I've seen some of your great boxes and would lust after same. Trouble is you never know what's in the container from China and often it's too big a surprise. With you overseeing cabinet production I would not have any qualms, however.
Email me with some details.
My friend Jim Harger drove by your compound (mansion, palace, what have you). Took him 20 minutes from gate to fence. It must be awful living in China. He spotted horses, but what about the giraffe paddock? Recent addition?
Hey Brian...
Life is very good for me over in China... (except for SARS)...
There are no surprises in *MY* containers because we control everything... and I do mean that... get me some .dxf's of your cabinets... and I'll build ANYTHING for you at No Cost at all... my treat... I'll bring it in in one of my containers for our products... and then ship it to you... but I need your drawings Big B...
Brian... your lifes work has gotten better and better with age... and I would love to show you what I've built over there... come on over in October (I know... Monsoon Season... but the weather is usually real good then or just before Thanksgiving...)...
Wish I had known Jim was there... would have set him up nicely... He's a great guy...
The new factory willl be under way soon...
Here are some of the details copied from another post on our forum:
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For a long time now many of you have known and have realized that we are at the limits of our production capacity. We’ve had many offers to come into larger facilities (that we do not own or operate)… and frankly… I’ve been less than enthused about this… A few months back with my own frustrations running so high, I almost did this… went into a facility where we were not the “owners”… just to boost production.
My dream then was to build a facility for ourselves where we could do it “our way”… and make it World Class by any measure… Today, I can now share with you that this dream is about to come true…
Last week Mr. Pu and I purchased an 18,000 square meter piece of (usable) land that will ultimately yield about an 180,000 square foot production facility about 20 minutes from our PanYu City base. This land is part of Lotus Mountain (a beautiful place)… and is very near to a sea port for export.
Our plan is to build our facility in two parts with ground breaking to take place next week. I’ll be traveling over the Seoul with a few friends to “break ground” in our hotel suite (I’m not going into China for a few more months as SARS is not yet in complete check)… and go through all of the plans for our new factory.
We’ll have:
Apartments for about 200 people (stage one)
GREAT dining halls and kitchens
On site laundry facilities for our staff
Day Care for our children
Small medical facilities for any on-site injuries etc.
Scooter repair shop for our teammates to get their scooters worked on
Three enormous Production Hangers
SOTA spray booths and polishing stations
At least two Italian multi-head CNC’s and several multi-head / multi-axis routers
SOTA dust collection equipment and systems
Assorted other machinery we need (to big of as list to post here)
At least two Anechoic Chambers for test and measurement
All automated “in-line” test systems
Etc. etc. the list is too big to detail here… but you can get the gist of this…
Stage One will begin in about 4 weeks if everything goes as planned… Stage Two will take place in mid-2004.
I want to thank Mr. Pu and his family for their super efforts on our behalf… and I also wish to acknowledge our partners as well… but most of all I want to say a sincere and heartfelt Thank You to all of you that have believed in our products and our vision… without all of you… this would have never happened…
More later to be sure…
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So... lots happening right now... and the new facilities will be wonderful... I promise...
Come on down Brian... it will amaze you...
All the best...
mls
