Vol 2 Chapter 484: This time is really different

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Hearing Miyagawa's words, Nagatomo Nakamura didn't have any easy looks, he bowed slightly to Miyagawa and said, "Mr. Miyagawa, this time is really different. I think we have to use our inventory It is also necessary to increase reserves in large quantities while the price is low. "
"Cheap prices?" Miyagawa shouted. "Chang Youjun, didn't you just say that the price has tripled?"
"Yes, it has tripled. But according to discussions with some market analysts, they believe that the price of heavy rare earths is likely to increase further in the future, and it is more than 10 times the current level. It is not Impossible. "Nagatomo Yongjiu said.
"Why?" Miyagawa was incomprehensible. In fact, he is not a bureaucrat. He has always been very concerned about the operating conditions of the enterprise and the external environment. However, things about rare earth have changed too quickly, and he can't keep up.
Chang Youyong said: "This reason is very complicated, but there is a simple fact, as soon as I say it, you will understand. This time it is China Daqin Group that is responsible for remediation of heavy rare earths in southern China. The Chinese government has The right to operate was taken back from the three major foreign trade companies and was fully granted to Daqin Group. "
"Da Qin Group!" Hirano Masao, the technical director, almost jumped up. "Do you mean the Da Qin Group whose chairman is Qin Hai?"
"Exactly, our purchasing staff in Yunjiang Province, China, saw Qin Hai take the soldiers to the mine for seizure." Nagato Yong Yong said in a calm tone, he believed that Hirano Masao could understand the mystery of this .
"Oh!" Hirano Masao took a sigh of relief. He turned his head to Masao Miyagawa, and said, "Mr. Miyagawa, I now understand why Qin Hai should exchange our NdFeB patents with our ferroalloy patents. . "
At first, Qin Hai sent a sample of samarium ferroalloy to Hirano Masao in Beijing. Hirano Masao immediately rushed back to Japan to conduct a comprehensive physical and chemical test on the samples. The test results show that, first of all, the composition of this alloy does contain a large amount of praseodymium and praseodymium. The content of elements such as neodymium and praseodymium is much lower than that of neodymium-iron-boron and samarium-cobalt alloys. Magnetic material, not an upgraded version of traditional materials. Secondly, the important indicators such as residual magnetic induction strength, coercive force, maximum magnetic energy product, and Curie temperature of samarium ferroalloy are better than neodymium iron boron, which is obviously a very promising material.
As for the prices of praseodymium and praseodymium used in samarium ferroalloys are higher than those of neodymium, this problem does not cause much trouble to Hirano Hirano, because the cost of praseodymium and praseodymium in raw materials is affordable compared to the price of finished magnetic materials. This is below the current rare earth price level.
Based on this understanding, Chunshan Company quickly reached a patent swap agreement with Daqin Group, using NdFeB patents to exchange each other's ferroalloy patents. Patent exchange means that the two parties can separately produce each other's patents, and can carry out further development based on each other's patents. In the view of Chunshan Company, the advent of dysprosium alloy will greatly reduce the market value of neodymium iron boron. It is very cost-effective to exchange a backward patent for a promising patent.
But Chunshan guessed the beginning, but didn't guess the end. Just before the ink on the patent swap agreement was dry, Daqin Group actually obtained the exclusive right to operate rare earth from the Chinese government, and on the grounds of rectification, it restricted the export of heavy rare earths, including thorium and thorium, and increased the price of heavy rare earths. Keep climbing.
If this situation continues, even though Chunshan Company holds the patent of the ferroalloy, but can't get 镝 and 铽, what tricks can it play? In addition, if the prices of praseodymium and praseodymium really increase by 10 times, compared with neodymium-iron-boron, samarium-iron alloys have no cost-effectiveness at all. Downstream manufacturers also need to consider the cost when choosing permanent magnet materials. Who can afford such an expensive thing?
Changing to another person and a company to rectify the rare earth, Chunshan Company can believe that this is only a temporary action and will not last. But it was learned that it was Daqin Company, and Qin Hai, with the honor of a chairman, went barefoot to seal the mine in person. If there was no conspiracy, no one believed it. Hirano Sadao can bet his head, believing that the cause of Qin Hai's remediation of heavy rare earths in southern China is the ferroalloy.
"Qin Hai is too credulous!" Hirano snarled angrily, "He clearly dug a trap for us to jump in, using a promising ferro alloy patent to deceive our neodymium Fe-B patent. "
"The ferroalloy is not promising. It just has no future for us. In Qin Hai's hands, it is very promising. He monopolized the production of plutonium and plutonium, which means that he is the only one in the world. It can provide sufficient and cheap hafnium alloy material. "Miyagawa said frowning.
"In this way, our NdFeB material will also be suppressed. He can lower the price of dysprosium alloys and make NdFeB marketless. We can't get dysprosium and dysprosium, and we can't compete with him at all. Saburo Okazaki, director of sales, annoyed. In the same way, Chunshan Company has used it countless times for others, and no one expected that this time it was actually counted by others.
"Can we get hafnium oxide and hafnium oxide from Turkey?" Miyagawa asked Nagatomo Nagisa.
Nagatomo shook his head helplessly and said, "It's impossible, both yttrium ore in Turkey has been closed. It takes at least a year to resume production, and relying only on the orders of thorium oxide and thorium oxide, they cannot keep them profitable , So they will not be willing to recover. "
"Damn Chinese!" Okazaki Saburo scolded fiercely.
Nagatomo Yongjiu looked at Masao Miyakawa and swallowed back to his mouth. There are some things you ca n’t take to regret medicine. Until now, it ’s just a waste of words to say more.
In fact, the two xenotimes in Turkey could not have been closed. When the international rare earth prices plummeted, they called Chunshan and other rare earth users, hoping that these companies could help raise the price of rare earths so that they could stop their losses. Their reason at that time was that the whole world could not rely on the Chinese family alone to provide rare earths, which was extremely detrimental to the stability of the rare earth market.
However, as a buyer, where does Chunshan Company accept such advice? They have even taken some measures to induce China's rare earth prices to fall further. As a result, the two Turkish yttrium ore suffered huge losses, and finally they could only declare bankruptcy. Because the international rare earth price was too low, no one was willing to take over, so the two mines were abandoned.
The main products of these two mines in Turkey are rare earth yttrium and lanthanum and cerium. At the same time, they can produce a small amount of thorium and thorium, but only exist as a by-product.
There are a total of 17 rare earth elements. These 17 elements are given a unified title because they belong to the same family on the periodic table of elements and can be associated in mineralization. Most rare earth ore can produce a variety of rare earths, but the proportion of each rare earth is different. Light rare earth ore can also produce heavy rare earth, but its content is less than that of heavy rare earth ore, so it is impossible to specialize in the production of heavy rare earth. It can only be based on light rare earth, and heavy rare earth exists as a by-product.
Qin Hai's insidiousness lies in the fact that he kept the prices of light rare earths at a low level, and run the rare earth mines in other countries whose main business is light rare earths into bankruptcy and bankruptcy. As a result, the supply of heavy rare earths on the market has also been interrupted, and only the ion-absorbing heavy rare earth ore unique to southern China can be expected to provide products.
At present, due to the manipulation of the Qin Hai, the prices of heavy rare earths such as thorium oxide and thorium oxide have indeed risen. However, it is still impossible to restore the production of rare earth ore in Turkey, Brazil, the United States and other places. A huge mine cannot be reopened to produce some by-products, right? If these mines didn't close, they would still be in production now. However, it would be too costly to resume production at a closed mine. The most terrible thing is, in case you spend a lot of costs here to resume production, and the Chinese people have lowered the price of heavy rare earths again, who do you want to justify?
For 50 US dollars or even 500 US dollars for one kilogram of plutonium oxide, it is a heavy burden for Chunshan Company, but for a mine that is dominated by light rare earth, it is a small business that is not worth doing. This is where Chunshan's embarrassment lies.
Miyagawa is also thinking about these issues. He did not believe that the Chinese government could completely control the rare earths ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Especially when China urgently needs a lot of foreign exchange, it is impossible to restrict the export of rare earths. Unexpectedly, I don't know where a character like Qin Hai came from. He has enough capital to integrate rare earth resources, and at the same time has core technology to enable deep processing of rare earths. In this way, he can turn the export of rare earth raw materials into the export of rare earth deep-processing products, which relieves the pressure of export earning foreign exchange.
In the face of such an opponent, Chunshan Company can no longer be lucky. To maintain its own presence in the field of ferroalloys, it must be, as Changyou Yongzheng said, while the price has not risen to the top, it hastened to increase Larger rather than reducing reserves, we will have to count on this inventory to grab the permanent magnetic material market with Qin Hai.
"Hirano-kun, to what extent has your research on samarium ferroalloys progressed? Do you estimate how much hafnium oxide and hafnium oxide will be consumed by the company in the next few years?" Miyagawa asked Masao Hirano.
"We have developed three new samarium-iron alloy technologies based on Chinese patents, and their performance far exceeds Nd-Fe-B. It is entirely promising to be used in disk drives, automotive motors, etc. According to our It is estimated that within the next three years, our company will need at least 600 tons of hafnium oxide and 100 tons of hafnium oxide to produce hafnium ferroalloy. "Hirano Masao replied earnestly. r1152
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