Maxell Corporation of America announced it is increasing prices on all of its CD-R media products, effective immediately. The company added that the amount of the increase was still under consideration, but expects it to be from 10 percent to 15 percent.
“Due to escalating demand for DVD media that has surpassed anyone’s expectations or forecasts, factory capacity has had to be shifted from CD-R to DVD production,” said Don Patrican, executive VP.
“The shift will bring the CD-R supply-demand ratio into balance for the first time and will create the potential for tight inventories of CD-R products. This combined with an increase in petrochemical costs has caused our suppliers to increase their prices to us and we have no choice but to pass the price increase on to our customers,” he said.
“We feel that while we may be the first to announce CD-R price increases, we will certainly not be the only supplier to do so,” Patrican added.
