There may be a global bottleneck in the vinyl record industry after a fire destroyed the Apollo Masters Corporation factory — one of only 2 companies in the world that makes lacquers, a critical component of vinyl production. (hereandnow)
People in the vinyl record business are warning of a global bottleneck in the industry after a fire last week destroyed the Apollo Masters Corporation factory in Banning, California.the Apollo factory, the company said on its website. Apollo was one of only two companies in the world that makes lacquers, a critical component of vinyl production that experts say will now be in short supply.
The fire at Apollo means that Japanese company MDC is now the only supplier of record lacquers in the world, Zapor-Gray says. The devastating fire comes at a critical time for the booming vinyl industry, which has undergone a resurgence in the past several years. Vinyl record sales in the U.S.Lacquers are used to make the master discs in which individual vinyl records are pressed, Zapor-Gray says. Master discs are then sent to individual vinyl pressing plants where they are used to make the “stampers” that are used to press thousands of records.
She says the lack of lacquer suppliers has been on the radar for some time, so the industry isn’t starting at zero to solve the problem.
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