Kings Mountain, North Carolina (PDO)

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PDO Kings Mountain
Location 700 South Battleground Avenue
Grover, NC 28073
USA
Built By Philips and DuPont Optical (PDO)
Online January 1987?
Operators PDO (1987 - Jun 1992)
PMDC (Jun 1992 - ??)
Universal M&L (?? - 1 Jun 2005)
EDC (1 Jun 2005 - May 2009)
Shutdown May 2009

Shutdown

EDC shut down the Kings Mountain plant in 2009 following sale of most of their US holdings to Sony DADC US[1]. Sony elected not to continue operating the plant, but did purchase some manufacturing equipment for use at their other US facilities.

References

  1. ^ "EDC to close Kings Mountain plant", Charlotte Business Journal, 3 Nov 2008