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White Stripes frontman and Third Man label head Jack White is opening a new record pressing plant tomorrow (February 25) in Detroit, reports local publication Detroit Free Press.The plant, called Third Man Pressing, is located in the Cass Corridor neighborhood where White opened the Detroit arm of his Third Man Records retail store in 2015. (The other is in White's current hometown, Nashville.) The pressing plant takes up a 10,000-square-foot warehouse, and it has eight custom presses for pressing seven-inch and 12-inch records. It's reportedly the first pressing plant to open in Detroit in over 50 years, since Archer Record Pressing opened in 1965.Tomorrow's free grand opening will feature limited-edition pressings of the White Stripes' first two albums, along with records from hometown acts such as rock band MC5 and techno heavyweights Derrick May and Carl Craig. "We wanted to be able to showcase a variety of important and historical artists and records from Detroit," Third Man co-founder Ben Blackwell told Rolling Stone. According to him, the plant also plans to offer mastering records in the future.Earlier this year, we wrote about why the so-called "vinyl boom" may be bad news for electronic music.