A worldwide material shortage is delaying cassette production

guest · Oct 10, 2019

A worldwide material shortage is delaying cassette production
The only factory that refines a key ingredient has been under renovation for most of the year
October 10, 2019
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/10/cassette-tape-material-shortage/

Just when cassette tapes appeared to be making a comeback, a worldwide shortage of gamma ferric oxide has slowed production. National Audio Company (NAC), the largest cassette tape manufacturer in the US, sent a letter to its customers explaining that, due to the shortage, it is unable to fill orders on its usual 30-day schedule. Instead, it's working as fast as the raw material arrives.

If you weren't racing out to buy the Stranger Things soundtrack on cassette, you might not have realized that cassette sales are growing. In 2016, sales jumped a whopping 74 percent, and they've continued to climb. In 2018, sales increased another 23 percent, reaching a total of 219,000 tapes, compared to 74,000 in 2015.
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