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Chapter 569 Eliminate backward production capacity to foreign countries (Third update, please subscribe)

It's not just a renovation, it needs to be eliminated directly!

Almost no one knows that as early as two years ago, at the prompts of Li Yian, Donghai Iron and Steel Company developed the oxygen top-blown converter steelmaking method. After they conducted further experiments with a 15-ton converter, in March 10 The first converter workshop of Donghai Steel Company was put into production, and then in October of that year, the 50-ton top-blown converter workshop was put into production.

Once put into operation, the advantages of the oxygen top-blown converter are obvious. It takes 10 to 20 hours to make steel in an open-hearth furnace, while it only takes dozens of minutes to make steel in an oxygen top-blown converter. Moreover, the high efficiency of the oxygen top-blown converter enables it to be matched with continuous casting technology. After the continuous casting technology matures, the advantages of open-hearth steelmaking will be further expanded.

Not only that, the production cost of oxygen top-blown converter is low. The oxygen top-blown converter does not need to provide additional heat, while the open-hearth furnace needs to continuously provide heat to maintain the temperature in the furnace during the steelmaking process, so the cost of open-hearth steelmaking is higher.

Faced with the oxygen top-blown converter with high output and low cost, Donghai Steel undoubtedly chose it, so it immediately invested a lot of technical strength, conducted in-depth research on it, and began to upgrade the technology within the steel company.

Oxygen converter production workshops were established one after another, and continuous casting production lines were also developed and used in production.

As a country under construction, Nanyang's demand for steel is staggering. Steel is a necessary raw material for Nanyang's automobiles, electrical appliances, aircraft, ships, skyscrapers, bridges, pipelines and highways. The demand is so huge that Donghai Steel has always been unable to meet it.

Faced with the high output of oxygen converters, Donghai Steel is naturally fully promoting its application to increase crude steel output. This makes Nanyang the first country to adopt oxygen top-blown converter steelmaking technology on a large scale.

In fact, almost at the same time, Europe also started research in this area. However, although the research proved that the superiority of oxygen top-blown converter technology is undisputed, steel companies in Europe and the United States still delayed the adoption process for fifty years. The purpose is to get more depreciation subsidies from the government. This also left those companies with huge obsolete production capacity at this time, laying the groundwork for the crisis in the late 1960s.

"General Manager, it takes time to popularize and promote new technologies. Because we are the first to apply this technology, we can seize the time difference to popularize it and export our eliminated equipment to other countries."

"But the cost advantage cannot be ignored. The smelting cost of steel is so much lower. If all oxygen converters are used, the amount of coke will be reduced a lot in the future. It is only needed in the steelmaking blast furnace, plus the continuous casting machine With its adoption, the company's overall operating costs will also drop a lot..."

"So many open-hearth steel-making furnaces have to be eliminated, which is a bit of a cost disadvantage! We have only used those open-hearth furnaces for a few years!"

The explosive increase in production capacity is a miracle all over the world!
Because of this, oxygen converters were all used in the construction of the Dongning subsidiary invested by Donghai Iron and Steel Company.

As the company's business manager, he has been responsible for the company's sales and has his own views on technology upgrades.

However, Donghai Steel is already at the forefront of the world in this technology. Of course Fukuyama and others knew nothing about this, that is, when Fukuyama and others were visiting the company, in the company's general manager's office, Qiu Yuchi was staring at the technical project document, his brows furrowed.

As a metallurgical expert, Qiu Yuchi certainly knew the advantages of oxygen converters. Otherwise, he would not have built six 50-ton oxygen converters in such a short period of time. Facts have proved that his choice was correct. - The company's annual steel production has directly increased by 300 million tons.

Bai Chengquan said calmly.

"That's why we need to take advantage of the fact that oxygen converter technology has not yet become popular, eliminate all those old-fashioned steel-making open-hearth furnaces and ancillary equipment, and then sell them to places in need!"

After saying this, Qiu Yuchi said again.

Sitting on the chair, Bai Chengquan took out a document and said.

"For now, India's Tata Steel is a very suitable transfer target. With India's independence, they are also carrying out large-scale construction. Tata Corporation has planned an expansion plan for the steel plant. Now they are carrying out construction projects in various countries. Looking at the technical equipment, we can completely eliminate these open-hearth furnaces to them.”

"Tata Steel...will they be willing to buy these backward equipment?" Qiu Yuchi asked.

"After all, the oxygen top-blown converter steelmaking method has been made public in the industry, and they will definitely understand it. If they want to introduce steelmaking equipment, they will definitely be more inclined to introduce advanced equipment. Who will introduce backward equipment? Woolen cloth?"

"General Manager, Tata Steel is a private company. The first thing they value is price - they can introduce oxygen converters, but this involves the cost of patents and oxygen production equipment. The price is far higher than that of open-hearth furnaces. In this case, they are definitely more inclined to purchase an open-hearth furnace. After all, its price is lower, and the technology is more mature and more suitable for India's technical level. Therefore, if our price is right, these backward equipment can still be sold. out."

After looking at the general manager, Bai Chengquan said again.

"General Manager, the low-price output equipment is outdated and has been eliminated by us. Even if the price is lower, we will still make a profit. If we don't sell it this year, then I'm afraid we won't be able to sell it next year."

"Who says it isn't? But can the obsolete equipment really be sold?"

Qiu Yuchi pondered, looking out the window, looking at the smoky factory in the distance. He really didn't believe that Indians could be that stupid.

It's obviously outdated equipment, so how could they buy it?
“Who knows if you don’t try sometimes?”

Bai Chengquan said with a smile.

"In short, manager, you just need to approve the technical transformation of all open-hearth workshops this year. As for me, I will find a way to sell those equipment. Maybe..."

After a pause, Bai Chengquan said.

"We can still sell our own blast furnace equipment. Although part of the blast furnace we provide to Donghai Company is supplied by Demark Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Company, the overall technology is ours. We can sell complete sets of equipment. Go, the profits are also very generous.”

"Ah."

Nodding, Qiu Yuchi stood up and walked to the window, looking at the towering chimneys, blast furnaces and lingering smoke in the distance, and said.

"In the past two years, we have indeed made great progress in the development of metallurgical technology and equipment. It would be very good if we could enter the international market with complete sets of equipment, but that is not important. What is important is that since it is a new technology , we must adopt it without any hesitation.”

Qiu Yuchi turned around from the window, looked at Bai Chengquan and said:
"Manager Bai, go ahead and do it. Regardless of whether the obsolete equipment can be sold or not, the company will make every effort to promote technological upgrading. After all, new technology is profit. Just like our iron-making blast furnace, after a comprehensive transformation, the refining The cost of iron has been reduced by almost 40%! From the perspective of industrial development, it is necessary to seek profits from new technologies, which is also the best way to increase factory profits. Therefore, anything that is conducive to technological progress must be done.”

Then he spoke again.

"Besides, you have been talking about building a country based on technology. This country building on technology means asking for profits from technology. After all, science and technology are the primary productive forces."

Although the new requirement of "building a nation through technology" has just been put forward, as a metallurgical expert, Qiu Yuchi is very clear about the weight of these words. After all, compared with many companies in the past few years, Donghai Steel uses the most new technologies and is also the most profitable. Technology is not just productivity.

Technology is money.

(End of this chapter)