Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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Actually it's very easy depending upon the size of the part. Injection molders often place more than one cavity within a mold. Think about how many tooth brushes get produced as compared to phones. For smaller parts there could be dozens of cavities within a single mold. Then it's simply arithmetic. What is the total cycle time to cool the parts, open the press, unload the parts, prep the mold, close the press, and inject the metal? This will tell you how many machines and multi-cavity molds are needed. Installing a 100 machines to launch such a production plan would be no big deal for Professir Li. I've seen bigger investments in China WITHOUT any orders under the assumption that if you build it they will come. I saw a mold shop that was close to 1 million square feet and a $350 million investment including equipment built as a start-up with no initial orders. That's they way the Chinese think.