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Blyth Road \r\nHayes, Middlesex \r\nUB3 1BY\r\nUnited Kingdom\r\nTel.: 02085 735122","profile":"Vinyl pressing and tape duplication and printing plant in Hayes, Middlesex, operating from 1973 until 2006. \nThe plant was owned by manufacturer [l297487] until 1986, and by [l23613] thereafter. \n\nThe vinyl pressing plant opened in 1973 after Miller and Presky travelled to America to order Lened pressing machinery. \nThey had originally intended to open the plant in the Nottingham area, but instead the plant was opened in Hayes, on the same street as the original [l754] plant. \nBy February 1977, record pressing accounted for 50% of the company turnover.\nIn 1977, Damont operated ten Lened semi-automatic 12\" presses and four Lened semi-automatic 7\" presses, and had an approximate two month turnaround time. \nDamont pressed for every major company except [l5320]. \nIn September 1977, [l43315] acquired a majority holding in Damont Records Ltd. by purchasing the shares of Miller.\nBy February 1979, Damont was bought from WEA by the Counterparty Group (formerly SP & S Records (Holdings).\nIn 1980, after the closure of Pye’s pressing plant Tranco, seven presses and plating equipment were moved to the Damont plant, replacing some existing presses.\nAlso in 1980, cassette duplication starts, including manufacturing cassette singles.\nIn 1981, Damont added four more Lened automatic presses.\nIn 1988, Damont operated 15 fully automatic Lened presses, of which five were twin presses producing a pair of 7\" discs on each cycle, and the other ten presses produced one 12\" per cycle.\n\nThe Damont factory had its own galvanic plating department only since 1981. Later, Damont was handling the whole process with 1 Europa Film silverer, 2 Europa Film pre-plating tanks, 10 plating tanks by Europa Film and 4 by Musitech.\n\nA Damont vinyl pressing will usually have \"DAMONT\" or a single \"D\" (at twelve o'clock) etched in the runouts. Sometimes, the runout etching can be mistaken as \"JAMONT\" or \"LAMONT\". When in combination with other plant identifiers, Damont may have only plated the records and the pressing was done by the other plant - pressing rings should clarify this though.\nOther identifiers may include an etched \" | \" or \" I \" at three o'clock and a letter at nine o'clock, inherited from the equipment acquired from Tranco / Pye in 1980.\n12\" records have “dipped” labels, with two pressing rings at 35mm and 61mm. \n7\" records have either two rings at 33mm and 57mm or at 35mm and 57mm.\nContrary to WEA West Drayton, Damont 7”s had an anti-slip ring between 1973 and ca. 1982.\nDamont never operated a vinyl lathe.\n\nIn 1991, Damont started manufacturing CDs in Hayes after purchasing the equipment from the Bedford plant of [l441215]. The plant had a capacity of 2.5 million CDs a year, doubled in 1992 by adding a second CD machine and a five-colour printer.\nGlass masters were outsourced for example to CDM, Malmö, Sweden (also owned by the Meekland Group). CDs glass mastered at CDM can be identified by \"CDM0x\" or \"CDMAx\" in the matrix, where \"x\" is a digit from 1 to 4. In these cases, you can add \"Glass Mastered At\" [l=CDM (10)] and \"Pressed By Damont\" (example: [r336217]). \nThe CD division was renamed to CD Plant Damont (= [l=CDP UK Ltd.]), effective 01 January 1996.","parent_label":{"id":23613,"name":"Damont Audio Ltd.","resource_url":"https://api.discogs.com/labels/23613"},"data_quality":"Correct"}