National Audio Company

National Audio Company
Industry	Audio Cassete Tapes
Founded	1969
Founder	Warren Stepp
Headquarters	Springfield, Missouri, United States
Products	Blank Audio Cassette Tapes, Cassette Tape Packaging, Digital Media
Production output	25-30 million cassettes per year
Services	Cassette Tape Duplication, Vinyl Record Pressing, CD Duplication, Audio Engineering and Transfer, Cassette Manufacturing

Last updated November 07, 2025

National Audio Company is a cassette tape manufacturer located in Springfield, Missouri. It was established in 1968 by Steve Stepp and his father, Warren Stepp, and is the largest cassette tape manufacturer in the world.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

↑ Billock, Jennifer. "This Missouri Company Still Makes Cassette Tapes, and They Are Flying Off the Factory Floor". Smithsonian Magazine.
↑ "Proudly analog, a Missouri family business keeps cassette tapes alive for new generations". KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR. April 10, 2024.
↑ Henderson, Matthew (November 27, 2017). "National Audio reviving vintage equipment to save its business — and possibly an industry". Springfield Business Journal.

External links

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[1] Billock, Jennifer. "This Missouri Company Still Makes Cassette Tapes, and They Are Flying Off the Factory Floor". Smithsonian Magazine.

[2] "Proudly analog, a Missouri family business keeps cassette tapes alive for new generations". KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR. April 10, 2024.

[3] Henderson, Matthew (November 27, 2017). "National Audio reviving vintage equipment to save its business — and possibly an industry". Springfield Business Journal.

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