World Famous — Est. 1962
The only cardboard record pressing plant left in the world
Everyone else shut theirs down. We kept the presses, kept the stampers, and kept the two people who know how to run them and one other cardboard cutting specialist the world knows there is no other match. Masters arrive here from six continents.
33⅓ / 45 / 78
Speeds Pressed
3-ply
Laminated Board
6 weeks
Typical Lead Time
How a cardboard record is made
Four steps, six weeks, no shortcuts
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Master arrives
Lacquer or high-resolution digital master lands in Hamilton and is checked for groove depth against our board stock.
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Board is laminated
Three plies pressed and cured until the surface takes a groove without the fibres tearing out.
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Rotary press stamps
The last two working cardboard presses on earth stamp each side at temperature, one disc at a time.
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Cured and sleeved
Discs cure flat for 48 hours, get a test spin on the bench deck, then go into corrugated sleeves cut in the same building.
The Archive
Sixty-three years of pressings, still on the shelf
Every run we have pressed since 1962 keeps a reference copy in the archive room upstairs — school choirs, radio jingles, three national anthems and one moderately famous punk single. Labels booking a pressing are welcome to walk the shelves before they commit.
Pressing enquiries go through the dispatch form below.
06 — Dispatch
Schedule a repair
Fill in the ticket and dispatch confirms your window. If the line is down right now, call 1-800-555-0142 instead — a person answers.
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Log the call
Phone dispatch or send the form. We need the brand, the model and what it is doing.
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Triage in 30 minutes
A technician calls back to confirm parts, travel window and whether the fix can be talked through.
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On site same day
Truck rolls with the wear parts already loaded. Before 11:00 local time, we are there before the shift ends.
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Warranty logged
Every installed component is recorded to your account under the lifetime parts warranty.
Dispatch Request