Quality Corners needs to decide whether we should put a manufacturing facility in North Carolina next to one of our larger customers. There is a very good opportunity there. The idea is that our customer would supply us with raw materials. We would machine, assemble and package them into into finished product and send them back to the customer ready to ship to large national home improvement chains. The advantages in setting up an operation that way are the lower end cost for our customer based on their ability to provide inexpensive raw materials, fast lead times and reduced inventory due to the close proximity to the customer, and a closer relationship with our customer. There also might be an opportunity to work the customer to win new business not currently available to them based on restricitions placed on them by their current customers.
The difficult part of this is that I am the logical person to go set up and run that operation. We will have to think about how to do that without uprooting the family too much again. My first thought is to get an apartment in North Carolina and keep our house in Texas. We will have to have some discussions about how we can maintain some continuity. Maybe it will work out best just to go ahead and make the move, but that would get us far away from Lorena’s family again and North Carolina gets pretty cold in the winter so it would not be that great a place for my folks to winter. God has his hand in all this. In the end, he will work it all out.