posted November 1, 2016 #
Most of the vinyl pressed for
yk records comes out of
Pirates Press, a San Francisco based company. However, they're farming all of the actual vinyl production out to the Czech Republic to a company called
GZ Media, a pressing plant that's been around since 1948. Take a moment to watch
this piece on the pressing plant and their history. Note that CEO Zdenek Pelc has been in charge since 1981 and carried the company through the barren wasteland of the 90's and made it worth over $100 million now.
But profits aside, it's fascinating to see a company that's been around for so long, making a seemingly "archaic" product continue to innovate and thrive. They're developing new vinyl pressing prototype machines! They're employing a ton of people and giving artists an outlet to create a piece of physical media that will likely far outlive them.
