Europadisk

Profile:

Founded in 1977 as Europadisk Plating Co by Christian Lach (2), Europadisk was initially a specialist plating facility serving the record pressing industry and commenced operations in September 1977. The company was also the USA sales representative for Europa Film Record Plating Division (Sweden) marketing their advanced plating equipment.

In April 1981 they started pressing records from imported Teldec vinyl compound and in 1987 installed a DMM disc cutting facility and cassette duplication making it a full service record and cassette manufacturer.

All the technology used at Europadisk was the latest European technology which was far more advanced than American equipment, making this a state-of-the-art record pressing plant producing the highest quality records. While they used three Hamilton (USA) and two Toolex Alpha (Sweden) presses, their promotional material only ever mentioned the Swedish presses to keep with the "European technology" theme. Europadisk only ever pressed 12" records and all their 7" orders were contracted out to other plants.

How to credit the plant from the vinyl runouts:
Note: EDP in oval is a logo, please use [Europadisk logo] in it's place
- Circled EDP stamp: Mastered At (indicating that the record was plated by Europadisk, either for other plants or for their own pressings). Often found with identifiers matching other US record pressing plants.
- Circled EDP stamp with 1 1/32" (1.03125") / 26.2 mm pressing ring: Pressed By.
- "Europadisk": Lacquer Cut At + 4 or 5 digit number
- "Europadisk DMM": Mastered At + 4 or 5 digit number
The latter two usually in combination with a Treble Clef ( 𝄞 ) or ampersand (&) like symbol, indicating a lacquer cut by Steve Berson).

In the '90s, glass mastering and CD replication facilities were added with DVD manufacturing added in 2004. The company closed in 2005.

Sometimes credited as:
- Europa Disk Plating
- Europa Disc - New York
- Plating by Europadisc
- Europadisk DMM NY USA

Cutting engineers:
Tom Spalone

Parent Label:

Europadisk, LTD.

Info:

Europadisk, Ltd.
75 Varick Street
New York, NY 10013
USA
( info now obsolete)

Europadisk, LLC
2402 Queens Plz S
Long Island City, NY 11101
USA
( info now obsolete)

Links:


Label

Edit Label
Data quality rating: Data Correct
5838 submissions pending

For sale on Discogs

Sell a copy

109,810 copies

Year

Reviews

  • rizmo1312's avatar
    rizmo1312
    Edited one year ago
    i have a white label as well and cannot find anything with the marking (EUROPADISK DMM NY USA 62362 DON GROSSINGER / on the record is written: nsr-0001)
    any help appreciated as well :)
    • mahogani73's avatar
      mahogani73
      I too have a white label Europadisk CA-10 (ZZ893) with no clue as to what it is. A low slung, house number with a female vocal and a chorus that keeps repeating 'Do it'. Very much on aTheo Parrish/ Sound Signature/Guidance kind of vibe. Any help appreciated!
      • cashox's avatar
        cashox
        Edited 9 years ago
        I have a Europadisk W-09 (8416) white label, but have no clue what it is - if anyone reading this does - please send me the ID info :)