The Groove Coat Stamper

Groove Coat stampers are the next evolution in stamper quality.  Specially designed for longer press life, these stampers bring efficiencies to record manufacturers for high volume projects.

Due to NiPro Records parent company’s extensive experience within the optical business, we have access to many modern technologies that others within the record business do not. Although we cannot describe the Groove Coat process due to it being a trade secret, we can provide some results from our customers.

One of our customers who has helped with the testing of the Groove Coat stampers recently wanted to purchase 15 sets of stampers for a 15,000 piece record order. NiPro produced 7 sets of stampers with the HC process plus two sets of stampers without the HC process. Out of the 9 sets of stampers they only used 6 sets of the HC stampers to complete the order. Assuming this becomes the norm, this is a savings of 9 extra sets of stampers that did not need to be purchased with an average life cycle of 2500 records per stamper plus the time saving of not having to change out the press more often resulting in a more continues flow of work at the record press saving more time and money still. Although more testing of the Groove Coat stampers will be done over this next year you should be asking one critical question of the industry in whole and that is, who else in the stamper industry is working on improving their process?  This be the first real change in the stamper business in over 50 plus years!

Lacquer cleaning

Due to the critical nature of this development / process we cannot provide any detailed information other then to say it took years of inspection both visually and by measurement of sound quality to implement a solid manufacturing method that repeats from day to day.

Lacquer shipping packages

One concern every cutting lab should have is how to package there finished product, so it arrives to the plating house in pristine condition. It is frightening to see how some of these packages arrive with respect to damage and dust due to the transportation of cut lacquers all over the world.

NiPro Records took the time to re-invent the lacquer package to try and shed light on the problem and a possible shipping concept to be used in the future. This new package does not use any nuts, bolts, washers, edge spacers or cardboard. A set of lacquers are held in its own shell package and each one of these shells can stack on top of each other without damaging the previous. These shells can then be placed in a re-useable box with foam sides, top and bottom to act as a guard for extreme temperatures allowing for a better chance for the music to arrive to the plater without any issues.