Chapter 1267 Morning in Nanyang (Third update, please subscribe)
"... Taiping Port Company plans to invest in the construction of two modern deep-water container terminals in Incheon and Busan, South Korea. This time is the largest in South Korea's history Foreign investment projects, this is the biggest gain from President Park Chung-woong’s trip to Southeast Asia..."
For some people, news is always just news, just a channel for them to understand current events in the world.
But for some people, news means business opportunities.
Listening to the news coming from the radio, Ma Zhiwei was driving his four-door Volkswagen into the traffic on the road.
Volkswagen - This is not made in Germany, but from Nanyang.
The translation of German Volkswagen "Volkswagen" in Nanyang is "Foss", which is a direct translation according to the German pronunciation.
And "Volkswagen" is a newly established company in Nanyang five years ago. Unlike Wuling and Rongguang, which are two-door cheap cars, this four-door car has strong power and spacious interior space. As soon as the sedan entered the market, it was immediately sought after by all parties.
It was another rainy morning, and the rain splashed by the wheels forced the few pedestrians to walk close to the innermost edge of the sidewalk. Looking out of the car window, Ma Zhiwei felt like he was in a blind city, groping his way to work.
In fact, what he is exploring is only the road to success. As a businessman, he hopes to achieve commercial success.
But in the past few years, his stumbling entrepreneurial journey has not been very smooth.
Listening to the news on the radio, Ma Zhiwei suddenly had a strange feeling, which seemed like some kind of intuition - an intuition about success!
“Perhaps, we should go to South Korea to have a look.”
A sudden decision made Wang Kejian, who was driving, stunned and said:
“To South Korea? Why? ”
"Go there and have a look, there will definitely be more opportunities there."
Ma Zhiwei took out a cigarette, lit it, and said:
"Now that big companies are investing in South Korea, then In the next step, there will definitely be more investment. If we go there at this time, we will definitely have the opportunity to make a lot of money. After all, there is nothing there. "
As a businessman, maybe it is out of intuition. , Ma Zhiwei feels that there are many opportunities in South Korea.
“For example, for the construction of ports, they will definitely need some small contractors, and we are from Nanyang. If we go to South Korea to set up corresponding companies, the opportunities will definitely be more than ordinary Korean companies...”
After listening to his friend's words, Wang Kejian thought for a while and said:
"Your idea is very good, but you have to think clearly. If you go to South Korea, you will have to resign first. The risk is still very high. Our income in the company is not low now.”
Although they all have the dream of starting a business, sometimes they are always restricted by the environment in front of them, smoking, listening to their friends, and looking out the window. The light rain was falling, looking at the wiper blowing back and forth. After a moment, Ma Zhiwei said:
"There are definitely risks. No matter what you do, there are risks. Even if you go to Saigon to do business, you may encounter Bomb attacks, if we just accept the status quo, we will be like everyone else and spend our whole lives doing nothing!"
It may be the kind of life with an end in sight - in the future! Work in the company until you retire, and when you retire at the age of 65, you can enjoy the rest of your life with your pension. Although the pension and the income from the sale of employee shares are enough to live a prosperous life, such a life has never been possible. It's not what he wants, maybe he should be told.
"What I want is not just to go to work, but..."
Unfold a magazine on the car glove box. The magazine is "Fortune" - the most popular business magazine in Nanyang, which mainly publishes economics Journal of issue research articles. Most of his readers are either business leaders or business people, and of course there are some people with dreams.
Then, Ma Zhiwei pointed to the cover character of the magazine and said:
“I hope that one day, I can appear on the cover of the magazine like him.”
True There was a sudden silence from Wang Kejian who was driving the car, followed by his voice.
"This is not easy. In recent years, those who have been on the cover of Fortune are basically entrepreneurs who have succeeded in developing new technologies."
After that, Wang Kejian took a look at the photos in the magazine. The cover character - Li Bingyan, the chairman of Dahuang Kitchenware, is holding a non-stick pan in his hand - ten years ago, he was still studying chemistry, and while he was studying "Teflon", this This lubricant has a very high melting point and is not afraid of heat, water, or acid. It was invented by DuPont in 1938. At that time, the patent protection period had expired, but its application range was narrow. Except for some military equipment, it was coated on On fishing line, used as a non-stick material to prevent tangles.
One day, Li Bingyan looked at his wife's fried eggs and suddenly thought that if it could be applied to the frying pan, the effect would be very good. As soon as he entered, he immediately started thinking and worked out a way to combine "Teflon" and aluminum, forgetting sleep and food, and the world's first "non-stick pan" came into being.
In the past ten years, non-stick pans have taken the world by storm, and Li Bingyan’s Dahuang Kitchenware has also become an internationally renowned company, producing a variety of kitchenware. Fortune magazine chose him as the magazine for this issue The cover, shown to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the birth of non-stick pans.
In Nanyang, as long as you have an invention, you can always succeed.
"Haha, things are not so absolute. After all, business..."
Taking a puff of cigarette, Ma Zhiwei said: "It's not just innovation, there are ordinary businessmen who can also succeed. , but, many times, it is ignored!”
In fact, this kind of neglect is actually deliberate-Nanyang has always encouraged innovation, invention, and research, and its purpose is It is to establish a social atmosphere - an atmosphere of enthusiasm for invention and innovation.
Therefore, whether it is magazines or newspapers, including TV news, inventors and innovations will always be particularly praised.
This also makes people form the impression that inventors are more likely to succeed. In fact, inventors are often in the minority. Most of the time, Nanyang's innovation relies on corporate laboratories, which rely on companies to develop technology. Continuous investment in research has promoted Nanyang's technology research and development.
After all, it is no longer the era of inventors working alone, but the era of laboratories.
Although Zhao Youguang had no interest in the news on the radio, he still listened to the news while driving the car and soon arrived at the laboratory.
KTJ Laboratory is a subsidiary of the Nanyang chemical giant KTJ Company. This company was founded in the United States and became famous for its defoliants during World War II. It has long since evolved from a simple chemical pesticide to a chemical giant. Its products have a wide variety and are closely related to people's lives.
The most famous product of KTJ is the Lycra brand elastic fiber launched 50 years ago. Lycra can stretch up to five times its original length and return to its original shape when relaxed.
This excellent elastic man-made fiber product has been highly sought after by the market as soon as it was launched - early nylon stockings were not elastic enough and the fit was not high. And Leica solves all problems. The blending method of Lycra and nylon solved the problem of stockings fitting. Elastic stockings were immediately welcomed by the market. In the first few years of their launch, brands such as Langsha launched elastic stockings with a price of around 6-8 US dollars. Even if the price is So high that hundreds of millions of pairs are still sold every year.
It is precisely because it has tasted the benefits of technology research and development that KTJ Company has invested a large amount of funds in technology research and development, and KTJ Laboratory has also grown in this process.
Zhao Youguang, who graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering of Yongning University, has been studying the material of tire cord since he joined the laboratory as a researcher in the laboratory - radial tires are Nanyang's flagship product, and the tires used in The nylon cord is the most important raw material, which is related to the service life and performance of the tire.
“We need a fiber with higher strength.”
This is also the research direction of Zhao Youguang. In the past few years, he has developed a variety of fiber materials, but they all have some Unsatisfactory.
Today, as usual, after adjusting the formula, Zhao Youguang synthesized a light and thin milky solution, which can dissolve the polymer into a lighter and more dilute solution.
This doesn't seem like a big deal.
That afternoon, he and his colleagues put this solution into the spinneret, and finally the fibers were sprayed out.
"Du Wei, conduct a tensile strength test!"
During the next tensile strength test, Zhao Youguang was shocked - this new type of fiber has excellent Tensile strength, its tensile strength is usually above 3400MPa!
More than 5 times that of ordinary steel!
Faced with such test results, everyone in the laboratory was shocked and realized that this was a disruptive change brought about by a new type of fiber.
“It will not completely change the radial wheel, it can even replace the steel wire.”
Listening to his colleague’s words, Zhao Youguang said:
“It’s just that its price is too high. It is too high to replace steel wire, but... it is quite suitable to be used in high-end sports car tires, especially competitive racing cars.”
It can only be said that sometimes when a new material is first invented, people are often in the exploratory stage of its application scope, and they don't even know where it should be used. And this also restricts the development of certain materials.
This fiber, which is five times stronger than steel, is the famous "Kevlar" in another world!
While Zhao Youguang and others were exploring the uses of Kevlar, in a factory in Taiping, Qian Fukang was inspecting the newly made fiberglass cylinder in front of him, asking about its strength and other data.
“Compared with the high-strength alloy steel shell, the weight of the fiberglass shell will be reduced by 50%, which means that with the fiberglass shell, the missile has a longer range and faster speed under the same thrust... …”
Listening to the material engineer’s introduction, Qian Fukang asked:
"Can the strength meet the needs? In the past, we used it to make radomes for anti-aircraft missiles, and it has not been applied to ballistic missiles."
"There is no problem at all, Qiangong, during our manufacturing process, Strictly controlling the wall thickness tolerance and material consistency of the cover can ensure its strength. The engine casing is wound with new S901 glass fiber and RP-2 epoxy resin, with a nominal thickness of 4.07mm..."
< br>Looking carefully at the information in hand, Qian Fukang certainly knew the advantages of this new material - it could further increase the range of the missile.
After thinking about it, Qian Fukang nodded and said:
“Let’s make a sample first!”
What Qian Fukang didn't know at this time was that his decision led to changes in the missile casing. Before that, the first-generation Nanyang missile casing was made of high-strength alloy steel. Although it was high-strength, it was heavy; while the second-generation missile casing was made of high-strength alloy steel. The shell material of the modern missile is made of fiberglass, which is light in weight and strong enough to meet the needs.
The application of this composite material directly subverted Nanyang's missile design and further improved its performance. In fact, all this is due to the progress of materials science in Nanyang, and materials science is part of basic science.
(End of this chapter)