Vol 2 Chapter 580: Qin Hai is the most shameless businessman

"No, the news must be reported to the president immediately!"
Sadao Hirano woke up and returned to the conference hall with a magazine. Motohisa Nakagawa looked at Hirano's back, shook his head gently, and said to himself, "Go and report this to the president at this time, hey ..."
The people in the venue were still laughing indulgently, they were together in twos and threes, talked about the sales prospects of new permanent magnet materials, and laughed at the Chinese who gave them a cash cow. When Hiroo Hirano walked up to Miyagawa, Miyagawa was discussing with Okazaki Saburo about holding a new product launch.
"Hirano Jun, you came just right, we are discussing how to publicize the superiority of the ferroalloy material more fully, what do you think about this?" Miyagawa said to Hirano Masao who came by, he didn't pay attention To Hirano Masao's face was a bit stiff, maybe because the Japanese often have a dead face, so it is easy to see no change.
"President, there are things I want to talk to you alone," Hirano Masao whispered.
"What? Is something going on in the laboratory?" Miyagawa remembered that Hirano was just called out by a passer now, and now listening to his voice was a little muffled. It seemed that something had gone wrong.
"No, I think ... uh, forget it, sooner or later, I will inform Director Okazaki about this, and I'll just say it together." Hirano Masao said, lowering his head.
Miyagawa converged with a smile, and said, "Hirano Jun, if you have anything to say, if you encounter any difficulties, the company will help you solve it."
"It's not my difficulty, it's the company ..." Hirano Masao said. He handed the magazine in front of the two of them and said, "President, Director Okazaki, look at this article."
"Articles?" Masao Miyakawa and Saburo Okazaki are a little bit strange, looking at academic journals. Always missed them. Seeing this like Hirano, both men moved their heads forward and half-understanded the English words above: "Permanent magnet ... preparation ... cerium-based, um, cerium-based?"
Heiano Masao's reaction was the same. Both Miyagawa and Saburo Okazaki froze when they heard the word "cerium-based". As a company specializing in rare earth materials. Executives are still very familiar with rare earth elements. Seeing the word "cerium" linked to the word "permanent magnet material", they suddenly thought of many terrible things.
"The Chinese ... Let's just talk about it. It is the Daqin Group, which mastered the preparation method of permanent magnet materials with cerium as the main component and announced it to the world." Hirano Masao said with a bitter expression.
"Daqin Group?" Okazaki Saburo just felt his heart beating fast. He pointed to that article and asked Hirano Masao: "What do they say about the performance of this cerium-based material? Can it be compared with NdFeB?"
Hirano Sadao said: "According to their introduction in this article, the magnetic energy product of this cerium-based permanent magnetic material is higher than neodymium-iron-boron, which is only about 10% lower than the rhenium alloy we just put into production. The temperature can reach above 500 degrees Celsius, which is close to the level of samarium ferroalloy. In other words, it can be used as a substitute for samarium ferroalloy. "
"Will the data be wrong? What if the Chinese just want to bluff?" Miyagawa asked.
Hirano Masao shook his head and said, "This possibility is not high. After all, this is the world's top academic journal. Sun Yuzhi is a rigorous scientist. It is impossible for him to fake in such articles."
"So ..." Okazaki Saburo was dumbfounded. Of course, he also knows the price difference between cerium and europium and europium. If the performance of two permanent magnetic materials is equivalent, the cost of one of them is equivalent to one hundredth of the other. So a fool can imagine what the fate of another material will be.
The most terrible thing is that in the warehouse of Chunshan Company, there are also hundreds of tons of high-priced hafnium oxide and hafnium oxide. Once the hafnium iron alloy proves to be a worthless material, all these hafnium oxide and hafnium oxide are all It turned into a pile of waste soil.
"Baga!" Miyagawa slammed the table. Eyes stared like bronze bells. A room full of laughing executives almost fell over by this throat, and everyone closed their mouths subconsciously. Turning his head to look at Masao Miyagawa.
"Hirano Jun, why did you and your team not realize the existence of cerium-based materials! Why the Chinese have been able to discover new rare earth permanent magnet materials again and again! The research funding the company has given you. Where did you spend it! "Miyagawa reprimanded Hirano Masao in a desperate manner.
"Cerium-based materials, what do you mean?"
"Chinese? Could it be that the Chinese have discovered new rare earth materials?"
"Cerium ... how is this possible, such cheap raw materials ..."
The executives heard a lot of off-string voices from Miyagawa's words. They pondered carefully and felt a cool air coming from their backs. Those who have been immersed in this industry for many years, how can they not understand the industry, if there is really a rare earth permanent magnet material using cerium as a raw material, and its performance is not significantly different compared to rhenium alloy , Then the ferroalloy is finished. After all, this market is about price.
"President Miyagawa, I lived up to your expectations, and I asked the company to give me the harshest punishment." Hirano Masao bent deeply, not saying a single word of excuse, and took all responsibility on himself. .
In fact, Hirano Sadao has something to say. In the past two years, all the energy of the company's research department has been devoted to the ferroalloy. This is not what Hirano Masao has meant, but Miyagawa's own order. Inspired by samarium ferroalloy, Hirano Masao has indeed moved on the idea of ​​using other rare earth elements, especially light rare earth elements, to develop new permanent magnetic materials. Even the several preparation methods mentioned in Sun Yuzhi's article are also Hirano Masao Ever thought of it. If it weren't for Miyagawa's intent to develop hafnium-iron alloys, maybe he would really be ahead of Sun Yuzhi and develop a cerium-based permanent magnet material.
But what's the point of saying Zhuge Liang afterwards? The company is technically put together, facing extremely serious losses. As the technical director, he has to bear the main responsibility anyway. Rather than jumping out and trying to justify in vain, let Miyagawa spit out all his anger, and then talk about it.
After all, Miyagawa is also the president of a large company, and still has some culture. He was just out of control for a while because he heard such bad news. After venting two sentences, reason finally returned to him. He took a long breath and bowed to Hirano Masao, saying, "Sorry, Hirano, I shouldn't be angry at you, I apologize to you."
"No, President, it was indeed my fault. You reprimanded it right." Hirano Masao responded.
"Let's all sit down." Miyagawa made a seat gesture to the crowd, and first sat down. Everyone no longer looked as excited as before, one by one with a dingy expression, returned to the seat, looked down at the table in front of his eyes, and seemed to want to carve some patterns on the table with his eyes.
"Hirano Jun, did the article say when did the Chinese develop this new material?" Miyagawa asked.
Hirano Masao said: "The article did not clearly state when they developed this material, but from the data they published and the preparation method introduced, they have mastered the technology at least a year ago. It just hasn't been made public. "
"A year ago?" Miyagawa was thinking about it in her head, and then sneered: "Yeah, at that time we were still asking the Chinese to sell us thorium oxide and thorium oxide at a high price, if they released at that time This article, then we will not import so much puppets and puppets. "
"They did it on purpose!" Yoshitomo, the long-time responsible for raw material procurement, exclaimed, "They want to use this method to induce us to purchase their raw materials at a high price."
"However, this trap was drilled by us." Miyagawa Masao, "They controlled the export volume of thorium oxide and thorium oxide, and threatened not to export to us. We asked them to increase exports. In order to do this We also helped them obtain seller credit in Japan. They used these funds to purchase Japanese steel and earned high prices in the Chinese market. "
"This Qin Hai is the most shameless businessman I have ever seen!" Commented Changyou Yongzhang ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Thinking of the scene when he met with Qin Hai, he remembered Qin Hai's unpredictable smile, Changyou There is an impulse to want to run away: "He is a very good actor. He obviously wants us to enter his trap, but he is very detached and has always refused to sell these materials to us. As a result, we ..." "
He wanted to say that he had been tricked by Qin Hai, but how could such words be spoken out in front of everyone. He paused for a while, and finally ended his speech with a long sigh.
"I don't think we are going to discuss how shameless our opponents are now, but we have to think about how we respond." Okazaki Saburo first returned to the topic. "If the cerium-based permanent magnet material comes out, it will inevitably seriously impact us Market. Not only will the new erbium ferroalloy market face collapse, but even the traditional neodymium-iron-boron market cannot be maintained. Therefore, we must now find ways to delay the promotion and application of cerium-based permanent magnet materials. During this time, , Developed our own patent for cerium-based materials. "
"Mr. Okazaki is right." Miyagawa nodded heavily. "Obviously, we are accounted for by the Chinese. It is meaningless to hold anyone accountable now. The key is how to deal with this challenge. Okazaki Jun's proposal is very reasonable. We will work with other manufacturers to resist cerium-based permanent magnet materials until we develop similar patents ourselves. "(To be continued)