Hiya Everybody,
Lengthy overdue replace! February was a sluggish month with 37 machines shipped attributable to some delays in us receiving elements. We couldn’t end constructing any machines for every week whereas we waited for a freight supply, however we’re again into our groove. March was higher with 89 machines shipped and a full time rent added to our crew.
Manufacturing Updates:
Sadly, the mad rush of shipments despatched out earlier than Chinese language New Yr signifies that our elements took additional lengthy to unload from the port. What might have been good timing resulted in a 2 week delay and successful to our schedule. The elements arrived the third week of February and our construct cycle needed to spool again up. This time allowed us to mirror on our course of and work on decreasing the variety of arms that every machine has to cross by earlier than completion.
Now that manufacturing has began to regular again out, we’re working with our suppliers to forestall future delays by signing bigger buy orders with month-to-month releases. These agreements is not going to solely assist us convey half price down, but in addition present us with constant deliveries to assist keep away from halts in meeting.
We’ve had a number of extra shipments exhibiting up on the finish of March and persevering with into April. This could permit us to keep away from any main setbacks, however delays and errors all the time occur so we’ll do our greatest to not let these sluggish us down.
At first of March, one in all our previous half time builders joined the crew full time and has been engaged on each meeting and packaging. Whereas onboarding nonetheless takes time, it will permit us to proceed to develop and work in the direction of hitting our weekly targets of 25-30 machines.
Store Enlargement:
After a number of inspection and cleansing, we’re now gaining access to the extra adjoined store house subsequent week. This may permit us to maneuver our small machining tools, stock overflow, and packaging packing containers into the brand new house together with a small picture studio whereas making extra room for meeting on our present aspect.
Specialty Espresso Expo:
Sadly, we is not going to be attending SCA Expo this 12 months. We’re in a pivotal level of development and growth and we have to keep centered on growing our meeting price and high quality. Expo is a good time to attach with the group and different companies so we’re unhappy to overlook it this 12 months however we are going to return once more quickly!
Design Adjustments:
The two largest complications for us are LEDs and Restrictor Valves. Though our LEDs undergo a number of rounds of testing to make sure they’ll final, we nonetheless see points with LEDs ceasing to operate in our machines. We predict it’s because of the fixed warmth cycles from the highest plate and its proximity to the boiler. We plan to make a small change to the highest plate for improved insulation of the LED lights in addition to improved processes for crimping and inspection earlier than set up.
The Restrictor Valves are a troublesome half to have manufactured constantly. These had been initially launched as a repair for difficulties with air bleed consistency. We’re engaged on redesigning the piston bleed valve for improved performance whereas being backwards suitable. Within the meantime, our new inlet fill connectors have modified barely and permit for a barely improved consumer expertise with out the restrictor put in. This protects our techs fairly a little bit of time on valve set up, QC runs, and swaps when dangerous elements are detected throughout QC whereas sustaining the identical shot pulling expertise with the Argos.
Tariffs:
Sadly the time has come to lift costs. We’ve been working laborious to maintain the Argos as inexpensive as attainable however with the not too long ago introduced improve in import Tariffs to America, we might want to elevate pricing accordingly. You’ll discover that this improve isn’t a direct correlation between Tariff share and retail value. We’re basing this purely on COGS (Value of Items Bought) and passing that onto the patron with out including further margin on high.
The brand new value for the Argos can be $1220 USD efficient Wednesday, April 9, 2025 when the brand new nation particular tariffs are set to kick in. It looks like this can be a continuously altering scenario so we can’t promise that these would be the solely value modifications primarily based on tariffs as time continues.
Canada:
For any of our beautiful Canadian clients. The brand new 25% further Canadian Tariffs have kicked on this previous month and are lower than superb when added on high of your preliminary 5-15% VAT.
In case you have a machine on order we wish to provide just a few choices to attempt to make this higher.
1. We are able to ship your machine when it is prepared and if these newly enacted tariffs are nonetheless in place
Odyssey Espresso will put $150 CAD in the direction of paying the import duties in case your order finally ends up being
topic to this new tariff.
2. We are able to maintain your machine ready till/if tariffs finish or till you tell us that you simply wish to
ship it regardless.
3. We are able to ship your machine instantly as soon as it is prepared with none deference to the tariff scenario.
4. We are able to cancel your order topic to our cancellation coverage.
For extra details about tariffs and what you may probably do to cut back the price of importing, see our weblog publish right here https://www.odysseyespresso.com/weblog/canadian-tariffs-march-25-2025
