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A $6.5m Business Worth Flying To

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And you were 6.5 million in 24. That was the most recent numbers when you bought it.

2026 could be up to like 8.5 based on by visibility and your idea

that you can even, even at capacity, you can grow beyond capacity by. By subbing out. I'm not sure that's the right vocabulary in a manufacturing context. But by outsourcing, delegating some of the manufacturing.

Yes, some. Some of the manufacturing. Okay. And so at what point do you even with that, that model of being able to, to outsource or sub some of the, some of your work, at what point do you still hit a ceiling and you would need to make a strategic decision about a capex investment to grow more, we might need to

acquire a new physical building. That's the capex I will be looking at. If we grow more than like about 15 to 18 million, the way we are doing business, there is a lot of empty space.

Given the 5s principles, there's a lot can be optimized here. So after we outsource some of the manufacturing to local firms who have capacity in this business, because we are a niche, I want to retain engineering, assembly, testing and then slapping our label on the machine, somebody can do all the core manufacturing, the fabrication part of the manufacturing.

And so. And so with that model, you think you could more than double the business from your projected 2026 numbers of 8.5, you think you could get all the way to 18 before having to invest in another building. Great, great.

Because we have not considered the possibility of having a second shift in the same building. My worker, my. The floor comes in at 6, they leave at 2:30. We can have another shift starting at 2pm going to 10pm second shift in the same building.

And that though the two shifts having multiple shifts, this is a very common practice in manufacturing to effectively double capacity.

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