My 100 dry kg per hour 450mm basket fuge that gets 99%+ of the cannabinoids out of the biomass suggests that we may perhaps know one or two things about process engineering.
The distillation systems we’ve designed to run along with everything else in our equipment train run closer to $2k per LPH.
But you are without a doubt the smartest, most experienced, and likely the handsomest engineer on this forum, so I will defer to your wisdom and purchase this very large precision piece of steel at my first opportunity.