Factory 703, a small state-owned materials factory originally hidden in southern Hunan.
At the beginning of last year, there were even rumors that the factory was going bankrupt.
In less than a year, it suddenly became a super manufacturer with annual revenue exceeding hundreds of millions of yuan and net profit of nearly 100 million yuan.
I don't know how many people originally tried every means to leave Factory 703, but now they are trying every possible means to come back.
Although most of the carbon fiber and carbon-carbon composite materials produced last year were needed for rocket engines and J-10 aircraft.
But the remaining materials also created a lot of profits after being exported.
Because carbon-carbon composite materials are not sufficient for the Rocket Research Institute's own rocket engines, and some need to be separated for use in the J-10 engine turbofan, they are not exported too much.
But even for carbon fiber cloth used as the raw material-base embryo in composite materials, sales abroad are still very high because of the low cost and high output brought by advanced preparation processes.
Every kilogram of carbon fiber cloth can be sold for more than 200% profit.
The cost price is currently around 550 yuan per kilogram.
At the beginning, the workers in Factory 703 were not particularly familiar with the production process of high-strength carbon fiber cloth, and the production efficiency was not very high.
This resulted in the production cost of high-strength carbon fiber cloth being higher in the early days than it is now.
"Director Hu, how is the progress of the first phase of the factory expansion project now?"
After walking around the production lines in Factory 703, Zhang Xingyang asked Hu Deming, who was accompanying him.
Because both the YF-100 liquid oxygen kerosene engine and the WS-10 turbofan engine will require a large amount of carbon-carbon composite materials.
Therefore, the production capacity of Factory 703 needs to be expanded, otherwise it will be difficult to support the production of hundreds of YF-100 liquid oxygen kerosene engines and hundreds of WS-10 turbofan engines every year with the current production capacity.
The location of the new factory building is not very far from the current factory building of Factory 703, because Factory 703 has a large planning scale.
At a time when various places are frantically attracting investment, it is highly valued by the locals.
Directly provided a large industrial land with an area of more than 3,000 acres, and also helped complete the preliminary work of three connections and one leveling.
Otherwise, if it is really a wasteland, then Factory 703 will need to spend a lot of effort on road transportation, water supply, electricity supply, and site leveling.
"Now I have just contacted the design institute to start the design work. It is expected that the drawings will be completed within a month." Hu Deming replied.
"Have you found the construction unit?"
"After the new factory is built, it will need to use new production processes, and the environmental requirements will be higher than now, so the construction of the factory must not be careless!"
Zhang Xingyang stopped and started communicating with Hu Deming in a corner of the factory.
"I contacted several construction units in this province. They all had no experience in construction in this area and they all rejected it."
Speaking of this matter, Hu Deming frowned a little.
At this time, although the domestic construction work of various aspects of large-scale Inter Milan has begun, most people are building various residential buildings, office buildings, and shopping malls.
There is not enough experience in the construction of specialized high-standard industrial plants.
"If you can't find it in this province, you can look for it elsewhere. There should be many companies in East and South China that have experience in construction in this area!"
Zhang Xingyang also frowned slightly at this time. He did not expect that it would be so difficult to find a company with construction experience in this area at this time.
“The new process has very high requirements for ambient temperature, humidity, and cleanliness, so there must not be any mistakes!”
"Dean Zhang, wouldn't it be good to produce according to our current production process? The requirements for factory buildings and workers are not that high."
Hu Deming still doesn’t understand why he needs to promote new production processes at this time:
"If we follow our current production process, we will soon be able to complete the construction of a new production plant."
Zhang Xingyang also knew what Hu Deming had in mind.
As the director of Factory 703, he has experienced the factory's transformation from dilapidated to hot. Now he is actually satisfied with the current situation of Factory 703 and doesn't particularly want to mess with it.
"The cost of the high-strength carbon fiber cloth we produce now is still too high. If we can't continue to reduce the cost, then sooner or later we will be eliminated by other factories that develop lower-cost carbon fiber!"
Zhang Xingyang educated Hu Deming extremely seriously.
"In fact, the international carbon fiber preparation technology has been developing and progressing in the past few years, and the preparation costs of various major manufacturers have been declining!"
Hu Deming didn't know much about these. To be honest, he was just a factory director and didn't know much about these cutting-edge international information.
"To tell you something you can feel, the international shipment price of carbon fiber cloth has been decreasing. From last year to now, the price per kilogram of carbon fiber cloth has dropped from about US$280 to about US$250."
Regarding this matter, Hu Deming had some unclear feelings.
The person in charge of Snecma, which had been purchasing their high-strength carbon fiber before, complained not long ago when signing a new batch of supply contracts.
Snecma ordered such a large amount of carbon fiber, but Factory 703 did not even lower the price!
Now that Hu Deming heard some information from Zhang Xingyang about the cutting-edge of carbon fiber, he already understood why the person in charge at the time said that.
It should be a major international manufacturer, and it made some price cuts at that time.
Although compared with the price of 220 US dollars per kilogram of carbon fiber cloth produced by the 703 factory, the price of large manufacturers in other countries is generally about 15% higher.
But compared to the nearly 30% price gap before, the price advantage is not so obvious!
"Of course you don't need to be nervous. Even at the same price, the strength of our materials is still much higher than their carbon fiber cloth, and it has certain performance advantages!"
Zhang Xingyang looked at Hu Deming, whose brows were frowning more and more, and said.
"However, if new factories and new processes are put into use, then we will establish a huge price barrier!"
At this time, Hu Deming also became very curious about the new technology and asked:
"Dean Zhang, how much can our costs be reduced after the new process is put into use?"
"Although the requirements of various aspects of the new process have increased a lot, when producing carbon fiber cloth with the same strength, the cost per kilogram of carbon fiber cloth can be reduced from the current 550 to about 380!"
"The cost reduction is secondary. The key is that the production efficiency has been greatly improved. The output per hour of the same production line can be doubled to the original!"
Zhang Xingyang looked at the shocked Hu Deming and slowly told the answer!
(End of chapter)
