Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 373 New opponent, who will win?

High-speed rail is a business card that Chinese people can be proud of.

Huaxia can build the world's leading high-speed train and high-speed railway network, and no country can match such a safe, efficient and extensive high-speed rail network built by Huaxia.

However, the bearings that support the operation of high-speed rail locomotives are restricted by foreign countries and have long relied on imports.

This makes many laymen wonder how difficult high-speed rail bearings are and why technological breakthroughs are so difficult.

One of the most important reasons for backward technology is the lack of talents.

In the past, there were bearing majors in colleges and universities and engineering colleges, but now they are included in other majors. There are fewer professional talents, and it is only natural that the technology cannot keep up.

Of course, the late start is weak and the technology blockade is implemented overseas, which is also an important reason why it has not been able to conquer high-end bearings.

The manufacture of high-speed rail bearings involves a wide range of disciplines. Bearing giants such as Schaeffler are leaders in both heat treatment technology and sealing and lubrication technology.

And often high-end technology is the key to owning high-end industries.

This is also the reason why foreign high-speed rail bearings are far superior to Huaxia in terms of service life, precision, vibration and reliability.

Only good steel can produce good bearings.

The materials required for high-end bearings are bearing steel and high-carbon steel. The carbon content is generally 1%, and the chromium content is 1.5%. .

Although Huaxia can produce the steel needed for bearings, it does have some defects.

Even Nanshan Special Steel has not been involved in the field of high-speed rail bearings before.

In addition, high-speed rail bearings have not been localized, and there are reasons why the equipment and tools used for processing are not good.

The precision of production equipment of domestic bearing manufacturers is not very high.

For example, machine tools have poor vibration resistance, and there are also problems with grinding wheels, grinding discs, coolants and process parameters.

However, foreign production equipment intelligent tools and high-end CNC machine tools do not have these problems.

However, this aspect is Nanshan Group's strength, and it has basically caught up with its international counterparts.

It has even surpassed its peers in some segments.

In this case, Nanshan Group is naturally the most likely manufacturer to realize the localization of high-speed rail bearings.

But in Shangyanshang, Cao Yang didn't want to make wedding clothes for others.

If Nanshan Group develops high-speed rail bearings by then, CSR Group will require technology transfer or something.

Even putting pressure on Cao Yang from the moral high ground is definitely unacceptable.

I have to earn money for the products I develop.

At most, manufacturers like Schaeffler earn ten times the profit of a bearing, while I only earn two or three times.

This is also a win-win situation.

Whether it is directly asking for cost price supply or transferring technology, it will definitely not work.

And as long as I can do it and the price is still competitive, you should give me most of the orders.

Otherwise, Nanshan invested so many resources in research and development, is it really generating electricity for love?

"Mr. Cao, I can tell you with certainty that as long as Nanshan Group really develops high-speed rail bearings that are comparable to imported bearings, then future import orders will be handed over to you."

"We have no reason to find other people to import."

Nie Jian is well aware that the research and development investment of high-speed rail bearings involves all aspects and requires a lot of investment.

Bearing steel, testing equipment, bearing production equipment...

These all require a lot of manpower and material resources.

If the money is spent and the product is released, but the market does not get it, then it will definitely not work.

This is not the original intention of CSR either.

"And I can also help communicate with CNR. As long as Nanshan Group can produce high-speed rail bearings, their locomotives will also use your products."

Seeing that Cao Yang didn't nod immediately, Nie Jian immediately added his own conditions.

CSR and CNR are now two relatively independent companies, and they will not be merged so soon.

The two can even be said to be competitors now.

However, on high-speed rail bearings, everyone's ideas are actually the same.

Otherwise, Nie Jian would not have dared to say such a thing.

The localization project of high-speed rail bearings is no longer a simple localization project of parts, but a project with a special height.

No one dares to mess around with this kind of thing easily.

"If this is the case, then Nanshan Group will take over the localization project of high-speed rail bearings!"

"We also had a preliminary study of the previous part of the technical requirements yesterday."

"Although there is no way to give a very certain time, but within three years at the latest, our Nanshan Group will definitely produce qualified high-speed rail bearings."

"If all goes well, maybe there will be results next year."

As soon as Cao Yang said this, Nie Jian was overjoyed.

"Mr. Cao, can it be done in three years?"

Obviously, for Nie Jian, getting it done in three years is already a good result.

After other bearing companies took over this task, they didn't even dare to give the forecast time.

As for what Cao Yang said would have results next year at the earliest, he pretended not to have heard it.

In his view, bearing steel needs to be studied, testing equipment needs to be studied and produced, and the technology of high-speed rail bearings itself needs to be studied...

All aspects of preparation work may not be finalized this year.

The possibility of producing qualified products next year is almost zero.

"I heard that domestic imports of high-speed rail bearings cost hundreds of millions of dollars every year."

"In the future, it may become more than a billion dollars, or even billions of dollars."

"Mr. Nie has already placed such a big cake in front of us."

"I naturally want to eat it into my mouth in the shortest possible time."

Cao Yang happily gave his reply.

Others have no confidence in high-speed rail bearings, can he still have it?

If it weren't for the bench equipment and so on, there is no way to prove that his bearings meet the requirements. He dared to say that qualified products would be released by the end of this year at the earliest.

"it is good!"

"Ambitious!"

"As long as Nanshan Group really produces qualified high-speed rail bearings within three years, I, Nie Jian, will definitely help you get all the orders!"

Nie Jian patted his thigh, and made a promise with excitement on his face.

Objectively speaking, his approach is absolutely impulsive in the workplace.

Especially as the chief engineer of a state-owned enterprise, it would not be good for him to make such a promise.

Next, the two sides had a detailed exchange on the specific technical parameters of the high-speed rail bearings, and then Cao Yang and Dai Hanbiao went back with a batch of high-speed rail bearing samples from various imported manufacturers.

With a big piece of meat in front of him, Cao Yang is naturally very motivated to grab orders from European and American bearing giants such as Schaeffler.

So on the same day, people from Nanshan Special Steel, Nanshan Equipment and Nanshan Auto Parts were called together, and a high-speed rail bearing project team was established, which was officially launched within the group.

"The geographical span of the Huaxia High-speed Railway is relatively large, and the bearings are required to be able to adapt to various climates and harsh environments."

"When running on the railway, once a failure occurs, it will directly affect the entire railway transportation system, so high-speed railways have strict requirements for bearings."

"Also, even if the bearing quality of high-speed rail is resistant to high temperature and wear, it has to be replaced every 100 million kilometers."

"This indirectly shows that the quality requirements are high, and it also shows that the market prospect of high-speed rail bearings is broad."

Cao Yang looked at the participants and officially started the meeting.

"The bearings used on high-speed rail are mainly axle box bearings, gearbox bearings, traction motor bearings, cooling fan bearings and other series of shafts."

"Axlebox bearings directly support high-speed rail vehicles, which are high-speed rail bearings in the general sense that everyone understands."

“This type of bearing is used the most and is the one we most need to break through.”

"If this bearing is damaged, it could have serious implications for the safe operation of the vehicle."

"Schaeffler uses high-purity bearing steel, optimizes the internal structure of the bearing, and conducts non-destructive testing of the material to avoid this problem."

If high-speed rail bearings are developed simply by relying on existing technical personnel, there is a high probability that they will not be developed within three years.

It took more than ten years to develop qualified high-speed rail bearings since 2007 when Luozhou and Anshan Iron and Steel worked together in the past.

And not all types of high-speed rail bearings.

In this case, since Cao Yang had promised Nie Jian to produce high-speed rail bearings within three years, he naturally had to personally lead technicians to carry out research and development.

So he planned to start working with the technicians on the research direction of high-speed rail bearings and related equipment and materials during this period of time.

"The choice of sealing method and sealing material of the axle box bearing has a great influence on the bearing life."

"We need further confirmation based on surface velocity and environmental conditions."

"In response to the long-term demand of not dismantling the bearing, the technology of inhibiting grease degradation and engineering plastic cage is adopted to avoid the occurrence of grease leakage and external foreign matter entry."

"Gearbox bearings are installed on the pinion gear shaft and large gear shaft of the gearbox, and Japanese manufacturers mostly use tapered roller bearings."

"However, the pinion shafts of European manufacturers use cylindrical roller bearings and ball bearings."

"If the pinion shaft uses tapered roller bearings, the axial clearance must be adjusted during installation."

"The fatigue failure and wear of the cage caused by the main gear meshing vibration of the gearbox bearing is solved by using the soft nitriding surface treatment of the cage."

Obviously, the technical content of this bearing is quite high.

These simple introductions do not seem to have much content, but it is not easy at all to produce them smoothly.

Although all the people present knew something about bearings, it was their first contact with high-speed rail bearings.

In this case, naturally they are all listening carefully and taking notes.

As for why Cao Yang knew something about his competitors, they didn't bother so much.

Some information can still be collected just by giving time to investigate.

But if you collect it, it doesn't mean you can cook.

For example, nitriding surface treatment, everyone understands what it means and can understand the principle.

But how to set up the specific processing technology is completely black in the eyes.

Another example is the adjustment of the free gap. Everyone knows that it needs to be adjusted to a suitable position.

But what position is appropriate?

This is another unsolvable problem.

As for lubricating fluid and lubricating grease, it is even more mysterious.

Who doesn't know that good lubricating fluid and lubricating grease have a great impact on the performance of high-speed rail bearings.

But if you know it, you know it. Whether you know it or not is another matter.

Fortunately, Cao Yang didn't expect to say it once, and the high-speed rail bearing was successfully developed.

This is simply not realistic.

"The traction motor bearings are the only transmission components in a brushless motor for trains."

"The life of the bearing becomes the maintenance interval of the motor. Schaeffler has adopted measures such as changing the grease base oil, improving the grease pocket, using engineering plastic cages and ceramic rolling elements to improve the performance of traction motor bearings."

"In this case, the further use of insulating materials in the outer ring of the bearing can effectively prevent the problem of galvanic corrosion."

"The requirements for cooling fan bearings are similar to those for traction motor bearings."

"For frequency converter-controlled three-phase asynchronous motors with fully electrified drives, the use of such motors increases the risk of current passing through rolling bearings and severely damaging the raceways."

"So the research and screening of insulating coatings is very critical."

"The gearbox and motor combination used by the hybrid model that Nanshan Transmission is researching should also have done some analysis on the bearings under this working condition."

"At that time, some technicians can be transferred from their project team to support."

Obviously, Cao Yang attaches great importance to high-speed rail bearings.

Buddhas fight for a stick of incense, people fight for a breath.

Nanshan Group is now the largest bearing manufacturer in China, but all high-speed rail bearings need to be imported.

To some extent, this is also a slap in the face of Nanshan Group.

If you can’t make high-end products, no matter how many low-end products you make, people will not think that this industry is what you are good at.

"Because the high-speed rail locomotive starts to accelerate quickly, the braking distance is short, and the running speed is faster, this requires high-speed rail bearings to have high reliability, strong impact resistance, and ability to withstand changing impacts under high-speed, high-acceleration operating conditions. load capacity."

"Taking the several types of high-speed train sets that Mr. Nie explained to us yesterday as an example, the average value of each set of bearing load is about 68.7KN, the maximum rolling body load is about 7.6KN, the inner ring raceway and roller The contact stress is about 810MPa."

"And when the speed of the high-speed rail is 300km/h, the bearing speed is about 1730r/min."

"In terms of bearing service life, locomotive bearings with different operating speeds have different requirements."

"The specific data can be divided into several steps. The quality guarantee period of the key bearings of high-speed rail locomotives running at a speed of less than 200km/h is 90 kilometers or 4 years."

"And the service life is not less than 280 million kilometers, and the mandatory scrapping if the service life exceeds 10 years."

"Bearings with a speed greater than 200km/h are maintenance-free within 120 million kilometers, and they will be scrapped after being used for 240 million kilometers after overhaul."

“时速在300km/h以上运行的高铁机车轴承使用寿命为350-500万公里，可靠度50万公里为99%。”

"Of course, this is a design requirement. For the sake of 100% safety during actual use, a discount will be made on this basis."

"It is based on this consideration that the axle box bearing should be replaced every 100 million kilometers."

Dai Hanbiao also attended the meeting yesterday, and Cao Yang had already explained it for a long time, so he naturally wanted to share the relevant requirements with everyone.

"The requirements for high-speed rail bearings are so high. In addition to the high requirements for machining precision, the requirements for bearing steel are also very high."

"Bearing steel has the title of 'King of Steel', and it is one of the most demanding steel types in steel smelting."

"The axlebox bearings of my country's high-speed rail EMUs all use double-row tapered roller bearings."

"This kind of bearing is mainly composed of four parts: inner ring, outer ring, rolling element and cage."

"The inner and outer rings and rolling elements of the bearing are mainly made of bearing steel. This kind of high-speed rail bearing mainly works under high-speed and heavy-load motion, and the service conditions are extremely harsh, so the requirements for bearing steel are very high."

"First of all, in terms of metallurgical quality, the oxygen content should be lower than 10ppm; the calcium content should be lower than 10ppm; the inclusions B fine ≤ 1.5, B coarse ≤ 0.5, D fine ≤ 1.0, D coarse ≤ 0.5, DS ≤ Grade 1.0; grade of banded tissue ≤ grade 1.5."

"Then there is the very demanding contact fatigue strength."

“高铁轴承钢的接触疲劳寿命在4000MPa循环次数要达到10的9次方，循环次数10的7次方下弯曲疲劳极限强度要大于900MPa。”

"And then there is the high demand for wear resistance."

"The normal operation of rolling bearings is accompanied by rolling friction and sliding friction."

"The main parts where sliding friction occurs are the contact surfaces between the rolling elements and the raceways, the contact surfaces between the rolling elements and the pockets of the cage, and between the cage and the guide rib of the ferrule, etc."

"If the wear resistance of the bearing steel is poor, the rolling bearings will lose precision prematurely due to wear, resulting in a reduction in the service life of the bearing."

"Therefore, high-speed rail bearing steel must have high wear resistance."

Following Dai Hanbiao's introduction, Xie Lingyun, general manager of Nanshan Special Steel, also frowned.

Such a high requirement is much higher than the bearing steel used in current wheel bearings.

Even though these parameters seem to be known already, how to produce it is not easy at all.

"In addition to the requirements just mentioned, appropriate hardness is also necessary."

"The hardness of the rolling bearing directly affects the life of the rolling bearing."

"The hardness of the bearing is usually determined according to the way and size of the bearing bearing load, the overall situation of the bearing size and wall thickness. The hardness should be appropriate. Too large or too small will affect the service life of the bearing."

"The surface hardness of carburized steel for high-speed rail bearings and components used by CSR Group is not less than 820HV."

Hearing Dai Hanbiao talk about carburized bearing steel, Xie Lingyun couldn't help asking, "Carburized bearing steel? Isn't it high-carbon chromium bearing steel?"

Obviously, the bearing steel produced by Nanshan Special Steel is a high-carbon chromium bearing steel.

Otherwise, Xie Lingyun wouldn't have asked this question.

"Carburized bearing steel is a high-quality low-carbon alloy steel with high strength, impact resistance, surface wear resistance and high contact fatigue performance after carburizing heat treatment."

"Compared with high-carbon chromium bearing steel, carburized bearing steel has better core impact toughness, which is very suitable for manufacturing high-speed railway bearings that withstand large impact loads."

"After all, high-speed rail bearings will be subjected to large impact loads during their service."

"Therefore, the bearing steel is required to have a certain impact toughness."

"The original intention of using carburized bearing steel is to ensure high hardness and wear resistance surface, while the core has high strength, toughness and high hardness. Generally, the yield strength of the core is not less than 1100MPa, and the tensile strength is not less than 1300MPa."

With Dai Hanbiao's explanation, Xie Lingyun could not refute anything other than frowning.

This is definitely not a requirement set by Dai Hanbiao himself, but a research and development direction given by CSR Group based on the situation of imported bearings.

"This time the bearing steel requirements are very high. In addition to the processing technology control requirements of Nanshan Special Steel, the crude steel of the base material must also be carefully selected."

"This point should be clearly explained to Shaogang, so that they also pay attention to this project."

Cao Yang also put forward a note at the right time.

"In the field of bearing steel, our Nanshan Special Steel is already at the leading level in China."

"However, we mainly produce bearing steel for automobiles and bearing steel for machine tools. We have not produced bearing steel for railways."

'In that field, Xingcheng Special Steel and Anshan Iron and Steel have more experience than us. '

"Mr. Cao, in order to quickly develop the bearing steel used in high-speed rail bearings that meets the requirements, I want to hire a group of senior engineers from Xingcheng Special Steel or Anshan Iron and Steel at a high price."

Xie Lingyun knew that now was not the time to complain about how difficult the problem was.

How to find the right way to solve the problem is what he needs to consider.

On his own, he has no confidence to produce such high-demand bearing steel.

Or do you really think that so many steel mills in the country are all for dry food?

At this time, it is necessary to recruit a group of talents to work together.

Otherwise you don't know where to start.

He even wondered if he could poach some engineers from abroad.

It would be even better if there are SKF bearing steel R&D engineers.

"No problem, you go digging boldly."

"I will also arrange for people to find ways to find some information on bearing steel for high-speed rail. When we stand on the shoulders of giants to research and develop, the progress should be relatively fast."

Cao Yang will definitely need some help when the time comes, and he will bring out some bearing steel formulas for high-speed rail bearings.

At that time, how Xie Lingyun will view these formulas needs to be considered in advance.

With Cao Yang's words put there, Xie Lingyun will most likely think that Cao Yang arranged for someone to obtain the bearing steel formula of other manufacturers through various methods such as commercial espionage.

Anyway, most steel companies have not actually applied for patents for this kind of thing.

As long as you can master this method, it will be difficult for others to sue you even if they want to.

Of course, if Nanshan Special Steel wants to apply for patents in these segments, other companies can imitate them soon.

Therefore, some high-tech technologies are not suitable for patent application.

"After the high-performance materials are solved, the rest is high-quality processing. The manufacture of high-speed rail bearings involves many disciplines. Europe and the United States have mastered ultra-long-life steel technology, fine-grained heat treatment technology and advanced sealing and lubrication technology. produce high-quality bearings.”

"This has also led to a large gap between domestic and foreign high-speed rail bearings in terms of precision, bearing vibration, life and reliability."

"At that time, Nanshan Equipment will need to design some machine tools specially."

"Especially the special grinding machine for bearings has played a very important role in the accuracy."

Dai Hanbiao also began to assign tasks to Nanshan Equipment at this time.

In the high-speed rail bearing project team, Cao Yang is nominally the patriarch and he is the deputy team leader.

But he must be responsible for some coordination work and daily management and communication work.

Otherwise, it would be unrealistic to wait for Cao Yang for everything.

"This should not be a big problem. Our machine tool technology is not world-leading, and it is not a problem to maintain a level with the international advanced level."

"In terms of processing equipment, there are not many essential differences between high-speed rail bearings and automotive bearings."

"We just need to do some adaptive processing."

"On the contrary, heat treatment technology and sealing lubrication technology need to be researched by Nanshan Auto Parts."

Pan Jinxing was the calmest among the people present.

Bearing steel is tricky.

The processing technology of bearings is difficult to do.

However, the bearing processing equipment is not so difficult for the current Nanshan equipment.

At least relatively speaking, the difficulty is not that high.

"As long as we can successfully develop high-speed rail bearings, we will be the king of more than 1000 domestic bearing manufacturers in the future."

"Bearings in other industrial fields don't need us to run orders, they will take the initiative to come to you."

"So this time the development of high-speed rail bearings, everyone must pay full attention."

"I will also specifically participate in the actual research and development work, and strive to have a specific research and development direction after the Spring Festival, so that the European departments of various departments will start to move."

At the kick-off meeting, the research and development direction of too many special details will not be discussed.

These things need everyone to go back and review. After simulating on the computer, they start to propose plans and make samples for confirmation.

It doesn't seem like such a complicated thing, but it actually takes a lot of time to do it.

However, the people of Nanshan Group are full of enthusiasm.

They once beat manufacturers such as SKF and NTN to death in the field of automobiles and machine tools.

If they can continue to defeat them in high-speed rail bearings, then the living space of these foreign bearing giants in China will be really small.

Of course, CSR Group called several domestic manufacturers to engage in high-speed rail bearings, and the action is not small.

In addition, some people inside have a relatively good relationship with manufacturers such as Schaeffler and SKF. Naturally, there is no way to keep these things completely secret.

Soon, Schaeffler's people knew about it.

"Zhang, your news is nothing new."

"The fact that CSR and CNR want to find qualified high-speed rail bearing suppliers in China is not just happening now."

"But after all these years, have they found qualified suppliers?"

As the general manager of Schaeffler China, Topps has lived a very comfortable life in the past two years.

Although Schaeffler is not as famous as SKF and NTN in terms of automobile bearings, they are actually producing many bearings for Mercedes-Benz and BMW.

The most important thing is that Schaeffler has a relatively high market share in high-end bearing fields such as high-speed rail bearings and wind power bearings.

The profit margin of bearings in these fields is much higher than that of automobile bearings.

It is also a turnover of 1000 million yuan, and the profit of automobile bearings is only more than [-] million yuan.

But put it on the high-speed rail bearing...

Topps was not willing to share this data with the Huaxia branch at all.

After all, the high-speed rail bearings are produced by the headquarters, and the Huaxia Branch imports them for sale.

The biggest profits are kept in the headquarters.

"Tops, things are a little different this time."

"CSR specially invited Nanshan Group to participate in the public relations of high-speed rail bearings, and probably shared all the information they collected in the past with Nanshan Group."

"Other bearing manufacturers in China, whether it's Luozhou, Zhazhou, Wanxiang, Renben, etc., I'm not very worried."

"With their current level, it will be impossible to produce qualified high-speed rail bearings in another ten years."

"However, Nanshan Group is a bit different. In terms of automobile bearings, they have suffered a lot from rivals such as SKF and NTN."

"Even various domestic machine tool companies in China purchase bearings from Nanshan Group."

"The key is that Nanshan Group can not only produce bearings, but also produce bearing steel and machine tools."

"Before we also did some research on the bearing steel produced by Nanshan Special Steel. Their level is indeed quite good, and some performances are even better than our permanent bearing steel for automobiles."

As the sales director of Schaeffler China, Zhang Guoyi is naturally very concerned about the company's business development in China.

Now high-speed rail bearings and wind power bearings are the company's main source of profit.

He was able to hold a high salary of one million yuan in 2007, which has a lot to do with the company's good performance in the past two years.

He didn't want to lose his job anytime soon.

"I know what you said, but high-speed rail bearings are different from automobile bearings, and they don't even exist at the same level."

"Nanshan Group can produce good wheel bearings for automobiles, but it does not mean that they can produce high-speed rail bearings."

"With this time, you might as well promote wind power bearings. I think this is also a blue ocean market."

Topps is very confident in Schaeffler's technology.

All the high-speed rail bearings they produce are imported.

Domestic engineers are not clear about many contents of high-speed rail bearings.

Or know it but don't know why.

Schaeffler, SKF and other peers also have a certain tacit agreement not to import any technology and talents related to high-speed rail bearings to Huaxia.

Under such circumstances, if Chinese manufacturers can produce high-speed rail bearings comparable to Schaeffler, Topps would not believe it anyway.

At least he thinks it's unlikely to happen in the next ten years.

So when Zhang Guoyi came over and just reported to him that CSR Group had convened several domestic bearing manufacturers to engage in technical research, he was not nervous at all.

"That……"

Zhang Guoyi hesitated for a moment, but finally said nothing.

Although he is already the sales director, Topps still has the final say in the company.

He has already said that, if Zhang Guoyi still reports this matter to the headquarters, he will definitely be punished.

Don't think that foreign companies are really paradise.

When it's time to fight, people will not be merciful at all.

However, although Zhang Guoyi didn't bother with this matter within the company, he didn't want to waste this news.

"In Holm, SKF's business in China, except for high-speed rail bearings, has been beaten by Nanshan Group."

"Of course, my words are not nice, I hope you don't mind."

In a clean bar in Shanghai, Zhang Guoyi made an appointment with SKF's sales director Golmer.

For example, in some European and American companies, if the position of sales director is already held by a Chinese person, the development in China is often better than those companies that continue to be held by foreigners.

Many European and American giants have gradually realized this, so in the Huaxia branch, the number of Huaxia executives is increasing.

The development speed of Schaeffler in China in the past two years is obviously higher than that of SKF.

This is somewhat due to Zhang Guoyi's contribution.

"Zhang, you asked me out, don't you just want to ridicule me?"

"If yes, then congratulations, you succeeded."

Golmer looked at Zhang Guoyi with a little displeasure.

They are also old acquaintances.

In fact, the sales directors of several bearing giants knew each other.

They even get together on a regular basis.

Especially in subdivision fields such as high-speed rail bearings and wind power bearings, they have many matters that need to be communicated.

"Golmo, isn't it the first day you know me, am I such a boring person?"

Zhang Guoyi spread his hands, and did not tease Golmer again, "I heard some news, and I think it should be useful to you, so I want to share it with you."

"Nanshan Group is an old rival, you should know it very well, right?"

Hearing this name, Golmer's complexion suddenly changed.

Which pot is not open to mention which pot is this?

If it wasn't for Nanshan Group, he, the sales director, would have already become the general manager of Huaxia Branch.

How could it be possible that after so many years, they are still standing still?

"As long as it is a bearing, there is no one in China who has not heard of Nanshan Group, right?"

Unable to understand what Zhang Guoyi sells in the gourd, Golmer asked back.

"Yes, that's exactly what you said."

"They've caused a lot of trouble for everyone with machine tool bearings and car bearings."

"The original high-profit industry has been turned into what it is now."

"I believe that not only you SKF, but also other manufacturers such as NTN and NSK have great opinions on Nanshan Group."

"Before, everyone was glad that Nanshan Group only worked in these fields and did not compete with us for other markets."

"But now the bad news is coming."

After Zhang Guoyi said this, Golmer slowly figured out a little taste.

"Is Nanshan Group going to do something new?"

"High-speed rail bearings! They're going to make high-speed rail bearings!"

"What? They also want to do high-speed rail bearings?"

Holm's first reaction was not whether Nanshan Group could produce high-speed rail bearings, but why Nanshan Group didn't leave any way of life for itself.

He has suffered too many losses at the hands of the opponent, and his confidence has already been hit quite a bit.

"Yes, I have received accurate information that CSR Group is contacting several domestic bearing manufacturers in China to engage in the localization project of high-speed rail bearings."

"Among them is the Nanshan Group."

Zhang Guoyi gave a very positive reply.

This made Golmer's complexion much uglier.

Some time ago, because Beinan Volkswagen switched the bearing order of Nanshan Group back to SKF, he obviously felt that his life became more comfortable.

The future is promising.

But within a few days of this good day, the situation changed.

Is this playing with yourself?

"Zhang, you may not have a full understanding of Nanshan Group, but we at SKF have done a comprehensive investigation and research on Nanshan Group."

"China Southern Locomotive Group has found Nanshan Group to manufacture high-speed rail bearings. Although we don't know when it will be available, it will definitely be available in the end."

"You need to explain this to Topps."

Holm gave his own judgment very solemnly.

He knows the situation of Nanshan Group too well.

This is definitely an opponent worthy of attention.

"I think so too, but Topps doesn't think Huaxia's bearing companies can produce qualified high-speed rail bearings at all."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't ask you to discuss future countermeasures."

Zhang Guoyi hopes that SKF can do something, otherwise, let the situation continue, it is estimated that everyone will not have a few years of good life in China.

"Arrange someone to inquire about the progress of the Nanshan Group's high-speed rail bearing project at any time. As long as you are willing to spend money, you can get some news after all."

"Besides, we also need to let Huaxia's high-speed rail manufacturers see how powerful we are, and stop thinking about replacing us."

"Now that they have brought Nanshan Group in, we can join forces and find any reason to increase the price of the next batch of parts."

Holm gave his proposal very directly.

The high-speed rail bearings are now monopolized by several of them. No matter how much the price rises, CSR and CNR can only accept it in the end.

Otherwise there would be no bearings to use.

Just like the chip crisis in later generations, a chip that usually costs 5 yuan will sell you 500 yuan in the market, whether you like it or not.

Anyway, if you want to continue to buy chips with 5 yuan, you have to wait until you can't wait.

The tricks that Holm uses on high-speed rail bearings are actually similar.

Of course, the situation of high-speed rail bearings and chips is different after all, and the specific operations will definitely not be exactly the same.

"Price increase?"

"In this case, wouldn't the price increase further stimulate Chinese people to engage in localization work?"

Zhang Guoyi looked at Golmer in surprise.

Before that, he really hadn't thought about this plan.

"That's right, since Chinese manufacturers are going to enter this field sooner or later, they want to kick us out."

"Then we can simply earn more money and further increase our profits."

"Even if the business shrinks by then, we will earn enough money."

When Golmer said this, Zhang Guoyi found that he had no way to refute.

However, whether such a bad attitude will have any consequences, he is also a little uncertain.