The two-location catchment can include a corporate plant, a project site and suppliers located elsewhere. Finance follows the contracting company and its rights. Work certified at a customer site is different from equipment delivered to the borrower’s factory, and neither should be assumed to generate cash on the delivery date.
Use milestone evidence and a complete installation budget to keep operating and project funding from obscuring one another.
Contract value is not free cash
An order book should be converted into milestones rather than shown as a single headline. A project supplier may need to complete fabrication and installation before the next customer certification. Identify advances already spent, certification conditions, retention, performance obligations and any liquidated-damages exposure. The relevant funding amount comes from the remaining cost to execute and the timing of collectible receipts, after allowing for bank guarantees and existing borrowing against the same contract.
Industrial premises affect security and continuity
The right to use a factory and the right to offer it as security are separate questions. A factory project may use industrial premises with specific mortgage, transfer or permitted-use conditions. Review the allotment or lease, permitted activity, transfer conditions and existing charges with the relevant advisers. A valuation cannot resolve an approval gap. Any proposed mortgage, assignment or business transfer must fit the actual title and contractual position.
Commissioning and production are different milestones
The machinery payment schedule may end before the plant can generate saleable output. Expansion can require civil interfaces, commissioning and initial stock beyond the equipment supplier’s price. Separate civil work, equipment delivery, installation, trials and customer approval. Include initial stock, staff and utilities in the cash plan. Funding tied only to the machine price can leave an otherwise credible project short of money during the first operating cycle.