As Michelin, they attach great importance to this visit of Huayang Power, after all, in this visiting group, there is also Jin Xiaoqiang, the president of Huayang Power, who is currently the hottest figure in the world's automotive industry.

And his words can be determined, next year's Huayang Power procurement direction, you must know that Huayang Power is the most valuable enterprise with growth potential in the current market, so to build a good relationship with such a company, of course, is the desire of every enterprise that does auto parts placement.

Accompanied by Michelin's vice president Felipe, Jin Xiaoqiang visited a number of Michelin production workshops, and the production and manufacturing process of tires, and had a general understanding of tire production.

Different from the manufacture of other parts of the automobile, the production and manufacturing of tires, the requirements for processing technology and production equipment are not too high, but if it is for the sake of production quality and efficiency, this requirement is not low.

This is also why Jin Xiaoqiang did not choose to choose a production equipment supplier in China, as we all know, there are currently several companies specializing in tire production business in China, and there are also companies specializing in the production and manufacturing of equipment for these companies.

However, the tires produced by these companies are mainly for large trucks or special engineering transport vehicles, not for small family passenger cars.

That is to say, they do not have the corresponding technology to produce such equipment, and even if they can produce such equipment, the technical level is definitely not as good as these foreign manufacturers.

The next few years will be the outbreak period of domestic automobile manufacturing, and the demand for tires will definitely be extremely strong, so Jin Xiaoqiang can not choose to wait for them to develop a new generation of technology, and can only choose to start from these foreign manufacturers.

As the leader of the world's tire industry, Michelin has the largest customer base, and almost most of the world's automobile manufacturers produce products. There will be products equipped with their tires.

Moreover, Michelin's products have always had a very good reputation in the industry. Their tires also have a pretty good reputation among car consumers.

So every year, Huayang Power will purchase a lot of tires from them, although the price of Michelin tires is much higher than that of Hankook and Kumho. But in order not to reduce the quality of his own products, and because he does not want to meet Koreans and Japanese, Jin Xiaoqiang is still very stubborn. For Huayang Power's products, more European and American tires are equipped.

Because Huayang Power is a big customer of Michelin in the Celestial Empire region, Michelin also attaches great importance to his visit this time, and especially after learning that Jin Xiaoqiang plans to hold a negotiation with them.

After Jin Xiaoqiang led a team to visit several of their factories, Jin Xiaoqiang became interested in the production line of one of their factories and consulted Felipe to ask them if they had any intention of selling the production line.

This is a production line capable of producing one million tires per year, but because it has been around for a long time, Michelin is planning to eliminate this line recently. Replace it with a more technologically newer, more efficient production line.

And Jin Xiaoqiang's proposal immediately aroused the interest of the French, after all, this second-hand production line. Although it took about ten years. However, the technology has aged compared to the current state-of-the-art production lines.

In fact, the deeper reason why Michelin needed to change the production line was because they wanted the opportunity to replace the new production line. Lay off some of the old, weak, sick and disabled.

As we all know, France is the country with the strictest control over layoffs in Europe, and if companies want to lay off employees, they must first obtain the consent of the trade unions, and the government will also require companies to keep jobs as much as possible for those who are old, weak, sick and disabled, and it is not easy to find jobs. …,

However, such requirements are often contrary to the company's expectations, because if the company wants to lay off employees, of course, it will lay off those who will only bring a burden to the company.

And if companies don't do what the government wants, they will run into a lot of unexpected unspoken rules.

This is the main reason why France has become the country with the most strikes in Europe and the most difficult for workers to serve.

In fact, the technology of Michelin's production line is not too backward, and the maintenance level of the production line is also very new, and even Felipe can be very responsible to say that as long as this production line is well maintained, it will not be a problem to continue to use it for another thirty or fifty years.

But the most critical problem is that this production line, which can produce 1 million tires a year, needs too many workers, and such a production line needs more than 500 workers.

This is a bit difficult for Michelin, which is most seeking to maximize the interests of the company, but if there is no reason to lay off employees, it will definitely provoke retaliation from the union and the government, so the best way is to carry out a technological upgrade, and replace it with a production line that requires fewer workers and has higher output, so that if you start to lay off employees, then the union and the government will not be easy to find trouble.

But it would be a pity if this second-hand production line was so deserted, but if no one in France wanted to take over, its final destination would be to be dismantled and re-forged as scrap metal.

This is too wasteful for Michelin, but if it is sold to other companies, many tire companies in the world are reluctant to take over.

After all, the current major international tire manufacturing enterprises have their own stable suppliers, and this tire manufacturing production line is not too difficult to produce equipment, so there is no need to buy such a second-hand production line.

But now that Huayang Power has suddenly come to the door, it can be said that it is in line with Michelin's intentions, and even the two sides can be said to hit it off.

When Jin Xiaoqiang said that he was very interested in this production line that day, Felipe can be said to have been taking Jin Xiaoqiang around this factory for several days, and he was constantly introducing him to this production line.

"Mr. Kim, please see, this is our own internal mixer, he is the first step in the production of tires, and his main role is to form the rubber obsession, which is equivalent to the dough stage when we make pasta. Then there is this large extruder, where the live rubber is extruded into a flat strip type, and then it enters this press along the press, and then the bead is extruded, the cord is truncated, and then the bead is formed, and then the last step of vulcanization, and the whole production process is completed. From the first pot of rubber to the first tire to complete only half an hour, and then will continue to start the production of rubber, the maximum output of this production line can reach 3,000 per day, of course, if you have more abundant human resources, then the output of this production line can be doubled. ”

Felipe winked at Jin Xiaoqiang and said something in his words.

Before this, he also showed Jin Xiaoqiang the manual of this production line, and it turned out that the design output of this production line could be as high as 1.5 million pieces per year to 2 million pieces.

However, because France strictly enforces the eight-hour working day, and once you ask workers to work overtime, you will have to pay high overtime costs, so Michelin can only reduce production capacity as much as possible and prevent workers from working overtime.

And in recent years, as the market competition has become more and more fierce, Michelin's market share has also been challenged by cheap tires from South Korea, so their market share has shrunk a lot, so there is no need to open up such a large production capacity. …,

But for Jin Xiaoqiang, it's different, France's human resources are expensive, but this is not the case in the Celestial Empire, and the human resources in the Celestial Empire at this time are not so expensive.

Although I don't want to be a sweatshop, if I find more people, work two shifts, or pay overtime on a pro-rata basis, there will definitely be a lot of people rushing to do this job.

The process of tire manufacturing is not a secret in the world, and the process is not complicated, but tire manufacturing is not so simple.

Tires are not only the guarantee of the life safety of the drivers and passengers of the car, but also one of the secret weapons of energy saving and emission reduction in the future, especially in the near future, when the era of reducing automobile fuel consumption is extremely emphasized.

A good tire can reduce the fuel consumption of the whole vehicle by about 10% per 100 kilometers, and even greatly reduce the dependence on and waste of petroleum resources in the manufacturing process.

Therefore, for the quality of a tire, his high-tech content is not reflected in the production and manufacturing of tires, but similar to pharmaceuticals, and his quality is more reflected in the formula of this tire.

As a person who has come over, Jin Xiaoqiang has just a few very good tire production formulas in his hands, and general tire production requires about eight additives.

For example, Gumaron, such as accelerators, such as zinc oxide, and carbon black, etc., he knows more, and the use of these different additives can give birth to a new generation of tires that are more energy-saving and environmentally friendly.

So don't look at Huayang Power has not produced tires before, but Jin Xiaoqiang is very confident that they will get involved in this field in the future.

The scandal of Hankook Tire and Kumho Tire may not be long before it is exposed by the media, especially if he quietly pushes a few hands behind his back.

Then there will definitely be a certain panic about these two brands in the market, once there is such panic in the market, then it is the time for the best Huayang Power to enter this market