Not Allowing Customers to Use Outdated Technology
Chapter 695:Not Allowing Customers to Use Outdated Technology
“Mr. Feng, congratulations to you, the ruthenium-catalyst ammonia process, which you have just completed, is the most exciting achievement of the synthetic ammonia industry in the past 20 years, and this breakthrough has made China a strong country in the global synthetic ammonia industry.”
“I dare predict that all new ammonia projects in the world will adopt this new process in the next 20 years, unless its owners are willing to lag behind.”
“I think the process is mature, it is based on dozens of core patents provided by European companies, and no one needs to doubt its stability and reliability.”
Binhai Second Fertilizer Plant, representatives from more than a dozen European and American chemical equipment manufacturers visited the entire plant, and listened to the introduction of the ruthenium catalyst synthesis ammonia process by Pujiang Jiaotong University Professor Wang Hongtai, have not snuggled, and gave a high evaluation of this new process.Westerners are not as subtle as Easterners, but like to talk very full, so that people can listen so confident.
At the same time, the Argentine Deputy Minister of Agriculture Hagnar, who was invited to attend the ceremony, mixed in the crowd, listened to the words of this person, and listened to the words of the person, and entered the state of a poignant circle.Previously, he had heard about the refusal of Ikegu Productions to issue a license for the process of synthetic ammonia to Chinese companies, and he had come this trip to have a final consultation with the Chinese side on the matter, and if the Chinese side had not yet obtained the license, he planned to give up cooperation with the Chinese side.
What he did not expect was that the Chinese side actually claimed to have developed a synthetic ammonia process with independent intellectual property rights, and the efficiency of this process was 10-20% higher than that of the Ikea process and the other several synthetic ammonia processes owned by European companies, which is almost unbelievable.
The Chinese side also seemed to know that Hagena would not believe them, so he invited more than a dozen internationally renowned companies to stand on their own platform.Hagnar was not very industrial, but he had heard of names such as the German company Brown, the Dutch El Company, and the American Kramer Company.Executives of these companies have said that the new technology developed by China is high, and what reason does Hagenar not believe it?
“But you haven’t mentioned this new process before!”
Hagnar found Jiang Xianyu and asked him with a confused head.This time, Chinese enterprises participated in the bidding of Argentina's large fertilizer project, which was launched by the two Beihua machines and Xinyang II chemical machines.Jiang Xianyu, as the technical director of the Beihua machine, Hagnar had dealt with him, and in Hagena's impression, Jiang Xianyu had been talking to him about the Ikei Valley craftsmanship, and did not reveal the meaning of a new process.
Jiang Xianyu smiled and said, "Mr. Hagner, to tell you, our ruthenium catalyst process has been developed for six or seven years, and has been improving technical details."We did not expect the technical stereotype to be so fast, so we did not mention the use of this process to your side, because we will not recommend an immature process to foreign customers for use."
“But why are you able to fix this process now?”Hagner asked.
Jiang Xianyu pretended to be thoughtful and said, "This is because we are responsible for our customers."
“Hagnar is messy, what does that mean?”
"Mr. Hagnar, I'll explain it to you."Feng Xiaochen did not know where it came from.When Hagnar came to China, Feng Xiaochen came to the banquet to invite him, so Hagena knew Feng Xiaochen, and knew that Feng Xiaochen was a government official in charge of the equipment industry, and the weight of speaking was much heavier than Jiang Xianyu.
"According to the normal progress, our ruthenium catalyst process takes two to three years to complete the technical verification, if so, we have to undertake Argentina's large fertilizer project, we can only use the backward Japanese Ikea process, or just a little more advanced than the Ikea process of the Dutch process."We have a very advanced process at hand, but we want our customers to accept a backward process, which is not allowed by our professional ethics.”
Feng Wei said endlessly.Jiang Xianyu was secretly ashamed next to him, these words Feng Xiaochen had taught him, but he was embarrassed to say it, for no reason, his work ethic so that he could not lie.However, Feng Xiaochen's words are not really a lie, because China's research on ruthenium catalyst technology has indeed been for many years, and it has also been verified on medium-sized synthetic ammonia devices.This time, the equipment company is willing to work, the organization of the conference war, to promote the rapid formation of the process, such a process if you ignore the ingredients and Ikegu production, it can indeed be said for the Argentine side.
“So, how did you do it?”Hagnar was fooled by a big word from Feng Xiaochen, and he couldn’t help but ask in his words.
Feng Xiaochen said: "We took two years to complete the process verification, compressed to half a year to complete, we paid a high price."I'll show you our scrapyard, and you'll understand."
Hagna was taken to a scrapyard in the corner of the factory, where hundreds of various equipment and containers were piled up across the ground, and it looked spectacular.Feng Xiaochen told Hagnar that these are all equipment that has been proved to not meet the requirements of the new process during the experiment, in order to catch up with the progress, China is too late to fully demonstrate the applicability of the equipment, but first produced the equipment, found that it is not suitable for replacement, and then produced a large number of wasteful equipment.
“This centrifugal pump, which costs $400,000, was removed only once, and will not be used on other devices in the future.”
Feng Xiaochen pointed to a device and introduced it to Hagnar.This centrifugal pump is actually the equipment used in the original Ike Valley process, and after being replaced by a rut-catalyst process, this centrifugal pump is not used.However, it will not really be abandoned, but can be shipped to other fertilizer plants that have been built as backup equipment.In addition, its price is far less expensive, and its manufacturing cost in the country is only 400,000 yuan.
Where Hagnar knew this, and when he heard Feng Xiaochen say this, he almost felt a little distressed: "Oh, it's a pity, I think it's almost completely new."
"It's no longer useful."Feng Xiaochen pretended to be a sad saying, "When we found that it was not suitable for the new process, we redesigned a centrifugal pump and replaced this one."This is the tuition we pay to complete the verification of the new process as soon as possible.”
“Is that all the school fees you said?”Hagnar pointed to the hundreds of devices and asked.
“Yes, and much more than that.”Feng Xiaochen said, "There are some useless equipment, we have let people pull back to the original factory, perhaps the transformation can also be used."These cannot be modified at all.”
"But, Mr. Feng, this only proves that you have developed this new process, well, I mean, it has come at a great price for this new process to mature as soon as possible, but that does not mean that your new process is mature."Hagnar's entourage Burley questioned that for Feng Xiaochen's words, he is suspicious of some of the words, the scene of these multi-equipment, who knows whether Feng Xiaochen temporarily shipped from where to fill the facade?
Feng Xiaochen looked at Burley and said, "Just now the experts of Brown and El have already made a high evaluation of our new process, and Mr. Burley has heard it."
Burley nodded and said, “Yes, I did hear their comments, and we also see that the current production of your second fertilizer plant in Binhai, using this new process, looks very stable.”But . . .
"Is Burley suspicious of the gentlemen's credit?"
"No, no, no. I think their credibility is very reliable."
"Then Mr. Burley thinks that the fertilizer plant he sees now is not real?"
“I don’t mean that at all, I’m just worried... well, it’s a new process after all, isn’t it?”Burley couldn’t stand some of it.
Feng said: "Yes, it is indeed a new process, a new process that can improve efficiency by 20%, and its cost will be more than 20% lower than the same capacity provided by Ikegu Production in Japan."Our nation’s insurance companies are willing to guarantee the reliability of this new process, and the premiums to be paid are entirely borne by us and do not require your increased expenses.”
“But...” Burley looked for new reasons.
“Borley, we should trust the expert’s assessment.”Hagnar spoke coldly.He knows that his men are very close to the Japanese in the past, and have been advocating that they should not wait for Chinese companies and should sign directly with Japanese companies.Hagena himself is actually more convinced of Japanese technology, but the Japanese companies' quotations are more than 15% higher than that of Chinese enterprises, and they are very harsh in construction period, after-sales service, etc., far less than the Chinese.
After a set of large fertilizer equipment is put into operation, it is used for decades, the later maintenance and repair is also a small expenditure, the after-sales service price opened by the Chinese is much lower than that of the Japanese, Argentina is not a rich country, this kind of place can save a little calculation.
If the Chinese did not develop a new process, but were bound by the process license of Ikegu, unable to undertake the project in Argentina, then Hagna will be dead.Now I heard that the Chinese have made a new process, the efficiency of this new process is still very high, and has been recognized by more than a dozen internationally renowned enterprises, Hagner's psychological balance is tilted to the Chinese side.
“Berry, when you go back, you start the bidding process, let Chinese and Japanese companies provide their bids separately, and we will give the selection to the experts of the bidding committee.”
Hagner said to Burley.
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