kdg France was a French optical media manufacturer (of CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays), established in November 1991, when the Austrian Koch Digitaldisc GmbH and Dutch-French Dureco pressing plants merged to form kdg (Koch Dureco Group).
In 2015, kdg France was merged into its then parent company Media Industry, which continued manufacturing at this facility.
Matrix identification:
CDs and DVDs manufactured by kdg France generally have one of three matrix styles:
1) KDG FR [release catalogue#]
2) KDG FR -xxxxxx (where xxxxxx is a matrix number assigned by kdg France, usually preceded by a hyphen - )
3) [broker or release-specific information without reference to kdg]
Discs that match matrix style 3 (i.e. not directly referencing kdg) can still be credited to this profile when the SID codes listed below are present.
Examples include:
release
release
LCCN numbers:
When the xxxxxx number is present in the matrix, it may be entered in LCCN as the catalog number for kdg France, as follows:
■ release
Matrix: KDG FR -020059
Glass Mastered At – kdg France — 020059
(020059 is the kdg France catalogue#, without the prefix hyphen -, in LCCN).
■ release
Matrix: KDG FR -016891
Manufactured By– kdg France — 016891
(016891 is the kdg France catalogue#, without the prefix hyphen -, in LCCN).
Please be careful not to enter the release catalogue# as LCCN number for kdg France when it appears in the matrix, such as in this example: release
Mastering SID code: IFPI L373
Mould SID codes: IFPI 5702, IFPI 5707, IFPI 5708, IFPI 5710, IFPI 5711, IFPI 5722, IFPI 5725, IFPI 5731, IFPI 5732, IFPI 5819
Note: despite being part of kdg France, the two Dureco pressing plants in Montigny-le-Bretonneux and in Saint-Michel-sur-Meurthe kept their own identity.