Understanding Abrasive Forms for Hand Sanding

uh I've been working at Unida for 26 years but I was born into the business my parents started the business in 1967 so over 55 years in I'm not 55 yet but for the most part I've been living my whole life in the abrasive business and it was dinner conversation it was topics on the beach on vacations so I was always around it uh in school when I was in elementary school the bus used to drop me off at the factory instead of drop me off at home uh all about being Gen X and latchkey yeah um but so it was just kind of in our DNA and then after college I realized you know I wanted to be in a business that I could touch and feel a finished product something physical I thought I'd want to be in finance but it turned out numbers aren't that interesting uh sandpaper is a lot more interesting so it's been 26 years and uh it's been been a really interesting experience cool another little fun fact about who need his family-owned business [Music] there's nobody like so Sherry we're down here um in this aisle right here we've got this is insane how many um sponges we got here and from Unida this is their storage facility it looks like this I don't know like a lifetime supply of abrasives um like how long is this Gonna Last right here these are follow breath bubble braces we've got like a diamond behind us is this like a month's worth is this like a Year's worth how much is this um I would would say probably four to six months Supply so you go through a lot of fun yeah we we have a lot of large OEM customers and they use I mean we had one customer um we've actually just switched them over to our academic but before that they were using a half inch sponge and they went through 30 000 sponges a month so 30 000 a month so I'm not the most important customer around here but well I wouldn't say that I wouldn't say that I go through 30. so that's um but I think every customer is