![]() ![]() Material prices increasing by over 100% in less than 12 months. You might appreciate what this doesto a cottage industry. Consequence of Covid, port confusion, higher industrial demand, logistics blockages, Brexit etc. Even the metal supplier was embarrassed at the price hike. ![]() I have just received an order from the same supplier, same metal grade - 50 Kg which cost £990 ex vat. I bought 100 Kg of metal last year and than cost me about £900 ex vat. That got me into the world of casting (which is a parallel universe). I solved the problem by buying my own casting machine which I imported from the US at huge expense and taught myself to cast. I lost a lot of orders between April 2019 and August 2020. I subcontracted all of my casting and a combination of Covid restriction and higher demand for the caster's own products cut me off entirely - no stock and virtual shutdown. During Covid 19 I experienced enormous supply problems with castings. Hello Ray, although I do not endorse or subscribe to Warlord's approach in any way I would like to share some information here with you and your followers which may put some things in context. Augsburgeroberst 27 October 2021 at 15:43 ![]()
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