Smashed Plastic

CTL-E-0584 · Business · other · 2018

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Smashed Plastic, in the former Hammond Organ factory on Chicago's North Side, is the city's first vinyl pressing plant in decades, founded by Andy Weber, John Lombardo, and Steve Polutnik, pressing records for local musicians and labels.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-065; source research type(s): business. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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WBBM Newsradio via Puget Sound Radio (2019); Chicago Talks (Columbia College)

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