Chapter 1944 The war of steam engine manufacturers
This company has the largest steam engine market share in the empire. The steam engines they produce have no other features but they are cheap!
For an industrial steam engine of the same power, their quotation can be more than 10% cheaper than that of Zhaoqing Machinery Company!
Although the performance of the steam engines from Tianjin AIA Company is a bit poor, they are still cheap!
Many times cheapness is the last word!
Ranked second is Zhaoqing Machinery Company. Their steam engine products are famous for their reliable performance, low maintenance costs, and high thermal efficiency. However, the purchase price is a bit expensive.
Their steam engines are not cheap, but they rarely break down, and the coal consumption is lower, and the cost of use is actually lower. Therefore, their steam engine products are often widely used in mid-to-high-end products that require high reliability and cost of use.
industrial market and shipbuilding market.
Over the years, they have occupied at least 50% of the industrial steam engine market.
But the most famous one should be the Naval Steam Engine Factory.
This company has the prefix of Navy, but has already carried out shareholding reform. It is currently jointly held by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, the Royal Assets Section, Zhili Bank, Third Securities Company and many other institutions. They are not related to Zhaoqing Machinery Company or Tianjin AIA
Like the company, they have many other businesses, and steam engines are just one of their businesses.
The Naval Steam Engine Factory only builds steam engines!
The steam engines they manufacture have always been top-notch, and they almost monopolize 90% of the high-power steam engine market. If it is the high-power ship-based steam engine market!
They even have a monopoly on all shipboard steam engines for ships of 10,000 tons.
Now, all ships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons that are in service, under construction or even under design, regardless of warships or civilian ships, use shipboard steam engines that are products of the Naval Steam Engine Factory.
All steam units in the Navy's battleships and armored cruisers are products of this factory.
The most famous New Pacific series luxury passenger ships among civilian ships also use their power units.
As for the 30,000-ton ultra-luxury liner Nova that caused a sensation some time ago, Fung Shipping Company finalized the power unit from the Naval Steam Engine Factory before designing the hull. Even the hull design was based on the power unit.
From all of this, we can see the monopoly position of the Naval Steam Engine Factory in the field of high-end shipboard steam engines.
Among more than ten steam engine manufacturers, the Naval Steam Engine Factory supplies the smallest number of steam units to the outside world every year, but their sales volume ranks third, second only to Zhaoqing Machinery Company and Tianjin AIA Company.
Because every time they sell a ship-based steam unit, the sales revenue they receive starts from 100,000 Tangyuan, or even hundreds of thousands of Tangyuan.
So far, the most expensive steam unit in the history of Datang should belong to the New Star steam unit. It is expected to cost Feng Shipping Company 700,000 Tang Yuan, and this is only the purchase cost, not including subsequent transportation and installation.
, what about debugging and other expenses?
A steam unit costs 700,000 Tangyuan!
They can sell a few sets of steam units at will, and that's millions of dollars in revenue.
This number is enough to make many steam manufacturers envy and hate them. Many steam engine manufacturers are trying their best to enter the field of high-end steam engines.
Among them, Zhaoqing Machinery Company, the most ambitious, spent a lot of money to develop giant steam engines, and last year, in the autumn of the 37th year of Xuan Ping's reign, bid for a power system order for a new armored cruiser.
However, he failed miserably!
This also caused a stir. Zhaoqing Machinery Company said that this time the bidding was suspected of being a secret operation, which made the Navy somewhat speechless.
It even directly affects the Navy's power procurement plan this year.
On the one hand, they want to prevent the outside world from gossiping. They cannot use all the steam engines of the large battleships from the Naval Steam Engine Factory. They have to appropriately distribute some orders to other manufacturers to prevent other manufacturers from not getting the cake and causing trouble.
On the other hand, it was also to cultivate more spare tires. In the huge Tang Empire, there was only one naval steam engine factory that could provide power systems for armored cruisers and battleships. This was abnormal.
Even for battleships, there are at least three shipyards in the Tang Empire that can build them. There are at least two steel companies that supply armor steel. Even for 300mm breech-loaded rifled guns, the empire has at least three artillery manufacturers.
It can be supplied, it’s just a matter of performance.
But now, the Naval Steam Engine Factory dominates the field of giant steam engines, which is not in the interests of the Navy.
However, even if the Navy wants to implement a balancing policy, it will never give up too much share to other manufacturers. It is very simple. It is still a matter of strength!
In the past, the navy chose products from the Naval Steam Engine Factory for only one reason: their products were the best.
Therefore, even for the sake of balance, the Navy will only allocate a small share of military shipboard steam engines at most, but it will definitely not be too much.
Zhaoqing Machinery Company is quite dissatisfied with this, but there is nothing we can do!
They have been trying to break into the field of giant ship-based steam engines for a year or two, but they have never succeeded.
For now, they can only save the country by playing tricks and compete for markets in other fields.
After all, the warship market seems to be large in terms of volume, but its quantity is very small. It takes a few years for the Navy to commission a battleship, and it takes about two years for an armored cruiser to be commissioned. Even for cruisers, there are only a few ships a year.
This means that there are actually very few power system orders for large warships.
The navy's steam engines couldn't get many orders, let alone those from Zhaoqing Machinery Company.
Therefore, Zhaoqing Machinery Company began to shift its direction and aimed at the civilian market.
In the past, they only supplied power systems for small and medium-sized civilian ships, but now, their goal is to develop large-scale civilian ships, which are ships exceeding 10,000 tons, which has been booming in recent years.
In particular, the emerging market of oil tankers attracted their attention.
In Shanghai, senior executives from Zhaoqing Machinery Company are negotiating with senior executives from Nanyang Petroleum Company.
The business that allows the top executives of the two companies to hold talks is naturally not a small business, but is related to Nanyang Petroleum Company's shipbuilding plan in the next few years.
"According to our shipbuilding plan, our company will build at least ten oil tankers over 10,000 tons in the next three years, and ten oil tankers over 10,000 tons in three years. You know better than us what this means!"
"If we throw out this plan today, more than ten steam engine manufacturers from all over the empire will come to our door immediately and show their utmost sincerity!"