAM-E, before their website went down they had a big banner on there saying "next week we will have some super cool awesome new media for professionals only!!!"

I guess someone was supposed to put money in the basket......but changed their mind at the last minute

In this little flash game you can even be a workers in SkyMedia's factory.
Game was originally available on SkyMedia's web site.
I was already 4x times dismissed
http://www.sendspace.com/file/hxcbfo