Panteon

Panteon was a German company which ran a CD/DVD manufacturing plant in Alsdorf and sales offices in a variety of towns in and the UK. The company was founded in 1992 and opened a recording studio in 1994. Panteon relocated to Alsdorf in 1996, where it began CD replication in 1997 and DVD replication in 2000. In 2003, Panteon GmbH was renamed Interdisc GmbH (Inter-disc GmbH).

Matrix numbers:
Panteon used a sequential job number in the format #####XX#, which can be entered in LCCN. The first hashtags are a consecutive number. The two X characters refer to the disc format and the company location or office (GS = Geschäftsstelle) involved in that particular disc.

1st X = format:
A = CD-Audio 12 cm
R = CD-ROM
V = DVD Video or DVD ROM
X = CD-Audio or CD-ROM 8 cm

2nd X = company or office (GS):
A = Presswerk Alsdorf bei Aachen
F = Presswerk Frankfurt (Rödermark)
B = Berlin
M = München

Matrix patterns:
Panteon is usually credited in the disc matrix in one of the following ways:

1992-1993: #####X# PANTEON###
1993-1994: S PANTEON ## XX # ## (glass mastered by Disctronics S)
1996: S PANT ### XX # ## (glass mastered by Disctronics S)
1994-1998: PANTEON ###XX#
1998-2000: Panteon 00###XX#
2000-2003: Panteon 01###XX#; pΔnteon Alsdorf 02404 94060 01###XX#; panteon Alsdorf 02404 94060 01###XX# [02404 94060 being Panteon's telephone number]

LCCN roles:
Manufactured By - discs manufactured until 1997
Pressed By - discs manufactured 1997 and after