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and the absence of any established market. Grossman suggested
that a reasonable comparison of the products available in the
polystyrene industry in 1982 with the Sentinel EPS recyclers
reveals that the recyclers had very little commercial value and
were similar to comparable products available on the market in
component form. For these reasons, Grossman opined that the
Sentinel EPS recyclers did not justify the "one-of-a-kind" price
tag that they carried.
Specifically, Grossman reported that there were several
machines on the market as early as 1981 that were functionally
equivalent to, and significantly less expensive than, the
Sentinel EPS recyclers. These machines included: (1) The Japan
Repro recycler, available in 1981 for $53,000; (2) the Buss-
Condux Plastcompactor, available before 1981 for $75,000; (3)
Foremost Machine Builders' "Densilator", available from 1978-1981
for $20,000; and (4) the Midland Ross Extruder, available in 1980
and 1981 for $120,000. Grossman observed that all of these
machines were "widely available".
Grossman examined both the Sentinel EPS recycler and a Japan
Repro recycler and found that the construction of the two
machines was "nearly identical". Further, Grossman concluded
that the recycled polystyrene produced by both machines would
also be nearly identical. In Grossman's opinion, neither the
Japan Repro recycler nor the Sentinel EPS recycler represented "a
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