FEBRUARY 2003

Roofing Wholesale Co., Inc. (RWC) currently operates a roofing distributorship facility with a concrete roofing tile manufacturing facility on 4.85 acres located at 633 Van Buren St., Placentia, California. The tile manufacturing facility did business under the registered trade style of American Tile And Trim (AT&T). The sale of the tile manufacturing equipment would encompass all tile manufacturing equipment located at the site.

FACILITY HISTORY
RWC acquired the real estate, building and certain equipment through a purchase in May 1985. A complete tile manufacturing plant was installed and began operations in 1987. The plant when purchased was set up but never put into production. RWC operated the plant for 7 years.

At that time the AT&T product was sold exclusively through RWC locations in California and Arizona.

PRICE AND TERMS
The price of the tile making equipment is $985,000.00. The cost new for a similar plant would be approximately $2,500,000.00 The plant is currently set up and operational but sits on land too valuable to operate plant. The land valuation is approximately %5,000,000.00 which would be appropriate as an investment vehicle only. Plant must be paid in full prior to disassembly and removal. RWC personnel would assist in loading on to the approximately 40 truckloads necessary to move tile plant.

TILE PLANT EQUIPMENT
The plant is a Skandia 60 operation that is fully automated with electronic control panels to operate all facets of mixing, forming, curing, and packaging. Specific equipment includes the following.

1) Skandia 60 Extruder Extrudes 60 tile per minute. The tiles are a 16 1/2" x 13" flat profile extruded on steel forming pallets. Included are pneumatic cutting knives and provision for making nail holes in the tile.

2) Two Skandia 15 trim tile machines make the ridge and rake tile. These machines employ the same trim line, and are on rollers, so the extruders can be exchanged depending on the profile needed. The trim line includes conveyors, sealer booth and curing chamber. Racking, deracking and palletizing are manual.

3) The field and trim extruders are supported by a Sanby Maskiner pan mixer with computer controlled sand, cement and water loading. Oxides are manually weighed and loaded. The mixer has capacity to support both field and trim manufacturing. The feeding of the mixer is accomplished from three underground sand bins and a cement silo.

4) Acrylic sealer booths apply clear sealers on the surface of the tile. Two booths are employed, one on the wet side immediately following the extruding and cutting process and one on the dry side following the deracking operation.

5) Equipment for curing the tile consists of racking and deracking machines, front and back cross trolleys and four curing bays in an approximately 6000 sq. ft. curing chamber. The operation of the curing chamber and related equipment is fully automated. The tile plant has approximately 33,000 steel pallets for forming flat tile.

6) The depalletor has eight rotating blades that separate the tile from the steel pallets and the pallets are dropped down to return to the pallet magazine. The depalleted tile continues to the fully automatic packaging machine.

7) The automatic packaging machine stacks tiles and bands them in bundles, places the bundles on wooden shipping pallets and conveys them to the wrapping machine where the tile is stretch wrapped and labeled for yard storage and final curing. The tiles are packaged 288 pieces to the pallet.

8) Other equipment consists of plastic rope conveyors for moving tile outside the curing chamber, heavy duty roller conveyors inside the curing chamber, release oil applicator and a large overhead concrete hopper which distributes mixed concrete to either the field line or the trim line.

TILE PLANT PERSONNEL
Approximate personnel to operate the plant includes a plant manager, shift foreman, two maintenance personnel, and nine tile workers. This number may vary depending on demand and how work is scheduled. Some office support is necessary.

MISCELLANEOUS
The Skandia 60 can manufacture other profiles which include highroll and wave profiles. Curing time in the curing chamber should be approximately 24 hours, although this time can be accelerated with additives. Curing time in the yard is approximately six days.

Currently the plant makes thru body tile with clear acrylic applications to enhance color and prevent efflorescense. With modifications the plant will make slurry tile as well.

Photos of representative equipment (not actual) are enclosed showing a Skandia extender and racking and deracking equipment. A typical plant layout (for a Scandia 120) is included for reference. Very little difference exist in the plant layout between a Scandia 60 and a Scandia 120.

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