Rise of Australia

Chapter 603 Sales of Penicillin

The successful test flight of the Test-1 rocket is certainly good news, but Arthur also has greater expectations for this, which is further research on rockets and missiles.

To this end, Arthur deliberately divided the current rocket research community into two parts.Part of it is led by Tsiolkovsky, who is mainly responsible for the improvement and research and development of rockets. It takes the Tester series rockets as its flagship product and strives to continuously innovate in rocket research and development and create more records.

The other part is led by Herman, who is responsible for transforming existing rockets into missiles for military use, and constantly innovating.

This also means that the research directions of Tsiolkovsky and Herman will be divided into rockets and missiles in the future, one is responsible for the military field, and the other is responsible for the civil field.

Neither of them had any objection to this division.After all, Tsiolkovsky is currently 67 years old, and his main research direction is rocket theory, and he does not have much energy to transform rockets into missiles.

But Herman is different. As a young scientific researcher born in 1894, he is only 30 years old now. He is in the prime of life and has more energy.

Instead of continuing to explore the theoretical aspects of rocket development, it would be better for Herman to focus on researching the transformation of rockets into missiles and subsequent research on missiles.

After all, he is a young man with more energy and more related thoughts, which may create more imagination.

Arthur still has a certain understanding of rockets, and naturally understands the value of the three experts known as aerospace pioneers, Tsiolkovsky, Goddard and Herman.

Leaving missile research to Herman is, at least at this point in time, a more reasonable choice.

Arthur does not expect major breakthroughs in rocket and missile research in a short period of time.But at least before World War II, more improvements were possible.

After all, during World War II, Germany developed a V300 rocket with an attack range of more than 30 kilometers and a maximum flight altitude of nearly 2 kilometers.

Australasia's current research and development progress is much ahead. It seems that it will not be difficult to develop a rocket of the same level as the V2 rocket in advance, right?
In addition to the successful test of the rocket, the pharmaceutical group also decided to sell penicillin as a drug, but kept its manufacturing formula and specific production principles strictly confidential.

After all, historically penicillin was discovered before World War II. During World War II, many countries were able to independently manufacture and produce penicillin.

Rather than holding this technology in your own hands and waiting until it is developed by other countries in the future, it is better to directly produce it as a drug and earn a lot of profits from other countries in advance.

Even if Australasia started selling penicillin drugs now, other countries would not be able to discover and mass-produce penicillin without a few years or ten years.

Coupled with the impact of the Great Depression, large-scale production of penicillin is likely to be delayed until more than ten years.

It is now 1924, more than ten years since the outbreak of World War II.This also means that when World War II actually comes, not many countries may be able to master the production of penicillin. The sale of penicillin alone is enough for Australasia to make a large profit.

The reason why the pharmaceutical group is determined to sell penicillin now is because the current medical methods do not have a good way to treat wound infections.

It also means that penicillin, a drug that has been proven to treat wound infections, is a life-saving medicine for those suffering from wound infections.

Didn't even the former Greek King Alexander die from wound infection and sepsis?
Not to mention that ordinary people in worse conditions, when faced with more serious wound infections, all they can do is wait for death.

At this time, if it is claimed that there is a drug that can completely cure wound infections, the shock and sensation it will bring to those in need will definitely be unparalleled.

Even if there is a time difference, you can definitely use this time difference to make a lot of profits.

At present, the manufacturing cost of a bottle of penicillin drug is about 0.9 Australian dollars, but the external selling price is generally as high as more than 3.5 Australian dollars, and even the price in some areas has exceeded 5 Australian dollars.

This is the domestic price in Australasia.Due to transportation costs and import tariffs, the price of penicillin in foreign countries is as high as more than 10 Australian dollars per bottle, and it is basically in a state of price and no market.

Penicillin was actually put on the market in July 1924. Once it was put on the market, it caused a sensation all over the world and caused a large number of media to rush to investigate and experiment.

They conducted experiments on white mice with infected wounds, and were surprised to find that this drug could indeed treat wound infections. This directly promoted penicillin to the altar and was hailed as the greatest drug of the 20th century.

Fleming and Wright, who invented penicillin, were also awarded baronetries by Arthur in a public statement, and each was awarded a reward of 5000 Australian dollars.

The net profit of a bottle of penicillin in Australasia is about A$3, and the net profit abroad is about A$7.

At present, more than 40 bottles of penicillin have been sold in more than a month since it was launched, with total sales exceeding 350 million Australian dollars and net profit reaching more than 230 million Australian dollars.

You must know that this is just more than one month's sales data, and because people did not believe the propaganda of the pharmaceutical group in the early stage, and the corresponding transportation work was not perfect, the sales situation abroad was not good.Even so, penicillin, which sells for more than 9 Australian dollars abroad, has been welcomed by a large number of European and American people.

The reason given by the pharmaceutical group is that the current production technology is immature, coupled with the high price caused by the limited production quantity of the drug.

Of course, high tariffs and transportation costs are indispensable. This is the reason why the price of foreign penicillin is nearly twice the price of domestic penicillin.

Other reasons are fine, but the limited production quantity alone is enough to worry some wealthy people.

These rich people are not worried about money. What they are more worried about is that the medicines they need will be snatched away by the poor or directly consumed.

Although the current price of penicillin is indeed high, reaching more than $25 in U.S. dollars, this still cannot stop wealthy Americans from snapping up penicillin.

According to sales statistics of pharmaceutical groups in the United States, Americans purchase the vast majority of penicillin, and the United States alone contributes at least 15 bottles of sales to pharmaceutical groups.

This is also because the pharmaceutical group has adopted a hunger marketing strategy in the United States, which has limited U.S. sales to a certain extent.

If purchase restrictions were directly lifted, sales in the United States alone would probably exceed one million bottles in a short period of time.

But hunger marketing also has its benefits.The price of penicillin in the United States is the highest, generally as high as more than 11.5 Australian dollars, far exceeding the European average price of 10.5 Australian dollars.

But Americans have no objection to this expensive drug. They even line up every day to grab it and become very crazy.

According to the estimates of the pharmaceutical group, the sales of penicillin will not be affected at all in a short period of time, and even the sales will only increase.

Penicillin sales in Australasia will be affected only if other countries can quickly discover penicillin in a short period of time and quickly find a way to mass-produce penicillin.

But the problem is that penicillin research in Australasia took more than ten years and involved the efforts of a large number of relevant people.

Especially Alexander Fleming, who was the first person in history to discover penicillin. Under Arthur's guidance, he was even more handy, which was also the reason why he was able to discover penicillin quickly.

Arthur invested a lot of money in research, formed a corresponding R&D team specifically for the discovery of penicillin, and spent a lot of money to build the most advanced biological research laboratory in the world. It still took more than ten years to achieve the mass production of penicillin. Production.

From the discovery of penicillin to the mass production of penicillin in other countries, if they did not receive strong sponsorship from the national government and recruit a considerable number of biological talents, it would take at least ten years to complete this step.

Based on the fact that penicillin brings a net profit of up to 200 million yuan to the pharmaceutical group every month, that means a net profit of at least 2400 million Australian dollars in one year, and a net profit of at least 2.4 million Australian dollars in ten years.

For Arthur, this is far greater than the investment in the pharmaceutical group and biological research laboratory, and the return is far greater than the investment and cost.

More importantly, the next World War II was the biggest opportunity for penicillin sales.Even if there are several companies competing for business, Australasia will still be able to obtain a considerable part of the penicillin orders.

This kind of drug will be an extremely important antibiotic in future generations. It will never have to worry about sales at any time. It is a continuous gold-sucking behemoth.

Moreover, such profit calculations do not take into account the current hunger marketing strategy of pharmaceutical groups.

Judging from the actual production speed of the penicillin manufacturing plant, the sales volume of more than 40 bottles in a month is far behind the production volume. The subsequent sales should be even more, and it is not a problem to even increase several times.

This also means that during this period, the benefits that penicillin brought to the pharmaceutical group were immeasurable.

This is not only financial income, but also an improvement in the country's reputation and scientific research level, as well as its attraction to international biology students.

At this time, the sales of penicillin can also make Australasia's pharmaceutical industry famous around the world, laying the foundation for the sales of other drugs in Australasia.

Perhaps this can also become a brand, and the Australasian Pharmaceutical Group will become a world-famous pharmaceutical manufacturer, and even hope to become one of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers in the world with penicillin.

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