While Sun Zhenjiang and others were busy hoarding steel, Qin Hai was receiving guests from Japan's Spring Mountain Magnetic Materials Co., Ltd. at the Daqin Group office in the capital. There were two people who came to visit Qin Hai. One was the technical director of Spring Mountain.
Hirano Sadao, the other is Procurement Minister Nagatomo Nagaji.+
"Chairman Qin, I'm very happy that we meet again." As soon as Hirano Sadao saw Qin Hai, he bowed deeply and said with a smile. In his heart, he felt very different about Qin Hai.
Zachen, he thanked Qin Hai
He transferred the technology of dysprosium-terbium ferroalloy to Chunshan Club, and hated Qin Hai for monopolizing the supply of rare earths, forcing Chunshan Club to purchase dysprosium oxide and terbium oxide at high prices. Without this matter, Chunshan Club would not be as passive as it is now.
Qin Hai knew what Sadao Hirano was thinking, and he responded with a smile: "Mr. Hirano, welcome to visit China again. I hope the cooperation between our two companies can be deeper and more extensive."
"This is also the wish of our President Miyagawa." Hirano Sadao said, and then he introduced Nagatomo Nagaji, who was traveling with him, to Qin Hai. The two shook hands and greeted each other, needless to say.
After the greetings, the guests and the host sat down respectively. Qin Hai said to the two Japanese people knowingly: "Mr. Hirano and Mr. Nagatomo came to China this time, what are you doing for them? If it is something that our Daqin Group can help with, I will give you tens of millions of dollars."
You're welcome, we are partners and everything is easy to discuss."
Hirano Sadao looked at Nagatomo Nagaji, who coughed lightly and said: "Chairman Qin, when we come to China this time, we do have some things that we want to trouble your company. I wonder if Chairman Qin can help us."
Provide convenience.”
"Oh? What is it? Mr. Nagatomo, just say it." Qin Hai said cheerfully.
"The thing we want to trouble your company is about dysprosium oxide and terbium oxide..." Nagatomo Nagaji said here. He deliberately paused and waited for Qin Hai to speak.
Qin Hai was too lazy to speak for the other party. He pretended to be confused and said: "Dysprosium oxide and terbium oxide, these two products are rare earth oxides. Is there any problem?"
"Uh... what we mean is that we hope your company can increase the market supply of these two products." Nagatomo Nagaji could no longer be reserved. The cards were in the opponent's hand. Don't worry, he had some ideas.
Neither.
"I don't quite understand, Xiao Su, do you know what Mr. Changyou is talking about?" Qin Hai continued to play dumb and kicked the ball to Su Yabo, the office director who was accompanying him.
Su Yabo nodded and said: "I probably know something, Mr. Qin. This is the case. Chunshan Club hopes to purchase 200 tons of dysprosium oxide and 50 tons of terbium oxide. It once sent a salesperson to our office to contact us. However,
, we don’t have such a large supply of goods, so we can’t meet their needs. I think Mr. Nagatomo is here for this matter as well.”
"Yes, yes, that's exactly why we came here." Nagatomo Nagaji nodded repeatedly.
"200 tons of dysprosium oxide and 50 tons of terbium oxide... This seems a bit difficult." Qin Hai frowned and said: "The output of rare earths is only so much. The amount you need is too big... Yes
Yeah, what do you need so much dysprosium oxide and terbium oxide for?"
"..."
Hirano Sadao almost didn't spit out a mouthful of blood. I have seen people pretending to be deaf and mute, but I have never seen anyone pretending to be so shameless. The patent for dysprosium terbium ferroalloy is in the hands of Qin Hai, and it was also authorized by Qin Hai to Chunshan
The company uses it. Could Qin Hai not know the purpose of Chunshan Company purchasing dysprosium oxide and terbium oxide?
Spending a lot of money to obtain technology patents, but being unable to produce products because of insufficient supply of raw materials is really a coward. If Qin Hai did not deliberately reduce the shipments of dysprosium oxide and terbium oxide.
In order to curb the production of Spring Mountain Company, even a fool would not believe it.
Knowing this in his heart, Hirano Sadao had to pretend to be polite and could not fall out with Qin Hai. He calmly said: "Chairman Qin, the situation is like this. Our company has exchanged technology patents with your company.
After that, the dysprosium-terbium ferroalloy was further developed and is now
Several products have been researched and are ready to be put into production. The proportion of dysprosium and terbium in dysprosium-terbium ferroalloy is very high, so our company needs to purchase a large amount of dysprosium oxide and terbium oxide in order to maintain a certain production quantity. Our two companies are in a cooperative relationship.
I hope your company will support my company in this regard.”
"Oh, I remembered." Qin Hai patted his head and said as if he suddenly realized: "By the way, dysprosium-terbium-iron alloy, this patent seems to have been developed by our company first, and we exchanged NdFeB with your company
Patent. At present, our main focus is on the production of neodymium iron boron and dysprosium terbium iron alloy. We have not paid special attention to this aspect, so I have somewhat forgotten about this matter."
"Your company has so many businesses that it's normal for Chairman Qin to be unable to remember them." Nagatomo Nagaji said. He knew clearly that the other party was playing tricks on him, but he had to pretend not to notice. This is what it feels like to be controlled by others.
"Director Su just said that you want to purchase 200 tons of dysprosium oxide and 50 tons of terbium oxide, is that true?" Qin Hai asked.
"Exactly." Nagatomo Nagatsuki said.
"This is no problem at all." Qin Hai said happily.
"Really?" Nagatomo Nagaji's eyes lit up. He never expected that Qin Hai would agree to their request so easily. He was still preparing to bargain with Qin Hai.
"No problem." Qin Hai confirmed again. He turned to Su Yabo and said: "Xiao Su, I will leave this matter to you. You and Mr. Changyou sign a contract, guaranteeing to provide Chunshan Company with supplies in the next five years.
For 200 tons of dysprosium oxide and 50 tons of terbium oxide, let the group headquarters determine the price."
"What? Five years!" Nagatomo Nagaji was originally full of joy, but when he heard Qin Hai's last sentence, he almost jumped up in shock. It only took five years to supply 200 tons of dysprosium oxide and 50 tons of terbium oxide, and Chunshan Company would have starved to death.
Yes, what is the difference between this and not supplying?
"What, is there a problem?" Qin Hai entered the state of pretending to be stupid again, looked at Nagatomo Nagaji and asked.
"Yes." Nagatomo Nagatsuki said, "Our company has a very large demand for dysprosium oxide and terbium oxide. This number is the annual demand. If it takes us five years to purchase these raw materials, we will not be able to meet it at all.
The requirements for large-scale production mean that our company will run into serious operating difficulties."
"200 tons of dysprosium oxide per year is not realistic, is it?" Qin Haidao, "The output of dysprosium oxide has never been high. In the past, the annual output...according to my impression, it was more than 100 tons per year. This is more than 100
It is impossible for us to provide all the tons of dysprosium oxide to your company. After all, we still have some domestic demand, and there are also other companies in the world that need dysprosium oxide, and we also have to consider it."
"I know this." Nagatomo Nagatsuki said, "According to what we know, the Chinese government has handed over the mining and management rights of rare earths to your company. Your company should be able to control the production of various rare earth products. I would like to ask for instructions.
Chairman Qin has doubled or even tripled the production of dysprosium oxide and terbium oxide in order to be able to meet the needs of international customers including Spring Mountain Company."
"This is difficult." Qin Hai shook his head, "Daqin Group is only entrusted by the government to temporarily be responsible for the management of rare earths. The development and utilization of rare earths must ultimately be decided by the state, and we cannot make decisions without authorization. What's more,
"To double the production of dysprosium oxide and terbium oxide requires a lot of investment. We need to build more than three rare earth refineries, which will require an investment of at least 200 million yuan."
"...I'm afraid we can't use so much investment, right?" Hirano Sadao couldn't help but interjected, "It's just 200 tons of dysprosium oxide. Why do we need three refining plants? Also, the equipment of the rare earth refining plant is very simple, how can it be used?
To 200 million yuan of funds?”
"Mr. Hirano doesn't know something." Qin Hai patiently explained, "Dyprosium and terbium are associated with other rare earth elements. To increase the production of dysprosium oxide and terbium oxide, we need to increase the production of other rare earth oxides at the same time. In this way
As a result, the overall output has increased. As for the rare earth refinery, the old
The production process is indeed very simple and the investment is not much. However, our National Rare Earth Office has promulgated new production specifications, which requires improving the utilization rate of rare earth resources and reducing pollution. According to this new production specification, the investment is very large.
Yes, RMB 200 million is still a relatively conservative estimate."
"What kind of new standard is it? How can it increase the cost to this level? Chairman Qin, can I take a look at the requirements of this new standard?" Hirano Sadao said. He has always dealt with rare earths and the rare earth extraction process.
He knows some of the technology in this area. Even Japan's most advanced extraction process cannot reach the level where a factory invests tens of millions of yuan. You know, this factory only produces hundreds of tons of dysprosium oxide.
Qin Hai smiled slightly and said: "This new specification is still confidential, so it is inconvenient for me to disclose it to Mr. Hirano. I also ask for Mr. Hirano's forgiveness. Regarding the difficulties in the production of dysprosium oxide, that's it. Please understand."
Hearing what Qin Hai said, Hirano Sadao and Nagatomo Nagaji both understood in their hearts. It was just a production standard, and there was no confidentiality at all. It was clearly an excuse made up by Qin Hai himself. But Qin Hai insisted that there was such a thing
Standards, they really have no way to refute. In fact, in international economic cooperation, things like this are too common. To put it bluntly, they are just looking for an excuse to ask for excessive prices. It is not that Chunshan Company itself has done such things.
"So, Chairman Qin, can you give us some advice on how we can obtain an annual supply of 200 tons of dysprosium oxide and 50 tons of terbium oxide?" Nagatomo Nagatsuki decided not to beat around the bush with Qin Hai anymore. He wanted to use
The simplest way is to know Qin Hai’s base price. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!