Chapter 367: A New Direction
Half a month has passed, Zeng Xin looked at the file cabinet with more and more sales.
For the first time, I felt very wise.
Although compared to before, the average profit per cabinet has not increased.
That's a very much increase in sales.
Now there are about 200 cabinets a day, and it has been on the rise, and workers have been recruited twice in the past half a month, just to cope with the increasing production pressure of sales.
However, seeing that the sales volume has increased so much, a little careful thinking in my heart began to slowly nourish.
The price of Zhimei new material paint is so expensive, but now the sales are stable, so Zeng Xin has the idea of replacing this coating.
And now that we have mastered the laser printing technology, we have also tested it on other coatings, and it can be printed.
Now, the biggest problem is, how to make the paint look high-end, other manufacturers' coatings used to be cheaper, so the gloss is relatively low, it looks full enough, and the color is a little different.
These are not problems, the finished products of Zhimei new materials will be sent to the previous paint suppliers for them to develop.
Who knows that the other party will send two samples in three days, and after spraying, the test gloss is the same, the color is the same, but the fullness is much worse.
But these are not important, and ordinary people can't see them.
So now it's okay, let's buy it!
On the side of Zhimei New Materials, the amount of each week is slowly reduced until a fixed amount.
In such a month, sales have more than doubled compared to before.
Originally, if you used the paint of Zhimei new materials, the profit of each cabinet was about the same, so now compared with before, the profit is about doubled.
Now that the number of new materials used in the United States has been reduced, the profit margin has significantly doubled, at least 2.8 times compared with before.
Compared with the use of the most beautiful new material coatings, the net profit will increase by 40%, although this kind of thing is risky, but compared to the profit, this little risk is nothing!
Not to mention the Xinlong shelves.
Zhang Xiaofan is very distressed now, and always feels that the whole company has fallen into a bottleneck.
Some of the coatings produced now are still relatively conventional, mainly in terms of application.
There are cases where the size direction changes, and from where?
It starts to change from the application of solid powder coatings.
Paint on automobiles has always been a stronghold of oil-based paints.
Automobile paint is a very high-end paint, and every coating company takes it very seriously.
Many paint companies also have a branch office, a new brand, specializing in the production of automotive paints.
The profit of car paint is also very high, much higher than that of ordinary paint.
Mainly automotive paints, whether in weather resistance, temperature resistance, scratch resistance, fullness, gloss, they are much better than ordinary paints.
Automotive paints must perform very well in very harsh environments, whether it is color, adhesion, weather resistance, etc.
Therefore, its technical content is actually very high, which leads to the fact that automotive paint is actually mastered by many large coating companies, and some small and medium-sized coating companies have been in a blank state due to insufficient funds for technology research and development.
Zhang Xiaofan just wants to enter this area.
However, because this piece has always been an oil-based paint company, it has been grasping a piece of golden land in its hands, if you rush in, you don't have to think about it, there will definitely be no gain.
Especially the car topcoat, Zhang Xiaofan doesn't want to touch this piece now.
It's not just the technical aspect, it's hard to get up to scratch.
More is the entanglement of interests, at least the United States of America is not large enough now, can not afford to bear, most of the paint companies together.
But it does not mean that there is no entry point for Zhimei new materials, Zhang Xiaofan thought of a very good entry point.
Wheel paints.
Wheel coatings, in terms of technical content, are not worse than topcoats, but wheel coatings, one of which has a slightly lower technical content, is transparent paint.
Super weather-resistant transparent paint.
And this entry point has the benefit that you don't need to look for car manufacturers.
Wheels from many manufacturers are generally outsourced.
If it is an automobile manufacturer, whether it is foreign-owned, joint venture, or local, it is actually more difficult for you to get paint orders.
Automobile manufacturers are basically the strategic point that every super-large paint company must compete for, and compared with ordinary paint companies, car paint represents the most advanced technology of paint.
The exception is special paints, which can only be done by very specialized companies, such as the coat on the shell of a rocket.
This kind of paint is even out of the category of paint, and it is extremely professional.
The wheel paint, in fact, should be said to be divided into two layers.
The most common color of the wheel is generally silver.
This color is basically 90% of the cars running on the street.
Silver does not mean that silver is added to the paint.
Silver paint is a kind of metal paint, which is generally added to the ordinary paint, so that the whole paint is sprayed and flashes metallic luster.
The most important metal raw material used to make silver paint is actually aluminum, because the color of metal aluminum and silver is the closest, but the price of metal aluminum is also very cheap, and the price of silver will be very high.
The technical content of wheel coatings can be said to be relatively general, and the most important thing is the screening of materials.
Of course, this is only relative to Zhang Xiaofan, other manufacturers may scratch their ears and cheeks when they encounter such coatings.
Transparent paint is a very common paint in paints, whether it is oil-based paint, water-based paint, or solid powder coating, there are clear paints.
The layer of paint on the top of the log furniture that we often see is transparent paint.
The car we usually drive.
In fact, the layer of paint on it is actually quite complicated when sprayed.
The sheet metal surface is first treated, then a primer is sprayed, followed by a layer of lacquer, which is topped with a layer of clear paint.
This will make the whole coating, the gloss is very high, and the fullness will be very good, in fact, the paint we usually see, the light is actually relatively low, this as long as the paint has been known.
But there is a kind of baking paint in the paint, and if you spray it with this baking paint, the gloss will be much higher.
However, it still can't reach the gloss level of the surface of the car, so it needs to be covered with a very high layer of transparent paint and varnish.
In this way, the whole surface of the car looks very glossy and very shiny.
Therefore, any finished product is not as simple as what we see on the surface, the process is layer after layer, no matter which link has a problem, the whole product will be unqualified, and many products do not even have the opportunity to rework, because once reworked, the finished product may be worse than the defective product.
Once again, the technicians were called, and now the whole lab has a prototype.
There are several groups in the laboratory, each with a different division of labor, and several members led by different people study some small branches in various directions.
For example, how to improve leveling, such as how to increase weather resistance, and how to increase gloss.
A small direction, there will be a special person in charge.
But the coating is a whole, change one aspect, other aspects have to be improved, so a very good coordination is required.
This point is now doing better in this laboratory, and Zhang Xiaofan is also more assured.