Material Empire

"I've heard about you, and you have made great achievements in the field of ceramics."

Qin Hai said openly that Kucera's status in the ceramic field is obvious, and he doesn't need to hide his knowledge of this.

Hearing Qin Hai's words, Takamura Takehiko bowed again, and said, "Thank you, Mr. Qin, for your compliment. Our company is the largest ceramics company in Japan, with more than 4,000 ceramic patents, and our technical strength is very strong."

"Well, I know." Qin Hai said, "You two come to us, what can you tell me?"

"We heard that your company has produced a kind of ceramic harrow, which won the first place in the wear resistance test at the expo, so we want to visit it." Takehiko Takamura said.

"There is indeed such a thing." Qin Haidao, he took a piece of ceramic rake from the booth, handed it to Takehiko Takamura, and said: "You should be talking about it, please have a look."

Takehiko Takamura took the rake and held it in his hand, and Changyou Xiu, who was at the side, poked his head over to take a look, and his eyes shone with a strange light. He took the rake from Takamura Takehiko and tried the edge of the rake with his fingers, with a complicated expression on his face.

"..." Takehiko Takamura was about to ask Changyou Xiu something, when he suddenly remembered that the Chinese in front of him knew Japanese, so he couldn't whisper to Changyou Xiu in Japanese. After hesitating for a while, he said in a low voice: "Mr. Changyou, what do you think?"

When he said this, he desperately gave Changyou Xiuyi his eyes, for fear that Changyou Xiuyi, a technical idiot, would say something inappropriate. Changyou Xiu raised his head and was about to answer, when he saw Takehiko Takamura's secretive expression, he understood something in his heart, and said cautiously: "Well, I think there are indeed some unique features in the manufacture of this rake."

Just unique? Listening to their conversation, Qin Hai sneered in his heart. Takehiko Takamura and Shuichi Nagatomo thought that their cover-up could fool these Chinese people, but they didn't know that Qin Hai was a person with later life experience, and he knew very well about the technical level of Kucera Company and its development in the next 20 years. With this prior knowledge, and looking at the performance of Takehiko Takamura and Otomo Nagatomo, how can Qin Hai not guess their intentions?

Coursera is not an agricultural machinery company, and it can even be said that it has never been involved in the agricultural machinery industry. One or two of Takehiko Takamura and Nagatomo Osamu appeared at this venue. Obviously, they can't be explained by getting lost because they must have come here on a special trip. This behavior shows that Kusela is very interested in the ceramic rakes launched by Brother Ceramics Factory. The reservedness shown by Takehiko Takamura and Shuichi Changyou is just a disguise.

Kusela Company can be regarded as the earliest enterprise in the world to research ceramic knives, but it did not partially solve the problem of ceramic knives sharpening until the mid-to-late 1990s, and produced the first batch of commercialized ceramic kitchen knives, table knives, etc. wait. As for the comprehensive breakthrough of technical barriers, the cost and price of ceramic knives have been greatly reduced, so that they can enter the homes of ordinary people, it is already a matter of the new century.

Brother Ceramics Factory was able to produce sharpened ceramic knives in 1987, and this news had a very strong impact on Kusela. From the perspective of the company's top management, this situation can be regarded as both a challenge and an opportunity, and it all depends on how the company responds.

If it can cooperate with the Chinese and obtain the technology for manufacturing ultra-thin high-strength ceramics from the Chinese, then Kusela can open up a very broad market. Conversely, if the two parties cannot cooperate and the Chinese have seized the market for ceramic knives, it will be very difficult for Kusela to enter. You must know that the Chinese have already produced practical ceramic products, but Kusela has not found the way so far.

With this in mind, the board of directors of the company decided to send one or two people, Takehiko Takamura and Osamu Nagatomo, to fly over from Japan to find out the realities of the Chinese people. These two are not ordinary salesmen and technicians, but two high-ranking senior staff in the company, who came with the authorization of the board of directors.

"We would like to know how you solved the problem of insufficient strength of the edge of the rake blade. As far as I know, there is no other company other than our Kucera company that can manufacture ceramic products that are so thin and strong enough " Takehiko Takamura asked in a calm tone.

"Oh, you can also produce such a product?" Qin Hai asked curiously, pretending to be ignorant.

"Uh... We have already produced such a product in the laboratory, and it is currently being applied industrially." Nagatomo Shuichi said. When he said this, his face turned red, because he was indeed not a liar.

Qin Hai is very clear about the current technical situation of Kucera Company, and knows that what Nagatomo Shuichi said should happen five years later. At this point in time, Kucera Company is indeed studying this issue, but it is still The stage of being confused and unable to find a way out.

Since the Japanese didn't want to tell the truth, Qin Hai wasn't interested in exposing it. He said with a smile, "It's quite remarkable to be able to solve this problem in the laboratory. Our thinking is probably the same as yours, but we The steps of industrialization are just a little faster than yours."

"Our method is to add colloids to the ceramic powder for sintering. Presumably you are doing the same?" Chang Youxiu began to probe into Qin Hai's technology.

"Well, this should be a common idea." Qin Hai replied. He knew which question was the key technically. As for those irrelevant questions, whenever Changyouxiu wanted to ask, Qin Hai would answer them. Many academic journals have also discussed this problem, and the more concentrated solution is to add colloids, so the problem of Nagatomo Shuichi is of no value.

"So, how did you solve the problem of voids after sintering the colloid?" Changyou Shuichi asked again.

"Empty? What empty?" Qin Hai asked with a look of surprise.

"Don't tell me there is no cavity after you sintered?" Changyou Xiuyi was surrounded by Qin Hai.

Qin Haidao: "No, we never know what is empty."

"Then... what kind of jelly did you use?" Changyou Xiuyi asked.

"Well...hehe, I don't know either." Qin Hai chuckled, but the expression on his face clearly read a few words: I know, but I won't tell you.

"Mr. Qin, I wonder if you are interested in cooperating with our Kusela company?" Takehiko Takamura took over Shuichi Nagatomo's words. He has already realized that Qin Hai is not a brainless guy, asking like Shuichi Nagatomo, It is impossible to ask what is famous.

Qin Haidao: "We are very willing to cooperate with any company in the world, but can I ask first, how does Kucera want to cooperate with us?"

"We have a strong technical force and abundant funds. We can provide some funds and technical personnel to help you improve this technology, so that you can achieve better results in agricultural machinery production." Takehiko Takamura said.

"This condition is not bad." Qin Haidao, "So, what do you expect from this cooperation?"

"We want to share these technologies with your company. You apply it to the production of agricultural machinery and tools. We only need to use it in the production of household daily necessities." Takehiko Takamura said as lightly as possible.

Qin Hai shook his head: "This plan may not work."

"Why?" Takehiko Takamura asked in surprise.

Qin Haidao: "Because we also want to apply this technology to the production of daily necessities, to be precise, we are already doing so."

Speaking of this, he gestured to Liu Shuo, Liu Shuo knowingly opened a packing box, took out a few things from it, and put them on the booth. Takehiko Takamura and Changyouxiu didn't understand Qin Hai's meaning at first, but when they saw what Liu Shuo brought out, their eyes were all straightened:

This is a complete set of ceramic knives!

Kusela has been interested in developing ceramic knives for several years. Within the company, the conceptual design of ceramic knives has already been completed, but the manufacturing process has been unable to break through, so the ceramic knives products have not been interviewed. The moment they saw the ceramic knives that Liu Shuo took out, both Takehiko Takamura and Shuichi Nagatomo had the illusion that the concept products in the company documents popped out by themselves. Because the set of knives in front of me is almost exactly the same as the products that Kucera has been striving for.

"This... was this produced by you?" Takehiko Takamura asked Qin Hai.

"Exactly, please give me your advice." Qin Hai said with a smile.

"It turns out...you are also planning to produce ceramic knives." Takehiko Takamura murmured.

Before they set off, the Kusela company heard the news that the Chinese had made a kind of ceramic rake. A very good opportunity was left.

The plan of Takehiko Takamura and Shuichi Nagatomo for this trip is to find a way to cheat the technology of ceramic blade from the Chinese, or spend a little money to buy this technology. In their view, the Chinese are not aware of the value of the ceramic knife market, and thus cannot judge the value of this technology.

Seeing the ceramic knife Liu Shuo took out, Takamura Takehiko knew that his wishful thinking had come to nothing. The few Chinese people in front of them are not stupid at all. It can even be guessed that when they developed this technology, they did not intend to apply the technology to the production of agricultural machinery, but directly aimed at the market of ceramic knives. As for this kind of ceramic disc rake, it is just an advertisement made by the Chinese for ceramic knives.

It has to be said that Takehiko Takamura's guess is highly consistent with the actual situation.

Now that the Chinese have already thought of the market of ceramic knives, it is impossible to deceive the other party's technology at a low price. Takamura Takehiko and Nagatomo Xiu met each other's eyes, and then said to Qin Hai: "Mr. Qin, it seems that the matter is really a coincidence. Our company is also preparing to produce ceramic knives. May I ask if you are interested in working with us on this aspect?" What about cooperation?"