the price of a plant...

For 20k metric tonnes plant per year;
<$2M Capex (=capital expenditure)
start-up = Plant&Equipment,&Factory build.
~$0.1M Capex per year.
$3M Opex (=operatin expenditure) per year.

For a company owning the plant;
Revenue would be about $1000 per metric tonne, so about $20M per plant.
From one plant per year, that would mean $20M (revenue) - $3M (opex) = $17M gross operating profit, before depreciation of $2.1M Capex, and other central costs….. (like perhaps rental of site from Banana plantation owner etcetc...)

So a plant could go for anywhere between $5 to $10M perhaps ?? cos the company buying it, would get payback of investment in half a year at least !!! (so perhaps the selling price of this thing should be WAAAAYYY higher…..) – although then the buying company would have to pay for the space they use on the plantation, although you wouldn’t expect it to be CBD-type rental costs…..

Anyway - seeing that it only costs about $2M to make, PPY would then be making $3M (from $5M price) to $7M (from $10M price) per plant before their central costs etc.... not bad at all....

just need to crack the market, and get those paper manufacturers and banana plantation owners to catch on....