Jiang Xianyu's optimism also infected the people present, everyone began to talk about their various advantages, said this time the tender China has an absolute chance, and the profits of the four sets of large fertilizers can bring, but also the excitement of everyone.

According to the results of the consultation between cold flying clouds and Wu Shican with various enterprises, these four sets of large-scale fertilizer equipment will be used as the total package of the Beihua machine and the Xinyang dihua machine, and the other large-scale state-owned chemical equipment enterprises jointly provide key equipment, and a large number of auxiliary equipment with low technical content and some less important pressure vessels are handed over to a dry private enterprise such as Quanfu Machinery Company to manufacture.These private enterprises have developed rapidly in recent years, and whether it is equipment conditions or technical strength, they are different from the past.

However, compared with those old state-owned large enterprises, the accumulation of private enterprises is still a little worse, especially because the people of the world still have some contempt for private enterprises, many highly educated technicians prefer to sit on the cold bench in state-owned enterprises, and are not willing to work in private enterprises, which also affects the further improvement of the technical level of private enterprises.

For the joint construction of Argentina's fertilizer projects with private enterprises, some state-owned enterprise cadres have some muster in their hearts.But the times are fooling people, all state-owned enterprises have projects to do, unable to mobilize enough resources to complete the Argentine project, so they can only ask private enterprises to help.Equipment companies have done a lot of work between the two sides, and finally let them accept each other.Feng Xiaochen is not anxious about this, he believes that through the cooperation of several projects, state-owned enterprises will eventually learn how to cooperate with private enterprises, and the two sides will learn from each other, in fact, they are good for each other.

At the meeting, people also mentioned some difficulties that exist, Feng Xiaochen on-site office, made arrangements one by one, everyone nodded, and expressed satisfaction and obedience to Feng Xiaochen's arrangements.

After the meeting with the cadres of a large state-owned enterprise, Xue Yue brought in the heads of private enterprises such as Nguyen Fugen to undertake subcontracting tasks, Feng Xiaochen also had a cordial conversation with them, and they were also cordially talked with them, and they did not need to be detailed.

It was difficult to dismiss the personnel of several parties, and only a few people left in the conference room with the equipment industry company.The time has also come to lunch, Xue Yue did not arrange for everyone to go to the cafeteria to eat, but let the office staff call everyone to bring food, a dry person will sit in the conference room, while eating, while chatting.

“Wing Chen, everyone was there just now, there is something I can’t say.We are bidding for Argentina's big fertilizer project, now there is a change, if not handled, this matter is likely to be an empty bamboo basket."

Seeing that the people of the other units left, Wu Shican swept up the optimistic performance just at the meeting, and said to Feng Xiaochen with a gloomy face.

Feng Xiaochen, hurriedly asked: "What happened, what happened?"

“There was a message from the Chemical Design Institute that the Japan Chemical Equipment Association sent them a fax stating that the license for China’s synthetic ammonia process could not be used for Chinese projects under construction overseas.”Wu Shican said.

“The license?”Feng’s face was also dark.What is really afraid of what comes, about the Argentine project, Feng Xiaochen is most worried about is the issue of patent licensing.

The large-scale fertilizer equipment manufacturing technology in the hands of Chinese enterprises is learned from Japanese companies.Regarding the content of technical know-how, China has fully mastered it, and on this basis, it has also formed some technologies with independent intellectual property rights.However, the synthetic ammonia process transferred by the Japanese side is protected by patents, and China has built a large fertilizer plant in China, even if it is 100% localized, it must pay a patent license fee to the Japanese side, otherwise it will involve infringement.

The synthetic ammonia process is the basis of the entire synthetic ammonia technology.The so-called process is what kind of method you use to make synthetic ammonia, which includes a complete set of chemical reaction equations and corresponding processes.In the world, there are many kinds of processes for the manufacture of ammonia, which are proposed by different companies and named after them, such as what Texa ancient water coal slurry gasification process, Shelcher gasification process and so on.These companies have the patent rights for this process, and if other companies want to manufacture synthetic ammonia devices based on this process, they need to apply for a patent license from the patent-apped company and pay the patent fee.

A synthetic ammonia process may be complex or simple, but whether it is simple or complex, it is a lot of investment in the development of various companies.With the process, then the design of the process and the design of the production equipment that can achieve it.The same process can be achieved by different equipment, each device has its own patent, and even the arrangement method of a valve on the equipment, the shape of a piston, can also produce a patent, and eventually form a huge patent system, which will block the latter from the door.

When Chinese companies introduced large fertilizer equipment manufacturing technology from Japan, they also introduced a large number of patents.Some of these patents are directly bought out, and some are even given free by the Japanese side, but some patents are obtained by license.For patents obtained by the license, the other party can limit the number of licenses, but also the scope of use of patents to limit, of course, the transferee of the technology also has its own rights, these contents are very detailed, need a team of lawyers to understand the mystery.

In the past ten years, Beihua machine, Xinyang dihua machine and chemical design institutes at all levels and universities have devoted a lot of energy to digest and innovate the technology in large fertilizer equipment.For all the technology transferred by the Japanese side, China mainly absorbs it and makes it the technology that it can master.For the technology that the Japanese side is unwilling to transfer, the Chinese side pays the patent fee for use, while developing its own alternative technology, so far has made many breakthroughs, can get rid of the dependence on the Japanese side.

However, as the core of the entire technology of the ammonia process, the Chinese side has never had an alternative, which determines that China to manufacture large-scale fertilizer equipment, it must apply for a license from the Japanese side, and obtain permission from the Japanese side to design according to this process.In the earliest Cao Zhiyuan talked about the Argentine project, Feng Xiaochen had a doubt in his heart, do not know whether the Japanese side will make an article on the craft license, it turns out that his concern is completely justified, the Japanese side really used this method to card the Chinese neck.

"Ikei Valley Manufacturing Institute's sales director Uchida Yu also called the Chemical Design Institute, claiming that the synthetic ammonia process authorized by Japan to China belongs to Ikea Manufacturing Institute, and they authorize this process, which only allows us to use it at home and is not allowed to be used abroad."If we can't get the license from Ikea Productions, then we can't take on these four large fertilizers in Argentina."Wu Shican explained.

“When was this thing?”Feng Xiaochen asked.

He said, “I heard the news last night.Our large-scale fertilizer equipment has always been handed over to the Chemical Design Institute for design.Yesterday they received a call from Ikea Productions informing them that they could not use the Ikegu process to design the Argentine project, so they even came over to discuss it with me at night.”

“Does the Lord know?”

"I haven't told them yet, and I think you'll report it to me first."

"That's a lot of shit."Xue Yue said, "They do not issue us a license, even if we can build the equipment, we can not deliver."With this hand, our price advantage, service advantage, can not be used."

“That’s the neck.”Feng Xiaochen said, "The key technology is in the hands of others, and people can get our necks at any time, which is really bad."

He said, “This is a hidden danger.However, in the past, we only took into account the import substitution, and when signing the contract with the Japanese side, it was emphasized that we used the Ikegu process in the country, and the Japanese side must not obstruct or arbitrarily increase the cost of the license.But we did not expect that we would eventually participate in international competition, and the opponent of the competition was just the Japanese.They are not stuck in our necks at this time, but it is strange."

Feng Xiaochen nodded: "Yes, at that time, we were just thinking about the problem of building our own fertilizer plant, and we did not think about competing with Japanese companies for the international market."However, if we had raised the issue of licensing in the international market at that time, I am afraid that the Japanese side will not transfer technology to us, and they will not be willing to cultivate competitors for themselves."

"Yes, that's a tactic, at least at the time."Wu Shican said.Indeed, when the Japanese were asked to transfer technology, the Japanese were reluctant, and they had to give in only to the abundant profits in the Chinese market.If China had raised the question of international markets at that time, Japan would not have agreed to transfer these technologies anyway.

Feng Xiaochen asked, “Old Wu, what do you think about this?”

He said: “There are two ideas.First, negotiations with Ichigu Productions will pay a price in exchange for their agreement to provide us with an international market license.”

"I think it's impossible."Xue said, "They asked this question at this time, the intention is obvious, that is, to know that we want to participate in the competition of the Argentine project, so they use the license to card us."When it comes to more than $1 billion in business, it’s impossible for them to compromise.Nor can we give better terms for exchanging them."

Wu Shican nodded, agreed with Xue Yushen's judgment, and then said: "Since this one does not work, then there is only a second way."

“What way?”

“We do a set of crafts ourselves.Do you remember, we actually made a reserve in the ammonia process, and now it's time to take it out and use it."

Feng Xiaochen's eyes lit up: "You mean, Wang Hongtai's ruthenium catalyst technology?"