Superior Record Pressing Corp., Somerdale, NJ

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A pressing company that operated in Southern New Jersey through the 1970s and 1980s. They pressed for Motown, Capitol and A&M, among others. It was partly owned by Superior Record Pressing Corp., Tempe, Arizona, in 1979.

Identifiers for Superior's LP pressings include the following:
- Pre-1971: 2.75" (70 mm) pressing ring, center labels on super-glossy (Kromekote) stock
- Post-1972: moved to humped approx. 2.75" pressing ring plus smaller approx. 1.390625" (35.5 mm) pressing ring, with paper labels duller coating
- Occasionally found with the letters "SRPC", accompanied by a three-pointed crown, adjacent to the spindle hole.

Superior's 7" pressings can be identified by the following:
- 1971-72 singles from (example).
- ca. late 1970s or 1980: Superior-pressed 45's contours, especially the label area nearer to the spindle hole, resembled those of Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria, but were thicker and a bit heavier in comparison.

Superior pressings are often found with a "TC", "TVC", "ATN" or "TVCA" etch in runouts, which signifies plating performed at Tracy-Val Corporation, a separately-owned electroforming company located adjacent to the Somerdale plant. Please credit according to instructions found in the profile.

The location is now Flying Fish Brewing Co.

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Superior Record Pressing Corp., Tempe, Arizona

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Superior Record Pressing Corp.
900 Kennedy Blvd.
Somerdale, NJ 08083
USA
( info now obsolete)

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cofs.lara.state.mi.us , Google

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