Fire destroys Apollo Masters, one of only two factories that produce lacquers for vinyl records

The manufacturing and storage facility for Apollo Masters, a Californian factory that supplies the lacquer used for making master discs, which are then used to create vinyl records - has burned down in a massive fire Thursday morning, the Desert Sun reported. Apollo is, along with MDC in Japan, one of only two worldwide factories that produce the lacquers needed to create vinyl. Gil Tamazyan, founder and president of the California-based vinyl pressing plant Capsule Labs, said to Billboard that "unless something happens really quickly, there will soon be Vinylgeddon". Tamazyan estimates that Apollo supplies 80% of blank lacquer master discs globally.