Chapter 154: Barbarians
It's no wonder that the head of the headquarters is like this, not to mention Zhuang Jianye's shameless behavior of tearing up his clothes, just talking about the family background of Tengfei Group, is his head of the headquarters not clear?
If nothing else, the profits from the mineral deposits invested by the Ascendas Group in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are huge.
You must know that these deposits produce not only rhenium, but also copper, gold, silver, iron, aluminum, magnesium, tin, nickel, tungsten, molybdenum and other mineral deposits.
The real bulk is commodities such as copper, iron, aluminum, and molybdenum, especially copper, which can provide about 360,000 tons of pure copper to China every year.
If such a large amount was in the 80s, it may still be difficult to digest in China, but with the speech of the chief designer in 1992, the construction of the market economy in China was opened, and the second round of economic reform was ushered in, and the domestic demand for bulk commodities began to become increasingly strong.
The "first village in the world" located in East China took advantage of this spring breeze to stock up on a considerable amount of aluminum ingots at low prices, taking advantage of the continuous growth of domestic commodities such as copper, aluminum, and iron, and directly reselling them at the right time, making a lot of money.
Thus completing the original capital accumulation of the vigorous development of this "first village in the world" in the future.
Tengfei Group did not engage in this speculative trick of buying and selling, but it couldn't stand the fact that people had mines in their hands, and Tengfei Group took all the copper smelters left in the three Central Asian countries during the Soviet era under its command, so as to complete the control of the whole industrial chain from mining to smelting.
In addition, Tengfei Group also took advantage of the domestic background and policies to obtain a duty-free license for resource imports, so that the so-called "first village in the world" is not even a younger brother in front of Tengfeiji.
You must know that it is 360,000 tons of pure copper per year, and how can the "first village in the world" buy and sell 360,000 tons of aluminum ingots?
Therefore, Tengfei Group's annual rhenium investment of 1.2 tons is not only wiped out by 36 tons of copper, but also can make a lot of money.
If not, how could Tengfei Group be so bold to sprinkle rhenium metal like paper money every year, and it is not that these investments have been doubled in another industrial chain.
Otherwise, not to mention Zhuang Jianye's Tengfei Group, even if it is replaced by a supergiant like Boeing and GE, it will not be able to bear the investment of more than ten tons and more than ten tons of gold, and it will have been dragged down long ago.
And this is only part of the money that Tengfei Group makes.
The rest of the heat dissipation components such as satellites have been sold as luxury goods by Tengfei Group, because Tengfei Group has completed its de facto monopoly in this field, even though there are still two small companies in Europe and the United States engaged in this business, but that is Tengfei Group is worried about being investigated in Europe and the United States and deliberately left behind.
In fact, the technology and production process of those two small companies cannot be compared with Tengfei Group, and even more than 65% of the profits created every year are provided by Tengfei Group.
After all, you have to have the appearance of raising a ko.
In addition, there are high-end composite materials, although a few years ago signed an agreement with the International High-end Aviation Materials Alliance, giving Tengfei Group T300 and T500 two carbon fiber composite materials market access, but can not stand Tengfei Group two or three years to engage in a product upgrade.
In the face of the young people of Tengfei Group, DuPont of the United States and Toray of Japan naturally spared no effort to suppress them, and set up many technical barriers for this purpose, just to besiege the products of Tengfei Group in China.
However, since 1984, when it began to imitate Japan's Toray's T300 carbon fiber composite material, Tengfei Group has been working in this field for nearly 15 years.
I have long been transparent about carbon fiber composites.
DuPont of the United States and Toray of Japan have set up technical barriers to prevent Ascendas from entering the mid-range T700 and T800 markets.
Then Tengfei Group does not face stiffness, but changes its thinking to use similar to the development of H-ZB1000 ultra-high strength, ultra-high toughness and super heat resistance composite materials, and uses other ideas to achieve T700 and T800 level performance characteristics.
For example, adding boron fiber or ceramic fiber to carbon fiber not only improves toughness, but also improves heat resistance.
In this way, the technical barriers held by DuPont and Toray are like the Maginot Line during World War II, which was detoured by the Tengfei Group and directly turned into decorations.
By the time Toray and DuPont reacted, Ascendas had already priced the T700 and T800 levels of carbon fiber, forcing the two companies to abandon related fields in order to save costs.
But before they could catch their breath, Tengfei Group had begun to attack the M40J aerospace carbon fiber composite materials.
If DuPont and Toray were beaten by Tengfei Group in the field of carbon fiber composite materials, then European aluminum companies had no choice but to go out and hit the street directly.
As the largest supplier of aluminum products to Airbus Europe, Alcoa has been an important producer of high-end aluminum-lithium alloys, accounting for about 38.7% of the world's aluminum-lithium alloys.
Because of this, Alcoa Europe has always regarded Alcoa, the world's largest supplier of aluminum-lithium alloys and accounting for 41.8% of the world's production, as a competitor of the same magnitude.
However, just when the two aluminum and lithium alloy manufacturers in Europe and the United States were fighting openly and secretly for the position of the global boss, the barbarian Tengfei Group did not know how to kill from the crack in the stone.
That's it, the problem is that the price of high-end aluminum-lithium alloy has been directly discounted from $320,000 per ton to $160,000 a ton.
Seeing this, the European aluminum company gave the Tengfei Group the title of a barbarian, and immediately followed up, and there was no fear, because they had Airbus, Europe, and so many years of accumulated heritage behind them.
Does Tengfei Group have a yarn?
Yet the Europeans underestimated the barbarism of the Ascendas group.
Seeing that European and American friends followed up, Tengfei Group quickly adjusted its rhythm and leaked high-end aluminum-lithium alloy from $160,000 a ton to $6,000 a ton within a month.
And it lasted for a year.
The Europeans were collectively bad at that time, their various costs were scary, nearly 20,000 US dollars a ton, and the price of 6,000 US dollars a ton of Tengfei Group was equivalent to saying that European aluminum did not produce a ton of aluminum-lithium alloy and lost 14,000 US dollars.
At this time, the fragility of the European Community was seen, and when European Aluminium sought Airbus's profit benchmark of $22,000 per tonne, it was ruthlessly rejected by Airbus, because Airbus still had to eat and compete with Boeing.
Boeing has reduced costs by relying on cheap aluminum-lithium alloys, and if Airbus does not follow up, it will not be long before Boeing will be strangled to death.
Airbus could not count on it, and Euroalumin turned to the European Community for a bailout, preferably with a special congressional grant like Alcoa, so that it could maintain a profit benchmark while keeping prices low.
However, when the European Community was talking about it, they were a community, and it was the body of the Communist Republic of China when they paid for it, so around how to save the European aluminum industry, European countries fell into a long and traditional bargaining exercise.
As a result, the European Community has not yet figured out why, and the European aluminum industry can no longer support it, so it can only admit to hitting the street.
And when the Europeans fell, Tengfei Group and Alcoa announced that the price of aluminum-lithium alloy would be adjusted to $50,000 a ton from now on.
Subsequently, within half a year, Tengfei Group and Alcoa are either on fire today, or I will cut off power tomorrow, all in all, the situation is full of problems, and the price of aluminum-lithium alloy is also rising in these accidents, and soon broke through the $400,000 a ton mark.