Pronit (Zakłady Tworzyw Sztucznych Pronit-Pionki (ZTS Pronit)) is a Polish factory of plastic materials near the town of

Pionki Pionki is a town in Radom County, Masovian Voivodeship, central Poland with 18 846 inhabitants (2016). Surrounded by the ''Kozienice'' Wilderness, Pionki is located in northern part of historic province of Lesser Poland, from Radom, and from ...

Radom County Radom is a city in east-central Poland, located approximately south of the capital, Warsaw. It is situated on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been the seat of a separate Radom Voivodeship (1975–1 ...

. Among its specialties, it includes the factory of

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plates, and thus is mostly known as the original Polish

record label A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the prod ...

. Pronit originates from the factory of gunpowder and explosives established in 1922 by a village of Zagożdżon in the wilderness of the Kozienice Forest ( :pl:Puszcza Kozienicka). In 1932 the village was renamed to Pionki, During the

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period, due to government contracts Pionki prospered, as demand for explosives from its chemical plant was high. The trend continued after

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, and by 1954 Pionki had grown into a town. After

its production continued to expand and included plastics, glues, etc. It Later started the production of polyvinyl chloride and subsequently, vinyl records. Pronit pressed vinyl records under their own label, as well as for a number of Polish record labels: * Tonpress, KAW * Wifon *

Polton Polton is a village located in Lasswade parish, Midlothian, Scotland, anciently a superiority of the Ramsay family, cadets of Dalhousie. In 1618 David Ramsay of Polton was in possession. (See: ''Analecta Scotica'', Edinburgh, 1834). Notable res ...

* Veriton *

PWM Edition The PWM Edition ( pl, 'Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne', abbreviated as PWM) is a music publishing house based in Kraków, Poland. It was founded in 1945 and was the only music publisher in Poland for several years. In 2012 it released the twelfth vo ...

* PolJazz * Polskie Nagrania * Savitor From 1990 the output from the factory begun to decline and Pronit entered a period of a major crisis. In 2010 the enterprise decided to start pressing "nostalgy" vinyl plates."Czarne krążki Pronitu wracają na rynek muzyczny"
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{{Authority control Polish record labels Radom County State-owned record labels