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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Can't really fast track anything with supply issues. Most projects are 24-36 months depending on size for a straightforward debottleneck. Complicated equipment used to be 40-52 week delivery we now see 60 weeks. We also lack man-power on the technical side of things with 7 years of wave after wave of layoffs.
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Lead times on materials and equipment is so much longer now. We are struggling to get alloys like 316SS and a lot of our suppliers have doubled or tripled their lead times for almost all equipment including stuff like PLC hardware, temp. controllers, etc.