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You've hit the nail on the head, it's fascinating how in depth you can go with cables. I've been digging into the variables you listed over the past couple of weeks actually, there's such differentiation with the cables out there. Even once you've got the variables on lock down, we then have to consider the granulation and selling process. Lots to learn! We're tempted to start off by finding a company with a granulator and pay them a fee to granulate the cables we collect. That way we'll be able to concentrate on getting the platform right and increasing the collection quantities before committing to a huge financial burden of having our own machine.

This is an interesting idea, but my assumption is that no granulator would want to get paid a "fee" and then return the product to you. They would probably just want to buy the product off you as is and granulate it themselves, since that is their business. Think about it, if you are a granulator you would rather just buy the product to be granulated, so that you then have full control on the sell side to your suppliers.... I wouldn't think they would granulate and give back the product you give them unless your fee you paid them was a lot higher than what they could get just buying the material off you like they do from others and then sending it off to their buyers.

Also consider, if they are a granulator, and you were to want your stuff granulated and returned after granulation, you would essentially have to rent out the entire granulator since how they normally work is just getting a bunch of stuff from multiple places, and then running it all-together through the granualtor. To be able to run your stuff exclusively to return just your stuff, you would have to have enough volume to fully occupy their granulating system, or they would be loosing money (by not granulating the other material they have from others).... My guess is you will either have to buy/setup your own granulating facility, or just middle-man between your end users, and a granulator. That is essentially what most scrap yards do anyway.... buy a bunch from a bunch of people, and sell in volume as-is to a processor for a profit.... it sounds like you are essentially doing the same thing, just instead of a person going to a scrapyard, they might submit the material to your app/platform instead.....


edit: now that im re-reading your post, you may have just meant reselling to a granulator, and not nessicarily having them granulate and return the processed material to you to resell, if thats what you meant, ignore my post lol. that is what I would recommend, jsut selling to someone setup to process it at least until you have the volume where you could jsutify the expense of processing yourself