History (1994): Fuji to Buy Out B+F Microdisks

Fuji Photo Film Co. is to buy out its floppy disk manufacturing business in the US, which has been operated as a joint venture, B+F Microdisks (Bedford, MA), with the German manufacturer BASF, before the end of the year.

The factory turns out approximately 10 million 3.5-inch floppy disks annually, of which Fuji sells about 5 million in the U.S.

The production facilities and 230 employees will be taken over by Fujifilm Microdisks USA, an American Fuji subsidiary.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠74, published on March 1994.