The day that everyone in the vinyl-manufacturing world has been worried about for years finally arrived. Earlier this month, Apollo Masters Corp., one of the two places in the world that produce the ...

Apollo Masters, a lacquer manufacturing facility located in Banning, Calif., sustained a major fire yesterday (Feb. 6) and burned down. This horrendous event could affect the worldwide supply of vinyl ...

A fire at a Banning, California, manufacturing plant could wreak havoc on the global supply of vinyl records, Pitchfork reports. On Thursday, Apollo Masters Corp., which has produced the lacquer discs ...

BANNING, Calif. (KABC) -- A fire that ripped through a commercial building in Banning earlier this month dealt a devastating setback to the vinyl record industry. Vinyl record sales have been ...

Apollo Masters—a manufacturing plant that supplies the lacquer used for making master discs, which are used to make vinyl records—suffered a fire on Thursday, February 6, at its manufacturing and ...

Once a relic of the past cherished by enthusiastic collectors, vinyl has mounted a resurgence in the music industry with hundreds of millions in sales annually — but future production of records could ...

Last Wednesday, news broke of a fire at Apollo Masters, the California-based business that was one of only two factories in the world that produced the lacquer used in the creation of master discs—one ...

Vinyl records have made a comeback over the past decade, beloved by music fans who prefer what they say is a more authentic sound quality. But how easy they will be to come by is in question after a ...