WD Completes Sale of Malaysia Substrate Manufacturing Facility

Western Digital Corp. has completed the previously announced sale of the assets of its media substrate manufacturing facility in Sarawak, Malaysia, to a subsidiary of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard drive manufacturing unit of Hitachi, Ltd.

WD manufactured aluminum substrates for hard drive magnetic media at the facility and has consolidated its substrate manufacturing and development operations into its Johor, Malaysia, facility. WD employees at the Sarawak facility have become employees of the purchaser.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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