Chapter 265: Making Glass Requires Skill
Chen Xu pinched the soft flesh of his eyebrows, he was already thinking about how to introduce these technologies, optics is very important to the semiconductor industry, especially the requirements of lithography machines for lenses are so high that they are perverted, and non-Zeiss can't do it!
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"Introducing a full range of technologies...... That's a lot of money! Chen Zhuo put the rifle back on the table, worried, he knew that there was no cheap way to do business with foreigners, and people shouted whatever price was the price, and there was no room for counter-offering.
This is still the case for civilian projects, not to mention the technology involved in the military industry, especially the wide application of high-precision lenses in the military, not to mention telescopes and sights, which are military lenses on spy satellites, tank sighting systems, submarine periscopes, and laser weapons.
The civil application is more extensive, microscopes, astronomical telescopes, car headlights, cameras, etc. In the future, mobile phone photography will become popular, and the lens module of smart phones will be a huge market.
However, optical technology belongs to the kind of relatively rigid work, Germany and Japan are so advanced in the optical industry, and their national character is related, and the people of these two countries are notoriously rigid all over the world. However, it is still very easy to find tens of thousands of optical workers with a calm personality, as long as you do it carefully, you are not afraid that you will not be able to do it.
Facing his father's worries, Chen Xu waved his hand indifferently, and said: "It's not expensive, now the life in East Germany is not easy, let's throw tens of millions of dollars in the past, and people are even willing to sell ancestral crafts!" ”
East Germany was the country with the highest industrial technology in the Warsaw Pact group, especially the Soviet Union, which was inseparable from Germany's precision industry. The market of East Germany was oriented to the entire Soviet Union, and it was the richest country in the Warsaw Pact countries, richer than the Soviet Union, and the Germans lived a very comfortable life.
However, there was a big problem in the economy of East Germany, that is, it was difficult to do business because of the market under the rule of the Red Empire, and NATO countries did not sell it. What is even more unfortunate is that the younger brothers under the Soviet Union are poorer than the other, and the good things of East Germany are actually not available at a price, coupled with the Soviet Union's de facto colonial rule over East Germany, the Soviet Union has kept the prices extremely low, and even has to do loss-making business, and people have more than 450,000 troops stationed in East Germany, so they cannot afford to resist at all.
And West Germany was much better, the whole Western world ate well, the economy revived rapidly, and soon returned to the ranks of the most developed countries in the world.
The economy of East Germany was controlled by the high-pressure blockade of the Soviet Union, and the economic environment was very harsh, and it was barely supported by Soviet military orders. It is conceivable that when the Soviet Union collapses, the enterprises of East Germany will lose their most important market, and the food will be smashed, and it is inevitable that they will be annexed by West Germany.
And East Germany Zeiss is one of the most important examples, this company in the Soviet Union, with its technological superiority almost monopolized the optical market of the Warsaw Pact world, is doing well, is one of the richest enterprises in East Germany.
Of course, if you have money, you have to expand production, but the result of overexpansion is often very unlucky, East Zeiss went out to step on the ****, and sure enough, it encountered the collapse of the Soviet Union, and East Zeiss products suddenly had no buyers, and the market shrank sharply.
I can't make any money, but all the money to expand the factory is borrowed, and the debt still needs to be repaid.
Under the pressure of huge debts, East Zeiss almost came out of business, and if it weren't for the fact that Germany did not want this German national industrial card to go bankrupt, it had to come to the rescue and let East German Zeiss and West German Zeiss merge.
It is said that it is a merger, in fact, it is to let West German Zeiss annex the behemoth of East Zeiss, according to the size of the two companies, it is not an exaggeration to say that West Zeiss is a snake swallowing an elephant.
"Tens of millions of dollars ......" The cadres present all swallowed their saliva, they all knew that the Southern Heavy Industry Group was rich, but it was another feeling to hear Chen Xu, the boss, casually open tens of millions of dollars to buy companies abroad.
In fact, tens of millions of dollars is Chen Xu's greed, Zeiss is not a simple grinding lens company, its full name is Zeiss United Enterprise, he is a giant enterprise specializing in manufacturing military optical systems, industrial measuring instruments and medical equipment, a total of 25 backbone factories, 3 research centers, a foreign trade company, the scale of the huge technology content is high, is one of the world's top enterprises.
These backbone factories include Zeiss factory, Jena glass factory, **** Ruo optical instrument factory, Dresden precision instrument factory, etc., a total of more than 30 categories of 800 kinds of products, including photographic lenses, astronomical and geographical measuring instruments, precision instruments, medical optical instruments, rangefinders, telescopes, etc., covering almost all optical products.
ZEISS products occupy the optical market in the Warsaw Pact countries, have commercial contacts with more than 100 countries around the world, and generate annual sales of 40 billion marks.
Of course, Zeiss East Germany, which is a chronic problem of socialist companies, has a large scale and considerable sales, but after paying taxes, paying salaries, and excluding R&D expenses, there is not much real profitability.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the business of East German Zeiss collapsed, and tens of thousands of people ate and chewed their wages to bring down the company.
And the flower planter and East Zeiss have a good relationship, so when Chen Xu proposes to buy their factory equipment, it must not be too difficult.
In order to tide over the difficulties, East Zeiss will also be happy to sell some of its business and factory equipment to survive. After all, after the merger of East Zeiss and West Zeiss, West Zeiss completely took the initiative of the company.
If Chen Xu's investment can make Dong Cai recover himself, then there will be no merger, maybe East Zeiss and West Zeiss will pinch each other, and who will annex whom in the end is not certain!
However, Chen Xu knows that grinding lenses is a very precise process, not only involving firing glass, but also polishing process.
So he wasn't ready to eat a fat man, Chen Xu decided to really start from the optical glass factory, ten years of grinding a sword to burn pure and thorough glass and polish the lens well, as long as these two basic skills are done, the rest is easy to say.
The top lenses need to be polished by hand, and even the most advanced machines cannot polish the lenses made by hand.
The Hubble telescope is an obvious example, the United States imperialists spent more than a billion dollars to launch the telescope into space, in order to ensure the accuracy of the telescope lens, the Americans specially used a computer polishing machine to grind the lens.
As a result, the shape of the computer-controlled lens was misaligned by two microns when grinding, making the telescope unable to focus.
But for a few years on the ground, no one found this mistake on the lens, because everyone thought that such an advanced computer would not go wrong, but when they went to space, they found out that the Hubble telescope turned out to be a myopic eye, and by this time it was too late.
In the end, the space shuttle Endeavour was sent into the sky and a pair of glasses were put on the Hubble telescope, which barely corrected this problem. However, this fatal hardware flaw is useless to tinker with, and Hubble has never been able to perform to the fullest.
Hubble's example does not mean that computer polishing lenses are bad, and without computer polishing technology, people may not be able to enjoy cheap cameras and camcorders.
It is precisely with advanced modern automatic grinding equipment that lenses can be produced in large quantities, such as Nikon and Canon's SLR lenses, all of which are produced on automated assembly lines. Later, in order to save costs, the Japanese used plastic lenses instead of glass, and of course, the lenses made were low-end products.
Nikon's top-of-the-line optical lenses are still hand-polished glass lenses.
Of course, when it comes to the process of glass polishing, Laika is the master, people are slowly polishing by hand, and then buying a lens for tens of thousands of yuan.
Of course, Chen Xu doesn't want to be Laika, he wants to provide high-precision lens lenses for all units across the country, and the output will naturally go up, so it is necessary to train at least tens of thousands of workers in this area.
Of course, on the basis of ensuring industrial production, Chen Xu may separate some skilled workers and set up a precision optics department, which will carefully craft lenses like Leica and specialize in the production of high-end lenses and telescopes.
Now there are still eight years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chen Xu can completely introduce basic optical technology from Zeiss first, and learn the glass firing technology and lens polishing technology thoroughly, it took Zeiss 140 years to become the world's top lens grinding company, Chen Xu spent eight years to learn is actually a venture.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, taking advantage of the most difficult time for East Zeiss, Chen Xu went over to ask for the acquisition of the factory, believing that with the friendly relations between the two companies in the past eight years, it should be no problem to buy some important technologies, and these equipment alone are enough to raise the optical industry of the flower grower to the world-class level.
"You kid is bullish, tens of millions of businesses are done, and you don't blink your eyelids, and you can only stare at the side." Chen Zhuo glanced up and down at his son with his hands behind his back, this kid was wearing shorts and shorts and sunglasses, holding a big bowl of digging ice cream in his arms and eating, and the corners of his mouth were still stained with cream, no matter how he looked like a high school student who had not yet graduated, and he was completely incompatible with the president of a large enterprise with millions of dollars in his mouth.
Chen Zhuo was in a trance, he sent his youngest son to study in the Soviet Union, so that he missed the fastest growing teenage period of Chen Xu. When the youngest son came back, he was already a complete adult, and he did all the earth-shattering things, and his life's achievements were not as great as what Chen Xu did in a year.
Chen Xu put the spoon in his mouth and said indifferently: "It's just a whim, glass optics is a very important industry in a country, whether it is civil or military, he is indispensable, and if you invest some money in it, you will not lose money in the end, but the speed of return is slower." ”
"I understand that glass is made of windows and cups, and I don't understand those deep-tech optical glasses, so I won't discuss these with you, I'll continue to look at the equipment!" Chen Zhuo took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the sweat on his forehead, put a melon grenade in his hand on the table, and motioned to the other cadres next to him to look at other weapons and equipment together.
After a while, everyone's attention focused on the two individual shoulder-mounted anti-tank rocket launchers on the table! (To be continued.) )