TrackingAngle snuck away for a tour of United Record Pressing during the recent Making Vinyl event in Nashville. CEO Mark Michaels and Matt Lindsey, who is overseeing the pressing plant's major infrastructure upgrade and increased pressing capacity guided the tour. URP will eventually have 100 presses up and running—a combination of newly updated Lened and SMT presses plus 48 new Pheenix Alpha presses, some of which have already been delivered and installed. Because the work is ongoing, Michaels preferred we take only still photos for this tour but later this summer when most of the work is complete we'll be back for a video tour. The total plant upgrade from boilers to cooling towers to the new building 3 press floor plus Mr. Lindsey's experience overseeing Sony's Blu-ray disc production—aspects of which have been incorporated into URP's vinyl manufacturing should help URP to press world-class vinyl, which the big press increase will certainly help alleviate the worldwide pressing capacity problem. We left the tour optimistic!