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Originally Posted by Redwing91 
Pimp, from all of this what is your opinion? Do you feel this product will actually make it or is it too expensive? I always figured business's were smart enough to make an intial investment to save money a few years later. The fact that they have trials going on made me less worried about the cost of the product, like why would they try something they can't afford? One other question. Are they still reengineering the product? It makes a lot of sense what you are saying about the weight of the product, how the newer one uses a "T" formation but is still strong enough. I was hoping that one was the final design.
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Well, I think we have all the ducks lined up and ready for action. Whether anyone buys EKL-FLOR is really up to their business needs. It is all about the bottleline profit, so the ball is pretty much at the customer's court now. All we can do is cross our fingers and wait I guess.
The "T" formation is what we have now. I saw a prototype that was more of a "W" formation, I don't think that is what they are going with right now.
Marino pointed out that customer once had to take out 3000 containers, and open up each one to see if they can use it for food shippments. Each time you take a container out, the docks charge a fee. They mark each one with "Ok" or "not ok". They found about 1000 of them food ready. But the process of picking out that 1000 good containers is expenive and time consuming. With Eko-flor equiped containers, they just pick out the ones with Eko-flor lables on them and ready to go.
For containers that are dirty or not food ready, customers sand out layers of the floor, trying to make it look clean, but the odor is not something that can go away. So are the bacteria. Shipping lines sometimes have to reject business due to fear that the shipment will ruin the container floors. With EKO-FLOR, they can GAIN business since they no longer need to reject shipments that sinks.
I guess the industry is complicated. We have the product, the industry will have to tell us whether they need it or not, or whether it makes good business sense for them to try it out......all we can do now is sit and wait for something to happen. I hope the trials will be done soon so we can move along to contracts.
Go ahead and give them a call if you want. Hope someone answers the phone.