Reborn I want everything

Chapter 68 Can polypropylene be out of stock?are you kidding me

Lu Jinming's company personally went to make masks, and it only took a few words, but in fact, of course, complicated procedures are indispensable——

The most direct problem is the qualification problem. In fact, he found a company with relevant certificates to be affiliated with, and finally passed the packaging quality inspection.

Everyone who understands this point understands that not every company has the qualifications to produce medical devices. Lu Jinming's company originally had the qualifications to produce all raw materials, textiles and even ready-made clothing, shoes and hats.

But once these textiles are classified as medical supplies, such as masks and protective clothing, even if the technical content is not high, they must be specialized enterprises, otherwise they will not comply with the regulations.

Fortunately, there is no need for Gu Zhe to worry about these tedious matters. With Lu Jinming's old-fashioned coordination, there is nothing to repeat in detail.

Lu Jinming thought to himself that as long as the quality is strictly controlled, there will be no actual problems with the product, and all the qualifications listed will also be listed. In an emergency, no one will specifically target him—unless he is really targeted by the enemy and deliberately holds it. Magnifying glass to calculate.

The first batch of masks left the factory on February 2 to complete the quality inspection and procedures, and then sent to Guangdong Province by truck.

In 03, there was no well-developed air logistics, and the trains were inconvenient. There was no route to Guangdong Province via Jiangxi and Fujian, so we had to go around Hubei and Hunan.So I still use a car, not bad for these few days.

The local area is not fully tense at this time, and the response speed is definitely not comparable to what it will be 17 years later. If outsiders make too much of a fight, they will be regarded as having ulterior motives.

The first batch of goods was transited for three or four days on the road to ensure that all distributions were donated to major hospitals on the front line on February 2.The scattered ones in the small local hospitals are brought to the health bureau, and their own staff will take care of them.

When Lu Jinming’s shipment arrived, it was just when other rumors were flying everywhere—from February 2th, non-governmental media was finally allowed to start reporting related news, and instead of asking for silence, they began to advocate and publicize the public to pay attention to hygiene.

As a result, from the next day, the rumors about the special effects of isatidis and white vinegar began to spread wildly. A pack of [-] yuan isatidis was fried to more than [-] yuan, and a bottle of white vinegar with a dozen yuan could sell for [-] to [-] yuan.

In contrast, Mingyuan International's masks are very conscientious, and the part for the hospital is donated, so there is nothing to say.The ones sold directly to retailers are only 4 yuan more——

The main reason was that there were no national standards at that time, and meltblown cloth masks were not included in the guide price. The cost of meltblown cloth in 03 was much higher than that in 17, so it is also reasonable.

Seventeen years later, the benchmark price of meltblown cloth was only 17 yuan per ton (not counting during the skyrocketing period), while the benchmark price of cloth at that time was 5000 tons, a difference of six times.Calculated according to the same ratio, the cost of selling five cents a piece in later generations will be three yuan in equivalent ratio.

Moreover, the amount of melt-blown cloth masks used in 03 will be many times higher than that of later generations. Gu Zhe has also analyzed the technical reasons, because the diameter of the filaments injected by the melt-blown machine at that time was an order of magnitude thicker, and the precision was not enough, and it could not reach 5 microns. The following spinnerets.

This is an easy-to-understand reason: when the silk that makes up the cloth becomes thicker, the cloth of the same area will of course become thicker and heavier.Ordinary medical masks that can be made with more than 1 gram of fabric in later generations cost several grams now.

These are also costs, so five yuan retail in the market is already considered a reasonable small profit but quick turnover.

Of course, the main reason for the high cost of melt-blown cloth is that the machine is too expensive and needs to be recovered for depreciation--melt-blown cloth was a product that appeared in the early 90s, and foreign companies with related patented technologies gradually completed their layout during 91-94.

So in theory, according to the 20-year protection period of the patent, from 2011 to 2014, the melt blown cloth and melt blown machine will be out of warranty one after another, and then there will be a sharp drop, because there is no attached intellectual property rights and they can be legally copied.

At the beginning of the 21st century in China, no one bought melt-blown machines to make melt-blown fabrics, and there were also considerations in this regard. At that time, they did not pay attention to the protection of intellectual property rights, and copycats were popular.

Most people in the industry think that "it's just a kind of fabric anyway, and it's too expensive now so consumers won't pay for it. Don't wear it for 20 years. After 2011, won't you be able to prostitute general-purpose technology without paying money?" .

As for not being able to hold back for 20 years, and not being able to hold back something in the middle, it is not something normal people can expect.

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Under such a big environment, of course, Lu Jinming's conscience-priced masks were snapped up immediately.

On average, the factory pulls a truckload of goods to Guangdong Province every three or four days, and the distributors sell them out as soon as they arrive there.Distributors resold them, and many of them sold at a much higher price than the original price, and Lu Jinming couldn't control it. After all, they were thousands of miles away, and there were not so many people to worry about.

Fortunately, after the first week or two, other genuine manufacturers of medical devices also began to enter the market, so the masks that Lu Jinming needed to produce himself soon accounted for only a small part, at least [-]% of the factory's melt blown masks Cloth is shipped directly to the outside world and processed into masks by others.

There are also corporate customers who use Lu Jinming's channel and find that the goods cannot be picked up and queued up, so they directly ask him to contact the company on Fusang to import directly by air.

Lu Jinming is also very righteous. Anyway, he is in short supply and can't do all the business. With the mentality of accumulating virtue, he also discloses the information of his several Fusang suppliers to his customers.

It is equivalent to allowing one's own customers to bypass oneself and directly contact the home, which is very open in the market.

However, due to the temporary shortage of supply, the need for turnover procedures and other costs, and the fact that the finished fabrics of Fuso are several times more expensive, and there is a rush for time, the domestic market price of meltblown fabrics also experienced a temporary surge.

Selling cloth is not like selling medical equipment directly.Even in later generations, the price of masks cannot be raised casually, and the price of common raw materials such as cloth is also left unattended.

Because it is all enterprise-level customers, it is a 2B business, and there are no end consumers. In business, the highest price wins.

As long as the cost control of cloth buyers is done well and the price of finished products for end consumers is not significantly increased, upstream companies have nothing to do with it.

When the melt blown fabrics of later generations were tense, it rose from 5000 yuan per ton to 17 yuan within two months, and reached more than 40 yuan at the peak half a year later, an increase of [-] to [-] times respectively.

Today's melt blown cloth is not so exaggerated, but in the next two months, it gradually increased from 3 yuan to 15 yuan, as much as you want.

Lu Jinming made a calculation. It turned out that he needed to produce these machines continuously for two and a half years, and he also had to ensure that all the goods were sold out and not slow-moving, so as to recover all the initial investment, and the follow-up would be pure profit.

Now because the shipping price has increased by five times, the payback time for the initial investment in machines can be shortened to four to five months.

Of course, if peers in the industry see that meltblown cloth is so profitable, they will definitely find ways to follow up.

However, the industrial chain transmission of this kind of basic industry is relatively slow. The first thing that hot money will focus on is "directly buying cloth masks".

We have to find out that cloth is so expensive that it is not profitable to buy cloth to produce masks, and we can't find any other quick solution before we think about making cloth.

It will take at least one or two months of transmission, and it will take more than a month to buy the machine, arrive, and debug the production line.

So when the domestic counterparts enter, at least it will be in May of that year, and the second wave of counterparts with a slower response will enter the market, at least in July.

Lu Jinming can do business exclusively between February and May, and he is the only chemical fiber company in China that produces meltblown fabrics.

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The business of meltblown cloth can last for a long time. Gu Zhe originally just pointed out the way to his girlfriend's house in this matter, but later the other party insisted that he also invest in a machine and place a small bet to increase mutual trust, so he followed suit and invested in the machine. Throw it to the Lu family for custody.

Throughout February, domestic tensions over new unknown diseases were temporarily limited to Guangdong Province.

At that time, the response was relatively slow, whether it was in the capital or the East China Sea, I didn't feel much.

Therefore, the new semester of the university must start normally and classes should be held normally.

There were a lot of activities at the beginning of school, and Gu Zhe had to focus on his studies first. He would check in every ten days and a half at most to see how much he earned from the machines he hosted.

The only thing Gu Zhe and the people around him can do is to wear a mask every day when they go out, even in class.Anyway, I have production at home, and the quality is absolutely passable, much better than the gauze masks on the market.

This kind of behavior was definitely not understood at the beginning, and people felt that he was a bit too survivalist. For this reason, the school also asked the counselor to talk to him tactfully, telling him not to "create panic".

When the counselor at the Huanyuan talked to Lu Youyou, he said it more bluntly, implying that she "knows that this is produced by your company, don't use it every day just to promote your product and create a sense of presence. Wear".

Putting this aside, I thought Lu Youyou was acting as an endorsement in an advertisement.

Fortunately, this kind of conversation has no coercive effect. Everyone explained that "we have respiratory allergies recently", so no one stopped it.

During this period of time, Gu Zhe's other scientific research and business projects that he had promoted a few years ago also made new progress.

For Haichang Glasses, the authorized strategic cooperation that was negotiated years ago has finally been finalized in detail. In the end, the other party decided to purchase a four-year patent license, 200 million per year, a total of 800 million.

Years ago, Haichang only paid Gu Zhe 200 million yuan, but now he has added another 200 million yuan, and the remaining 400 million yuan is also required to be paid off before the end of May, which means a three-month payment period——

Gu Zhe also allowed the other party to "exclusively" license it for four years in order to get the money as soon as possible, otherwise he would have to sell it or license it generally.So it’s perfectly fine to talk like this, and the other party understands and accepts it.

In addition, last semester Gu Zhe rented the school's chemistry laboratory, and this semester he will continue to rent it. Even after Gu Zhe became rich, he even rented an extra room.

And I added some equipment myself, similar to the actual production equipment of the contact lens centrifuge I bought last year.In this way, he can direct Kong Chaofan and Wu Danqing to continue working and further optimize the invention of "centrifugal color contact lens material" that he has already applied for.

Anyway, Gu Zhe is proficient in patent law. The claim he submitted when he first applied was very clever, and there were some margins for corrections in the specification.Therefore, you can take advantage of the opportunity of domestic priority "within 12 months after the first application" to make a detailed correction.

Finally, Liu Kai, who had been kept by Gu Zhe before, and the senior seniors from the School of Computer Science that he brought over, were also caught by Gu Zhe recently and asked to write the code for the shopping website urgently.At the same time, a lot of red envelopes and bonuses were also distributed to motivate everyone's morale to sprint to work——

Originally, Gu Zhe couldn't say why he was in a hurry to write a shopping website, but now the reason has surfaced, and he can say it openly, that is, "He predicted that the epidemic would lead to a new wave of e-commerce outbreaks and reduce the physical quality of people. frequency of contact".

After Liu Kai and others knew the meaning of their work, their confusion was swept away, and the efficiency of writing code was naturally improved.

It took Gu Zhe more than half a month to sort out all these complicated things after school started, and he didn't miss his homework.

When the time entered the beginning of March, he finally got some leisure time and asked his girlfriend out to play when he was free.

He was also worried about the spread of unknown diseases and the stricter management in Donghai Province, so he and Lu Youyou planned to look at a house in the provincial capital and near the university.In case the school is closed in the future, it will be easier to live in seclusion outside the school.

On March 3, early Saturday morning, the two had just arrived at the appointed place to meet when Lu Youyou received a call from his father.

On the phone, Lu Jinming talked with her about some of the business difficulties that the family encountered just yesterday, and wanted Lu Youyou and Gu Zhe to work together to help find a solution.

It can be seen that Lu Jinming already trusts his son-in-law very much. Although Gu Zhe's suggestion was just based on luck and made him a lot of money, he believes that Gu Zhe is an all-rounder in all aspects and knows a little bit about everything, so that now he is in trouble. Everything you do will be discussed with the whole family.

At first, Lu Youyou didn't know how troublesome things were, so she asked unhurriedly: "Dad, this weekend, Ah Zhe and I are going to go to see the house. What urgent matter needs to be solved on the weekend? Just call back at night no."

Lu Jinming: "I didn't expect you to solve it, I just wanted to let you know. There was a problem with the supply of polypropylene raw materials in our family. It's my fault. I signed the contract with Chen Jingcheng at the end of January before the New Year's Eve. For long-term underwriting cooperation, more than 1 tons of polypropylene were seized at that time.

It has been sprayed for five weeks now, and it is almost used up, and there are at most a week of raw materials left.I urged the people under Chen Jingcheng once last week, but they said that the orders will be processed and the old customers will be given priority. It is not that they will not deliver the goods.

He also said that our agreement was rushed to sign a few years ago, and the company is relatively large and needs to go through the process. This kind of long-term contract is given priority to old customers who have stable schedules. "

Gu Zhe vaguely heard it on the phone, and quickly took Lu Youyou's mobile phone, but he didn't come out, and said directly: "Uncle, polypropylene is not a rare raw material. Come in."

Lu Jinming: "The truth is this, and I didn't pay much attention to it at first. When they first verbally promised that the process would be completed, I didn't find other more expensive channels.

The key now is that it is easy to run out of time. If you go to other places to negotiate, sign a contract, and get goods, it will not be so fast.The melt blown cloth production line may have to stop for at least a week.

In fact, there are also local sources of goods in Mingzhou now, and the daily emergency inventory of refining and chemical has been bought by another long-term big customer of Chen Jingcheng.I knew what he was going to do, and he also hinted to me that if I was in a hurry, I could add money to buy second-hand goods from his big client, then it was none of his business, free market, free negotiation. "

When Gu Zhe heard this, his heart became clear. This is because Chen Jingcheng saw that his downstream customers were making a lot of money, and it was time to get stuck in raw materials.

Polypropylene is not rare, but it is still rare at a specific time and place, especially when the customer is stabilized and delayed in front of the customer.

It seems that the repercussions of refusing Lu Youyou's marriage with Chen Tao during the winter vacation will be retribution immediately.

(End of this chapter)