"How can there be such a company in the world? Can't they just focus on doing something serious?" said Tsutsune Kato, the Chinese branch of Kurita Kogyo Co., Ltd., shook the information about Katani's environmental protection business in his hand and complained with resentment.

Not long ago, he pinned his hopes on belittling Katani to raise Kurita's popularity, but now it seems that how he was once overwhelmed by rolling self-confidence, and now how he is overwhelmed by rolling remorse.

In keeping with the tradition of island companies attaching importance to intelligence, after returning to the company, Tsuneichi Kato asked the investigation department to collect information on Kaya Water's business.

Although this is the most familiar job of the Investigation Department, obtaining information, analyzing data, and giving conclusions...... But they have gathered very little information about Jiagu Water's technical capabilities.

They can't be blamed for that.

For Kurita Industries, their power in China is already weak, and who would focus on a company that is not a peer at all? Not to mention that Jiagu is already low-key in the water business, and it would be difficult for them to hand over a detailed document related to Jiagu Water in a short period of time.

Not surprisingly, the Kurita Industrial Survey Department collects the most information in the field of soil remediation, another of Kaya's other key areas of environmental protection.

But just the information related to soil remediation is enough to make Kato Heng feel a chill in the back of his neck.

By the end of last year, the soil quality in the Xiangjiang River basin had improved significantly, and the concentration of mercury, cadmium, lead, arsenic and chromium in the soil in the main polluted areas had dropped by 90% compared with 2009, which is almost a perfect model for soil remediation. ”

"Of course, that's not the point. The key is the bioremediation method adopted by Jiagu Group in this process, which can be called the biggest change in the field of soil remediation in China in recent years, and their heavy metal super-enrichment phytoremediation model, which can quickly restore vegetation and landscape while removing heavy metals from the soil. ”

The information in the data obviously stung Kato Heng's eyeballs, and he said in a low voice: "The question now is, can Kaya really replicate this model in the water field?"

After reading the information, Hiroshimatsu Hirano, the new CTO of the branch, smiled reluctantly and said, "Well, judging from Jiagu's strength in phytoremediation of heavy metal pollution, they have a good set of biological breeding. You know, there are more than 400 kinds of plants that can accumulate excessive amounts of heavy metals in the world, but Jiagu is almost the only one that can improve plant traits in large quantities through breeding and genetic engineering to make them more suitable for phytoremediation. I don't know how they did it, but I honestly don't doubt that they have the strength to replicate the same success in the water sector. ”

Although Hiromatsu Hirano is not as qualified as the senior technical experts in the company's headquarters, he also happened to be one of the technical experts in the company's soil remediation business unit before he was transferred to China, and he has a deeper understanding of Jiagu's bioremediation methods.

Yes, although water treatment is the core of Kurita Industry's development, Kurita Industry also has a soil remediation business, and it is very simple that groundwater purification is often inseparable from soil remediation.

Hiromatsu Hirano considers purely from a scientific point of view: "Whether it is soil remediation or water treatment, bioremediation is nothing more than the use of microorganisms and phytoremediation. As far as we know, we have only some accumulation in microbial methods at most, and Jiagu has clearly created a fairly successful model with a two-pronged approach, and I suggest that the company should also increase its research in this direction......"

"That's your business. What I want to know is that even if Jiagu replicates the same success in the water sector, does it have an advantage over us? Tsuneshi Kato interrupted Hiroshimatsu Hirano solemnly.

Hirano Hiromatsu pondered for a moment, did not dare to give a categorical answer, and said cautiously: "It's hard to judge, but you know, as long as their sewage plant purification technology can reach the level of soil phytoremediation, I guess there is a 50% chance that it will be lower than our input cost......"

Kato Heng gritted his teeth, this is not good news.

Hirano Hiromatsu said that there was a 50% chance of it, but the situation was unclear, and the wisest choice was to anticipate the enemy's wideness, and Kato Heng could no longer hope that he could fight for Katani.

As a result, the likelihood of Kurita Kogyo winning the largest water environment treatment project in Hubei Province to date is low.

Although Kurita Kogyo hopes to fully enter the huge Chinese market through this project, it is almost impossible for the headquarters to agree to do a loss-making business, and the pressure he is under is absolutely different from that of Qi Zheng.

Qi Zheng can even win the project without making a profit, or keep the profit to the minimum, because even if the scale of the water treatment business in the Jiagu system doubles, it will not rank in the top five, in other words, people don't live on it at all.

That's pretty hooligan.

Kato Heng couldn't help but curse: "You say that they are honest grain merchants, aren't they afraid of getting eggs across so many fields? Soil remediation is related to the main business, and I can understand it, and now the water affairs are intervening again......

The point is that people are still doing a good job. In China, at least, Kaya is already one of Kurita's most serious competitors.

Hirano Hiromatsu looked at Tsuneshi Kato's changing expression, touched his head, and said in a low voice, "Actually, I think we can try to cooperate with Katani." After all, water environment governance is a comprehensive system project, which requires the collaboration of different disciplines. I admit that Kagu has an advantage in plant physiology, but this advantage is not enough to nibble on the next big project ......"

Kato Heng rubbed his nose and couldn't speak.

Admittedly, Hirano Hiromatsu has a point. If he had this understanding before he provoked Qi Zheng, he would have accepted this suggestion with great satisfaction.

But now, if not to say that there is no chance at all, at least the chance is slim.

Unless Kurita Industry spares no expense, Qi Zheng has a partner to work with, so why choose an extremely unfriendly opponent?

Kato Heng muttered to himself in his heart: What kind of pig brain did I have at the time, would I find such an iron plate to kick?

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The same thing is a completely different mood for the leading water enterprises such as Beijing Enterprises Water, Guangdong Water and Capital Water.

Give them 300 pig brains, and I can't imagine that someone in China will run to develop a new system of water treatment technology.

If they were given 600 pig brains, they would not have imagined that Jiagu said that the development of a new system would really result in an annual and efficient aquatic plant purification and restoration system.

After all, to become a leading domestic water enterprise, there is a deep awe for the innovation of the water treatment technology system - every breakthrough in key technical points does not need to be accumulated for more than ten years or decades.

In 1881, French scientists invented the first bioreactor and the first anaerobic biological treatment tank, which opened the prelude to biological treatment of wastewater;

It was not until 1916 that the first activated sludge sewage treatment plant was officially established in the United States. The birth of the activated sludge method has laid the foundation for urban sewage treatment technology in the next 100 years;

In 1950, after scientists successfully trial-produced an ion exchange membrane with high selectivity for the first time, electrodialysis technology entered the practical stage, laying the foundation for the practical application of electrodialysis.

In the following decades, the oxidation ditch process, the A/O process, and the sequential batch activated sludge method were developed one after another, and the technology began to be integrated......

It can be seen that with the passage of time, the technology has become more and more powerful, but the water treatment technology has always been a technology mastered by foreign countries. International water giants such as Veolia, Suez Environnement, and Kurita Industries have strong technical reserve capabilities, can survive and grow in the downward phase of the global industrial cycle, and create excess returns with their forward-looking and high-quality technologies and products.

If it is just a close second, it is expected to close the gap and overtake in the corner...... It's a lot of thinking.

Still, they didn't think about building another water treatment technology system on top of the bio-decontamination method, and in fact, they didn't hear anything like that from other companies.

However, compared to Kurita Kogyo facing the shock as an entry-level player, the domestic water giants are "accustomed to the shock of Kaya's results".

Kurita Industry is still just seeing flowers in the fog, and BEWG even personally sent people to Jiagu to carefully inspect the soil remediation area in the Xiangjiang River Basin, and they have long been "surprised and surprised" about Jiagu's bioremediation system.

With the further development of sustainable development ideas and modern ecological concepts, no matter how stupid people are, they can see the advantages of Jiagu's new and maturing system.

Therefore, the heads of several domestic water giants almost pounced on them like flies smelling meat when they received an olive branch thrown by Qi Zheng - "do you want to cooperate".

The reason why he was able to suppress the last impulse was because he didn't know how big Qi Zheng's appetite was.

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