Roland used to make their arrangers in Italy, then tried to offshore the production to China, had problems (no idea what) and the talk was that they were going to go back to Italy, but that must have been what caused the cessation of production. Seems that, in the interim, Roland simply decided to cut their losses (can't be cheap moving an entire production line around) and get out of the whole sector (TOTL and MOTL arrangers) completely.

Looking at Ketron's lunacy (factory or staff seem to be on holiday half the time, and working short hours the rest! ), maybe the thought of going Italian again just pushed Roland to seppuku?