History (1989): B+F Microdisks, Joint Venture Between BASF and Fuji

Fuji and some other Japanese FD manufacturers were assigned by the US Commerce Department to antidumping duties in March and Sony’s tax was the highest followed by Fuji Photo Film (50.52%).

This apparently has nothing to do with Fuji’s decision of forming a 50/50% joint-venture with BASF to build a $48 million FD manufacturing plant in USA. Production should begin next Fall in a new company, B+F Microdisks, that is going to build a 75,000 square-foot facility with 230 employees to produce 90 million FDs a year. The two partners will sell diskettes in the U.S. coming from the same plant.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠15, published on April 1989.