Pressing: Manufacturing may be one of your biggest expenses. There are a few different ways this can go down: If you have a distribution deal, your distributor may pay for manufacturing up front and then recoup the costs from sales.
When a opening takes place (someone retires) then the Marine Corps promotion board looks at the available candidates and their fitness report scores to fill the vacancy. So make sure you have excellent scores and reports. I picked up SSgt (E6) in 10 years. Gunnery Sergeant (E7) may take up to 14 to 16 years.
It takes three months from order to finish. Aside from the fact that we all make cabinets, consider this. A client goes to the borg (box stores) and orders custom cabinets.. They take at least 8 weeks (and they pay in advance).