Chapter 053 Branch Set Sail
Caragua Island.
"Boss, this is the latest information provided by Yang Mengjiao." Philip handed him a thick document.
Li Qingye read it carefully.
At the end of February , the Qingye Group (Hongsawady Branch) led by Ma Chi, Liu Zhifan and Yang Mengjiao went to Yangon City in Hongsawady through various channels.
After more than two months of hard work, we first set up a branch in Yangon City, and then went to Taninthayi Province, the southernmost part of Hongsawady, to start investment and construction.
The current headquarters is located in Dawei, the capital of Taninthayi Region, and several small islands have been purchased in the area.
Yang Mengjiao has successfully dealt with both the local black and white circles. Such a small place is indeed very easy to infiltrate.
The mission of the second branch now is to continue to develop for a period of time, build up the glass and cement industries of the Aoba Group, and at the same time increase its penetration into Hongsawadi.
At this time in Tuwa District.
Aoba Group, which directly acquired a large number of buildings, used one of the five-story buildings as its temporary headquarters building.
In the internal division of labor, Liu Zhifan is responsible for business and part of internal management, Ma Chi is responsible for technology and part of internal management, and Yang Mengjiao is responsible for internal supervision and cooperates with the security department's infiltration work.
Normally, Yang Mengjiao is like .
Now in the conference room, there are six Spider Web managers including Liu Zhifan and Ma Chi.
"Zhifan, has the batch of grinding equipment arrived?" Ma Chi asked.
Liu Zhifan nodded and said, "Once we arrived at Tuva Port, we completed the installation and commissioning within half a month. All the equipment was professionally customized from China."
"I have also completed three test breeding pools. The current production is in good condition and meets the technical indicators." Ma Chi said as he called up the data from the biological computer and projected it on the [Colorful Butterfly Screen].
The colorful butterfly screen attached to the wall of the conference room shows a photo of the breeding pool.
The director of the craft department took out several boxes containing recently produced glass products.
The proportions of products produced in the three cultivation pools are different depending on the set gene sequences.
They are: glass bottles, flat glass, and tempered glass products.
Ma Chi explained: "Flat glass is the simplest to produce and takes the shortest time to incubate. This type of glass is slightly harder than the flat glass on the market, but its other physical and chemical properties are basically the same."
From a series of photos of the cultivation pool, people can see the entire cultivation process of flat glass.
The filtered seawater is introduced into the cultivation pool, and then an appropriate amount of silica powder and other auxiliary materials (such as colorants, modifiers, clarifiers, etc.) are added.
After all the raw materials are injected, the water temperature is maintained between 35.8 and 37.2 degrees Celsius. Finally, special hormones and nutrient solution are added, and the glass sponge will quickly enter the growth state.
After 45 hours, the glass at the bottom of the culture tank will be 5 mm thick, and the raw materials will be almost exhausted, leaving only some waste liquid and living sponge cells.
Use a grabbing device to take out the glass and remove the sponge cells attached to the surface. A piece of flat glass with a length, width and thickness of 3 meters and 5 mm is completed.
As for the sponge cells in the cultivation pool, except for the mother matrix at the bottom, all the remaining living cells are removed and used as raw materials .
As for the waste liquid, it is actually seawater with relatively low nutrient content and salt content, which can be directly discharged into the sea.
In fact, you can also use fresh water directly for production, but doing so will increase production costs. After all, fresh water is not as cheap as seawater, and the use of fresh water requires the addition of other elements, which will further increase costs.
However, the advantage of low-temperature glass technology is that the production cost is low enough.
Ma Chi continued, "According to the test results, the cost of low-temperature glass is mainly concentrated in nutrient solution, hormones and ground silica powder. The equipment cost is much lower than that of high-temperature glass."
"How much lower than high-temperature glass?" Liu Zhifan was very concerned about this question.
"The cost is 85-96% lower, which means that in the initial stage we can impact the entire Southeast Asian and South Asian glass market with low prices."
Liu Zhifan wrote down these data: "What about glass bottles and tempered glass?"
"The cost of glass bottles of specific shapes will be higher than that of flat glass, and tempered glass requires secondary processing and the raw materials also need to be adjusted. The cost is about 50% to 60% of that of ordinary tempered glass." Ma Chi said like an expert.
Others also reported on the situation in their own departments.
Since the production process of low-temperature glass and coral cement is different from traditional technology, it not only reduces energy consumption, but also reduces the amount of production equipment required on the production line.
For example, the production line of low-temperature glass only needs a cultivation tank, a filling machine, a grabber, a water pump, a filter tank, a water temperature regulator, a post-production cell cleaning machine, a conveyor belt, a cutting workbench, as well as quartz stone mining equipment and grinding equipment.
The production line of Coral Cement is similar.
Qingye Group has enclosed a 50,000-acre wasteland near Tuwei Port and obtained the mining rights for local quartzite and limestone mines.
Establish a cement and glass production base here, and take advantage of the transportation convenience of Dawei Port to export glass products to South Asia and Southeast Asia.
However, Liu Zhifan understood that exporting foreign trade depends on cost-effectiveness and opportunities. Many companies have their own suppliers, and it is impossible to change suppliers all of a sudden just because Qingye Group offers low prices.
However, in the local market in Hongsavadi, those small glass factories are definitely no match for the Aoba Group.
But he didn't want to rely solely on glass and cement. After , Liu Zhifan came up with his own plan: "I plan to enter the beverage industry, and the fast-moving consumer goods industry is even better."
"Fast-moving consumer goods? Beverages?" Ma Chi frowned. He really didn't know much about this.
Liu Zhifan smiled and reminded: "We have an advantage that other beverage companies don't have, a huge advantage."
"Glass bottle?" Ma Chi reacted.
"Yes, it's glass bottles. Do you know why glass bottles will be replaced by plastic bottles? Because of the difference in production costs. Glass bottles are heavier than plastic bottles and are easier to break, but the key is still the cost."
Liu Zhifan took out a document and put it on the screen.
"This is the cost difference between glass bottles and plastic bottles. Although glass bottles can be recycled and reused to reduce some costs, the cost of traditional glass bottles is still high."
He pulled up another document: "This is the current packaging cost on the market. Whether it is a plastic bottle or a Tetra Pak, the cost is not low."
"It's indeed not low." It was also the first time that Ma Chi discovered that the packaging cost of a box of milk actually accounted for about 20 to 30% of the sales price.
Liu Zhifan said confidently: "The production cost of our glass bottles is much lower than that of plastic bottles. Even if we sell mineral water, we can crush other companies."
"Selling mineral water?" The director of the process department thought about it and found that the mineral water production process was not difficult. They only needed to import a set of water treatment equipment and a set of tinplate bottle cap production line, and they could basically set up a mineral water production line.
At that time, they will first launch a price war to crush their peers in Hongsavadi, and then enter the entire Southeast Asian market by relying on their technological and price advantages, and they will be able to completely dominate the beverage industry.
Soon Ma Chi and others agreed to Liu Zhifan's beverage strategy.
They will sort out these things and report to the headquarters regularly.
