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New docs/crane-workshop-tours.md: a 5 t single-girder EOT crane over the
whole production compartment (stops at the warehouse fire wall), a
machine door and crane-served workshop/machine bay at the ramp end, and
a glazed ground-level visitor corridor along the car-park elevation with
stations in process order, its own air and acoustic glazing so tours
need no PPE. Covers what each changes in the shell (crane-ready frame,
hook height under the 7.0 m eave, no full-height cross walls in the
crane zone, room lids and crane hatches), safety, costs and open
decisions.

Propagated: construction RFQ (crane-ready frame, new section 1c, machine
door, accessible 1:12 entrance now required), scale zone table (+210 to
280 m2, total ~1,400 to 2,000 m2), facility security, worker safety,
roadmap items 9 and 15, total investment added-scope table, README.
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# Roadmap
Next steps in dependency order. No calendar dates yet: each phase is gated
by the one before it, and the clock starts when the first-phase items move.
Rough durations are estimates.
## Phase 0: Validate and clear the gates (now)
These three run in parallel and gate everything downstream:
1. **Market validation**: test the 3.50 to 4.60 USD blended pressing price
and regional demand with Asian labels and distributors, starting at
Making Vinyl in Haarlem (Alexander and Simona). This is the biggest
assumption in the [revenue model](finance/revenue-model.md); the
financing case waits on it. **Partially started**: a first buy-side
data point and a factory tour (ResurRec Bangkok, August 2026) are
recorded in the revenue model. The prices disagree with the model on
per-title services and run size; the tour showed no plating and no
HVAC anywhere in the incumbent's operation, which is the strongest
argument yet for pulling galvanics forward from Phase 5. Carry the
open run-size question into these conversations.
2. **BOI track**: engage a BOI-registered consultant, confirm the activity
sub-code, and structure the application so the solar, automation, and
R&D measures stack (see [boi.md](boi.md)). The application precedes
company incorporation and every machinery purchase order. Decision
timeline once filed: roughly 40 working days, 4 to 6 months to
certificate in practice.
3. **60 rai title check**: verify the forestry-classified parcel's legal
status (Chanote vs Sor Por Kor vs National Forest Reserve). Gates the
[biomass plan](biomass.md); if it clears, plant the coppice immediately
so first harvest (2 to 4 years) meets the expansion phase.
## Phase 1: Quotes and site (parallel with the BOI decision window)
4. **Newbilt re-quote** (2024 offer expired), with PLC/data access as a
stated purchasing requirement per the
[traceability spec](traceability.md)
5. **Pheenix Alpha**: current metric datasheet and quotes for the AD12 and
AD12 Manual, evaluating the single-vendor option against Newbilt for
the semi-auto half
6. **Digital Matrix**: galvanics line quote; in parallel, identify the
separate water-treatment vendor for the zero-discharge system
7. **Thai utility RFQs** from the candidates in the
[utilities CSV](finance/utilities-investment.csv), with guaranteed
northern service response as a line item; resolve the 35% vs 45% RH
floor question (the biggest HVAC cost lever)
8. **Solar/BESS engineering check**: match the Gobel rack voltage to the
chosen Deye model, request Gobel certifications and warranty terms,
confirm the EPC (Solar Nicolo or other) warrants a mixed-vendor DC bus
9. **Site selection**: candidate buildings/plots in Lamphun and Lampang
(Northern Region Industrial Estate first for its shared effluent
treatment and licensing simplicity), screened against the
[scale requirements](scale.md): 6 to 8 rai, 1,400 to 2,000 m² single
story (including the workshop and visitor corridor), multiple tons per
m² slab, 500 to 1,000 kVA connection, and a frame able to carry an
overhead crane
## Phase 2: Commit (after BOI certificate and validated pricing)
10. Finalize company incorporation under the promotion certificate
11. Sign the pressing-line order (Newbilt or Pheenix path); machinery must
arrive within the ~30-month duty-free import window that runs from
certificate issuance
12. Secure the site (lease preferred for the phased entry; purchase only
with land privileges under BOI)
13. Order long-lead items: mastering lathe (Agnew or Sillitoe, both built
to order, see [vendor landscape](suppliers/vendor-landscape.md)),
stamper-prep machines, first utility packages
14. Engage Stamper Discs for the bridge-stamper relationship with written
turnaround SLAs
## Phase 3: Build and commission (~6 to 12 months after commitment)
15. Building fit-out: slab verification, HVAC, clean zones, utilities,
solar and BESS installation, security systems per
[facility-security.md](facility-security.md), and the overhead crane,
maintenance workshop and visitor corridor per
[crane-workshop-tours.md](crane-workshop-tours.md) (the crane-ready
frame itself is in the construction RFQ, so it is decided before the
shell is ordered)
16. Machinery installation and vendor commissioning (Newbilt on-site
commissioning is mandatory for warranty; budget per the service rate
card)
17. Traceability software v1: intake, batch genealogy, press telemetry
capture (spec in [traceability.md](traceability.md), systems and build
order in [digital-factory.md](digital-factory.md); the network, servers
and edge collectors go in before the machinery arrives)
18. Hire and train the launch team; safety program stands up with the
equipment, not after it
## Phase 4: Launch (pressing with bridge stampers)
19. First test pressings, QC baselines, reject-rate shakedown
20. First paying releases; validate turnaround and quality against the
regional pitch
21. PVC lab per-lot gate live; begin qualifying Thai/regional compound
against the European references
## Phase 5: Expand (revenue-gated)
22. Duplex expansion (second press and extruder are already quoted options)
23. Galvanics line in-house (silvering, electroforming, stamper prep) with
the zero-discharge water plant; Stamper Discs moves to overflow/backup.
**Open question: should this move to Phase 1?** The August 2026 market
evidence says the domestic bottleneck is imported metalwork, not press
capacity, and that a galvanics line could earn from the incumbent's
spare presses before CNX's own press hall exists — see the
[revenue model](finance/revenue-model.md)
24. Automated press line (the 50/50 fleet target)
25. Full metrology stack and the sampled audio QC station
26. Biomass boiler, fed by the by-then-mature coppice plus regional fuel
27. Mastering and cutting room (can move earlier if title-services demand
shows up in Phase 4)
## Standing principle
Nothing in Phases 2 to 5 starts before its gate clears: no machinery order
before the BOI certificate, no big-block spending before the market
validates the price, no coppice fuel planning before the land title check.
The phased entry (~1.7M to 2.9M USD) is the default path; the full vision
(~4.7M to 8.9M USD) is reached through it, not instead of it.