Depends. What contracts will he have to take on to meet that? I think that’s his complaint. He can’t get what he needs on the spot market most of the time, he has to sign a supply contract and machinery maintenance contracts and everything else. At best, if he can’t make use of the extra capacity when the world isn’t experiencing a critical pandemic, he breaks even on the pandemic work. At worst, he loses his shirt again.

The materials you are talking about aren’t usually found on a warehouse shelf because they deteriorate over time. You wouldn’t want to put expired material through a machine because it becomes brittle and breaks.

And as for why we haven’t started tracking materials more closely? Kushner’s running this show. The word you’re looking for is incompetence.