Material Empire

Qin Hai was preoccupied with new energy vehicles. After staying in the capital for a few days, he hurried back to Anhe to make arrangements. Both Ning Zhongying and Song Hongxuan are very optimistic about the idea of ​​new energy vehicles and strongly support his investment in this direction. As for the Anhe School of Materials, there is nothing to say. The research on lithium batteries and supercapacitors has already been approved, and now it is even more important. People are needed and money is needed. The progress can be said to be changing with each passing day.

Zhang Daiwei returned to Beidian after the meeting in the capital, and indeed encountered a series of retaliations. Wang Kaihua did not spend too much energy on such a small person, but the leader has never lacked dog legs. After realizing the leader's intentions, these people began to make trouble for Zhang Daiwei from various aspects. However, what surprised them was that Zhang Daiwei had no intention of giving in at all, and just left a letter of resignation without any documents, organizational relations, etc. A sense of loss hit in the void.

If it was a few years ago, there were various ways to deal with an unheard of employee in a state-owned unit. The most critical one was to detain the employee's file and household registration, so that the other party had nowhere to go if he wanted to, and could only stay. Accept all kinds of difficulties in the unit. But the situation has changed a lot in the past two years. With the rise of the private economy, more and more employers don’t need your household registration or files at all. As long as they are talents, they will be directly introduced. Things like food and oil relations are useless at all now. As for files, they can rebuild a copy for you, and using personnel relations to block people is really useless.

Of course, if the Beidian Group insists on making trouble with Zhang Daiwei, there are still some ways. After all, it is a large enterprise at the vice-ministerial level, and the boss also holds a vice-provincial position in the province. However, just because someone said a few inappropriate words at a meeting, they used organizational channels to hunt them down thousands of miles away. The leaders of Beidian Group were embarrassed to do such a thing, so they could only watch Zhang Daiwei jump ship to Hongyuan Province, became the technical director of the newly established Hongyuan Automobile Company.

Qin Ling's environmental protection-themed commercial was finally broadcast on the prime time of China TV. In the corner of the commercial screen, there was the word "Daqin Group", indicating that the commercial was sponsored by Daqin Group. However, the vast majority of the audience had no feeling for the Daqin Group. They were only touched by the environmental protection complex of the singer Jade Girl. For a while, countless environmental protection associations composed of Qin Ling fans popped up all over China, which caused a lot of environmental problems for local governments. pressure on. Qin Ling has also become a well-known "environmental protection ambassador" throughout the country, just as Qin Hai expected.

Amid all the turmoil, few people noticed that Quwu Ceramics Co., Ltd. in Linxi Province successfully launched a series of ceramic and metal cutting tools, and quickly spread them to the global market. The company creates strong pressure.

"Is this the kind of ceramic knife that Wang Peichao told us about?"

In the conference room of Kucera Company, chairman Kiyonobu Nishikawa watched the new product promotional video of Quwu Company played on the big screen, and asked technical director Takehiko Komura with a bit of jealousy and resentment.

A few years ago, Kusela Company, which was going all out to develop household ceramic knives, was about to succeed when it suddenly heard that a little-known small ceramic company in China had completed the development of this product first. The long-coveted global market has seized more than half. Since then, Xichuan Qingxuan has been eyeing this Quwu ceramics company and regards it as his strong enemy.

In the past few years, Kusela Company has gradually regained its market share in household ceramic knives by virtue of its strong economic strength and technical strength. It has become a piece of chicken ribs, and Kusela’s initial investment in ceramic knives has not been fully recovered so far, and this project has been completely destroyed.

After losing the market for household ceramic knives, Xichuan Qingxuan set his sights on industrial knives, especially metal cutting knives. He knew that this was a bigger market than household ceramic knives.

Metal cutting is the most common operation in machining. Tools are required for turning, milling, planing, grinding, and drilling. To be able to cut hard metals, there is no doubt that the tool must be harder than the metal being cut. The problem is that with the development of human technology, the hardness of various alloys is getting higher and higher, which puts forward higher requirements for the hardness of knives. Traditional alloy cutting tools are powerless in the face of workpieces that are almost the same as their own materials. The most important thing is that both the workpiece and the cutting tool will heat up severely during the cutting process, and the biggest defect of the metal is that it is easy to soften once it is heated, which has become an alloy. The weakness of knives.

The idea of ​​using ceramic materials to make knives has a long history. The Mohs hardness of ceramic materials such as zirconia can reach more than 9.0, which exceeds the hardness of chromium, which is the hardest metal. In addition, the high temperature resistance of ceramic materials is much stronger than that of metal materials. At a high temperature of 2000 degrees Celsius, even if ordinary alloy steel has not melted, it has become as soft as dough, but ceramic materials can still maintain a considerable temperature. High hardness, which is very important for high-speed cutting.

The difficulty in making ceramic materials into knives lies in the bonding of ceramic powder. If the bond is not good, the ceramic material will appear very brittle and cannot be used for cutting at all. Qin Hai was able to develop household ceramic knives earlier than Kusela Company because he developed a unique binder. Kusela subsequently developed a similar binder, which was able to regain part of the market from Quwu Ceramics.

The strength requirements of metal cutting knives are much higher than that of household knives. After all, the former is used to cut metal, while the latter is only used to cut vegetables. To achieve higher strength, it is necessary to have a different viscose than household ceramic knives. In this technology, Quwu Ceramics and Kusela are in fierce competition.

According to Takamura Takehiko's estimation, Kusera Company can develop special viscose with industrial application value earlier than Qutao, so as to preemptively produce ceramic turning tools. But who would have thought that Qutao, with the assistance of the Anhe Institute of Materials, actually launched a series of ceramic knives before Kusela, and spread them to the global market almost overnight.

Kusela purchased Qutao's ceramic cutting tools from the market immediately and tested them in the laboratory. The test results show that Qutao's ceramic cutting tools have a series of advantages such as high hardness, high strength, and high temperature resistance, and almost completely meet the positioning requirements of Kusera Company for its own products. That is to say, even if Kusela Company completes its own research and development, it is just picking up some leftovers behind Qu Tao.

After all, Kusela Company is an established company with a high brand awareness and wider channels than Qutao. If he can keep up with Qu Tao's skills in time, it will not be difficult to maintain half of the country. However, Takehiko Takamura knew that the R\u0026D work in his laboratory was still some time away from the final success. With Qu Tao's products already on the market, every day of delay meant that more customers would flow to Qu Tao, this loss is something Kusela cannot bear.

"According to Wang Peichao, Qutao has been researching and developing ceramic cutting tools, but the progress is not obvious. Especially some time ago, because of the dispute between Chaosai Company and Qutao, it also had some impact on Qutao's operation , we analyzed that the time for Qu Tao to complete the development of knives will be pushed back for a while. Who would have expected..." Takehiko Takamura lowered his head, unable to continue. Others' products have already been taken out, so what's the use of analyzing it at this time?

"Takamura-kun, when will our product be finalized?" Nishikawa Kiyonobu asked with a sullen face.

"I think...probably...if there are no accidents...I mean...it should be about 2 years." Takamura Takehiko replied stammeringly.

"Takamura-kun, don't you think it's too late!" Xi Chuan Qingxuan said angrily.

"Yes, it's too late." Takamura Takehiko replied.

According to the conventional technology research and development cycle, it is not too slow to complete the development of ceramic cutting tools after 2 years. The development of materials is different from the development of mechanical products and electronic products. Conclusions can only be drawn through repeated testing. For example, in the fatigue test of materials, it is necessary to let the materials undergo hundreds or even thousands of hours of treatment, and then test their performance, so as to determine the fatigue resistance of a material. If such an experiment is omitted, who knows whether the material will have problems in practical applications?

But Takehiko Takamura couldn't say these words to Kiyonobu Nishikawa. Kiyonobu Nishikawa is also in this business, and of course he knows the particularity of material research. Kiyonobu Nishikawa asked this question because the Kucera Company simply could not accept a two-year delay. In two years, the market will have completely forgotten about Coussela.

"Takamura-kun, what method do you have to solve technical problems quickly?" Nishikawa Kiyonobu began to force Takehiko Takamura.

Takehiko Takamura hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "The technology in the laboratory is still very immature. If it is put into production rashly, it may cause unpredictable quality problems and damage our company's reputation. The only way to do it now is to learn from it." The technology of Quwu Ceramics Company, after all, their technology has been tested and basically can be trusted."

"Shall we learn from it?" Nishikawa Qingxuan dragged his voice, "This is completely possible. We must be good at learning the skills of our opponents, so that we can remain invincible."

In two days, counting an input-output account, various balance relationships, confused Chengzi...