Care about how a CD is made from raw material?  One of our summer interns wrote an article a few years ago about CD Manufacturing.  It’s pretty informative about CD or DVD replication in plain simple language.

The summary of the article is given below.

As the major media for music distribution for over 30 years, the compact disc is about to reach the end of its product life cycle. But if you are a music lover and CD collector, you may still be interested in knowing how compact discs are made. In this paper, the author will try to explain the whole process of how a compact disc is fabricated, from the raw material to the finished product.