vinyl record sales in the uk are at the highest point for 30 years — but with only a handful of vinyl manufacturing plants, demand is outstripping supply. a team of entrepreneurs noticed this gap in the market and launched a new site in middlesbrough, which aims to produce 50,00 records a month. leejohnson reports. for many music lovers, vinyl can become an obsession. but for the team at press on, it's also the chance to fill a big gap in the market. recorded quite a few artists, we wanted to put a compilation out on vinyl. and we've looked around everywhere and the lead times were really long back then. and even in 2019, we couldn't have got it done within five months which meant it would not have been done in time for christmas. so that got our brains going, and we thought, how come it's so hard