Valley Emperor

Vol 2 Chapter 1944: The War of the Steam Engine Manufacturers

The company has the largest market share of steam engines in the whole empire. The steam engines they produce have no other features, that is, they are cheap!

For the same power industrial steam engine, their quotation can be more than ten percent cheaper than that of Zhaoqing Machinery Company!

Although the performance of Tianjin AIA's steam engine is a little worse, it is cheap!

Cheap is always the last word!

The second place is Zhaoqing Machinery Co., Ltd. Their steam engine products are known for their reliable performance, low maintenance cost and high thermal efficiency, but the purchase price is a bit expensive.

Their steam engines are not cheap, but they rarely fail, and the coal consumption is lower, and the cost of use is actually lower. Therefore, their steam engine products are often widely used in high-end mid-to-high-end products that require high reliability and cost of use. Industrial market as well as marine market.

Over the years, they have occupied at least 50% of the industrial steam engine market.

However, the most famous one should be the Naval Steam Engine Factory.

This company has the prefix of the Navy, but it has already undergone share reform. Currently, it is jointly held by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, the Royal Assets Section, Zhili Bank, Third Securities Company and many other institutions. They do not cooperate with Zhaoqing Machinery Company or Tianjin AIA. Like the company, it has many other businesses, and the steam engine is just one of their businesses.

The Naval Steam Engine Factory only makes steam engines!

And the steam engines they make have always been the top ones, and they have almost monopolized 90% of the market in the high-power steam engine market, if it is in the high-power ship-based steam engine market!

They even monopolized the ship-based steam engines of all 10,000-ton ships.

Now all the ships that have been in service, are under construction or are still under design and have a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, regardless of whether they are warships or civilian ships, the ship-based steam engines they use are all products of the Naval Steam Engine Factory.

All the steam generators in the Navy's battleships and armored cruisers are products of this factory.

The most famous of the civilian ships, the New Pacific series luxury passenger ships, also use their power units.

As for the 30,000-ton ultra-luxury passenger liner Nova, which caused a sensation some time ago, Feng Shipping Company finalized the power unit of the Naval Steam Engine Plant before designing the hull, and even the hull design was designed according to the power unit.

From these, it can be seen that the Naval Steam Engine Factory has a monopoly position in the field of high-end carrier-based steam engines.

Among the more than ten steam engine manufacturers, the Naval Steam Engine Factory has the smallest number of steam units supplied to the outside world every year, but its sales volume ranks third, after Zhaoqing Machinery Company and Tianjin Youbang Company.

Because every time they sell a set of ship-based steam turbines, the sales revenue they get starts from 100,000 Tang Yuan, or even hundreds of thousands of Tang Yuan.

So far, the most expensive steam unit in the history of Datang should belong to the steam unit of the new star. It is expected to cost Feng Shipping Company 700,000 Tang yuan, and this is only the purchase cost, not including the subsequent transportation, installation , debugging and other costs.

A set of steam generating units is 700,000 Tang Yuan!

They sell just a few sets of steam generators, and that's millions of dollars in revenue.

This figure is enough to make many steam manufacturers envy, jealous, and hate, and many steam engine manufacturers are eager to enter the high-end steam engine field.

Among them, Zhaoqing Machinery Co., Ltd., the most ambitious, spent a lot of money on research and development of giant steam engines. Last year, in the autumn of Xuanping 37 years, it bid for the power system order of the new armored cruiser.

However, it failed miserably!

This also caused a turmoil. Zhaoqing Machinery Co., Ltd. said that this time the tender was suspected of operating under the shadows, and the Navy was a little speechless.

It even directly affected the Navy's power procurement plan this year.

On the one hand, they want to avoid gossip from the outside world. The steam engines of large warships can no longer be used by the naval steam engine factory. They have to properly distribute some orders to other manufacturers, so as to prevent other manufacturers from making troubles without eating the cake.

On the other hand, it is also to cultivate more spare tires. In a huge Tang Dynasty, there is only one naval steam engine factory that can provide the power system of armored cruisers and battleships. This is not normal.

Even if it is a battleship, there are at least three shipyards in the Tang Dynasty that can build it, and there are at least two steel companies for the supply of armored steel. Even if it is a 300mm rear-mounted rifled gun, there are at least three artillery manufacturers in the empire. It can be supplied, it is nothing more than a question of performance.

But now, the Naval Steam Engine Factory is the dominant player in the field of giant steam engines, which is not in the interests of the Navy.

However, even if the Navy wants to implement a balance policy, it will never give up too much share to other manufacturers. It is very simple, it is still a matter of strength!

In the past, the Navy chose the products of the Naval Steam Engine Factory for only one reason, their products were the best.

Therefore, even for balance, the navy will at most only allocate a small share of the military ship-based steam engine, but it will never be too much.

Zhaoqing Machinery Company is very dissatisfied with this, but there is no way!

They have been trying to break into the field of giant ship-based steam engines for a year or two, but they have never been successful.

For now, they can only play the curve to save the country and compete for the market in other fields.

After all, the amount of money in the warship market seems to be large, but the number is very small. The navy only serves one battleship in a few years, and it takes about two years for an armored cruiser to serve one, even if it is only a few cruisers a year. This means that there are actually very few power system orders for large warships.

Navy steam engines can't get many orders, let alone they are in Zhaoqing Machinery Company.

Therefore, Zhaoqing Machinery Co., Ltd. began to shift its direction and aimed at the civilian market.

In the past, they only supplied power systems for small and medium tonnage civilian ships, but now, their goal is to develop large-scale civilian ships in recent years~www.wuxiaspot.com~ that is, ships with more than 10,000 tons.

In particular, the emerging market of oil tankers makes them pay more attention.

In Shanghai, executives from Zhaoqing Machinery Co. are negotiating with those from Nanyang Petroleum.

The business that allows the senior management of the two companies to hold talks is naturally not a small business, but is related to the shipbuilding plan of Nanyang Petroleum Corporation in the next few years.

"According to our shipbuilding plan, our company will build at least ten oil tankers of more than 10,000 tons in the next three years, and 100,000 tons of oil tankers in three years. You know better than us what this means!"

"If we throw this plan out today, more than a dozen steam engine manufacturers in the empire will come to the door as soon as possible, and give the greatest sincerity!"

"And your offer lacks sincerity!"

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