DESCRIPTION:
SMT presses are to record pressing what the Chevy 350 was to car engines. They are uniquely rugged, reliable, easy to understand, easy to maintain, easy to get parts for. They are very American - in the tradition of well designed and well built, enabling them to perform well, and have, for many, many years.

Formed in the mid-1960s in Nashville, Tennessee, under the leadership of Bill Westermann, SMT developed what came to be the most widely used completely automatic record manufacturing machines. At the end of widespread use of phonograph records in the mid 1980's, CD's having overtaken recorded music sales, SMT had placed machinery in over 100 record pressing plants in 23 countries. While the United States and Canada were the primary markets for SMT and related corporations' record manufacturing machinery, Europe, the Caribbean, South America and Australia were significant as well. At the end of their hugely successful 20 years, a complete SMT automatic 12" press sold for $52,000. In 2015 dollars it would probably be about $250,000.

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