Chapter 14 Supply Chain Acceleration Start, Next Stop, Nanjing!
Xu Qingzhou asked the students to count the laboratory instruments and consumables and clean them up.
Starting tomorrow, this laboratory will be officially handed over to Dr. Xu's team to manage. He will lead students to expand the performance of x-fiber and strive to develop more warmth-conserving x2 fiber before autumn.
After Xu Qingzhou made arrangements, he followed Gao Yuan and Cao Feiyu to the office. Gao Yuan took out sugar-free cola from the refrigerator, handed it to them, and opened a can of it himself.
"I said, you're too naked, right?" Xu Qingzhou complained, "You said that just now, obviously you were going to poach my students."
Gao Yuan smiled, "What does it mean to dig your students? I obviously plan to dig you and your students together."
Pooh ~
Xu Qingzhou blew up. Since the plateau's attitude was so open, he no longer had anything to say. The three of them discussed the division of labor. Cao Feiyu wanted to clarify the company's assets and liabilities as soon as possible, and Xu Qingzhou was in charge of scientific research.
As for the plateau, he is responsible for running the supply chain and opening up all links from raw materials to chemical fiber filaments, and from chemical fiber filaments to textile fabrics.
"Is there any difficulty in the supply chain?" Cao Feiyu asked.
Plateau shook his head, "There is no big problem. There are five companies in China, ranking among the top 50 chemistry in the world, namely Sinopec, Sinopec, Sinochem, Hengli, Wanhua, plus tens of thousands of private factories, joint ventures, and wholly foreign-owned factories. Basically, any chemical raw material can find a large and high-quality source of goods."
Cao Feiyu muttered: "Why do we occupy five families? I always thought that we are very strong in the field of chemistry, and at least half of the world."
Without waiting for Gaoyuan to answer this question, Xu Qingzhou said: "The list is arranged according to sales. Although we have many factories, the product value is low, so the birth of x fiber is so important, because this is the only world's top fiber product that we currently have."
Gaoyuan added: "X fiber belongs to chemical fibers, and the most popular and technological content in the world is actually biofibers. For example, when you extract your teeth, the doctor will give you no disassembly sutures."
"Abstract, my country is not as powerful as imagined in chemical fibers, but there is no problem in ensuring the supply of raw materials. The only problem is a special catalyst.
"Catalyzer?" Xu Qingzhou and Cao Feiyu showed puzzled expressions at the same time.
Gao Yuan said: "This catalyst is an indispensable link in the final reaction of x-fibers, but it does not exist in any paper documents, nor in the patent specification."
After the explanation from the plateau, Xu Qingzhou and Cao Feiyu quickly understood that the catalyst is equivalent to the secret recipe of x-fiber.
Without this thing, it doesn’t mean that others cannot imitate it, but that they cannot imitate products with the same performance. No matter how much money or how it is done, they will eventually lag behind the original in performance.
The amount of catalyst is very small, only 1.4 grams of chemical fiber raw materials are added per ton of chemical fiber. As for the source, it is naturally the magical system.
With this secret catalyst, even if some rogue countries make a spurious copy of their patent rights, they will only waste a lot of money and eventually get a bunch of defective products.
I have to say that the system is still very toxic in terms of anti-counterfeiting protection.
In the next few days, everyone began to be busy separately.
The upstream supplier of Kunlun Factory is a local enterprise called Chaoda Chemical Fiber. The boss Yuan Zheng is very familiar with Gao Yuan’s father and has been working together for seven or eight years.
Plateau found Yuan Zheng and took out the process flow of x fibers and special catalysts.
Yuan Zheng found two engineers in the factory, made cost and output estimates, and finally reported the Plateau a price of 6,500 yuan per ton.
Gao Yuan thought for a while and said, "Uncle Yuan, the batch of goods I want is a melt-spinning model. Even if you use a domestic machine, you can produce at least three or four thousand meters of wire per minute. There will definitely be no problem with the six thousand meters on a German melting machine."
"In addition, no solvents and precipitants are used, nor do secondary circulation treatments are required. The process can be said to be extremely simple. Do you think this price can be reduced a little?"
Yuan Zheng seemed very embarrassed, "The process is indeed not difficult, but the key is that the quantity cannot be determined."
"Let's do this. We will implement the first batch of 20 tons of goods according to 6,500. Assuming there is really sales, you can place orders of at least 200 tons at one time, and we will settle the orders according to 6,300."
Gao Yuan thought about it and felt that according to the current market conditions, it was still relatively profitable.
Nowadays, the DuPont 20D model spandex wire is sold for 25,000 yuan per ton. The x-fiber with countless times performance is more than 6,000 yuan. If it is sold for 25,000 yuan, it may be sold crazy!
Gao Yuan immediately signed a contract with Yuan Zheng. Private enterprises in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai were incredibly efficient. Just five days later, the first large truck to deliver goods carried the first batch of ten tons of goods into the warehouse of Kunlun Factory.
Everyone was very excited and ran to the warehouse to take a look.
In fact, chemical fiber silk is no different from rolls of cotton thread. You also need to take the thread balls to a textile machine to weave them into fabrics, and then sell them to downstream clothing companies to make them into clothes we wear on our bodies every day, bed sheets spread on the bed, etc.
"The next step is to weave the chemical fiber silk into fabric, but there are no workers in the factory now." Xu Qingzhou said with a frown.
Gao Yuan disagreed with this. He said in an indifferent tone: "There is nothing in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but there is no shortage of factories. Although our factory has been shut down, there are still hundreds of factories around that are operating day and night."
"It's only ten tons of goods. Do you believe it or not? Even if we find a small factory, we can turn these chemical fibers into fabrics within three days. As for the craftsmanship, plain, twill, and plaid, we can choose whatever we want. It can sweep the global light industry in just a few decades. China's efficiency is not something that can be blown up."
Cao Feiyu and Xu Qingzhou nodded repeatedly. There are really hundreds of fabric companies in the industrial park where Kunlun Factory is located, and the plateau does not lie.
"The most important thing at the moment is actually not production, but how to sell the goods." Gao Yuan touched his chin with his right hand and said, "As long as our x-fiber can be sold well, we can use all the idle productivity nearby."
"Dr. Xu, you can prepare for it. Go north with me in two days."
Xu Qingzhou said: "It's okay to travel on a business trip. It's not a hassle to ask for leave from the National Laboratory, but what are we going north? What information do I need to prepare?"
Gao Yuan said: "Do you remember what I told you before that there are two invisible giants in the fast fashion field in China?"
Xu Qingzhou said: "It's not just that I remember that I was so impressed. I was able to fight all the way to Europe and the hometowns of Zara and H.m. These two companies are so awesome!"
Gao Yuan smiled slightly, "As far as I know, the battle in the fast fashion field has been extremely fierce recently. The two Chinese heroes and the two old European overlords are fighting each other, and they are almost knocking human brains out of dog brains."
"Maybe this is an opportunity for us. If we can directly supply companies of shein-level, we will quickly increase our popularity and increase the company's cash flow in a short period of time."
After hearing Gao Yuan's words, Xu Qingzhou and Cao Feiyu's eyes lit up. Cao Feiyu said: "Then the relationship is good. With enough orders, we can accelerate the integration of the local supply chain and build an industrial cluster."
"I don't know where this mysterious company called shein is headquartered?"
Chapter completed!