In the garment factory, Wang Kaiping carried a box and walked into Li Weidong's office.

"Director, take a look, is this the sheep shearling you're looking for? Wang Kaiping put down the box and continued: "As long as we can find it on the market in Qinghe, I will get it for you." ”

"That's right, that's it. Li Weidong picked up a cashmere fabric, rubbed it in his hand, and said, "It's not soft enough!"

"I think it's okay, my military coat has a much stiffer fur collar than this. Wang Kaiping replied.

Li Weidong picked up a few other pieces of cashmere fabric, put them in his hand and rubbed them, and then frowned.

"No, it's too hard to use!" Li Weidong said.

"Factory director, I also bought all the cashmere fabrics that can be found on the market, and there should be no softer ones. Wang Kaiping said.

"To this extent, we Chinese must have no problem using it ourselves, if it is exported, foreigners will dislike it." Therefore, our new product needs to use softer cashmere fabric. Li Weidong sighed lightly.

"What should I do then?" asked Wang Kaiping.

"That's it for the fabric, we can't buy imported fabrics, and now we can only find a way from the softener, and we have to change the softener. Li Weidong thought about it, picked up a pen, wrote down a few things, and handed them to Wang Kaiping.

"Follow the above, help me buy some. Li Weidong said.

"Balances, beakers, volumetric flasks, thermometers, PH test strips......" Wang Kaiping raised his head: "You are going to do a chemical experiment!"

Li Weidong nodded: "You go buy equipment, I'll buy some raw materials, and we'll do experiments when we come back." ”

"What are you going to do?" Wang Kaiping asked subconsciously.

"Make a softener!" Li Weidong said, picking up the motorcycle key and walking out of the office.

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In his previous life, after Li Weidong ended his career as a trainee, he returned to China with more than 200,000 hard-earned money.

After Li Weidong inspected it, he decided to open a small chemical factory.

Li Weidong rented a factory building, bought a second-hand boiler, a second-hand reactor, a few stainless steel pipes, a few mixers, and a few electric stoves, even if it was a small workshop.

At that time, the first product Li Weidong made was a softener.

Softeners are chemicals that soften fibers, and when softened, textile products become softer, smoother and more comfortable to the touch. Softeners are used in many textile products, such as those that make hair softer.

The difficulty of making textile softener is not high, it is nothing more than the three main raw materials of stearic acid, epichlorohydrin and glacial acetic acid, plus all other auxiliary materials, heating and stirring for chemical reaction, the key is to master the PH value.

Li Weidong spent 30,000 yuan to hire a money-hungry engineer from a joint venture chemical plant in the Special Economic Zone, and learned how to produce softener.

Strictly speaking, Li Weidong's behavior of stealing teachers is an infringement of other people's patents.

But at that time, although there was already a patent law in China, it was almost like an ornament. There are thousands of small chemical factories like Li Weidong, and infringing on other people's patents is a common thing, even if the patentee wants to protect his rights, he can't sue him.

At that time, it was the mid-90s, and it was the time of the upgrading of the Asian tigers' industries, and many textile industries had migrated to China, which also led to a shortage of chemical products related to the textile system.

Li Weidong took this good opportunity to make a lot of money, and then had the capital to engage in the import and sale of second-hand construction machinery, but was pitted by the hydraulic equipment of Sakurada Co., Ltd.

In addition to the softener, Li Weidong's small chemical factory has three other main products, one is the tabletop glue, which is mainly used for the printing and dyeing of textile products, the other is the printing agent, which is also used for the printing and dyeing of textile products, and the third is the detergent, which is used for the pre-dyeing and post-dyeing cleaning of textile products.

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Li Weidong bought raw materials, Wang Kaiping bought beakers and other experimental equipment, and the two started experiments in Li Weidong's office.

After a while, the whole office was filled with a peculiar sour smell.

"Forgot to ask you to buy two gas masks to come back. Li Weidong said, and brought two towels, one wrapped around his mouth, and the other gave Wang Kaiping.

"Factory director, this smell is indeed a bit strong, it seems that after I go home today, your sister-in-law will definitely not let me go to bed." Wang Kaiping said.

The two chatted and experimented, and after a few hours, they finally made a softener full of a large beaker.

Li Weidong tore off a PH test strip, dipped it in the softener, then took it out, compared the color spectrum, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Which piece of cashmere material to go to, and then get a pair of scissors. Li Weidong opened his mouth and commanded.

Wang Kaiping found a piece of sheep shearling material, and Li Weidong used scissors to divide the material in two, and poured half of it with softener and began to soak it.

"Gotta find a hair dryer. Li Weidong continued.

"It's hard to find, I have one at home, now I'll get it home. Wang Kaiping said.

"Go on my motorcycle. Li Weidong directly handed the motorcycle key to Wang Kaiping.

Wang Kaiping rode Li Weidong's motorcycle, went back to get a hair dryer, and when Wang Kaiping returned, Li Weidong had already fished out the piece of sheep shearling material from the softener, and then cleaned it again.

"Here, let's blow dry it!" the two of them began to hold the hair dryer, drying the soft piece of cashmere material.

When the blow was dry, Wang Kaiping began to stroke half of the sheep shearling material with his hands.

"It feels really smoother than before!" Wang Kaiping sighed.

"Don't worry, wait a while and dry it completely, and compare it with the other half. Li Weidong said.

Eventually, the half of the cashmere material was blown dry.

Li Weidong held the soft cashmere material in his left hand, and the other half in his right hand, and pinched it at the same time, and it was really a huge gap.

"You try. Li Weidong handed two pieces of sheep shearling to Wang Kaiping.

Wang Kaiping rubbed it in his hand, and suddenly looked surprised: "It's become so soft! If you touch it simply, these are completely two pieces of material!"

"The material has become softer, and the hair on it has become fluffy and smooth, which is the quality that an export product should have!" Li Weidong nodded with satisfaction.

When Li Weidong opened a small chemical factory in his last life, it was already the mid-90s, and at that time, Li Weidong also used the process and production technology of the mid-90s, and the quality of the products also reached the level of the mid-90s.

This set of technology in the mid-nineties, placed in eighty-seven years, is definitely the top level in China, Li Weidong dares to guarantee, at least the chemical plant in the Qinghe area, can not produce such a good softener.

Li Weidong also thought about taking the formula of this softener, applying for a patent, and then selling it for money. But after thinking about it carefully, Li Weidong still rejected this idea.

The process of making softener is not difficult, but it is not difficult to learn it if you have a high school education level. So softener is also a chemical product that is easy to imitate.

In China, it is useless to register a patent for such an easily imitated thing. You just registered a patent today, and tomorrow a large group of people will follow your patent, launch imitations, and even upgrade imitations.

Many of these infringing imitations are produced by small private workshops, which do not even have a license for self-employed people, and it is impossible to protect their rights through legal channels.

Therefore, in China, the patented products that can be protected are those that are not easy to imitate.

For example, in various high-end manufacturing industries, if you don't have that technology, you can't make it if you want to use other people's technology, you can only obediently buy other people's products, or pay patent licensing fees.

The beaker softener that Li Weidong made in the laboratory can only be used as a sample, and if it is used on a large scale, it is expected that Li Weidong will do it in a beaker and a beaker, and it will have to be done in the Year of the Monkey!

If garment factories want to use softeners, they have to rely on industrial production.

For industrial production, it is necessary to have chemical production equipment, boilers for heating, reactors for reaction and stirring, etc., which are indispensable.

Li Weidong is in a hurry to attend the next Canton Fair, and he doesn't have time to rebuild a chemical plant to produce softeners, so the best way is to use other chemical factories in Qinghe to borrow chickens to lay eggs.

So the next day, Li Weidong came to the No. 2 Chemical Plant in Qinghe City.

The director of the No. 2 Chemical Plant in Qinghe City is named Han Hao, who is in his fifties this year. This Han Hao is a technical background, and when he was young, he was the workshop director of Qinghe Chemical General Plant.

Later, the second chemical plant was established in Qinghe area, and Han Hao took more than a dozen subordinates to build the second chemical plant, and later introduced some new products, which had a great tendency to compete with Qinghe Chemical General Plant.

Han Hao is also a ruthless person, since he became the factory director, he has promoted his henchmen and suppressed dissidents. The important positions in the second chemical plant are either Han Hao's henchmen or Han Hao's relatives. The entire No. 2 Chemical Plant is operated by Han Hao like an iron barrel, and it is difficult for outsiders to interfere.

The prefectural committee did not want such a one-word enterprise, and once sent people to the Second Chemical Plant to serve as leaders, but the leaders sent would soon be hollowed out by South Korea.

The entire No. 2 Chemical Plant was full of Han Hao's people, and when the new leader went, everyone was in disobedience, and they couldn't carry out their work at all, so they could only be transferred out in the end.

Now Li Weidong plans to cooperate with such a strongman to produce softeners.

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In the director's office of the No. 2 Chemical Plant, Li Weidong met Han Hao.

After the two exchanged a few words, Li Weidong took out a piece of sheep shearling from his bag.

"Director Han, look at this piece of material. Li Weidong handed the cashmere to Han Hao.

Han Hao took this piece of sheep shear, first looked at the color, then carefully touched it for a long time, and finally sniffed it with his nose.

"This piece of material is so soft, the wool is also very smooth, and it feels very good to the touch, I thought this was an imported material, but if you look closely, this is the sheep shearling of Inner Mongolia sheep, so this material cannot be imported. ”

Han Hao said, returned the sheep shearling to Li Weidong, and then said: "Director Li, if I guess correctly, this piece of sheep shearling is not an ordinary softener, right?"

"Director Han is really an expert!" Li Weidong stretched out his thumb and continued: "This piece of sheep shearing is indeed made of a new type of softener. Now that the formula of this new softener is in my hands, I wonder if Director Han is interested in cooperating with me?"