Canadian company designs new, faster record pressing method

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    Tue, Feb 9, 2016, 03:43
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  • Viryl says their redesigned vinyl presses will hit the factory floor later this year.
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  • New, more efficient vinyl presses have been developed by a Canadian company to help pressing plants meet rising demand. Viryl has designed a new, efficient record press that will be ready to ship this year, The Globe And Mail reports. Vinyl sales reached a 25-year high last year, according to statistics from the Recoring Industry Association of America, and pressing plants have had trouble meeting the demand for new vinyl. The problem is that manufacturers have to use decades-old machines, which require rare and often very expensive parts. Viryl hopes to change that with their new, modernized vinyl presses, which they said will be available for sale at around $160,000 USD each. The company has redesigned traditional record-pressing technology, they said, making for not only higher-quality records, but a quicker and more efficient process. They're backed by $1 million CAD in funding from a Toronto-area investor. "We're going to collect all this dark information that’s never been known in record pressing before," Viryl's chief executive officer Chad Brown told The Globe And Mail. "Nozzle pressure, temperature, all this data that's necessary to actually make a perfect record. In the '50s and '60s, they didn't have this technology." Brown says Viryl already has a long list of manufacturers waiting to buy their machines, which will hit the factory floor this year. They'll have the capacity to build two machines per week. One potential client—a Toronto operation he wouldn't name—may be closing their first deal within days.
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