Business start-up, www.pressonvinyl.com Press On Vinyl, is the latest company to secure keys to a new unit at Middlesbrough's Tees Advanced Manufacturing Park (TeesAMP).

Founding directors, Danny Lowe, David Todd and David Hynes, have been part of the local music scene for the past 20 years and have now turned pleasure into business by setting up the North of England’s first-ever vinyl record manufacturing plant.

The team currently has a workforce of ten people, and plans to employ up to 30 by the end of the year, with 100,000 records produced each month and priority given to smaller independent music labels. This latest announcement sees more than 85% of available units at TeesAMP either occupied or nearing contract completion.

Mr Lowe said: "As three local guys we are really excited to set up this unique business at TeesAMP. We are combining our skills from our day jobs in engineering and business management with our extensive knowledge of the music industry to bring the first-ever record pressing plant to Middlesbrough, and we are really proud of that.

“We chose TeesAMP because the new facility is in a prime location and it will enable us to showcase the precision engineering of a really interesting manufacturing process. Being based at the park will hopefully bring some awareness to the fact that the vinyl pressing industry is centred on a carefully constructed engineering process.

"We hope our business can also help our fantastic local music scene, not many towns or cities across the world have access to their own local vinyl pressing plant, so it is a real win for the area."

The firm will join the TeesAMP’s existing tenants which include Firth Vickers Engineering, Sulzer Chemtech, Close Protection Security and Durata UK Ltd.

Ashley Waters, Middlesbrough Council’s executive member for regeneration, said: “Press On Vinyl are a forward-thinking company set up by local lads and I am delighted they have chosen TeesAMP as their base to achieve their potential. Securing this new tenant means we are another step closer to having the park fully occupied.”

Geoff Hogg, chief executive of Chaloner Group, the developer of TeesAMP, added: "TeesAMP is proving to be a magnet for innovative engineering and manufacturing companies that are at the heart of contemporary industry in Tees Valley.

“The quality and flexibility of the spaces we have created suits both established companies and exciting young businesses like Press On Vinyl that will be able to grow and prosper as part of the TeesAMP community.”

Plans for phase two of the TeesAMP development will commence shortly, offering flexible building opportunities in a prime location.