Chapter 275: Shock in the lithium battery industry
Of course, whether it is their response or the reports and attacks of these media, it is just a war of words. As long as the scope and scale do not expand, it will have a certain impact on their sales, but it is within a controllable range.
within.
Although overseas markets are their main focus this year, for them, the domestic market is the key to gaining a foothold.
Therefore, they have been monitoring the sales status of the domestic market in real time. Different from previous years, this year in addition to the original major online sales platforms, there are also more offline sales channels.
Coupled with the word-of-mouth effect and brand effect accumulated previously, all their data have increased exponentially since the launch of sales.
Such rapid growth has also brought continuous hot topics of discussion and promoted the growth of their products.
After seeing that the domestic market was gaining momentum, Wu Hao took his energy away from this aspect and focused on other things.
The two main things they are facing recently are the acquisition plan of battery manufacturing plants, and the other is Anxi's related measures to promote Haoyu Technology to settle in Anxi.
For Wu Hao, these two matters are important matters. However, regarding the latter matter, he is not too impatient and can let it dry out first.
However, the acquisition plan of battery manufacturing companies cannot be delayed any longer and must be finalized as soon as possible.
During this period, Huang Zhihua has reached and signed relevant cooperation agreements with the military, the Bureau of Science and Industry, and military industrial units in Beijing. Of course, this is just an agreement and not a contract, so it is not mandatory.
But there are some things that everyone understands. Although it is just an agreement, this agreement is more binding than the relevant contract.
In fact, there is nothing too important in this agreement. It is nothing more than finalizing the framework and direction for future relevant cooperation.
Wu Hao and others focus on economic benefits, while these three parties do it for technology, which is essentially non-conflicting, but there are also many problems.
For example, Wu Hao and others authorized relevant units to use their patented technology to manufacture new lithium-ion batteries, but this technology can only be used in important core confidential projects and cannot be put into the market or circulated for commercial use.
However, this is just a special situation. Generally speaking, they are still in a normal cooperative relationship. After Wu Hao and his company's acquisition plan for the battery manufacturing factory is completed, the military and the Bureau of Science and Industry will review and evaluate their manufacturing factory.
After the relevant review is passed, the relevant manufacturing factories will be able to receive production and manufacturing orders for this new lithium-ion battery from the military and relevant military industrial units, and relevant military representatives will also be dispatched to the factory.
Of course, there are follow-up cooperation projects between the several parties, such as the follow-up research and development plan for this new lithium-ion battery. Through the research and discussion of the expert group, there is still room for further in-depth research on this technology.
So in this regard, they will set up a dedicated laboratory and research team to take charge of projects in this area.
After sorting out these relationships and obtaining relevant agreements, Wu Hao and the others were finally able to take relevant actions. Because they were worried about this aspect before, they had not made any big moves.
Now there is finally a result, so the day after getting the news, Wu Hao directly reached an agreement with Binzhou Yinfeng New Energy Co., Ltd. to acquire 83.7% of the other party's shares for 370 million plus new lithium-ion battery technology.
At this point, Binzhou Yinfeng New Energy Co., Ltd. has become a holding company under Haoyu Technology, and its name will be changed to Haoyu Technology Binzhou Lithium Battery Manufacturing Factory.
Binzhou Yinfeng New Energy Co., Ltd. is actually not large in scale. The company is actually just a factory. There is only one lithium-ion battery production factory in Binzhou, and it can only be regarded as medium-sized in the lithium battery industry.
Although there have been no major breakthroughs in lithium-ion battery technology in recent years, there have been great innovations in some manufacturing technologies and production processes.
This has also led to the rapid expansion of large and powerful companies in this industry, while some small and medium-sized enterprises are in a more difficult situation under the squeeze of large companies.
Without new manufacturing technology and production processes, they naturally have no advantage in cost, which also makes them unable to compete with those large manufacturing companies in the market.
As a result, the company is not only unprofitable but also in a state of deficit. The more it produces, the more it suffers. Seeing this, shareholders are unwilling to invest more money to speed up production technology, which makes the company's operations more difficult.
The more difficult it is for a company to operate, the profit-seeking shareholders will have the idea of withdrawing their capital and shares, which makes the company's operations even more difficult.
Therefore, after Wu Hao's new battery technology was exposed, the most active ones were not the large companies, but the small and medium-sized enterprises. They knew that if this battery technology fell into the hands of those large companies, they would not even be able to survive.
There is no way to survive.
On the contrary, this large enterprise, because it seizes a large amount of market resources, is the last thing to want to change. Therefore, these enterprises were still somewhat resistant to this new battery technology at first.
However, they still sent someone to get in touch with Wu Hao and the others, but this attitude can be imagined.
Therefore, Wu Hao and his colleagues this time set their sights on medium-sized enterprises with an annual output of 400 MWh to 1,000 MWh. They are too small for him to look at, and too large for them and too costly for him to swallow.
Therefore, these medium-sized companies are most suitable for them. Anyway, this battery will face the high-end market for some time in the future, so the output will not be too high.
This is not only Wu Hao's strategy, but also the suggestion of relevant departments. They hope to use this method to make a smooth transition instead of disrupting the entire market order.
There are many companies in the same situation as Binzhou Yinfeng New Energy Co., Ltd., and this time they have become the main targets of Wu Hao and others' screening and inspection.
Therefore, after the acquisition project of Binzhou Yinfeng New Energy Co., Ltd. is quickly completed, this will undoubtedly shock the entire industry.
The fact that Wu Hao and others were able to finalize this acquisition so quickly shows their determination to enter the lithium battery industry, which has also caused worries to some large companies in this industry.
But now various patented technologies are firmly in the hands of Wu Hao and others, which gives these large companies some headaches. Since they sincerely want to enter this industry, how can they share their trump cards with them?
Now, no more than in previous years, the laws on patent protection and intellectual property rights are becoming more and more perfect, supervision is becoming more and more strict, and related penalties are increasing. Unless you use formal channels to obtain the right to use relevant patents,
Either organize scientific research forces to conquer patent fortresses, or imitate similar patented technologies.
But the former is difficult, and the latter is even harder.
