Pete Findlay

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Alan, thank you for having me.

Great to be here.

Oh, look, it's reasonably significant from a cost perspective at the moment, Alan.

So we sort of look at it in two ways, the cost and then the actual supply of goods.

So we've obviously focused on trying to make sure that our supply chains are standing up.

We do import

A lot of product and a lot of product comes through that straight.

So it's critical for us to be able to get packaging for our goods.

So all coming through there goes into a lot of our packaging products.

From there, it goes into Asia and makes a lot of our resins for our packaging.

A lot of chemicals for cleaning originate through those straights.

So all the big clean downs we have to have on our products.

Our plants, every shift, a lot of inputs into rubber, so seals for a lot of our machinery and equipment sort of originates through those straights.

The first thing's been about just making sure that we've got supply and shoring up supply with either those businesses in Asia that receive the goods and turn them into product that we use or finding supply elsewhere through either Europe or North America.

So there's a cost impost just with our traditional suppliers where we can get product.

How much?

It varies.

But, you know, we're seeing sort of 20%, 30%, 40% increase on those direct products, which then might sort of add a sort of an 8%, 9%, 10% increase on our products.