The need for credit was viewed as the fifth most likely factor to limit business growth, behind orders, labour, plant capacity and materials.

Despite plant capacity, by 1984 a lack of a trained staff limited production to vaccines for anthrax and pasteurellosis.

In 1982 the two plants produced 500,000 tons of propane and butaneslightly more than one-half of plant capacity.

The addition of an automated cheddaring system later in 1998 increased plant capacity.

Designed with a plant capacity of 120 tonnes/year, it achieved a total output of only 5 tonnes during its first five years of operation.