Driven by the demand of domestic manufacturing, Argentina's steel production has experienced huge growth. In two years, it has exceeded 1 million tons, 2 million tons, 3 million tons, and 4 million tons. The output has experienced continuous surges.
With the commissioning of several small and medium-sized steel plants in the north of Buenos Aires and the third blast furnace of La Plata Steel Plant, it is expected to reach a scale of 5.5 million tons by the end of this year, successfully reaching the top 10 level in the world.
The La Plata Steel Plant became a giant steel complex and the Optimus Prime of Argentina's steel industry. In order to ensure production efficiency, San Jose concentrated on developing the steel industry and prepared to continue to expand the La Plata Steel Plant.
Build this factory into a tens of millions of tons steel plant, and then build large blast furnaces and converters. La Plata is also one of the national railway hubs and has developed maritime transportation, so it can be transported to all parts of the country and exported.
The Hans Steel Plant in Blanca City has become a new support target. It only needs to complete the evolution of Blanca City's steel industry and meet basic needs.
Nowadays, domestically produced steel products are also exported in large quantities. The La Plata Steel Plant exported 800,000 tons of steel products, mainly hot-rolled coils, cold-rolled coils, and rebars. The effect of earning foreign exchange is not bad. Mainly Exported to three countries: Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil.
In addition, there are a number of newly established hardware factories surrounding the steel plant, producing kitchen knives, blades, water pipes and other messy metal products.
Among them, Leidun Industry has developed the fastest. The production of tractor models developed by Leidun Tractor Factory has also begun to stabilize, with monthly production slowly increasing from 200 units to 1,200 units last month. It is now the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in Argentina.
Leidun Tractor Factory currently plans to enter the field of harvesters and three-wheeled agricultural vehicles.
Last year, Thunder Shield Tractor Factory also acquired the tractor production equipment, technical personnel, and automobile production lines of the Cordoba Military Aircraft Factory, and acquired the Mefilo Tire Factory in Rosario City. It currently has more than 7,000 production personnel, mainly located in Putrajaya and Rosario, among which the tire factory in Rosario has an annual production capacity of 20,000 sets of tires.
The main raw material of Mephilo Tire Factory is Brazilian natural rubber. Rubber products are widely used in daily life, whether in daily household or industrial use. In addition, Lanyun Shoe Factory also uses Brazilian natural rubber. of natural rubber.
San Jose intends to separate the Thunder Shield Tractor Factory to enable it to develop faster. Now Thunder Shield Industry is involved in a variety of industries and there are more and more factories.
Thunder Shield Tractor Factory has fully recovered its costs and generated profits. The diesel engines produced in cooperation with the Argentine Diesel Engine Factory can already meet the needs. San Jose plans to introduce additional production equipment and build this tractor factory into a comprehensive agricultural machinery manufacturer.
The Argentine Diesel Engine Factory has produced several domestically produced diesel engines, including three for fishing boats, two for tanks, and four for tractors, with an annual production capacity of 18,000 diesel engines. They are mainly supplied to the tractor factory, and the production of marine diesel engines is also considered acceptable.
Leidun Motorcycle Factory is also developing well, but it has not yet recovered its costs.
The motorcycle factory now has its own engine production line. The Thunder Shield 250 motorcycle it produces has good performance and good quality, but the price is on the high side. After all, with a little more money, you can buy a four-wheeled Ford car, and the market size is only a little. In developing cheaper alternative civilian versions, more fuel efficient engines and cheaper raw materials.
At present, Leidun Motorcycle Factory can produce about 2,000 motorcycles annually, which are mainly sold to the military and police departments, and the rest are exported.
Leidun's third branch industry is Leidun Machinery Factory. Now it has gradually expanded its production scale and realized most categories from large-scale machinery imitation, machine tool production, to small machinery and equipment production. It is necessary to set up this factory separately. Heavy machinery factories and light industrial machinery factories have achieved profitability.
At present, Argentina is completely self-sufficient in oil, but has limited chemical products. It mainly exports crude oil. It now has two natural gas pipelines. The country's power generation is also increasing rapidly. Hydropower stations and thermal power stations invested by the state under the 1525 Plan have been established one after another.
San Jose is planning to build a refinery to increase the added value of petroleum. Diesel, gasoline and other petrochemical products are all good products.
The development of the steel and petrochemical industries facilitated the modernization and supply of fertilizers, pesticides and machinery in Argentina, thereby increasing the growth of agricultural production.
With the complete harvest of autumn grain, grain production began to achieve positive growth again in 1952, increasing from 14 million tons in 1950 to 21 million tons, ranking sixth in the world. However, this did not reach Argentina's grain potential at all. Based on Argentina's agriculture Given the level of talent, it is absolutely no problem to produce 100 million tons per year.
At present, 90% of the land in Argentina still does not use chemical fertilizers, and the breeding of improved seeds is completely insufficient. The utilization rate of agricultural machinery is also low. Three-year crop rotation is basically adopted, and the potential has not been stimulated at all. It is not a fully modern agriculture.
San Jose is preparing to form the Blanca City Agricultural Reclamation Company to develop abandoned farms around Blanca City and establish farm transfers to prevent these farms from being acquired at low prices.
During the spring plowing season from September to October, large-scale development of farmland around Blanca City can also promote sales of tractor factories.
The development of the tobacco industry is extremely astonishing. In less than three years, Argentina's tobacco industry has achieved tremendous changes from an importing country to an exporting country.
It is mainly a one-time development project supported by the Andes Cigarette Factory in mountainous areas.
The Andes Cigarette Factory established a tobacco company and established a matrix of more than ten brands ranging from Spanish brands to English brands. It has entered the market of 20 countries and can bring a profit of 30 million US dollars to San Jose this year.
The number of Andes cigarette factories has also increased from 1 to 5, completing the layout of the major cities in the three northwest provinces. Global sales have exceeded 670,000 boxes, truly selling well all over the world. This is currently the second most profitable industry in Saint Jose.
Argentina's tobacco planting area has grown from a few thousand acres in bulk at the beginning to 440,000 acres now. It has achieved large-scale and scientific cultivation and has become the largest tobacco growing country in South America.
These tobacco fields are basically distributed in the three northwest provinces, and the tobacco growing industry has become the most mechanized part of Argentina's agriculture. Half of Thunder Shield tractors are supplied to cigarette factories every month.
The Andes Cigarette Factory owns 200,000 acres of planting area, an increase of 110,000 acres from last year, and supports 37,000 farmers. In the mountains and hills of the northwest, which are not suitable for growing food, tobacco is their way to get rich.
Under the instruction of Saint Jose, some small local families and farmers established tobacco growing cooperatives to introduce high-quality foreign tobacco cultivation.
Using chemical fertilizers and establishing standardized planting methods, the Oran City headquarters became the Argentine Tobacco Center. It also established a tobacco research institute to develop more advanced tobacco and cigarette technology. The most advanced factory at present is the Oran Cigarette Factory, with a large number of advanced manufacturing mechanical.
We sell not only cigarettes but also high-end products such as cigars, and develop various types of tobacco.
Although tobacco is harmful to people, it is not like flour after all. However, planting tobacco must be cautious and well planned. It cannot be planted casually, let alone use fertile land to grow tobacco, which will affect food production.
Nowadays, the scale of tobacco is expanding rapidly, but the management is still relatively extensive.
The next step is to prepare for the stage of scientific planting and breeding. The tobacco planting potential in the three northwest provinces is more than 1 million acres, which can be cultivated through the development of terraced fields in the mountains.
In addition to the ammonia fertilizer plant in San Martin, there are also potash fertilizer production plants in the Potassium Triangle region. Recently, Thunder Mining also explored a small potash mine in Mendoza Province to produce Maya brand potash fertilizer. Nitrogen fertilizer is extremely important for tobacco production.
In addition to steel, chemicals, tobacco and other products, the booming "Made in Argentina" also includes textiles, cloth, clothing, shoes, leather, motorcycles, tractors, machinery and equipment, fishing boats, small machine tools, automobiles...
Argentina is synonymous with high quality and low prices. Taking advantage of the cheap local currency, labor prices are only half of those in Brazil, and the products are indeed quite good.
Originally, Argentina was not keen on exports, but San Jose knew that exports were the only way out for Argentina's industry. The domestic market was not enough to support complete industrialization, and it occupied only 150 million people in the entire South American market.
Nowadays, Argentina participates in international competition by exporting industrial products. This is the way for healthy economic development.
In Blanca City, with the key support of Mayor San Jose, a large number of small clothing factories were established.
A few sewing machines and a few workers are a small garment factory.
The sewing machines imitated by Leidun Machinery Factory are not expensive and can be adapted to the production of many small orders.
In particular, the Export Processing Zone located in the Freeport area attracts many freelancers.
Because some of the current tax-free policies are very conducive to exports.
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Juan Nelson's team from Southern Petroleum Company rushed to Rome to discuss cooperation business with Energia of Italy.
And met Enrique Mattei, the head of emi.
Rome, emi headquarters,
"Hello, dear Mr. Enrique, I am Juan Nelson, the head of Argentina's Southern Petroleum Company. You can call me Juan."
Juan reached out his hand and grasped the Italian legend tightly with a feeling of pilgrimage.
This is his idol. Enrique has some gray hair, is strong, energetic, and very big.
If Argentina wants to break the Anglo-American oil monopoly, it can definitely learn from this legend and establish cooperation.
"Hello, Mr. Juan, welcome to Rome."
Enrique is also very enthusiastic about Juan. This time a large Argentine consortium is negotiating for an investment of 30 million US dollars, which is also a huge order for the current Italian oil industry.
He was quite curious about this new Southern Oil Company. When he received the cooperation notice last month, he thought it was a scammer.
After all, there is not much cooperation between Italy and Argentina, and he is quite skeptical that Argentinian private sector has a petroleum industry that can invest in it.
After the investigation, we really took it seriously. Behind this oil company was a large consortium that emerged in a short period of time and invested real money.
This complex consortium has no clue who is behind it. Of course, the Italian intelligence agency does not pay much attention to Argentina.
I only know that this consortium is quite low-key. It is a cooperation between a mining company and an energy company. It is the first private oil company in Argentina and has a background in the Argentine military.
“We hope that emi can help us build a comprehensive refinery with a refinery capacity of 2 million tons and an ethylene production capacity of 500,000 tons. A combined oil and chemical refinery can not only produce oil products but also chemical raw materials. It requires a full set of techniques.”
Juan said that this negotiation was not easy. This 2 million tons refinery and 500,000 tons of ethylene can directly put Argentina into the top ten petrochemical countries.
"We also help us build a professional steel pipe factory for the localization of chemical equipment production, and help us build a 1,000-kilometer crude oil transportation pipeline with a designed annual oil transportation capacity of 10 million tons. We provide the raw materials for the pipeline."
Italy has good special steel technology, but this strategic technology is difficult to export.
The crude oil transportation pipeline is designed to transport crude oil from the Patagonian Plateau to Blanca City and develop the heavy chemical industry in Blanca City.
“The price seems unobtainable, and the cost of raw materials is not enough.”
Enrique made a simple calculation in his mind and said euphemistically that it was basically impossible. Italy was also preparing to build a crude oil pipeline across the north and south. The investment was huge, and with the addition of a refinery and an ethylene plant, it would never be possible to build it for 30 million US dollars.
"We can discuss the details further."
Juan expressed that it was indeed very difficult at this price.
Asking for prices all over the place and paying back the money on the ground.
"Integrated refineries can be built and technology can be provided as long as sufficient technical fees are paid. We don't have an ethylene plant here either."
"The steel pipe proportioning technology for crude oil pipelines can be provided incidentally, but we will not be responsible for the construction."
"The price will be around US$45 million."
The ratio of crude oil steel pipe raw materials is actually not a big secret. The real difficulty lies in the industrial equipment of large seamless steel pipes, which cannot be compared with small-diameter steel pipes.
Enrique named a number.
"This seems too high. We have ethylene production technology, but we are not good at building ethylene production equipment. We can do an equivalent exchange, and the price can be as high as 40 million US dollars."
Juan said a relatively reliable number, which is almost the bottom line of Saint Jose.
“The price is quite reasonable.”
"Then the specific details will be negotiated by the people below?"
"Okay, it's a pleasure to work with you then."
After finalizing the rough scope of cooperation, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
Italy also urgently needed this order from Southern Petroleum. It resisted the pressure from Britain and the United States to develop its own oil industry and cooperated with Egypt, Persia and other countries, and even the Soviet Union.
It would be great to have cooperation with Argentina.
As for future competition, Enrique doesn't care much. The world market is big enough, and it's okay with Argentina as a helper.
It now owes the Americans $7.8 billion in foreign debt.
The Argentinian is indeed rich. In fact, his goal is US$38 million.
Enrique, who was in a good mood, was very pleased with the young man Juan.
He expressed his willingness to help Juan talk about the exchange of military technology.
"This is not a big problem. I know several companies that can exchange technology."
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