Chapter 346 Float Glass

"Director Wu, do you really want me to take over?" Jiang Xiaobai asked.

"Yeah." Wu Guofeng nodded.

"I don't know anything about glass production," Jiang Xiaobai said.

"It doesn't matter. We will send you a deputy director who understands glass production. We don't want you to produce glass because we like you. We have plenty of talents for glass production. But talents like you are hard to find.

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Wu Guofeng said.

Jiang Xiaobai also understood that Wu Guofeng asked him to come here just to reform the glass factory.

"During the reform process, some chaos will definitely occur to the factory director, but this is the pain of reform."

Jiang Xiaobai said.

"No problem, I will strongly support you, do it with confidence and boldness, and try to create a test field for you."

Wu Guofeng nodded and said that he thought Jiang Xiaobai's use of the word "labor pain" was good, profound, level and political.

Reform is a labor pain, like the darkness before dawn.

"Then I have no problem." Jiang Xiaobai said.

"There will be a meeting after New Year's Day. You should also go back and prepare, and try to go to work after New Year's Day."

After Wu Guofeng finished speaking, he thought for a while and then said: "By the way, your school has also waited for New Year's Day before I went to say hello. Everything has been arranged for you, so you don't have to worry."

"Any questions?" Wu Guofeng asked.

Jiang Xiaobai: "What..."

Wu Guofeng: "???"

Jiang Xiaobai: "What about the car?"

Wu Guofeng's face was full of black lines: "I will try to get it done for you before you come."

The meal we had at lunch in the canteen of the glass factory was a little better than the food at the county glass factory, but not much better.

It's not as good as the food at the Educated Youth Cannery.

Of course, Jiang Xiaobai and the others were in a private room in the cafeteria, so the food was different. Not to mention eight cold and eight hot, it was almost the same.

After dinner, Wu Guofeng and Jiang Xiaobai were about to leave.

Wu Guofeng got on the car, rolled down the window and ordered: "Renovate the factory director's office, and someone will be sent over after a while."

Wu Guofeng said that the middle-aged man beside him was fine, but Jin Guoyan's expression suddenly changed.

That dejected look can be seen by a person.

The director of the factory was transferred away. He originally thought he would have hope and found a lot of people.

But I didn't expect that Wu Guofeng actually said to clean up the office, and someone would come over after that.

This is clearly telling me that there is no hope.

Although a meeting still needs to be held, Wu Guofeng, as the leader in charge, said this to indicate that the matter has been settled.

I am really not willing to give in. Could it be that what I did today made Wu Guofeng unhappy?

Jiang Xiaobai and Li Xiaoliu got off the bus in Xidan, and Wu Guofeng sat in the car and walked away quickly.

Why are you so pretentious? I will also own a car in two days. Jiang Xiaobai curled his lips and walked into the store.

Song Weiguo didn't know what he was doing, and he wasn't in the store. Jiang Xiaobai was on the first floor helping.

Song Weiguo didn't come back until evening. It turned out that he had gone to the telecommunications office to discuss the matter of pulling the phone line.

While eating in the evening, Jiang Xiaobai suddenly remembered what Jin Guoyan said at the glass factory during the day about how many standard boxes of glass should be produced.

Looking at Song Weiguo, he asked: "Old Song, what is the unit of glass?"

Song Weiguo turned out to be the section chief of the sales department of the county glass factory, and he knew everything about the glass factory.

"There are many units of glass. The thickness is expressed in millimeters, the area is expressed in square meters, and the domestic production volume is called a standard box, while the foreign production volume is called a weight."

"What is this standard box?" Jiang Xiaobai asked doubtfully. Jiang Xiaobai could understand the calculation of glass production by weight.

Because the thickness of glass is different, it cannot be planned based on area.

Thinner glass is only 5 millimeters, while thicker glass can reach more than ten millimeters.

Therefore, there must be an error when calculating in square meters.

But Jiang Xiaobai had never heard of what this standard box was.

Song Weiguo smiled and said: "People who are not in the professional field really don't know about this.

The origin of the standard box comes from my country's current "standard box" conversion coefficient for calculating flat glass production, which was formulated in 1952 and implemented from 1953.

At that time, there were only three large glass factories in Qinhuangdao, Shenyang, and Dalian, and they had their own conversion coefficients for calculating glass production.

In 1952, in order to unify the "standard box" conversion coefficients of the three glass factories, the actual production data of each factory from January to October of that year was calculated in 1952..."

Song Weiguo said slowly, Jiang Xiaobai has gained a lot of knowledge.

Qinhuangdao was later known as the City of Glass, and Jiang Xiaobai still knew this.

Jiang Xiaobai asked Song Weiguo again about the current status of the domestic glass industry.

"In fact, the history of modern glass in China should start from the late 1950s..."

Song Weiguo took a sip of wine and, like a storyteller, began to tell Jiang Xiaobai the history of modern glass.

"In the late 1950s, the British Pilkington Glass Company announced to the world that it had successfully developed the float forming process for flat glass. This was a revolution in the original grooved top forming process.

For a time, waves of float fervor converged into a "float frenzy" that swept the world. Many countries in the world spent huge sums of money to acquire Pilkington's patent.

But Pilkington has launched a technological blockade against our country."

Jiang Xiaobai also frowned when he heard that. In fact, it is not easy for our country to develop into what it will be in later generations, because we have nothing, and the West's technological blockade of our country is everywhere.

It’s not just the glass industry, it’s a technological blockade in all aspects.

As Song Weiguo spoke, he was afraid that Jiang Xiaobai wouldn't understand, so he explained.

"Our original glass was emerald green, fragmented, and had bubbles, while float glass has high transparency, is flat, and has no bubbles."

Jiang Xiaobai nodded, and then he understood. No wonder after being reborn, he always felt weird looking at the glass around him, and it was different from his later generations.

"The technological blockade in the West means that the development and production of float glass in China must follow the path of self-reliance and independent innovation, so the China Luoyang Glass Group started experiments..."

Following Song Weiguo's narration, Jiang Xiaobai felt as if a picture scroll recording the history of modern glass in my country was slowly unfolding in front of him.

"When high-temperature glass water passes through the tin bath, it is easy to condense, causing uneven thickness of the glass. Sometimes the glass water splashes in the tin bath, and the workers are injured everywhere..."

Jiang Xiaobai listened and clenched his fists tightly. If he fell behind, he would be beaten.

"After many years of experiments and process improvements, we finally successfully built the first float glass production line three months later and produced China's first float glass. It has been in production for the next eight years. Under improvement..."
Chapter completed!