BULGARIA
Balkanton was a state-owned record manufactory company in Bulgaria founded in 1952.
Many of the produced records were, or still are available in the countries of the Soviet bloc.
Balkanton's plant in Sofia was equipped for all aspects of record manufacturing from recording the masters and pressing the vinyl records to printing the cover.
Multi-channel sound recording was introduced in 1972 with equipment from England.
In 1982 Balkantonreceived its own digital recording equipment.
By the mid-1980s annual LP production reached 9 million units.
The company mainly produced LPs and in 1980 it started to manufacture cassettes.
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