CDP UK Ltd.

CD pressing plant in Hayes, Middlesex. Officially established under this name on 01 January 1996 as part of a restructuring of the Meekland holding group (owners of Damont and CD Plant, Malmö) and coinciding with an expansion including the acquisition of a 30,000 sq.ft. CD production plant. Full-scale production of CDs began at the new plant on April 1, 1996, although smaller scale CD replication had already taken place at Damont's existing manufacturing plant. The UK operation at this time was split into two divisions: CD Plant Damont, which handled CD and CD-ROM manufacturing out of the new plant, and Damont Audio, which continued vinyl and cassette manufacturing at Damont's previous plant. Parent company CD Plant AB was acquired by SDC Dandisc in 1997. The name CDP UK Ltd. (and variants listed below) continued to appear in the disc matrix until around 2000, but the plant later continued activities under the name SDC GB Ltd. Name variations as found on this profile: - CDP UK Ltd. - CD Plant UK - CD PLANT UK LIMITED - CDPUK LTD - CD PLANT UK LTD - CD PUK - CD PLANT Damont Mastering SID codes: IFPI LB02, IFPI LB03 Mould SID codes: IFPI 1L** or IL** *** The same mould SID codes were used by Damont until December 1995, and by SDC GB Ltd. from 2000 onward, so CDP UK Ltd should not be identified by mould SID code when it is not directly named on the release LCCN roles: Glass Mastered At - with one of the mastering SID codes listed above Pressed By - with IFPI 1L** or IL** External glass masters: When CDMxx is found in the matrix, a Glass Mastered At role can be assigned to CDM (10). CDM was the glass mastering service run by CDP UK's Swedish parent company CD Plant AB. When mastering SID code IFPI L04* is present, a Glass Mastered At role can be assigned to EMI Swindon. -- please note that on these discs, the capital letter U in 'UK' appears slightly smaller than the other letters. The smaller letter does however represent a capital letter U, and the matrix string should be entered as CDP UK LTD. rather than CDP uK LTD.