![]() ![]() And global oil and petrochemical prices are driving up the cost of PVC pellets that are melted and pressed into the vinyl discs. ![]() Nickel shortages due to the war in Ukraine - which has knocked Russia, one of the top high-grade nickel suppliers, out of the market - are affecting record stamper electroplating. Paper shortages reportedly caused by paper plants switching to cardboard during the pandemic, according to Seavers at Memphis, are affecting center labels, sleeves, jackets and other packaging. These supply issues promise to continue to plague plants long after launch. Press manufacturers are meanwhile waiting for things like $12 switches to finish 99% complete machines, says Chappell, and are scrambling to find alternate suppliers for standard parts. For both Copycats and Vinyl Me, Please, unloading delays at port and supply chain disruptions have delayed both companies’ presses - despite ordering them almost a year ahead of time. ![]() Global supply chain issues are only compounding the matter. Memphis Record Pressing Courtesy Memphis Record Pressing And in Nashville, Nashville Record Pressing recently opened with a $13.3 million investment from parent company Czech Republic-based GZ Media, Europe’s largest vinyl record manufacturer while United Record Pressing is currently expanding with an additional 48 presses that will bring the manufacturer’s count to just under 100. Memphis Record Pressing, where CEO Brandon Seavers says they’ve “quite literally been out of space for about four years,” is investing $28.8 million to expand its output to 125,000 records a day. Subscription club Vinyl Me, Please is opening its own 14,000-square-foot plant in Denver, where an environmentally-friendly plant called The House Plant is currently underway as well. Among them, in Minnesota, the ADS Group-owned Copycats Media is opening one of two new plants in Minneapolis with five record presses in a 65,000-square-foot building, along with the smaller, indie-focused Outta Wax plant nearby. ![]() The scarcity is creating business opportunities, and nearly a dozen new and expanded pressing plants are coming to the rescue for labels like Brassland. Vinyl Prices Might Seem High Today, But They Were Worse in 1978 Switching from the label’s normal pressing partners to other pressing plants could speed up the timetable to between four and six months, but at twice the cost and more logistical hassle. And as appetite for vinyl far outstrips the infrastructure’s capacity to supply, that lack of investment is now coming back to bite the industry.Īlec Hanley Bemis, managing partner at the Brassland record label, the indie label he co-founded with The National’s Dessner brothers, says that plants are so busy that they have quoted him lead times of nine to 18 months to press a record. Now that modest growth has turned into a boom, with sales up over 60% between 20 and up another 22% at the 2022 midyear raking in $570 million, according to the RIAA, and vinyl plants are running at full capacity across the country. Postage is by Tracked service to Europe, get in touch if you require this service to the rest of the world.As vinyl sales started turning around in the past decade, Doug Chappell, vp of sales & technical service at press manufacturer Viryl Technologies, says everybody was “worried that the house of cards going to implode on itself at some point.” As such, no one wanted to invest in new equipment. If you’re not happy with your record then you can return it complete for a full refund. Prices include a polylined inner sleeve, a plain white cardboard outer sleeve and SUBSIDISED P&P. If you require longer audio lengths, please use the contact form to ask. Each size has a limit on the length of audio that can be recorded, please check the panels below. You can choose from 3 record sizes, 7 inch, 10 inch or 12 inch. We now offer double-sided picture discs at very affordable prices! Also we now have Red, Green and Blue Transparent vinyl! Check the shop for more details. We can also provide full colour printed sleeves (260g/m² high quality photo paper) and printed colour centre labels using your own artwork on request, please use the contact form to let us know your needs. Get in touch using the contact form if you have any other requirements. There are many websites which will give you information to help you to provide suitable audio. On receiving your audio files we will inspect them to ensure that they are suitable for recording onto vinyl. Vinyl records have various audio limitations. By keeping overheads to a minimum, we keep prices low, but never provide anything less than top quality.ĬamCuts has a Recording Studio on site, so if your audio requires any tweaking for the transfer to vinyl, the studio mastering facilities are on hand. ![]()
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