Hi Daniel,
Glad to see you back! Yeah I went ahead and picked up the torch. However, an issue is that the price I've been quoted for essentially the same product is much higher than the quote they provided you with. Unsure why the significant difference, but I'm going to try to negotiate them down.
At this point I've shipped them 3 lbs of Trehalose for testing purposes. When they receive the shipment, they will check to see if they can even work with the substance. No guarantee that they can successfully encapsulate it yet. We'll see.
Who are you dealing with there?
I was also going to ship them the trehalose since they said they couldn't procure it from their normal sources and I did not include that in the pricing.
I had some issue pinning them down on what level of trehalose they could encapsulate. At first it was 100mg/ml then I pressed them to go to 200mg/ml which they said they could do then they backed off.
Also, I was trying to work it so that we could all place our orders to them and have them ship it as long as we hit their minimum buy so that I wouldn't have to reship it. We seemed to have a communications issue as I never could get a clear committal on that.
In any case, sorry I vanished. I have been working on some major projects at work that have taking a lot of 60~70 hour work weeks. That now appears to be behind me. Glad you decided to run with the ball. If I can do anything to help you please let me know and I would really like to get at least 1L if this comes off.