Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 213 SKF shows up again and wants to dig a hole for Nanshan

The commissioning of a special steel plant is a relatively important event in any city.

Although Nanshan Special Steel Plant does not have a blast furnace and is not a full-process steel plant, it is the largest enterprise in Shaozhou that went into operation in 2003.

Naturally, leaders at all levels will attend the commissioning ceremony.

And this news quickly spread within the industry.

"Holm, I heard that Nanshan's bearings are planning to switch to bearing steel produced by themselves."

"Their sales and procurement from OEMs such as Modu Volkswagen and Modu GM have already begun to communicate on this matter."

"I think this is a good opportunity, a good opportunity to snipe at Nanshan Bearing."

Xue Wenqiang had previously thought about changing jobs to other companies, or even going to Nanshan to be a sales manager.

However, people don't look down on him at all.

This made Xue Wenqiang's resentment towards Nanshan even more intense.

In the past, there was official hatred, but now there are even personal grievances.

Therefore, he is more active than anyone else in blocking Nanshan.

It seemed that if Nanshan Bearing was not destroyed, he would feel uncomfortable all over.

“When will Nanshan be able to produce its own bearing steel?”

"Didn't they buy it from Baosteel?"

Holm also knows Nanshan relatively well.

No way, Nanshan Bearing not only grabbed their orders in China, but also grabbed a lot of shares in the United States.

Now it has become SKF’s number one enemy in the world.

"Yes, Nanshan's special steel was either purchased from Baosteel or Xingcheng."

"However, the level of special steel produced by any company in China is just that, and there is no way to meet the demand for high-performance auto parts."

"Nanshan should also have adopted special heat treatment and surface treatment processes to alleviate this problem."

“Some high-demand parts even use imported materials purchased from traders.”

"Nanshan is probably aware of this, so he invested in building a special steel plant in Shaozhou, Lingnan Province. It is said that Shaogang helped build it."

"You can imagine what the performance of the special steel produced by this special steel plant will be like."

Xue Wenqiang was very excited.

He felt that he had finally found a breakthrough.

What makes people even happier is that this breakthrough came to Nanshan himself.

"Shaogang?"

"I don't think I've ever heard of it?"

Holm considers himself to be familiar with China, but he has never heard of the name Shaogang in all his years in China.

Nanshan Special Steel was built with the help of Shaogang, and its level should be almost the same as that of Shaogang.

"This is a local steel factory in Lingnan Province. Their bearing steel level cannot be compared with us, let alone with Baosteel and Xingcheng."

"In this case, if they promote material switching, there will definitely be problems with the wear resistance and corrosion resistance of the bearings."

Xue Wenqiang said it with certainty.

His judgment was also based on his assessment of the level of China's special steel industry.

Under normal circumstances, there really isn't much of a problem.

However, no matter what judgment you make, it may not be accurate when you encounter Nanshan.

"You should keep in communication with the procurement of OEMs such as Modu Volkswagen. The best thing is to get samples of Nanshan after switching materials. Let's go test and compare."

"In addition, I will try to find some agents to see if they can buy the bearing steel produced by Nanshan Special Steel Plant. I also asked my colleagues in the technical department to conduct a comparative analysis."

SKF is not only a bearing manufacturer, they are also a special steel manufacturer.

The special steel used in SKF bearings is almost all produced by SKF Special Steel Factory itself.

Therefore, their technical team has a very in-depth understanding of special steel.

"No problem, I'll arrange it now!"

"This time, we must make Nanshan take a big fall!"

"The best thing is to interrupt their pace of expanding the market!"

……

Zheng Dong is a graduate of metallurgical engineering.

Materials majors are originally tiankeng majors for employment.

Metallurgical engineering graduates mainly worked in various steel plants in the past.

But this year’s steel industry…

So even though he was a 985 graduate, he had no choice during the school recruitment last year. He "wronged" and went to a private company called Nanshan Technology Co., Ltd.

In his opinion, this is completely inappropriate professionalism.

Although after signing the "Tripartite Employment Agreement", he got to know it better and knew that Nanshan and Shaogang were cooperating to build a special steel plant.

But he is not optimistic about the prospects of this project.

As a student majoring in metallurgical engineering, he has a relatively good understanding of the domestic steel industry.

Even large steel plants like Baosteel are having a hard time, and their special steel production is not very good.

A large amount of special steel needs to be imported from abroad.

Now a Nanshan auto parts manufacturer actually wants to build a special steel plant?

If you want to do it, just do it. You can find an internationally renowned steel company to cooperate, but they chose to cooperate with Shaogang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd.

This……

It's not a waste of money.

Originally, it was normal for fresh graduates to join the company in July this year, but the second half of his senior year was fine, so he came to the company early for an internship.

Now he is placed in the laboratory of Nanshan Special Steel Plant.

Specialized in testing various projects.

Relatively speaking, the difficulty of this work is not that high, as long as the test is carried out according to the operation process.

Besides, he is not the main engineer, he just helps with odd jobs and compiles some data.

However, when he compiled the data today, he always felt that his "master" had made a mistake.

"Gong Zhang, I think the parameters of this mold steel are a bit strange. This performance is better than the parameters of imported SKD11 from Datong Steel, Nippon Steel and Kobe Steel."

"Is there some data confusion?"

After all, he is also a graduate student in metallurgical engineering, and he chose the research direction of ferrous metals.

After this period of internship, Zheng Dong has a relatively good understanding of some properties of special steel.

Looking at the test report in front of him, he could tell something was wrong at a glance.

"You think the data for the mold steel produced in our factory is too good, right?"

Zhang Hui glanced at Zheng Dong and continued without reading the experimental report: "This product itself is the benchmark of Datong's SKD11. It has high hardness, high wear resistance, uniform eutectic carbide, good toughness, and is not easy to crack. After quenching Hardness>62HRC.”

“与此同时，在525c氮化处理时间为20h/30h/60h，氮化层深度0.25mm/0.30mm/0.35mm，零件表面硬度1250HV；在570c氮化处理时间为2h，氮化层深度10~20mm，零件表面硬度950HV。”

"Our mold steel is smelted in an electric furnace and re-dissolved by electroslag. It has high purity, better toughness, uniform structure, good high-temperature strength, toughness and high-temperature fatigue resistance, and can withstand sudden temperature changes."

"In this case, the performance is better than that of imported mold steel from Japan, which is within my expectation."

Zhang Hui is the chief engineer recruited from outside by Nanshan and is responsible for setting the process parameters of special steel.

He also had a lot of questions about the various process modifications made by Nanshan at the time, and studied them specifically.

Although the reasons behind the setting of process parameters are not fully understood, in theory there is no problem with those parameters.

And the final results also prove this.

So he is full of confidence now.

"This is also a very big breakthrough for our domestic special steel industry."

"Although if we study mold steel carefully, Baosteel or Anshan Iron and Steel should not be unable to produce it."

"But judging from the actual situation, most automotive stamping dies, except that the mold base is made of domestic steel, the insert part is generally made of imported mold steel."

"In terms of cost, there's a huge difference."

"According to our preliminary calculations, the cost of our mold steel is more than half cheaper than imported steel."

Zheng Dong suddenly felt that coming to Nanshan seemed to be a good choice.

Before officially joining the company, I witnessed the miracle created by Nanshan Special Steel.

Just because Nanshan Special Steel can produce mold steel that is comparable to imported materials, the capacity utilization rate will not be low in the future.

After all, Nanshan's mold center now consumes a large amount of special steel every year.

The entire Chinese mold industry has a very strong demand for mold steel.

Using mold steel as a breakthrough, it is entirely possible for Nanshan Special Steel to quickly become famous in the industry.

"The production cost of imported mold steel is higher than ours. Add in import tariffs, transportation fees and traders' management fees. It is normal for the mold steel to be twice as expensive as ours."

"Our domestic rebar only costs more than 2000 yuan per ton, but imported mold steel can be sold for 50 million yuan per ton."

"There's definitely huge profits here."

As an old man in the steel industry, Zhang Hui is quite familiar with the domestic special steel situation.

Regardless of the fact that domestic steel production has reached 4.5 million tons, ranking first in the world, the profits of the steel industry are probably not as good as those in Japan.

"It seems that the company has made full preparations for its decision to invest in a special steel plant."

"Today, the performance of mold steel is so excellent, and the data that has been released for bearing steel and gear steel are said to be very good."

“You really don’t have to worry about not being able to sell in the future.”

As an intern, Zheng Dong naturally cannot let him be responsible for too many things.

But even so, he is full of confidence in the future of the special steel plant.

"I also know about the situation of bearing steel and gear steel."

"For example, bearing steel, even if we compare it with SKF's bearing steel, we are not bad at all."

"The gear steel is similar, and its performance is comparable to ThyssenKrupp's gear steel."

"Right now, it's just barely famous. In the future, after everyone recognizes Nanshan Special Steel's technology, I'm afraid there will be a situation where supply exceeds demand."

"Maybe the annual profit of the special steel plant is higher than that of the entire Shaogang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd."

Ninety percent of the personnel in Nanshan Special Steel Plant are from Shaogang.

As the largest local company in Shaozhou, Shaogang's treatment is still good.

That's why Zhang Hui compared like this.

"It's really possible."

"Now that domestic steel production capacity is overall overcapacity, Shaogang should be under considerable pressure."

"However, a lot of special steel needs to be imported from abroad. The market for us to replace this part of the import will not only not be affected by excess steel production capacity, but also obtain high profits."

Zheng Dong couldn't help but smile on his face.

According to Nanshan's style, if the factory's profits are good, the bonus will be very generous.

He couldn't wait to officially join the company.