"I have heard of you. You have made great achievements in the field of ceramics."
Qin Hai said openly that Kusela's status in the field of ceramics was obvious, and there was no need for him to hide his knowledge of this.
After hearing Qin Hai's words, Takamura Takehiko bowed again and said: "Thank you Mr. Qin for the compliment. Our company is the largest ceramic company in Japan, with more than 4,000 ceramic patents, and its technical strength is very strong."
"Yes, I know." Qin Haidao, "You two came to us, what can you teach me?"
"We heard that your company produced a ceramic rake blade that won first place in the wear resistance test at the expo, so we wanted to come and visit it," said Takehiko Takamura.
"That is indeed what happened." Qin Haidao said. He took a ceramic rake piece from the exhibition stand, handed it to Takehiko Takamura, and said, "It should be what you are talking about. Please take a look."
Takehiko Takamura took the rake blade and held it in his hand. Shuichi Nagatomo on the side looked over and saw a strange light in his eyes. He took the rake blade from Takamura Takehiko's hand and tried the rake blade with his fingers.
The expression on his face was very complicated.
"..." Takamura Takehiko was about to ask Nagatomo Shuichi something when he suddenly remembered that the Chinese man in front of him knew Japanese, so he could not whisper anything to Nagatomo Shuichi in Japanese. After a moment of hesitation, he whispered
Said: "Nagatomo-kun, what do you think?"
When he said this, he desperately looked at Nagatomo Shuichi, fearing that Nagatomo Shuichi, a technical nerd, would say something inappropriate. Nagatomo Shuichi raised his head and was about to answer, but when he saw the mysterious expression on Takamura Takehiko's face, he felt in his heart
After understanding something, he said cautiously: "Well, I think there is something unique in the manufacturing of this rake blade."
Is it just unique? Qin Hai listened to their conversation and sneered in his heart. Takamura Takehiko and Nagatomo Shuichi thought that their cover-up could deceive these Chinese people, but they did not know that Qin Hai was a person with experience in later generations. For Ku
He is very familiar with Serra's technical level and its development in the next 20 years. With this prior knowledge, and looking at the performance of Takehiko Takamura and Osamu Nagatomo, can Qin Hai still guess their intentions?
Kusela Company is not an agricultural machinery company, and it can even be said that it has never been involved in the agricultural machinery industry. The appearance of Takehiko Takamura and Osamu Nagatomo at this venue obviously cannot be explained by getting lost. They must have come here on a special trip.
This behavior shows that Kusela is very interested in the ceramic rake blades launched by Brother Ceramics Factory. The reserve shown by Takehiko Takamura and Shuichi Nagatomo is just a disguise.
Kucera can be regarded as the first company in the world to research ceramic knives, but it was not until the mid-to-late 1990s that it partially solved the problem of sharpening ceramic knives and produced the first batch of commercial ceramic kitchen knives, table knives, etc.
Etc. As for comprehensively breaking through technical barriers and significantly reducing the cost and price of ceramic knives so that they can enter the homes of ordinary people, that is already a matter of the new century.
Brother Ceramics Factory was able to produce edged ceramic knives in 1987. This news had a very strong impact on Kusela Company. From the perspective of the company's senior management, this situation can be regarded as both a challenge and an opportunity. It all depends on
How the company responds.
If we can cooperate with the Chinese and obtain the technology for manufacturing ultra-thin and high-strength ceramics from the Chinese, then Kucera can open up a very broad market. On the contrary, if the two parties cannot cooperate, the Chinese will seize the market for ceramic tools.
It will be very difficult for Kucera Company to enter this market. You must know that the Chinese have already produced practical ceramic products, but Kucera Company has not yet found the way.
With this idea in mind, the company's board of directors decided to send two people, Takehiko Takamura and Osamu Nagatomo, to fly over from Japan to find out the truth about the Chinese. These two were not ordinary salesmen and technicians. They were very high-ranking people in the company.
The two senior staff came with the authorization of the board of directors.
"We would like to know how you solved the problem of insufficient strength of the rake blade. As far as I know, except for our Kusela company, no other company can produce such thin and sufficiently strong ceramic products.
." Takamura Takehiko asked in a calm tone.
"Oh, can you produce such a product?" Qin Hai pretended to know nothing and asked curiously.
"Uh... We have produced such a product in the laboratory and are currently applying it industrially." Nagatomo Shuichi said. When he said this, his face turned a little red, because he was indeed not a liar.
people.
Qin Hai is very clear about the current technical status of Kusela Company. He knows that the situation mentioned by Nagatomo Shuichi should occur five years later. At this point in time, Kusela Company is indeed studying this issue, but it is still in the process of research.
The stage where you are confused and can’t find a way out.
Since the Japanese didn't want to tell the truth, Qin Hai was not interested in exposing it. He smiled and said: "It's amazing to be able to solve this problem in the laboratory. Our ideas are probably the same as yours, but we
The pace of industrialization is just a little faster than yours."
"Our method is to add colloid to the ceramic powder for sintering. I guess you are the same way, right?" Osamu Nagatomo began to probe Qin Hai's technology.
"Well, this should be a common idea." Qin Hai responded. He knew which question was the key to technology. For those unimportant questions, Qin Hai would answer them as soon as Nagatomo Shuu wanted to ask them.
This problem has also been discussed in many academic journals, and the more concentrated solution is to add colloids, so this problem of Shuichi Nagatomo is of little value.
"So, how do you solve the problem of cavities after sintering of colloid materials?" Nagatomo Shuichi asked again.
"Hollow? What hollow?" Qin Hai asked pretending to be surprised.
"Don't you have any holes after sintering?" Nagatomo Shuichi was surrounded by Qin Hai.
Qin Haidao: "No, we have never known any holes."
"Then... what glue are you using?" Nagatomo Shuichi asked.
"Well...hehe, I don't know either." Qin Hai chuckled, but the expression on his face clearly said: 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 Nagatomo Shuichi's words. He had realized that Qin Hai was not a brainless guy. Asking like Nagatomo Shuichi,
I can't tell you anything.
Qin Haidao: "We are very willing to cooperate with any company in the world, but can I ask first how Kusela Company wants to cooperate with us?"
"We have strong technical strength and abundant funds. We can provide part of the 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 good." Qin Hai said, "So, what do you hope to gain from this cooperation?"
"We want to share these technologies with your company. You can apply it to the production of agricultural machinery, and 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 this."
Having said this, he made a gesture to Liu Shuo, who opened a packing box knowingly, took out a few things from it, and put them on the exhibition stand. Takehiko Takamura and Osamu Nagatomo didn't understand what Qin Hai meant at first, but when they waited
When they saw what Liu Shuo took out, their eyes suddenly went straight:
This is a complete set of ceramic knives!
Kucera has been interested in developing ceramic knives for several years. Within the company, the conceptual design of ceramic knives has been completed, but the manufacturing process has not been able to break through, so the ceramic knives products were not interviewed. After seeing Liu
The moment Shuo took out the ceramic knives, Takehiko Takamura and Shuichi Nagatomo both had the illusion that the concept products in the company documents had popped up on their own. Because the set of knives in front of them was almost the same as what Kusela Company was striving for.
The products are exactly the same.
"This...is this produced by you?" Takehiko Takamura asked Qin Hai.
"Exactly, please give me some advice." Qin Hai said with a smile.
"It turns out... you also plan to produce ceramic knives." Takehiko Takamura muttered.
Before they set off, the news that Kucera Company heard was that the Chinese had created a ceramic rake blade. The executives were very lucky and felt that the Chinese had never thought of using ceramics to make daily knives. This was for Kucera Company.
This leaves a very good opportunity.
The plan of Takehiko Takamura and Shuichi Nagatomo's trip was to find a way to cheat the Chinese on ceramic sharpening technology, or to spend a little money to buy this technology. In their view, the Chinese did not realize that
The market value of ceramic knives cannot be determined, so the value of this technology cannot be judged.
Seeing the ceramic knife Liu Shuo took out, Takehiko Takamura knew that his wishful thinking had failed. The Chinese people in front of him were not stupid at all. It can even be guessed that they had no intention of using the technology when they first developed it.
It is used in agricultural machinery production, but directly targets the market of ceramic knives. As for this ceramic disc rake blade, it is just an advertisement for ceramic knives made by the Chinese.
It must be said that Takehiko Takamura's guess is highly consistent with the actual situation.
Now that the Chinese have thought about the ceramic knife market, there is no possibility of cheating the other party's technology at a low price. Takehiko Takamura and Osamu Nagatomo looked at each other, and then said to Qin Hai: "Mr. Qin, look
What a coincidence. Our company is also preparing to produce ceramic knives. Are you interested in cooperating with us in this regard?"