Cassettes already had their golden age, in the 80s/90s, when cars had their own player. However, “there are still those who want to transform a cassette into a current product” and, perhaps for this reason, the sales figures continue to be surprising at Edisco, the only cassette recording factory on the Iberian Peninsula.
“Before we manufactured a million units a year, today we can produce 200 thousand units a year,” he says. TSF Armando Cerqueira. At first glance it may be a mere decline, but the Edisco partner affirms that “we have to recover” and remembers that the cassette “is a format that almost no one uses today.”
“It’s very good,” he considers, especially if we take into account that it was a “joke” that they brought the machines to inject tapes into empty cassettes, from the old factory to the new one, at a time when the CD was already being used. making a name
Armando Cerqueira says that reactivating the factory was never an option, until “suddenly orders started appearing.” A phenomenon that began with “word of mouth” and continues like this.
Edisco’s clients come from all genres, but it is, “without a doubt”, metal that stands out. This treasure of cassettes is located in Maia and, in addition to being the only one on the Iberian Peninsula, it is also “the fastest factory that exists.”
Source: TSF
