Published
Sat, May 7, 2022, 09:00
- In addition to guided tours, the space will host listening areas, a bar and a cafe.
Subscription record service Vinyl Me, Please is building its own pressing plant in Denver.
Located in the RiNo district just across from music venue Mission Ballroom, the new space is a sprawling 14,000 square foot complex, Westword reports. Once finished, the plant will offer guided tours of the facilities, and will also host listening areas, a cafe in the daytime and a full bar.
"What we've seen is, essentially, the demand for pressing vinyl over the last two years far outpacing supply for pressing records," Vinyl Me, Please's CEO, Cameron Schaefer, told Westworld. "About a year ago, we were really digging in on this analysis, because obviously, the vinyl supply chain was pretty critical to our business. And as we started interviewing heads of major labels and heads of pressing plants and distributors, we learned that last year at this time, there were about 300 million units of pressing demand worldwide, chasing about 150 million units of global capacity."
The new plant will be headed up by Gary Salstrom, who previously managed Quality Record Pressings in Kansas (along with a long history in this side of the music industry). Building will start in June, with record production beginning in October and the opening of the bar, cafe and tours early next year.
In addition to pressing records, the plant will have plating capability, meaning they can make the stampers for the records themselves—a relatively rare all-in-one operation compared to other US plants.
For more on the plant and more quotes from Vinyl Me, Please, check out the full Westword article.