Video of the Day: Making Records at Record Industry

Posted April 03, 2017
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Today's video of the day comes from Great Big Story and shows us how the Record Indstry pressing plant in the Netherlands makes recirds. Vinyl has been making a comeback throughout this decade and that is good news for Tom Vermeulen, owner of the Record Industry. 

The Netherlands-based company has been operating since 1958, and is one of the largest vinyl pressing plants in the world.  Vermeulen gave us a look inside the factory to see how *40,000—50,000* records get made every day.

 


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