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Hi everybody,

Winterbreak is over.

Master-lacquer discs coating season 2026 started

https://youtu.be/3KASfFZS6hE?si=gHe04IHySxm9a1tY

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to pm me

Cheers, Johann

Hello everyone, I wish you all a happy new year. Due to some confusion caused by the first post, I would like to clarify the following: -AUSTROVINYL produces 14" master-lacquer-discs for internal use. -AUDIOLAC developed and produces the lacquer for it. So what exactly do I do? I take a used lacquer...

Great News from the Austrovinyl record pressing plant! This year we have started using lacquer from AUDIOLAC for our in-house production of 14-inch master discs. After five years of intensive work, we are successfully coating, cutting and electroplating our own lacquer discs and using them for vinyl...

Hello everyone, thanks to BossMoss for starting the thread. I can only agree with what has already been written. Running a record pressing plant profitably is now a difficult thing for several reasons, as mentioned before. One aspect I would like to address is retail for the end customer. Retail for...

Digital Matrix DM SA3000 for sale! We sell our 3 cell electroplating machine the Digital Matrix SA3000. It is used but in great contition and not leaking! We bought it 3 years ago but haven't had time, knowledge and skills to start production with it. We cleaned it completely, checked the electronic...

Hi everybody, I hope you are all doing fine!
UPDATE: Our Digital Matrix DM SA3000 is still for sale.
contact us for further details (pictures, videos, price)
Documentation, Manuals, and CE conformity existing!
BTW: We have all in house: cutting, electroplating, pressing, packaging

Digital Matrix DM SA3000 for sale! We sell our 3 cell electroplating machine the Digital Matrix SA3000. It is used but in great contition and not leaking! We bought it 2 years ago but haven't had time, knowledge and skills to start production with it. The idea was to split the sump into 2 parts to r...

Hi guys, sorry about my "not replying" -busy as allways! Back to the topic: As I wrote before, a friend of mine helped me researching on this topic. As an engineer in the wood/paper industries he has a lot of knowledge. We used a very, very fine balance to measure the humitity in the paper. Heaaah??...

Problem solved!
Thanks to a good friend of mine!
He is an engineer in the woods-industries, so he knows about drying wood (paper) and it's behaviour..
We experimented a little.. voilà!
It's always good to have friends in all kind of businesses

Thanks AussieOzborn for your detailed answer!!

@drdub: hab schon gesucht..

Hello to all members, let me introduce quickly: Ma Name is Hannes, we founded this year our Company AUSTROVINYL from Zero. Cutting, electro-plating, pressing -->having all in "one house" is the goal! Now we're proud owners of a brand new Pheenix Alpha press and we started testpressing 3 weeks ago. m...