EMI Uden was EMI's CD manufacturing plant, located in Uden, Netherlands. The factory started under this name in 1990 after they took over from Mediamotion.
Legal name: "EMI Compact Disc (Holland) B.V." (incorporated in 1989).
Identifying EMI Uden on CDs:
Until 1996, or even 1997, EMI Uden didn't make their own glass masters, but glass masters were outsourced for example at CDM, Malmö, Sweden. 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" EMI without UDEN in the matrix.
After that, "EMI UDEN" is present in the matrix mirror band itself, in combination with mastering SID codes IFPI L046 or L047. In these cases, the glass master was made at EMI Uden.
Besides the actual matrix, a machine stamped area includes a set of digits separated by hyphens and suffixed with the country code "NL", x-x-x-NL (example: 2-4-28-NL). x-x-x-NL identifies the stampers (father-mother-daughter). Please enter these stampers in one line with the actual matrix (example: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness).
In the matrix string of CDs glass mastered by EMI Uden the capital letter U appears slightly smaller than the other letters. This effect also appears in the matrix strings of CDs glass mastered by CDP UK Ltd. The smaller letter does, however, represent a capital letter U and the matrix string should be entered as EMI UDEN.
The following SID codes were assigned by the IFPI organization to EMI Uden:
Mastering SID codes:
IFPI L046 (⚠ can be misread as L045, see Note 1)
IFPI L047
Mould SID codes:
IFPI 15##
IFPI 14## (for a short period of time, see Note 5)
IFPI 25## (⚠ don't credit EMI UDEN but EMI Italiana S.p.A. Pressing Plant in these cases, see Note 2)
LCCN instructions:
For releases with "EMI UDEN" in the matrix and mastering SID codes L046 or L047, please use:
Glass Mastered At - EMI Uden
For releases with mould SID codes 15## or 14## (or occassionally none) and a machine stamped area with x-x-x-NL, please also use:
Pressed By - EMI Uden
Before the introduction of SID codes the only reference to a replication at EMI Uden is the presence of the x-x-x-NL stampers, in these cases you can add a Pressed By credit.
CDs do not have a unique or sequential company number, please don't add any LCCN number.
⎯ Note 1: mastering SID codes in matrix on some EMI Uden CDs can be partially obscured due to the end of the mirror band (as pictured here): be caution when fill your mastering SID code in BAOI. As IFPI L046 is officially attributed to EMI Uden facilities, consider IFPI L045 as potentially a misread code and not to be entered as such.
⎯ Note 2: some releases with mould SID code IFPI 25## are replicated ("pressed") by the Italian EMI plant located in Varese, near Milan, even when x-x-x-NL is also present. If they have mastering SID code IFPI L046 or L047, the glass master was made at Uden and should be credited as follow:
Glass Mastered At - EMI Uden
Pressed By - EMI Italiana S.p.A. Pressing Plant but only until 1997
(example: Urban Hymns).
Please note the Varese EMI plant went through changes of name and ownership between 1997 and its closure in 2011/2012 (ultimately becoming IMS International Media Service S.p.A.) and it's not clear at this point which entity can be credited for post-1997 pressings.
⎯ Note 3: with the sale of the plant to Surrender)
⎯ Note 4: some CDs will have "EMI Swindon" in the matrix but also the machine stamped x-x-x-NL, which means that the glass master was made at Swindon, but the pressing was done at Uden (with 15##) or Italy, Varese (with 25##).
⎯ Note 5: the mould SID code IFPI 14## assigned to EMI Swindon sometimes appears on CDs replicated ("pressed") at EMI Uden since May 2002 at least until 2003. This because some equipments and the associated codes were transferred from Swindon after its closure to Uden. For these releases the same rules of Uden apply.
