what should be my first founded station/factory

[druiddew]

i got a good trade route for money as well as other ways to trade including ores, and i dont know were to start on stations/factories i have an area withe 3 claimed astroids what now

[ouch67]

Use a higher level trade module to get a hot and cold map of the area for items your interested in setting up a station for. Just because the system is ripe in resources doesn't mean it's ripe in stations buying that item. A lot of people make the mistake of building a station before looking at this and then wonder why it's losing money. If it's your first station you want it in a fairly orangish red area.

You also don't want to build a station until you get around the Trinium and Xanthion bands. building a station before them is useless as the stations buying don't buy in big enough quantities to be profitable.

[SpiralRazor]

Platinum/Gold is a good one to use...its simple and should always turn a profit.

Trade station if you want to be more involved. Ideally situated in a busy sector with 2 or more factions appearing in it. What the above poster also said is true...you want a sector with lots of stations and you need to look at whats being bought over some time to tell if putting a station there makes sense.

[Teralitha]

A shipyard. With your own shipyard you can build everything else.