Keel Record Mfg. Of Canada Limited

Canadian pressing plant. Also known as Keel Record Manufacturing, Ajax, Ontario
Can be identified by an etched [b]-K-[/b] or [b](K)[/b] or [b]"K"[/b] or [b]K[/b] in runouts. Less commonly they can also be identified by the [b]K[/b] or [b]k[/b] letter code printed on centre labels, with a 2.75" pressing ring.

Keel was a pressing-only facility and did not have lacquering, plating or processing capabilities. If the K identifier in runouts is accompanied by an identifier of a plant that did have plating capabilities (for example [l=Quality Records Limited] or [url=https://www.discogs.com/label/700568-Columbia-Records-Pressing-Plant-Don-Mills-ON]Columbia/CBS Don Mills[/url] or [l=Monarch Record Mfg. Co.]) this indicates the plating was done at that plant.

Keel was established and owned by [l=Pickwick Records Of Canada Ltd.] when they started operations in Ajax in 1965 (Pickwick and Keel also initially shared the same address). Keel was originally the exclusive pressing plant for [l=Sound Canada] and [l=Trend (8)]. They are also known to have pressed for [l=Gas Records (8)], [l=London Records Of Canada (1967) Ltd.], [l=K-Tel], [l=Tee Vee Records Inc.], [l=A&M Records Of Canada Limited], [l=Capitol Records (Canada) Ltd.] (including being the main presser for [l=Capitol Record Club]), and [l=LaBuick Sound, Inc.] ([l=Cachet Records], [l=British Records], etc.)..

In 1976 Keel moved from its longtime Fairall address to Standard Road in Ajax and doubled its size. Shortly after the move, Keel and [l=Precision Records] took over pressing for [l=MCA Records (Canada)] after it closed its Cornwall plant.

Keel ceased operations in 1978. It is assumed their plant and equipment was taken over by [l=Impact Records Mfg. Co. Of Canada] in 1979.