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<blockquote data-quote="Bongodog" data-source="post: 7569928" data-attributes="member: 1343"><p>I understand that we now have in the region of 12 cement factories in the UK, and some of them have recently been closed for maintenance. Whilst concentrating production of commodities to a very small number of sites looks good for raw efficiency and lowest possible cost of production it then has the possibility of short supply when it all goes wrong. </p><p>Every so often there's a shortage of something, a couple of years ago it was CO2 due to most of it coming from a couple of plants.</p><p>Presently everything seems short, some of it is down to suppliers being hesitant to place orders when they couldn't see what was happening, some is down to factories disrupted due to covid and some down to our changing lifestyle over the past year. Last year I toyed with the idea of an inflatable kayak, nothing to be had as lots of other people had thought of it 1st, just recently, wanted a new bike, quoted September for delivery, hardly surprising whne you see just how many people are out pedalling now, new greenhouse quoted 26 weeks. Lots of people who have drawn their usual salary for working at home or been on furlough have been better off than when they worked in the office etc. With no foreign holidays for a year and no meals out for many months they have money burning a hole in their pockets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bongodog, post: 7569928, member: 1343"] I understand that we now have in the region of 12 cement factories in the UK, and some of them have recently been closed for maintenance. Whilst concentrating production of commodities to a very small number of sites looks good for raw efficiency and lowest possible cost of production it then has the possibility of short supply when it all goes wrong. Every so often there's a shortage of something, a couple of years ago it was CO2 due to most of it coming from a couple of plants. Presently everything seems short, some of it is down to suppliers being hesitant to place orders when they couldn't see what was happening, some is down to factories disrupted due to covid and some down to our changing lifestyle over the past year. Last year I toyed with the idea of an inflatable kayak, nothing to be had as lots of other people had thought of it 1st, just recently, wanted a new bike, quoted September for delivery, hardly surprising whne you see just how many people are out pedalling now, new greenhouse quoted 26 weeks. Lots of people who have drawn their usual salary for working at home or been on furlough have been better off than when they worked in the office etc. With no foreign holidays for a year and no meals out for many months they have money burning a hole in their pockets. [/QUOTE]
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