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Cleaning equipment is expensive, and results in significant downtime. Plus in any manufacturing process for a commodity good, you really want a process that is

Cleaning equipment is expensive, and results in significant downtime. Plus in any manufacturing process for a commodity good, you really want a process that is as continuous as possible - any disruption might even cause some equipment wear. Also, there's a limit to which you can price extra, a limit of what a customer would be willing to pay for it, VS look for a substitute product.

JohnFen 4y ago
> Cleaning equipment is expensive, and results in significant downtime Of course. So what? > there's a limit to which you can price extra How much extra do you think they'd have to charge? I don't know, myself. Given the volume commercial facilities tend to do, I would be shocked if it even adds as much as a dime to the price. > look for a substitute product Ideally, these rules would apply to all such companies, so no company would have any sort of cost advantage over the others as a result of this. The problem here is simple greed, leading some manufacturers to engage in cruel shenanigans in order to maintain a sliver of their profit margin.