Presswell

New Jersey, USA, vinyl pressing plant opened 1958, closed in the 1990s. Presswell Records Manufacturing Company was founded as a domestic for-profit company in October 1958, and operated as a large vinyl pressing plant in Ancora, New Jersey, until it ultimately ceased operations during the 1990s. Its name sometimes appears printed as Presswell Records Mfg. Co. on test pressings or abbreviated on the labels of vinyl releases as PR, (PR), or -PR either as a floating code or as a suffix appended to the label matrix numbers (chiefly on Atlantic Recording Corporation-related releases). Likewise, on PolyGram-manufactured and other Polygram-related vinyl releases, it can often be identified the by pressing plant code identification number 18 printed on the labels. It is known to have made metal parts for Research Craft and Monarch Record Mfg. Co. Not to be confused with "PR" etching in runouts between June 1970 and April 1972 by Philips Recording Company, Inc., or after April 1972 by PRC Recording Company, Richmond, IN.