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How This Vinyl Pressing Plant Made It To a Major Milestone

Nashville's United Record Pressing vinyl plant will celebrate 75 years this fall — chairman/CEO Mark Michaels reflects on how it got there.

“I spent a lot of time while I was peddling thinking about United,” he adds of the oldest and largest American-owned, U.S.-based vinyl pressing plant in the world, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary this fall. Michaels is speaking from his Nashville office, where he’s surrounded by signed records from Buddy Guy, Jack White and more of his icons, all expressing their thanks to him and his manufacturing team. In 2007, a year before Record Store Day officially launched and just before the format was beginning its first-wave resurgence, Michaels bought the company — and helped sustain it through a particularly rough patch.

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