Chapter 202 Inheriting the Excellent Tradition of the Chip Ban (6.4K)
"What did you say?"
In the dean's office.
Looking at Xu Yun and Gu Qunqing who came together.
Tian Liangwei's brows were knitted together at this time, and his tone was filled with confusion and anger:
"Why is this happening?"
Not long ago.
He had just finished approving a project report in the hospital when he received a message from Xu Yun:
Nutrien Company refuses to provide FOERDA-T632 sequence production lines to Huadun Biotech!
Mentioned before.
The production process of ‘One Beetle Killer’ is divided into two parts:
One part is the cyclization-structuring production link, and the other part is the filling production link.
The former has high technical content, while the latter has low technical content.
For the latter, Xu Yun and others chose TC708 from Modu Chemical for filling production.
The cost of the entire set of equipment is very low. The total price of the fourteen sets of modules is only over 200,000 Chinese coins, and there is a three-year technical extended warranty.
The cyclization-structuration process involves the production of 10-epoxy-3,6-ecosadiene, which includes nickel acetate/sodium borohydride catalytic hydrogenation, Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation, and alkyl epoxy.
Reactions such as rearrangements and so on, so the equipment requirements are very high.
In the current international chemical industry.
Only the FOERDA-T632 sequence equipment of Nutrien Company of Maple Leaf Country meets the requirements of Xu Yun and others.
Although Nutrien had a certain premium in terms of selling price at the time, the 30% premium happened to be at a level that was neither embarrassing nor embarrassing.
In addition, currently no domestic company has the production capacity and experience for related equipment.
Therefore, Xu Yun and others could only record this account in a small book and then purchased the other party's equipment.
However, what Xu Yun and others did not expect was...
After deciding to expand the production line.
Gu Qunqing sent an email of intention to the other party as usual, preparing to discuss increasing production capacity.
But unexpectedly, just two hours later, the manager received a reply in his mailbox:
Nutien refuses to provide any more production equipment, including but not limited to all equipment between FOERDA-T632 and FOERDA-T646.
At the bottom of the email is a large official seal and the signature of the board of directors.
True at first sight.jpg.
This email is undoubtedly disastrous news for Huadun Biotech, which is just getting on the right track.
It means one thing:
If Xu Yun and others can't find a replacement equipment manufacturer, then the average daily production capacity of "One Mantis" will always stagnate at today's level.
Today's daily volume is 20,000 pieces per day, and the cost is calculated as ten yuan, which works out to 6 million yuan per day.
This is obviously a situation that is unacceptable to everyone.
So after receiving the news.
Gu Qunqing immediately contacted Xu Yun, took him to Tian Liangwei's office, and informed Tian Liangwei of the situation.
After all, Tian Liangwei is a big man who has seen the storm. After the initial surprise, his expression quickly returned to normal and he asked seriously:
"Manager Gu, why did the other party send this email? Do you know the reason?"
"Not to mention whether this approach violates trade laws, at least there are some logical problems, right? How can we not do business?"
"Could it be that they are taking advantage of the opportunity to raise prices, so they are deliberately putting psychological pressure on us?"
Gu Qunqing shook his head when he heard this and took out a document from his body:
"Academician Tian, look at this."
Tian Liangwei took the document, adjusted his glasses, and read it carefully.
After a while.
He raised his head in surprise and opened his eyes slightly:
"Wassenaar Agreement?"
Gu Qunqing nodded, exhaled a long breath, and affirmed:
"That's right, the FOERDA-T632 equipment entered the Wassenaar Agreement list early the morning before yesterday."
Tian Liangwei slapped the document on the table:
"These bastards!"
Students who like to read industrial literature should know one thing.
Whenever the history of China's industry is mentioned, people often add the attributive phrase "glory mixed with blood and tears" in front of it.
Among all these, the fundamental reason why China's industrial development is mixed with blood and tears is naturally the hostility from abroad.
The direct barrier to this kind of emergence in the past is the many embargo regulations.
For example, the famous Batumi.
Batumi's official name is the "Export Control Coordination Committee", which was secretly established in November 1949 on the proposal from across the sea.
Because it is headquartered in Paris, it is often called the "Paris Coordinating Committee".
Batumi is a product of the Cold War. It is an unofficial international organization gathered by developed industrial countries in Europe and the United States in the field of international trade after World War II.
Its purpose is simple:
Restrict member states from exporting strategic materials and high technologies to social countries.
Included in the embargo list are tens of thousands of products in three categories including military weapons and equipment, cutting-edge technology products and rare materials.
Due to the restrictions in Batumi, many of our equipment can only be developed from scratch to break the monopoly step by step.
There are many companies that have successfully broken through, and most of them have now become the dumplings of the Republic's industry.
But more of them are piles of corpses piled under the banner of glory.
1994.
Batumi was disbanded.
But not long after, the West came up with a new agreement:
Wassenaar Agreement.
The Wassenaar Arrangement, also known as the Wassenaar Arrangement, is called the Wassenaar Arrangement.
Eagle, Neon, and John Bull are all signatories, more than forty in total.
China ranks first among the verification targets of the Wassenaar Agreement.
Despite the provisions of the Wassenaar Arrangement, member states decide on their own whether to issue export licenses for sensitive products and technologies and notify other member states of relevant information on a voluntary basis.
But in fact.
The "arrangement" is completely controlled by Eagle.
For example, 2004.
Czech officials had approved the sale of 10 "Vela" radar systems by Czech Arms Export to Rabbit with a total value of US$55.7 million, but under pressure from across the sea, the Czech Republic eventually canceled the contract.
year 2006.
China has also signed a cooperation agreement with Italy's Alenia Space Company to launch Italian satellites.
However, due to interference from across the sea, the Italian side ultimately canceled the cooperation agreement at the expense of economic and credibility losses.
Another example is now.
Currently, all the top 15 semiconductor equipment suppliers in the world are restricted by the Wassenaar Agreement, so we cannot buy the most advanced chip manufacturing equipment.
Therefore, domestic companies can only cooperate with the Belgian Microelectronics Research Center, IMEC, to save the country through a curve:
IMEC first buys equipment from ASML Applied Materials, and after 5 years of use, it meets the requirements of the Wassenaar Agreement, and then resells it to domestic companies.
Five years is enough time for semiconductors to upgrade the market three times.
This is the fundamental reason why our domestic chips are lagging behind. You can’t buy new equipment at all.
As for the Wassenaar Agreement, it is one-on-one sanctions.
For example, as everyone knows, Warwick is like this, which is a comprehensive technical blockade.
Now that FOERDA-T632 has entered the embargo list, it is reasonable for Nutrien to refuse to sell it.
However, after figuring out the reason for Nutrien's refusal, Tian Liangwei's brows still did not loosen, and he still had some doubts in his heart:
"It's strange, why did FOERDA-T632 enter the Wassenaar Agreement so quickly?"
"Our products have just been released. Do we need to make such a big fanfare?"
"With great fanfare?"
Gu Qunqing sighed with a bitter smile and explained:
"Academician Tian, this is the biggest mistake we collectively made. We ignored the special nature of 'one beetle kill'."
Tian Liangwei couldn't help but have a question mark on his head:
"Special properties?"
Gu Qunqing nodded slowly and said with emotion:
"This product of ours can be regarded as the only product with the possibility of monopoly in the field of biochemical industry since the founding of the People's Republic of China. In science fiction terms, it is a dimensionality reduction attack."
"And monopoly represents the right to speak. Do you think those people can give us this kind of room for growth?"
After speaking, he paused, looked at Tian Liangwei who was thoughtful, and continued to add:
"The first time we purchased equipment was more than ten days ago. At that time, our competitors didn't understand our production process and didn't know which company we would cooperate with.
"It's impossible for them to put all chemical companies on the embargo list, so we can successfully purchase three FOERDA-T632 equipment."
"As soon as our acquisition contract is signed and papers and patents are released simultaneously, those people will naturally know that our cooperation partner is Nutrien."
After speaking, he pointed to the document and continued:
"The current Secretary-General of the Vienna Contact Point of the Wassenaar Agreement is Mitsuo Itabashi, a neon man, and it will not be difficult to push the equipment to be included in the list."
"They were prepared for the embargo from the very beginning, so it has nothing to do with the time of product release. They have already been targeting us."
"If hackers can't get in, then we will use practical means to limit our development."
Tian Liangwei looked at the documents in front of him and fell into silence.
really.
As Gu Qunqing said.
The opponents of Huadun Biotech did not start targeting them after the product was released.
In fact, starting from the live broadcast of the disinfecting of HKUST, or even from the accident in Building 14, those opponents have been eyeing Huadun Biotech.
If Chang Licheng hadn't been astute at that time, Wang Zhaomin might have deceived the sample away.
Foreign enemies, foreign enemies.
The word enemy can illustrate that everything is not a fair competition, but a battlefield!
Think of this.
Xu Yun on the side also sighed quietly.
Actually.
Huadun Biotech has made sufficient preparations in all aspects. Whether it is public opinion, public relations or network security, there are almost no loopholes to speak of.
But who would have thought that the other party would not respect military ethics and would shamelessly cause trouble with the equipment?
It's like two restaurants competing. A restaurant with good craftsmanship is prepared for the other party to come to the door to quarrel, spread rumors in the neighborhood, and even go out to splash evil blood at night.
As a result, the other party directly used their connections to stop the vegetable farmers from delivering vegetables to you. Who would have thought of this?
This is beyond the scope of business competition or "black people" and is simply shameless.
On the other hand.
The direct reason for those people doing this is naturally that they do not want Huadun Biotech to seize the market and form a monopoly.
But the deeper reason, such as why the Wassenaar Agreement can take effect, is because they do not want to see any Chinese companies stand up.
They are like overseers standing at the edge of a deep pit.
Whenever a hand struggled up from the bottom of the pit, they would stretch out their feet with a grin and trample it heavily.
It wasn't until their palms couldn't support themselves that they completely loosened up, and as the climbers below fell into the deep pit, they would spit hard at the bottom of the pit and start patrolling their territory again.
There is a saying that goes well.
For the mainland, there are only two countries in the world, China and foreign countries.
This is not unreasonable.
Think of this.
Tian Liangwei couldn't help but look up at Xu Yun and asked:
"Xiao Xu, what are you going to do next?"
Xu Yun was silent for a moment, his face looking a little solemn:
"Teacher, first of all, we must be sure that Nutrien's situation is obviously not an exception."
"I confirmed with Aaron on the way here that there are currently only seven foreign companies with production technology in the cyclization-texturization link, and without exception they are all companies that are members of the Wassenaar Agreement."
"If nothing else, these seven companies will not provide us with relevant production equipment."
"So now our only option is"
“Look for domestic products!”
"Domestic?"
Hearing this word, Tian Liangwei was stunned for a moment, then frowned:
"Xiao Xu, the cyclization-structuration process involves transition metal catalysis and cyclic skeleton spirocyclization reactions. This is a technology that has only become popular in 17 years."
"Laboratory preparation is definitely no problem. There are many laboratories in China that can do it."
"But if we want to add this kind of link to the production equipment, it may be difficult to find a suitable manufacturer in China."
As the executive director of Huadun Biotech, Tian Zhigang also contributed some efforts in the company's preparatory stage.
So he knew it very well.
Among the current domestic chemical manufacturers, few companies can be found that have the ability to add cyclization-structuring links to their production lines.
Otherwise they wouldn't have chosen Nutrien in the first place.
True.
If you let companies like Huaxia Petrochemical invest heavily in research and development, it's not like they can't break down technical barriers.
But this kind of customized research and development requires a lot of money, and time is not something Xu Yun and the others can afford.
According to Xu Yun and Gu Qunqing's plan.
If you really can't find a suitable company, you can only use expensive experimental equipment to temporarily produce containers to forcefully expand production.
But this way.
The production cost of "One Mantis Killer" will be raised to an extremely terrifying figure. It is not known whether the profit of a finished product can be even one yuan.
So looking at Tian Liangwei who looked embarrassed, Xu Yun and Gu Qunqing looked at each other and tried their best to persuade:
"Teacher, if you think about it carefully, is there any domestic company that can do this?"
"If it really doesn't work, it's okay to charge a premium. Anyway, it's just for our local companies to make money."
Tian Liangwei's brows were still tightly knitted together, looking a little tangled.
Less than half a minute passed.
He still picked up the mouse and clicked on a website.
The name of this website is ‘Suiren’, which is an academic BBS under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Users can search some content on it, such as patents or journal progress, etc., as well as some relatively front-end scientific research progress.
Just enter the relevant information on Suiren.
Some content between the third review and the release will be displayed first to avoid collisions.
in short.
Website users do not have to wait for the final public stage, and can learn relevant information earlier than ordinary people.
Tian Liangwei then entered a string of 11-digit codes:
984867
The beginning 98 is the industrial production serial number, which means that the search content is in the industrial field rather than laboratory results.
4 is the chemical code number.
8 represents a non-large container.
67 Ahem, you will have to report your ID card to the bureau later.
After a while.
Two pages of search results appeared in front of Tian Liangwei, with 10 results on each page.
These are all related to the search serial number, but most of them are marked foreign countries.
Then Tian Liangwei began to read slowly.
He had seen this search result more than a week ago and had a rough idea of the overall situation.
Theoretically, in such a short period of time, this unpopular technology would not have any major breakthroughs, so he was relatively relaxed this time.
But soon.
When scanning a certain column of content.
Tian Liangwei's expression suddenly condensed.
He let out a soft sigh, leaned forward slightly, and quickly opened the secondary connection.
A few seconds passed.
He suddenly raised his head from the screen and said to Xu Yun:
"Xiao Xu, good news, a state-owned enterprise made a breakthrough in the production conversion of Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation last week!"
Hear this.
Gu Qunqing was a little confused because of his lack of expertise, but Xu Yun's pupils shrank sharply.
In the cyclization-structuration link, there are two main processes that are most difficult to industrialize.
One is transition metal catalysis.
The second is Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation.
Both processes are relatively easy for standard laboratories, but have technical barriers that are very difficult for industrialization.
After all, the popularity of cyclization technology itself is not very high, let alone such derivative technologies.
Being able to break through any one of them means that it is possible to master the entire set of technologies in a short period of time.
After regaining consciousness.
Xu Yun quickly looked at Tian Liangwei and asked:
"Teacher, which factory is the other party?"
"Sinoma Technology? Or Lutai Holdings?"
Tian Liangwei shook his head slightly and said:
"neither."
"neither?"
Xu Yun was stunned:
"Who is that?"
Tian Liangwei turned the screen towards him and said:
"Hanhua Machinery Group, the person who submitted the technology was their factory director named Lin Zhenhua."
Note:
This embargo plot is adapted from real events, and its prototype is Shen Ji, one of the 18 Arhats.
There has been a wave of collaboration with Qi Da, and soon you should also be able to see Xu Yun in his books.
