When it comes to their own interests, companies that seem inefficient can also explode at a speed beyond imagination.
Overtime when it’s time to work, contact when there’s time for contact.
Only half a month after Zhang Guoyi met with Holm, CSR Group officially received the contact.
Due to environmental protection requirements, manufacturers such as Schaeffler and SKF have insufficient production capacity of bearing steel and cannot guarantee supply.
In order to encourage everyone to allocate more production capacity to high-speed rail bearings, the price of related parts has increased by 30%.
And they will further retain the possibility of additional increases based on changes in the situation.
As soon as this contact was received, Nie Jian was furious.
This is not how money is robbed.
Originally, the profit margin of a high-speed rail bearing was extremely high, but now the price has to increase by 30%.
The reason is actually so ridiculous.
"Mr. Nie, I would like to say that the project of localizing high-speed rail bearings should not make so much noise."
"Otherwise, Schaeffler will definitely make some moves."
"It's okay now. I don't know when domestic bearings will be available, but we have to pay for the price increase of imported bearings in advance."
"If prices rise by 30%, the extra foreign exchange paid in a year will exceed US$100 million."
"Who will bear this responsibility?"
Nie Jian is obviously not without opponents within the company.
Liu Haihua, the deputy chief engineer, often opposed him.
Liu Haihua, who has a good relationship with Schaeffler and SKF, has never been too concerned about the localization project of high-speed rail bearings.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been struggling for several years with no results.
Even Liu Haihua's son is studying abroad in Europe.
The process involved is also very confusing.
Nie Jian knew that Liu Haihua's son's grades had never been very good.
Although he can't be called a scumbag, he definitely has nothing to do with a top student.
But he was able to study abroad at the University of Zurich and receive a full scholarship.
If there was no story in it, he wouldn't believe it even if he killed Nie Jian.
"High-speed rail bearings are consumables, and parts are ordered from abroad, which takes a long time."
"The inventory in our warehouse is enough for three months."
"Those previously ordered that have not yet been delivered can still be handled for three months."
"Basically, their price increases will not really have an impact on us until half a year later."
"As long as we figure out the reasons for their price increases within this six months and find corresponding countermeasures, this loss may not actually occur."
Nie Jian was in a very angry mood at this time.
He generally knows what this matter is about.
The more this happens, the more determined he is to localize high-speed rail bearings.
"So what if we figure out the reason?"
“Can you solve the problem of a 30% increase in costs?”
"Perhaps in another six months, people's costs will increase by more than 30%."
When Liu Haihua said this, Nie Jian couldn't help but grit his teeth and said, "If there is any important progress in our domestic high-speed rail bearing project within half a year, the attitude of those imported manufacturers will definitely change."
"China is the most important market for high-speed rail bearings, and they cannot bear the responsibility of losing the Chinese market."
"If their headquarters knew that the reason for the loss of the Chinese market was their arbitrary price increases, those people would definitely not be able to bear it."
After Nie Jian said this, he didn't want to talk to Liu Haihua anymore.
Different road non-phase plan.
He now wants to go to Nanshan Group in person to see what their strength is.
Then have a good chat with Cao Yang and see if it's possible to make some news within half a year.
Even if qualified high-speed rail bearings are not mass-produced so quickly, at least some signals can be sent out to make manufacturers like Schaeffler not so arrogant.
As for the Nanshan Group, which had already listed the high-speed rail project as a key project in 2007, the news about the high-speed rail bearings from CSR and NRC naturally reached Cao Yang's ears immediately.
"Mr. Cao, Mr. Nie will visit our group tomorrow, and has specially arranged two days to visit and communicate. I think it has something to do with the price increase liaison with Schaeffler manufacturers."
"Such European and American giants rely on their technological advantages accumulated over hundreds of years to enjoy profits that far exceed normal levels, but they are still not satisfied."
"This eating appearance is really ugly."
"There is no bottom line at all when doing things, and they are all based on profit."
Dai Hanbiao's mood was a bit heavy at this time.
Although this incident is mainly affected by the CSR Group, it does not have that much to do with them.
But Party A’s father was affected, and Party B’s life couldn’t get better in the end.
"It seems that our research and development of high-speed rail bearings needs to be accelerated."
"As long as we successfully develop high-speed rail bearings this year, the problems CSRC is facing now will not be a problem at all."
"At that time, it will be able to further promote CSR and CNR to fully use the high-speed rail bearings we produce."
"As for the high profits that Schaeffler and other manufacturers gain from it, they can only get it back from other places."
Cao Yang was not nervous at all.
On the one hand, he is confident about high-speed rail bearing technology.
On the other hand, this matter will indeed not have any particularly bad impact on Nanshan Group in the short term.
So there is no need to worry too much.
Of course, when Nie Jian comes over, Cao Yang's attitude will definitely not be as calm as now.
"Although the high-speed rail bearing project has been officially launched, various preparations have just begun."
"It's very difficult to make progress so quickly."
"It even depends on opportunities to a certain extent. It depends on whether there can be any unexpected breakthroughs in the bearing steel from Nanshan Special Steel."
"It also depends on whether the high-speed rail bearing test bench can be launched within a few months."
"However, even if these are ideal, it will take a long time to complete millions of kilometers of durability testing."
Dai Hanbiao obviously does not think that Nanshan Group can make any significant achievements in high-speed rail bearings within half a year.
This kind of part is destined to take several years, or even longer, to achieve a breakthrough.
"CSRC must have accumulated a lot of experience related to high-speed rail bearings over the years. Taking this opportunity, we just let them share all relevant past information with us."
"Then Nanshan Special Steel will smelt a batch of bearing steel as soon as possible and arrange for people to start trial production of high-speed rail bearings to see where the gap is and how big it is."
Originally, Cao Yang was thinking about letting Dai Hanbiao and the others lead the bearing team and spend a year or two step by step to develop high-speed rail bearings.
I just gave him a proper push from behind.
Now that Schaeffler and SKF are so ugly, don't blame Cao Yang for making more moves.
Isn’t it just bearing steel?
Now that we have the formula and process parameters, the difficulty of smelting qualified bearing steel has dropped by countless levels.
There are many things that are so scary that you can’t even touch the door.
If you want to use force, you don't know which direction to use it.
"Mr. Pan has stated before that the technical difficulty of the equipment related to the test bench is not very high, and it will definitely be produced in two months."
"The most troublesome thing now is Nanshan Special Steel and our bearing process design, including special coating and special heat treatment technology."
"Although we have some basic research in this area, how to combine it with high-speed rail bearings is still in the dark."
Dai Hanbiao reported the current situation to Cao Yang very objectively.
"I have arranged for people to find a solution, and some relevant drawings and data will be coming soon."
"Organize a group of trustworthy engineers and study these drawings carefully when the time comes."
Cao Yang deliberately made Dai Hanbiao think that he had arranged commercial spies to collect some technical parameters of high-speed rail bearings from imported manufacturers such as Schaeffler.
The more mysterious this kind of thing is, the more the technical information will be exaggerated, and no one will chase Cao Yang to ask where they came from.
"If this is the case, then it is really possible to make some noise within half a year."
"Our mass-produced high-speed rail bearings may not be produced until the end of the year at the earliest, but there is still hope that the products in laboratory status can be produced within half a year."
Dai Hanbiao's confidence index suddenly rose a lot.
The boss is so powerful, and they, as subordinates, naturally cannot hold back.
The change in Dai Hanbiao's confidence was directly reflected when Nie Jian and his party came to inspect the next day.
"Mr. Cao, to tell you the truth, the project of localizing high-speed rail bearings is currently in a difficult situation."
"Import manufacturers like Schaeffler resorted to such disgusting means of raising prices, and the impact on us is very direct."
"There are also different opinions within our group."
"But I personally feel that the more circumstances we face, the more we need to unswervingly pursue the localization project of high-speed rail bearings."
“Only if our own people truly master this technology, we won’t need to worry about random price increases happening again in the future.”
Nie Jian came here today because he wanted to have a good chat with Cao Yang about high-speed rail bearings. He was also distracted and felt that Nanshan Group was the most likely to succeed in this project.
So this time on his business trip, he only planned to go to Nanshan Group. He did not go to Wazuo or Luozuo specifically.
"Mr. Nie, during our communication yesterday, we learned that CSR now has a buffer time of about half a year. The localization project of high-speed rail bearings needs to make certain progress within half a year in order to effectively curb the arbitrary price increases of imported manufacturers."
"Frankly speaking, this development time is very tight even for a car wheel bearing, let alone a high-speed rail bearing."
"Our Nanshan Group has done relatively little research on high-speed rail bearings before, and there is relatively little relevant empirical data."
"If CSRC can share the relevant data and information compiled previously with our project team, then it is not impossible to make some news within half a year."
Nie Jianqiu came to visit, and Cao Yang definitely couldn't ignore it.
But how to get the most benefit from this opportunity is also a question he needs to consider.
Running a business is not a charity. If you don’t want to benefit the business, then rapid development will be a joke.
"Your request is completely reasonable. I brought back most of the data directly this time."
"I can copy the relevant data to you later."
"We can even arrange some technical teams to come over to assist you in research and development."
"In terms of the specific design of high-speed rail bearings, there is very little we can do to help."
"But when it comes to bearing testing and interpretation of relevant technical standards, our technicians still have advantages."
Nie Jian obviously really bet on the Nanshan Group this time.
Even their own technical team was sent to the scene.
Although these people are not good at bearing development work, they can make up for the unfamiliarity of Nanshan Group's R&D team with high-speed rail bearings.
If the R&D team does not even know some of the specific requirements of the parts to be designed, it is obviously impossible to design a very good product.
"If that's the case, that's the best thing."
"At Nanshan Equipment, we are now starting the design work of high-speed rail bearing-related test benches. If we can combine the opinions of your company's technical staff to carry out the work, it will definitely be more perfect by then."
Cao Yang naturally expressed his gratitude to Nie Jian for his olive branch.
This matter may be a piece of cake for Nie Jian, but it is indeed of great help to Nanshan Group.
"Mr. Cao, do you have any ideas now regarding bearing steel?"
In Nie Jian’s view, bearing steel should be the biggest obstacle to the localization of high-speed rail bearings.
If there is no way to deal with this obstacle, then all other subsequent efforts will be in vain.
So he quickly switched the topic to bearing steel.
“Currently we are still formulating plans for Nanshan Special Steel based on the plans of various imported manufacturers.”
"After the Spring Festival, we should begin to officially smelt bearing steel in the blast furnace and test its various properties."
Naturally, this information does not need to be kept secret for Nie Jian, a potential big customer.
So Cao Yang was quite active in chatting with Nie Jian there.
"In terms of research on bearing steel, if you find it difficult, I can also bring over people from Xingcheng Special Steel and Anshan Iron and Steel Group, and we can form a bearing steel project team together and strive to overcome this problem within a few months. .”
Nie Jian is also a little anxious now.
He could afford to wait for a few months.
In a few years' time, he was worried that there would be too many variables in the middle.
If domestic high-speed rail bearings can be officially launched this year, then his career may take a further step.
This is very tempting to him.
"We already have some ideas of our own, and we are also planning to recruit a few people from their two families."
"If we still can't figure it out, we'll consider joint research and development."
Cao Yang knows that joint research and development is a very necessary thing for some state-owned enterprises.
For a private enterprise like Nanshan Group, it is not that easy to engage in joint research and development with state-owned enterprises.
When the time comes, it will probably be a matter of debate as to who should be listened to.
The most important thing is that Cao Yang knows that Nanshan Special Steel will be able to produce bearing steel that meets the requirements of high-speed rail bearings in a very short time.
In this case, there is even less need to give away the credit.
Therefore, Cao Yang rejected Nie Jian's idea of jointly forming a bearing steel project team.
"Then you have to hurry up. Many experimental data require a lot of time to be tried step by step."
Nie Jian was a little surprised by Cao Yang's answer, but he didn't want to argue with Cao Yang for the time being.
Nanshan Group is confident, so he naturally has no reason to attack.
If Nanshan Group can really produce high-speed rail bearings in a short time, that will definitely be a great thing.
"Nanshan Special Steel's bearing steel is very famous in China. If you really nail the bearing steel used in high-speed rail bearings, there will be many opportunities for bearing steel in other fields and even other special steels in the future."
"In the field of high-end special steel, the gap between domestic and foreign steel mills is still quite large."
"I'm looking forward to the surprises you can bring to everyone."
Nie Jian continued to paint a big pie for Nanshan Group.
But Cao Yang was very willing to eat this big cake.
Compared with the steel industry, which seems like a sunset industry, special steel processing is definitely very promising.
The most important thing is that if this industry is done well, the profits will be really considerable.
It is even possible for Nanshan Special Steel to become the most profitable entity of Nanshan Group in the future.
Of course, the premise is that the product quality of Nanshan Special Steel is good enough and the technology is advanced enough.
Otherwise, there would be no way to compete with so many domestic steel mills on price.
Now, as long as other domestic steel mills can produce material grades, Nanshan Special Steel tries its best to avoid entering.
Otherwise, after all the hard work, you won’t make much money.
It’s really a waste of Nanshan Special Steel’s production capacity.
"The second phase of our Nanshan Special Steel project has been basically completed. This year we are preparing to further expand the number of R&D and process personnel and strive to achieve breakthroughs in various high-end steel types as soon as possible."
"However, in addition to bearing steel, there are also many heat treatment and other processes that limit the mass production of our high-speed rail bearings."
“The gap between our country and foreign countries is also quite large in this regard.”
Although there is a high probability that we will be able to come up with products this year, when it is time to express difficulties, we must still express them.
Otherwise, Nie Jian and the others would probably have objections if Nanshan Group's high-speed rail bearings were not sold cheaply.
After all, the cost of some parts can still be calculated if you calculate it carefully.
That error won't be too big.
People calculate the cost of 1,000 yuan, and if you sell it for 1,230 yuan, no one will have any objection.
If you sell it for a thousand and a half, people will recognize it with their noses pinched.
But if you sell it for three to five thousand, they will definitely have objections.
Even if the original import price is more than 10,000.
So in this case, there is no harm in complaining appropriately.
Let everyone know that Nanshan Group also spent a lot of money and invested a lot of manpower and material resources to build it.
A crying child needs milk.
The subsequent conversation between Cao Yang and Nie Jian basically revolved around various investments in high-speed rail bearings.
What equipment investment, defect rate increase, testing projects...
While visiting the factory, we discussed.
You may also need to visit the factory in the middle.
Nie Jian originally planned to stay for two days, but ended up leaving Yangcheng on the fourth day.
Nanshan Group has also begun to fully invest in the research and development of high-speed rail bearings.
(End of chapter)
