WEA Mfg. Olyphant

Pennsylvania (USA) pressing plant/manufacturer active from late 1996 to 2003, prior to which it was known as [l=Specialty Records Corporation]. As [i]WEA Manufacturing, Olyphant[/i] (abbreviated "wea mfg. OLYPHANT" in the CD matrix) it operated until around Oct 2003, when it and its parent company were sold to [i]Cinram[/i] and became [l=Cinram, Olyphant, PA].

NOTE: Although the presence of "wea mfg. OLYPHANT" in the mirror ring definitely indicates a disc was [u]glass mastered at[/u] this plant, it does NOT necessarily indicate it was pressed there. Please see the [l=WEA Mfg. Commerce] and [l=Cinram, Olyphant, PA] pages and below for more details.

Mould SID codes of wea Olyphant, inherited from SRC, are IFPI 2Uxx.

[u]Mastering SID Codes:[/u]
IFPI L901 L902 L903 L909

[b]LCCN numbers[/b]:
Since around 1996, [i]WEA Mfg. Olyphant[/i] has assigned its own catalogue number in the matrix of CDs and DVDs manufactured at the plant. These catalogue numbers begin with [i]W, X, Y[/i] or [i]Z[/i], and are generally 4-6 characters long. These strings may be entered as catalogue numbers for [i]WEA Mfg. Olyphant[/i] only in Glass Mastered At fields. The first letter corresponds to the laser beam recorder used to create the glass master, and thus it always corresponds to a particular mastering SID code.

Examples on how to enter data:
- [r15595463] - Glass mastered and pressed by WEA Mfg. Olyphant
- [r8639010] - Glass mastered at WEA Mfg. Olyphant, pressed by WEA Mfg. Commerce - identified by an asterisk before the MxSx code, the presence of WEA mfg./CA in the mould hub and mould SID code 2Vxx
- [r1043477] - Glass mastered at WEA Mfg. Olyphant, pressed by Cinram, Olyphant PA - identified by the presence of CI (can be misread as C1) in the matrix string

Vinyl test pressings with "Test Pressing from WEA Manufacturing" on the labels belong to .

More info about Olyphant catalogue number sequences and their approximate dates here: https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/699750#7296812