Chapter 14 Casing
Song Yuanchao understood the difficulties faced by Jiang Dongliang and the others. If what they said was true, it was indeed not their problem.
"In this situation, doesn't your factory have any other solutions?" Song Yuanchao thought for a moment and asked curiously.
Jiang Dongliang shook his head and sighed to Song Yuanchao: "What can I say... Forget it, let's not talk about it anymore."
Although Jiang Dongliang complained in his heart, as an employee he didn't want to talk about the right and wrong of his factory in front of outsiders. However, although Jiang Dongliang didn't say anything, Wei Xuejun next to him couldn't help it.
"Comrade Xiao Song, you don't know that our factory director is from the army. He's not a bad person, but he doesn't understand technology and is used to doing things in a simple and rough way. His way of doing things may work in the army, but we are a factory. The problem with the product this time is actually..."
"Ahem, Xiao Wei!"
Jiang Dongliang stopped Wei Xuejun before he could finish his words. Seeing this, Song Yuanchao secretly laughed in his heart. Jiang Dongliang was still an old fox. Although he seemed to be flawless on the surface, he had already expressed what should and should not be said through Wei Xuejun. He was indeed an old supply and marketing expert who had worked for more than 20 years.
Song Yuanchao looks like a 24-year-old young man, but in reality he is almost 70 years old and has a lot of experience.
In his previous life, Song Yuanchao started as a temporary worker and worked his way up to become a middle-level cadre at the Shanghai District Telephone Bureau. What had he not seen and met in his lifetime?
This person says one thing to one person and another thing to another person. When it comes to office political struggles, Song Yuanchao is considered an "old player". Can this be hidden from him?
However, since Jiang Dongliang did this on purpose, Song Yuanchao naturally pretended not to know and followed Wei Xuejun's words and showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.
"This is what has happened after all this fuss. Chief Jiang , Comrade Wei, this is really putting you in a difficult position."
"Well, what can we do about it? We still have to do our work. Just like the factory director said, no matter how difficult it is, we have to create conditions to get on with it."
After comforting Jiang Dongliang and the others, Song Yuanchao was also curious about the products of Liangxi Plastic Factory and asked a few questions.
Jiang Dongliang, who was in charge of supply and marketing, didn't know much about the technology, so he couldn't explain it clearly at the moment, but he had samples with him, so he immediately asked Wei Xuedong to take the samples out of his luggage and show them to Song Yuanchao.
"Xiao Song, take a look." Jiang Dongliang handed over a few bundles of PVC tubes and said, "This is our product. The third and fourth factories have tested it and said the quality is substandard, so they refuse to purchase it."
After taking the PVC casing, Song Yuanchao fiddled with it for a few times. There were three colors of casing, red, green and blue. The internal diameter of the casing was about eight millimeters. If Song Yuanchao guessed correctly, such casing was used as the outer sleeve of six millimeters single-strand single-core copper wire.
Song Yuanchao had worked as a line operator at the telephone bureau for many years in his previous life, so he was no stranger to this kind of casing. From the outside, the color of the casing was very bright, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with it to the naked eye.
But after Song Yuanchao took a closer look, he frowned slightly, and then asked Jiang Dongliang if he could try the tube. After obtaining Jiang Dongliang's consent, Song Yuanchao took one of the tubes, held both ends with both hands and pulled it. After pulling it, he looked at the strength of the tube, and then asked the other party if he had any scissors.
"Yes, yes, I have it." Wei Xuedong nodded and took off a bunch of keys from his belt. There was a pair of travel scissors hanging on the key ring.
Taking it, opening the scissors, Song Yuanchao cut off a small piece of the casing, then looked carefully at the cut cross-section, and then struck a match and burned the casing.
Soon, a cloud of black smoke with a strong burnt smell rose in the room. Song Yuanchao pinched it out with his fingers, then pinched the burnt sleeve with two fingers, and he felt relieved.
"The test results show that your product has high eccentricity and poor voltage resistance?"
"Yes, yes, Xiao Song, how did you know that?" Song Yuanchao's words immediately surprised Jiang Dongliang and Wei Xuejun. They saw Song Yuanchao fiddle with it for a few times, then burned it with a match and said the same test results as those of Factory 3 and Factory 4. This was really unimaginable.
Could it be that this young man is actually a master in this field? Thinking of this, Jiang Dongliang suddenly felt that there might be a chance. Since Song Yuanchao could see the problem, maybe he could help solve the difficulties they faced?
"hehe……"
Song Yuanchao smiled and did not explain. In fact, this is all experience. To put it bluntly, it can be summed up in one sentence: "Nothing special, just practice makes perfect."
In his previous life, he worked in the telephone bureau for his entire life. Especially for employees like Song Yuanchao who had worked their way up from the grassroots, he did have some judgment.
This batch of casings may seem normal, but the quality of the casings is seriously problematic. The reasons for the problems are nothing more than two points : one is the ratio of raw materials, and the other is the production process.
Song Yuanchao was unable to solve these two problems because he had never worked in a plastics factory and was not familiar with the details of the ratio and production process. However, as a long-term Party A engineer, it did not prevent him from making such accurate judgments.
No wonder the third and fourth factories were unwilling to purchase this batch of casings. Judging from the quality of this batch of casings, it would be no small matter once they were used.
Although the casing is not the outer covering of the wire, it also has similar requirements. Poor quality will usually lead to serious consequences such as leakage, high temperature resistance, and even spontaneous combustion, which can be a big deal.
"The quality problems of this batch of products are very serious. I can say that no factory dares to purchase such casing for normal use. Once something goes wrong, the person responsible will lose his head." Song Yuanchao solemnly told Jiang Dongliang and others the consequences. Jiang Dongliang still had hope the moment before, but the next moment he was thrown into the abyss by Song Yuanchao's words.
Jiang Dongliang and Wei Xuejun's faces turned pale instantly, and they looked at each other with a hint of despair.
Even Song Yuanchao said so, it seemed that this batch of products was completely waste. When they thought of so many finished products in the factory and the factory director and colleagues who were eagerly waiting, they didn't know what to do for a moment.
"Chief Jiang, how many casings have you produced in total?" Song Yuanchao asked.
Jiang Dongliang opened his mouth but didn't say anything. Wei Xuedong spoke bitterly, "One color, five hundred thousand meters. One roll, one hundred meters. Five thousand rolls..."
"So many?" Song Yuanchao was slightly surprised. There were 5,000 rolls of a single color, which meant there were 15,000 rolls of three colors, which was a huge amount of 1.5 million meters.
Seeing Jiang Dongliang nodding silently with a gloomy face, Song Yuanchao asked again: "How much is one roll?"
"Ten...ten yuan..."
“What about the cost?”
Jiang Dongliang swallowed his saliva and said with difficulty: "Eight yuan..."
Regardless of whether the cost Jiang Dongliang mentioned was true or not, let's just assume it was true. Song Yuanchao quickly calculated in his mind. According to the cost of a single roll, Jiang Dongliang's factory invested 120,000 yuan in this batch of goods. If calculated based on the sales price, the value of this batch of goods sold would be 150,000 yuan.
This amount would not be considered too much in ten or twenty years. If it were placed in the 21st century, this money would be nothing at all. Most ordinary families could easily come up with it. But in this era, it is a huge sum of money. You have to know that the average worker in Shanghai only earns 20 or 30 yuan a month.
Liangxi Plastic Factory is not a large state-owned factory. Once this batch of goods becomes scrap, the loss will be considerable, and the factory may even be unable to recover.
In fact, materials such as PVC can be reused, but the re-production of waste materials requires higher technology and more reasonable formulas. The technical level of Liangxi Plastic Factory is worrying. It cannot even guarantee the quality of this batch of products, and naturally it is impossible to adopt a high-tech recycling production model.
There is no talk of business bankruptcy at present. Even collective factories belong to the state. However, if a factory suffers such a huge loss, it will inevitably have serious consequences. Not only will it bring serious losses to the country, but the factory director may be held accountable and dismissal from his post is the lightest punishment. As for Jiang Dongliang and Wei Xuejun, their outcomes are probably not much better.
