The cost of an Alu mast per mast is surprising low. The only real drawback of alu mast production is the fact you have to run a batch of them, typically 250 kg or 500 kg per production run.

I may not disclose the real production cost of an Alu mast section, I can tell you however that John Pierce earlier statement about the price difference is quite close.

For that price difference we can even have a new die build for each batch of 17 to 34 masts, which will improve accuracy and even allow the masts to be redesigned with each batch if progressing experiences demands that.

This is just to answer Davids questions and this is not an argment in voting for or against the proposed changes.

Wouter