A group of friends in Denmark are opening a new sustainable record pressing plant after noticing a couple of problems with getting records made in their home country.

The first is a common one: it takes ages. RPM Records reckon it takes bands between 3-6 months to get their music pressed, with smaller artists even being turned away due to demand. The second, maybe less often considered, is the environmental issue. Pressing plants take a huge amount of electricity to run, and there’s inevitably a good deal of waste.

Gudmundur, Oscar and Mathias of RPM Records (formerly known as Vinyltryk) are on a mission to change that. They’re opening the first fully automatic record pressing plant in Denmark in 60 years. Their sustainable record pressing plant uses the most efficient and eco-friendly presses currently available, using a closed loop water cooling system to maximise water sustainability. As well as offering a green means to pressing records, RPM Records vows to keep production time to a minimum to get more records in the hands of music fans in their local Copenhagen and abroad.

RPM Records aims to open its doors and presses in October after six months of planning, financing and building. Before they get stuck into some heavy wax production, we sought them out for a little more insight into what an eco-friendly vinyl pressing plant actually is, the road to opening its doors, and what to expect from their plant.

Gudmundur of RPM Records tells us more about the Copenhagen’s new sustainable record pressing plant: