Bourque Industries Inc (BORK)

[Flatcat]

You are right based upon facts that are apparently unknown to many. The original plan was to expand the furnace area, cast larger generic plates and then cut them to size with a waterjet. The large waterjet was in the building last time I visited. The building size may actually have been just right to a little small given the size of the waterjet. The waterjet when set up for operation would have taken about 1/3 of the production area, the expanded furnace area about 1/3 leaving 1/3 for inventory, packing and shipping. The waterjet would have been ideal to make clean cuts on the kryron plates. Given the material strength of Kryron - grinding may not have been an option.

Going to an outside vendor for production eliminated the need for the waterjet, expanded furnace area, etc. Thus the drexel building was not required.

The waterjet was later shipped out without spending the money to build a customized sound isolated room to house it in. The high pressure compressor is bad for noise on it's own but the jet cutting noise requires hearing protection for the operator and isolation for the rest of the company operations.

The plans to expand were there but not the funding.