After leaving the original manuscript to the young editor Yuno Watanabe, Cao Zhiqiang went straight home and continued to work on creation, plagiarism, no, original his next masterpiece "Snow Country".

However, as soon as I returned to the newly rented house, I had just finished brewing a cup of pour-over coffee, and before I had taken two sips, I received a call from An Ping.

On the phone, Anping asked him to hurry back, because someone from here came to visit him, saying that the head of the second sales department of TAIYO YUDEN had come to discuss cooperation in China.

At first, Cao Zhiqiang didn't understand it, but when Anping repeated the name of the company again, and said that the other party had two tape production lines that he wanted to transfer, and asked us if we were interested in buying them, it suddenly dawned on him.

TAIYO YUDEN, isn't this the sun lured, it's also a niche company that is not well-known.

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang didn't know about this company, but in his previous life, Cao Zhiqiang's father was a music enthusiast and liked cassettes very much, and collected a lot of cassette tapes, including a cassette called "That's", because the name was special, and his father in his previous life was very precious to this tape, so Cao Zhiqiang knew a little about the company that produced this tape.

That's tape, is a very niche but delicate tape, and later basically produced metal tape, and the timbre performance is very good, no worse than famous brand tapes such as Sony.

And the manufacturer of That's tapes is a relatively small company in Japan, Taiyo Yuden.

According to Cao Zhiqiang's understanding, Taiyo Yuden was originally engaged in ceramic capacitors, and later with the expansion of the business, it was not until the seventies that it began to produce cassette tapes, but this was only a side business of theirs, not their main business.

Relatively speaking, this company is more flexible, and it has long gone abroad and has certain ties to China.

However, it is not the mainland, but the province of Treasure Island.

That's right, if Cao Zhiqiang remembers correctly, this company set up a branch in Baodao as early as 1967, and it is still mainly engaged in the production of capacitors.

All in all, this company is not outstanding in the tape business, and it is very weak compared with mainstream tape companies such as Sony, TDK, Wansheng, and Fujifilm.

But no matter how weak it is, it is also a Japanese company, and it can have Japan's mature technology and production line, which is far from being comparable to the current domestic company.

At present, the number of domestic tape manufacturers in China is not only small, but also the tapes are very inferior in ordinary tapes, and the timbre, distortion, etc., are completely incomparable with imported tapes.

For example, the largest partner of Hongguang Publishing House, the Temple of Heaven brand tape factory in Beijing, actually introduced the technology and production line of the United States back then, so that it could produce domestic tapes in large quantities, otherwise, there would be no such technology.

Other partners, such as Jinan's Baihua brand tape factory, are also imported production lines, but they are all foreign eliminated technologies, and they are the most inferior iron oxide tapes in ordinary tapes, and the picture is cheap.

But in fact, at least in Japan, the second generation of chromium dioxide tapes matured as early as the seventies, and relatively cost-effective cobalt-containing iron oxide tapes have also been developed for many years, and even in 1978, the United States 3M company has long developed mature metal tapes.

That is to say, there is one domestic tape manufacturer, at least for now, all of them are lagging behind foreign countries.

But even if that kind of backward tape is in short supply in China, at least for ten years, this situation of short supply will not change.

On the contrary, in Japan, the industry at this time has ordinary overcapacity, such as tape capacity, which has long been overcapacity.

Because of this, Japanese companies are in a hurry to go out, and the mainland market is undoubtedly the biggest cake.

It's just that the country is so poor at the moment that even the government is in dire need of foreign exchange, not to mention ordinary local factories.

Japanese tape manufacturers are all profitable, and if they don't have money, they will cooperate with you.

Of course, in addition to money, there is also a way, which is to engage in joint ventures, but there is a lack of corresponding laws and regulations in China, so many Japanese manufacturers are hesitant about this.

In other words, before they can't find reliable domestic bigwigs to cooperate, those big Japanese factories don't dare to go into the water easily, for fear of being pitted.

Cao Zhiqiang remembers that it seems that in the history of his previous life, it was not until 84 years later, to be exact, that a large number of Japanese tape production lines were introduced into China to produce higher-quality tapes in the way of material processing.

Since then, various domestic tape brands have been dazzled, and tape brands such as Skylark, Xinni, Tianqin, Diamond, Feifei, Rose, Iron Eagle and so on have come out, but in essence, they are all using the introduction of second-hand molds and raw materials, and the goods processed with incoming materials are more similar to small workshops, not really large production lines.

For example, TCL, which became famous in the previous life, was formerly a small tape workshop that did this kind of processing with incoming materials, and then slowly became bigger and stronger due to fate, and then slowly became a giant.

TCL is only a very small number of successful cases, and it was the same as TCL to engage in processing with supplied materials, and ninety percent of them died.

Of course, there is no TCL yet, there is only a joint venture, TTK Home Appliances, which mainly produces audio tapes.

This TTK company is already very good, and it is one of the earliest thirteen joint ventures in China.

It's not common here in the north, but in the south, TTK tapes made by TTK are common.

However, the joint venture object of this TTK company is a Hong Kong businessman, so the production line is actually a second-hand production line abroad, and its quality can be imagined.

If you look at the photos of TTK's early manufacturers, you can see that the factory is said to be a joint venture, but in fact it is no different from a small workshop, the so-called production line is some molds and the like, and then use the key components imported from Hong Kong to assemble and produce tapes.

It's just that the scale of this kind of workshop-style production is relatively large, so the output of TTK tape can keep up, but it can't be compared with the regular production line of the Beijing tape factory.

However, this kind of enterprise is more flexible and lacks the rigid system of large enterprises, so in the end, it can go out.

In fact, Japanese manufacturers are not willing to enter China on a large scale now, and they are also afraid of this.

Because most of the current domestic enterprises are state-owned enterprises, state-owned enterprises, everyone who understands it, especially Japan, understands it very well, so unless they are large companies that can get policies, such as TDK and the like, they dare not enter like small companies, such as Sun Luden.

Now the sun lurks and takes the initiative to find it, and it is estimated that it smells it.

But it's normal.,It's like the headquarters of Taiyo Yuden is in Tokyo.,And the company is small.,You can be even more shameless.,It's too normal.。

After thinking about this, Cao Zhiqiang stopped drinking coffee, washed his face a little, changed into a suit, and went out directly to find Anping.

After taking a taxi and walking, I came to the building of the house where Anping lived, and sure enough, I saw that Anping was receiving two men in suits and leather shoes.

The two men, one in his forties and the other in his early twenties, were typical of a veteran and new business team.

Cao Zhiqiang is also familiar with this model, but he is familiar with watching island country love action movies in his previous life.

The kind of movies I watched in my previous life have a lot of similar plots, but there is a man and a woman, usually an older female boss and a young male subordinate, or an older male boss and a young female subordinate.

Cao Zhiqiang remembered that he had searched for this back then, but after actually searching, he realized that it was really just a plot.

In fact, Japanese companies do have a tradition of older bosses bringing younger subordinates to talk about business, but they are all of the same sex.

In other words, if it is a male boss, the subordinate is usually a male subordinate.

Conversely, if it is a female boss, the subordinate who brings it is usually also a female subordinate.

The kind of model in which men and women work together without getting tired is that I am in Greater China, and this is not popular in Japan, at least in the conservative 80s.

With this in mind, Cao Zhiqiang, under the introduction of An Ping, shook hands with these two salesmen who were obviously just here to test the water, and then began to sit down and talk.

As for these two men, the older one is called Kota Iketani, and the younger one is called Takaguchiki.

Among them, Kota Iketani's business card shows that he is the section manager of the second sales department, and the other is a general employee.

Don't look at the section chief, it seems to be very awesome, corresponding to the head of the department in China, but it's not exactly like this.

In the 80s, the section managers in Japan, just like the managers in the late 90s, were already rotten on the streets.

However, in large enterprises, the section manager is still very good and generally has the right to operate independently.

In other words, there is nothing wrong with the other party sending a section leader to talk to him.

Of course, it is more likely that this section leader acted on his own, and the high-level of the sun did not have this idea.

However, there is still a similar situation in Japan, if the grassroots salesman negotiates the business and makes a plan to submit to the top management for approval, then the company will implement the plan.

In other words, in some large Japanese enterprises, the power of the head of the grass-roots department is actually quite large, and once they can do good business, they can also cut it first and then play it.

After a little greeting, the other party directly explained his intentions to Cao Zhiqiang.

In fact, their intention is very simple, just like Anping said on the phone, they are just here to promote products, and the so-called products are tape production lines and related accessories.

"Cao Sang!" Kota Iketani said with a gentle smile, "Although our production line is not the latest, it is absolutely reliable, reasonably priced, and cost-effective, as long as you buy our production line, it is definitely worth the money!" ”

Speaking of this, Kota Iketani also glanced at his subordinates, and then the young man named Takaguchi quickly picked up the briefcase and took out a stack of materials and enlarged photos from it.

"Cao Sang." Kota Iketani smiled and pushed the information over, "This is the basic information of our two production lines, you can take a look first, if there is anything you don't understand, I can explain it to you at any time." ”

After Cao Zhiqiang took the information, he first looked at the photos.

The photographs are developed and enlarged, and they are all still photos of the tape production line taken from various angles.

There are photos of the production line when it is empty, and there are still photos of the production line producing tapes.

Although it is not a video, just looking at the photos, the production line is relatively new, and it is not the kind of old workshop mold, but a real automated production line.

Of course, the automated production line here refers to the automated production line that takes this era as the standard, and the automatic production line that Cao Zhiqiang has seen is completely incomparable.

At least in Cao Zhiqiang's opinion, this production line is relatively rough, and it does not have the mechanical beauty he saw in his previous life, and many of the equipment and cables are bare, but it should be very practical.

At least this kind of open and bare production line should not be difficult to maintain if it is maintained.

After reading the photos, Cao Zhiqiang began to look at the information again.

The materials are all in Japanese, not Chinese as Cao Zhiqiang thought.

Looking at this situation, Cao Zhiqiang probably counted, and this is most likely Iketani's own initiative.

Because if a company like Sun Yudian is really a high-level decision, then when cooperating with Cao Zhiqiang, a Chinese, it will at least provide a Chinese explanation.

But it doesn't matter, Japanese is Japanese, and he doesn't look struggling anyway.

After reading the information, he didn't understand the specific parameters or anything, but at least he understood a few points.

That is, these two production lines, both of which were put into operation in 1975, have been in operation for eight years now.

The seven-five-year production line is naturally not a high-end technology, at least not a chromium dioxide tape, let alone a metal tape, but the most ordinary iron oxide tape.

It's just that although they are all iron oxide tapes, because when they were put into production, they purchased the most advanced equipment at that time, and they could provide corresponding raw materials and accessories, so the electroacoustic properties of the tapes produced are definitely better than ordinary iron oxide tapes, at least they should be stronger than the ordinary tapes in China.

According to the above, the technology of the tapes produced by this production line and the accessories provided by Taiyo Yuden is comparable to that of TDK's TDK-AD type tapes.

The TDK-AD tape belongs to the high-end tape in the ordinary iron oxide tape, that is, the type with particularly good electroacoustic performance, and the sound quality exceeds that of Sony's CHF tape, even in Japan, it belongs to the middle and high-end tapes.

Of course, this kind of medium and high-grade tape is compared with ordinary iron oxide tape, and cannot be compared with chromium dioxide tape, cobalt-containing tape and metal tape.

In other words, in fact, this kind of tape can only be considered mid-range in Japan, but if it is placed in China, it will be a proper high-end tape.

Because of this kind of ordinary iron oxide tape with better quality, there seems to be no domestic manufacturer that can produce this kind of tape.

In my memory, the middle and high-end tapes with AD in China first seemed to be the Shanghai S-AD tapes produced by the Shanghai Tape Factory, but that was eight or six years later.

That is to say, at least in eighty-three years, the domestic low-end production line in ordinary iron oxide tapes, and there is no production line and technology comparable to TDK-AD tapes.

After reading the information, Cao Zhiqiang nodded, put down the information, looked up and asked Iketani Kota: "It looks pretty good, what price are you going to offer?" ”

As soon as Cao Zhiqiang asked the price, the smile on Kota Iketani's face became even bigger.

Because if you can ask the price, you are really interested, otherwise you won't ask the price at all, at most you will say some clichés.

"It's cheap." Kota Iketani said with a smile, "Two production lines, the technology package church, only six million!" ”

"Yen?" Cao Zhiqiang raised his eyebrows.

Iketani Kota's face froze, and then he smiled dryly: "Cao Sang, you are laughing, of course it is US dollars!" ”

(End of chapter)