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OMS (Lou Wullms) sent its introduction letter, filed in docs/equipment/oms/: wet-room units with reference prices, two 4-cell configurations (EUR 224,000 basic with two EFS2-200, EUR 311,000 advanced with one AEFS4-250 and PLC; installation days extra), capacities of 24 and 32 shells in an 8-hour day, utilities, rooms, staffing, used equipment, and five contacts for buying a cutting lathe. Recorded in galvanics.md (tables, our reading: the advanced units add up to EUR 314,000, know-how transfer is left out of both totals although CNX has no plating know-how, the basic set has no passivation unit), the exhibitor follow-ups, vendor landscape (new section on used lathes and cutting-room contacts, plus Lou's three websites), supplier map, roadmap items 6 and 13, total investment (basis note only, block unchanged) and the scale people estimate. Open: forward the letter to Simona, as Lou asked. Sibert (Ian Locke, 9 October): footprints and formal quotations when we are ready; settle the pressing side first, hopefully with Pheenix, and mention his recommendation if we do; impressed by the green-factory plans (supplier feedback). Open: pass on the recommendation if Pheenix is chosen. CNX-01 in proplan: OMS basic and advanced added as options to D-002 with their reference prices in THB; budget line 3 notes the OMS range.
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# Equipment Needs and Supplier Map
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Working list of everything the factory needs per production step, with the
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suppliers identified so far. Compiled 2026-07-17 from vendor research and the
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Newbilt planning documents. All pricing is quote-on-request unless a figure
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is given; figures are snapshots, not commitments.
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## 1. Mastering and Lathe Cutting
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What we need:
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- Disk mastering lathe
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- Stereo cutter head
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- Cutting (drive) amplifiers matched to the head
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- Mastering / transfer console and mastering chain (EQ, limiting, elliptical
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EQ)
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- Preview / pitch-and-depth automation solution
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- Vacuum system for platter hold-down and swarf (chip) suction
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- Groove inspection microscope and reference playback chain for QC
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- Low-vibration, temperature-controlled room
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- Consumables: lacquer blanks, cutting styli
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Suppliers identified:
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| Supplier | Location | Offering | Notes |
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| Agnew Analog | Chalkis, Greece | Type 612 lathe, Type 602 cutter head, Type 607 stylus machine, tube electronics | Bespoke, long build times; turnkey or components; info@agnewanalog.com |
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| Sillitoe Audio Technology | Australia | SDMS complete cutting system: lathe, MMFB Mk3E feedback cutterhead, Master Control cutting amplifier, Space / Time Control automation software, vacuum, groove microscope | **USD 125,000** standard system ex tax and shipping (order page, October 2026); built to order; closed head/amplifier pairing; info@sillitoeaudiotechnology.com. Comparison in [vendor landscape](vendor-landscape.md) |
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Open: cutter amps and preview automation (both bundled if Sillitoe),
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console, lacquer blank supply (e.g. MDC/Public Record type), styli supply.
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Cutting service (until the in-house room runs):
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| Supplier | Location | Offering | Notes |
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| Schallplatten Schneid Technik (SST) | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Lacquer cutting for pressing (7"/10"/12"), dubplates, half-speed, locked-groove and inside-out cuts; two Neumann cutting rooms; independent since 1969 (SST website, checked October 2026) | Already cut lacquers for Poy Records (POY003, 005, 006, 013, per SST's archive); met in Haarlem and offered help (email, 7 October 2026); on good terms with ResurRec; Daniel Krieger (MD), daniel@sst-ffm.de, mail@sst-ffm.de, +49 69 57 50 57. See [vendor landscape](vendor-landscape.md#lacquer-cutting-service-schallplatten-schneid-technik-germany) |
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| Used lathes and cutting rooms (contacts via OMS) | Germany, Switzerland | Railroad Studio Tracks (complete cutting studio for sale, October 2026), Mike Papas, Andreas Bauer (AB Mastering), Flo Kaufman (flokason), Martin Sukale | Leads from Lou Wullms' introduction letter, unverified; details in the [vendor landscape](vendor-landscape.md#used-lathes-and-cutting-room-contacts-via-oms) |
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## 2. Silvering and Electroforming (Galvanics)
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What we need:
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- Lacquer cleaning / degrease station
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- Silvering station (conductive silver layer)
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- Nickel pre-plate station (low-stress strike)
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- Electroforming cells (father, mother, stamper generations)
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- Electro-clean / passivation station
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- Deionised water supply (the passivation bench needs a DI connection)
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- Clean room with controlled access, ventilation, fume extraction/scrubbing
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- Closed-loop rinse water treatment and metal recovery (zero-discharge
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requirement; e.g. wastewater evaporator, reference: Gotta Groove Records
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model)
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- Decontamination procedures and PPE program (nickel salts and silver
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nitrate hazards)
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Suppliers identified:
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| Supplier | Location | Offering | Notes |
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| Plating Power / Digital Matrix Corp. | Farmingdale, NY, USA | VLSS silvering, VLPP pre-plate, VLFP 2/4/6-cell electroforming, EC-1000 passivation, control rings | No water treatment or metal recovery in their scope; no SE-Asia distributor; alex.greenspan@digmatrix.com |
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| Pheenix Alpha | Sweden | PASU automatic silvering, PPPU pre-plating (four masters), PDPU dual-cell electroforming (up to 200 A per cell), PMPB passivation, cleaning and drying bench (nickel and DMM) | 2024 flyers in [`../equipment/pheenix-alpha/`](../equipment/pheenix-alpha/), summarised in [galvanics and stamper prep](../equipment/galvanics.md); prices unpublished; PLC with network access; no water treatment in the flyers; same vendor as the AD12 presses (section 5), so one quote can cover both; info@pheenixalpha.com |
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| Optical Media Services (OMS) | Baarlo, Netherlands | Vinyl electroforming equipment, new and refurbished (including CD/DVD lines converted to 14" vinyl); independent stamper service from lacquers and DMMs | Named by Sibert after Haarlem (good equipment, very familiar with the Asian market); introduction letter of 9 October 2026 in [`../equipment/oms/`](../equipment/oms/): reference prices EUR 224,000 for a basic 4-cell wet room (2 × EFS2-200) and EUR 311,000 advanced (AEFS4-250, PLC), installation days extra, used equipment on offer ([galvanics and stamper prep](../equipment/galvanics.md)); possible link to Newbilt's announced electroplating equipment, unconfirmed; Lou Wullms (technical), lou.wullms@gmail.com, +31 6 5490 3443; Wilma Peeters (accounting and logistics), wilmapeeters6@gmail.com; office +31 77 477 8054 |
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Open: industrial water-treatment vendor for the zero-discharge system;
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clean-room design/build contractor; fume scrubbing.
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## 3. Stamper Preparation
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What we need:
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- Stamper center punch
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- Stamper back-finishing machine
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- Stamper trimming/forming (coining) machine
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Suppliers identified:
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| Supplier | Location | Offering | Notes |
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| Sibert Instruments | Medstead, Hampshire, UK | VSP punch, VSF back-finisher, VSC coiner; a fully automatic VSPa punch also exists | Current specifications (2022 and 2023) and line-up drawing in [`../equipment/sibert/`](../equipment/sibert/), summarised in [galvanics and stamper prep](../equipment/galvanics.md): single-phase 115 to 230 V, 6 to 8 bar air, 200 / 250 / 1000 kg, line 4958 × 833 mm, no data interface listed; budget of USD 250k for all three confirmed by email (October 2026), its time, spares, shipping and travel extra, itemised quotation and footprints when we are ready (Ian Locke, 9 October 2026, who advises settling the presses first); confirm no overlap with press-integrated forming before buying the VSC; sales@sibert.co.uk, Ian Locke (ian.locke@sibert.co.uk) |
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## 4. Stamper Service (bridge / overflow, until in-house galvanics runs)
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| Supplier | Location | Offering | Notes |
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| Stamper Discs | Sheffield, UK | 1-step and 3-step stampers from lacquer/DMM, 7"/10"/12", fits Newbilt/Toolex/Viryl molds; brokers lacquer cutting via EU partners | Ships 30+ countries, no documented Asia customers yet; get written turnaround SLA; peter@stamperdiscs.com |
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## 5. Pressing
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What we need (target fleet: 50% fully automated, 50% semi-automatic):
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- Semi-automatic press line: extruder, presses, hydraulic aggregate, molds
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(12" 140/180 g, 7" and 10" insert sets), trimmer
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- Fully automated press line: automatic presses incl. extruders, molds
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- Steam generator (~400 kg/h for the semi-auto Duplex alone; grows with the
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automated line), local sourcing planned
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- Cooling water system (~250 kW for the semi-auto Duplex alone; closed loop),
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local sourcing planned
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- Workshop compressor / compressed air supply
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- PVC grinder (recycling loop)
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- Record separator plates, buffer spindles
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Suppliers identified:
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| Supplier | Location | Offering | Notes |
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| Newbilt machinery GmbH | Alsdorf, Germany | Single 2.1 system (VEX 50 extruder, HRP 12 press ~150 t, semi-auto), Duplex expansion, molds, Vario trimmer, Granulator 400 grinder, Label Punch, EX 35 auxiliary colour extruder. **Also builds the Classic 12" fully automatic press**: hydraulic **3-column** frame, **built-in extruder** (3 heated zones, water-cooled screw; 7.5 kW drive motor per the 2024 flyer, earlier noted here as 15 kW, confirm), automatic patty loading, automatic label supply, automatic cooling-plate management, spindle stack output, Siemens Security PLC (two 21" touchscreens per the 2024 flyer, one 10" per the website) with SCADA / OPC UA, inserts shared with the Duplex, CE approved, **28 s cycle (~128 records/h)**, vendor-claimed **≥95% yield and ≥95% uptime**. So Newbilt is a single-vendor candidate for *both* fleet halves, not only the semi-auto one. Note the half-automatic press is a **4-column book-mould** design; column count is the quickest way to tell the two apart on a factory floor | 2024 quote EUR 200,549.50 (~USD 232k / ~7.7M THB) incl. freight, expired, needs re-quote; ask for build time and order-book position in the re-quote; **ResurRec Bangkok already runs one automatic + one semi-automatic Newbilt: ask for the Thai install base and a service-response precedent**; contacts Hans-Juergen Helm (Sales Manager) and Erwin Neubauer (Managing Director); 2026 flyers in [`../equipment/newbilt/flyers-2026/`](../equipment/newbilt/flyers-2026/), summarised in [pressing-line.md](../equipment/pressing-line.md) |
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| Pheenix Alpha | Märsta (Stockholm), Sweden; Solna in older listings | AD12 fully automatic press (24-26 s cycle, ~140 records/h, 1 operator per 4 presses); AD12 Manual semi-auto | Direct Toolex Alpha successor; possible single-vendor option for both fleet halves; also builds the electroforming line (section 2); claims 300+ presses installed worldwide; CEO offered a Teams call, references and a factory visit after Haarlem (October 2026); andreas.runsten@pheenixalpha.com, Robert Gunnarsson (CEO) robert.gunnarsson@pheenixalpha.com |
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Open: decision between Newbilt semi-auto + Pheenix automatic vs. single
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vendor; local steam-generator and chiller suppliers in Thailand.
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## 6. Finishing and Packaging
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What we need:
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- Label dry oven (Newbilt quote lists France Etuves XU 112 as example)
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- Shrink wrap machine (example: Minipack-Torre Replay 55)
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- 7" center label punch / dinker
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- Folded paper cartons: jackets and sleeves
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- Printing for labels and packaging
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Suppliers identified:
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| Supplier | Location | Offering | Notes |
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| Local packaging manufacturers | Chiang Mai region, Thailand | Folded paper cartons (jackets, sleeves) | Collaboration planned, partners not yet identified |
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## 7. PVC Compound
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Preference: local (Thai/regional) sourcing if quality meets record
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specifications; European suppliers as fallback. Feed mix runs 80% virgin,
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20% recycled in-house regrind.
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Suppliers identified (2021 contact list, needs refresh; full contacts in
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`210519_Suppliers of PVC for vinyl record production.pdf`):
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| Supplier | Country |
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| P.A.T. Engineering B.V. | Netherlands |
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| Dugdale Limited | UK |
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| CAF srl | Italy |
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| INEOS Compounds Aycliffe | UK |
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| RESINOPLAST | France |
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| TPC Plastics | USA |
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| Polymer-Chemie GmbH | Germany |
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| PCW GmbH | Germany |
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Open: identify and qualify Thai/regional PVC compound producers.
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**Lead (August 2026):** photographs from the ResurRec tour show the
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pressing floor stacked with kraft sacks printed **"MADE IN THAILAND"**,
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suggesting the incumbent already runs Thai-sourced material. The visible
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wording includes "Pigment", so these may be colorant/masterbatch rather
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than base compound, worth a photograph of a full sack label, or a direct
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question, to identify the supplier. Either answer is useful: a qualified
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Thai compound source would close this open item, and a Thai pigment source
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feeds the colour/splatter work the semi-automatic line is meant to serve.
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## 8. Utilities and Site (customer-supplied around the machines)
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- Solar PV installation (large; panel and array sizing open until site
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selection)
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- Solar inverters: multiple Deye three-phase HV hybrid units. Verified
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series SUN-29.9/30/35/40/50K-SG01HP3 (battery window 160-800 V, up to 10
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in parallel, IEC 61727/62116/62109 certified); larger SUN-60/70/75/80K
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SG02HP3 series to be confirmed via datasheet. Thai distribution exists
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(Solar Nicolo, solaris.co.th)
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- Battery storage: Gobel Power (Shenzhen, est. 2012) GP-SRA-HV314 HV rack
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BESS, 271 kWh = 15 stacked 18 kWh packs (LFP 314 Ah, 1P18S), DC 225-985 V,
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8000+ cycles, ~135 kW continuous discharge at 0.5P, CAN/RS485 with "Deye
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CAN HV" protocol support. Listed USD 39,900-58,000 (~1.3M to 1.9M THB),
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50-60 day lead from
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China. Open checks: rack voltage vs. chosen Deye model's battery window
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(full 15-pack rack can exceed 800 V), safety certifications
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(UN38.3, IEC 62619, CE) not published, no performance warranty published,
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no Thai distributor
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- Steam generation (electric, biomass, or solar-thermal assist under
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evaluation; Deepgrooves NL runs presses on wood-fired biomass boilers as a
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precedent)
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- Water treatment for boiler feed and closed-loop cooling
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- Compressed air generation
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- Hydraulic oil (~200 L, ISO VG 32/46 HLP per DIN 51524-2, per Newbilt spec)
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- Whole-factory HVAC: continuous temperature (20-26 °C), humidity (35-60%
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RH), and PM control with zoned filtration tiers, sized for northern
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Thailand burning-season PM2.5 peaks; a major load for PV/battery sizing
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- Clean rooms, ventilation, decontamination infrastructure for galvanics
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- Fire protection, exhaust work benches, PPE stock
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Thai supplier candidates and rough investment ranges for these utility and
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site systems are compiled in
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[`../finance/utilities-investment.csv`](../finance/utilities-investment.csv)
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(budgetary figures, plus or minus 30%, researched July 2026).
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## 9. Services and Expertise
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| Supplier | Location | Offering | Notes |
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| Kevin Da Costa | UK | Vinyl manufacturing consultancy: factory layout, installation, training, process optimization | GBP 10k-20k packages (~USD 13.5k-27k) / GBP 450 per day (~USD 610); credentials self-stated, references needed |
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| Newbilt service | Germany | Installation, commissioning, training beyond the included 5 days | 2024 rate card: EUR 84/h (~USD 97 / ~3,200 THB) on-site plus surcharges and travel |
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| buildfor.life | Thailand | Project consulting | Supporting |
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Open: mastering/cutting engineer training, galvanics process expertise
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(hardest skill to hire), local contractors for building and utilities.
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Payap University wants to build joint student programmes in audio
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engineering (mastering, lathe cutting), IT and business with the plant, a
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possible training pipeline ([Payap partnership](../payap-partnership.md)).
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