Can production revisited.12 Jun 2018 03:47
If anyone is interested........
I recently had confirmation from PSNW by way of JG on the 8million cans/year and 50k batch size production with the following additional information, which I consider tres positive..
PSNW has recently bought another line with a capacity of an additional 8m annual capacity which they are looking to install next year. With this in mind capacity, isn�t likely to be a constraint in the near future.
Although the above may be bought, it will not be installed until next year. But then they may need an additional 12 to 18 months to obtain manufacturing approval, as advised previously by JG ? However, given that a EU manufacturing approval does not need 12 to 18months (based on the previous approval), I can only assume that the previously advised time period must have included physical installation of equipment, hence I am currently in the process of getting verification on this.
However, it is super positive if another production line is being installed since this does indicate there will be a need for more than 8mill can a year up to a total of 16mill cans a year, which does tell us that surely sales are better than expected otherwise why would another production line be bought and installed unless requested ?
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Although I have been provided with a detailed hourly breakdown of batch production which consist of:
Clean, Manufacture & Fill, Quarantine, FP Testing, Packing, QA/QP review and release.
I will not post figures here since they will only confuse given that some items will run in parallel. It is, however, sufficient to only post production figures of 8mill cans/year and 50k can/batch and the requirement for an additional production line, which speaks words in itself.
All seems to be looking good....n"est pa... :-)