Chapter 543 The world's first, the highlight moment of Nanshan Carbon Fiber
Various models of Volkswagen such as Magotan, Passat, Jetta, Santana, and Audi A6 have always been the darlings of the official car market, and they are also the brands with the largest number of ownership.
However, SUVs, as official cars, are still rarely used in many departments.
If Hongqi H5 comes out, then this time the intensity will definitely be greater.
Even so, the HS5 has received a lot of orders, especially in some special departments, which are very marketable for SUVs.
For example, Mitsubishi's Pajero is used in many police cars.
And this car should be the first batch of SUVs that many people have seen, carrying a small school bag, huge front and rear bumpers, luggage racks, etc., which looks quite domineering.
Therefore, it is very marketable in areas such as the public security department and the forestry department that require Pajero's strong cross-country ability.
Of course, due to the price problem, the market in this area is also constantly eroded.
This time, although the HS5 is an urban SUV, some of the configurations also have a four-wheel drive system, which can basically meet most of the use needs.
Coupled with the right price, and the public relations of Chuncheng Automobile and Nanshan Group, it has naturally become a big winner in the new round of official car procurement.
In the end, whether it is a general provincial or municipal official car, or a special department's car needs, HS5 has gained a lot.
It's just that Nanshan Hongqi's HS6 has become a winner, which naturally touches the interests of some people.
"Tariq, the official car market is a very important market for the Volkswagen in Chuncheng, and now the challenges are becoming more and more severe, you have to communicate well with the general manager of the Chuncheng Automobile Department, so that they can not blindly tilt the resources of the official car to the Nanshan Red Flag."
Vondel personally came to Spring City to discuss the future development strategy with Tariq, the first deputy general manager of Spring City Volkswagen.
This year, the Huaxia auto market has developed rapidly, and the sales volume of Chuncheng Volkswagen has also continued to refresh records.
Although due to the influence of the Nanshan Group, the Spring City public is not as powerful as in history, but the strength should not be underestimated.
The sales of models such as Magotan, Sutar, Jetta, Bora, and Golf are very good.
Today's sales exceeded 500,000, which is basically a sure thing.
In this case, Chuncheng Volkswagen also needs to start thinking about the layout of the new plant in the future.
According to the idea of Chuncheng Automobile Group, they must be more inclined to continue to invest in Chuncheng.
But Volkswagen has a different point of view.
Chuncheng is located in the position of the chicken head on the map of China, and the northeast market accounts for less than 10% of the annual sales, and 90% of the vehicles need to be sent from Chuncheng to all parts of the country, which brings a lot of problems in logistics.
For example, the heavy snow in the winter in Northeast China, highway closures have an impact on vehicle logistics.
If there are bases in the central and southern regions, we will be able to provide products to users in different regions in a more punctual and timely manner.
Even Volkswagen is already communicating with Shudu, preparing to persuade Chuncheng Automobile Group to accept the construction of a new factory in Shudu.
At this time, Vondell didn't want to directly confront Zhu Zhengfeng because of the Hongqi official car.
So Tariq, the first deputy general manager of Spring City Volkswagen, needs to stand up.
Due to the special status of Chuncheng Automobile Group in the early years, Chuncheng Automobile occupied 60% of the shares in Chuncheng Volkswagen, which is very different from other joint venture car companies.
In most joint ventures, both parties own 50% of the shares, but the general manager is generally arranged by the foreign shareholder, and the Chinese side is the executive vice president.
But the Spring City public is different.
Tariq, the head of Deutsche Volkswagen, is the first deputy general manager, not the general manager.
"I communicated with Mr. An about this matter yesterday, and the other party was a little helpless."
"Hongqi Automobile has a special position in China, before a variety of product quality problems emerged one after another, the appearance is also very old, there is no competitiveness, so it does not perform well in the official car market."
"Now the HS5 pushed out by Nanshan Hongqi is competitive in terms of power performance and appearance, as well as configuration and price."
"More than half of the key parts on this car are produced by Nanshan Group, and all parties have no worries about the quality of its products."
"In addition, Chuncheng Automobile Group and Nanshan Group worked together, so the official car market immediately changed."
Naturally, Tariq is well aware of the importance of the official car market.
Whether it is a Volkswagen brand model or an Audi brand model, it is a beneficiary of the official car market.
Any change in the industry is not a good thing for them.
"Judging from the current situation, Nanshan Hongqi's ambitions are very big, and they hope to become the most important representative of Huaxia's official vehicles and the leader of Huaxia's own brands."
"In this case, the impact of Nanshan Red Flag on us will gradually become greater."
Vondel used to think that the Nanshan Hongqi incident would have nothing to do with Volkswagen.
The emergence of Nanshan Red Flag is nothing more than that the competition between Huaxia's independent brands has become more intense.
But now it seems that this is not the case at all.
As soon as Nanshan Hongqi came up, it aimed at the official car market, and unexpectedly won the support of many provinces and cities.
This was a situation that Vondel had not anticipated before.
"Yes, the HS5 is just the beginning, and what I'm most worried about is actually another new car that will be launched soon."
"It is said that this car is a product of the same platform as the HS5, but it is an SUV model and a sedan."
"According to this situation, the price of this sedan should not be higher than HS5, and the performance in all aspects is directly compared with our Magotan and Suteng, surpassing Jetta."
"The sedan is the most important model in the official car market, and when this model comes out, the impact on the official car market will definitely be greater."
"Even according to Huaxia's current support for Nanshan Group and Chuncheng Automobile Group, except for a small number of provinces and cities that will give appropriate preference to local car companies in the future, it is estimated that Nanshan Hongqi will be given priority."
As soon as Tariq said this, Vondel's mood suddenly turned bad.
An HS5 has stirred up the storm in the official car market, if there is another sedan, then what is it?
"It seems that when I talk about the construction of the new factory this time, it is necessary for me to directly talk to Mr. Zhu about the expansion of the official car market."
"In Nanshan Hongqi, the shares of Chuncheng Automobile Group are 60%, and in the shares of Chuncheng Volkswagen, their shares are also 60%, there is no reason to favor one over the other!"
Vondell knows very well that if he wants to perform well in the official car market, he must obtain the support of Chuncheng Automobile Group, otherwise there will be no breakthrough.
After all, in this field, the situation is too special.
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Some people rejoice, some people are sad.
When Volkswagen people were worried that their models would be slowly eliminated from the official car market, Zhu Zhengfeng was in a very good mood.
Although the sales of Volkswagen in Chuncheng are affected, it will actually affect the earnings of Chuncheng Automobile Group.
But Zhu Zhengfeng doesn't care so much about the sales growth of the Spring City Volkswagen, as long as there is growth.
But the Nanshan Red Flag is different.
He is personally involved in every new model.
This is the most important support point for whether I can go further in the future.
"Mr. Zhu, Nanshan Group is willing to cooperate with the needs of HS5 official cars and launch a configuration specially prepared for official cars."
"In this way, the price of 149,900 yuan can meet the requirements of most provinces and cities in terms of procurement budget restrictions, and the gearbox will not be a manual transmission."
"When the H5 is launched in the future, we can directly customize a special configuration for official cars and make every effort to enter the official car market."
Chang Lei, as the president of the Chuncheng Automobile Research Institute, has now come out of the shadow of the red flag losing the parade vehicle.
And in order to reflect the meaning of his existence, he also served as the R&D director of Nanshan Hongqi.
Zhu Zhengfeng can realize the importance of the Nanshan Red Flag, and Chang Lei can naturally do it.
So during this time, he focused on the Nanshan Red Flag.
"It is indeed necessary to customize a special configuration to fully meet the needs of official cars."
"Even if one choice is not enough, we can have multiple choices."
"For example, the allocation of vehicles for leaders and the vehicles used for front-line use, the demand for some configurations must be different."
"If we can't provide you with enough flexible options, it will affect our expansion of the official car market at that time."
Zhu Zhengfeng is now trying the sweetness of official cars.
In fact, the Spring City Volkswagen also enjoyed the dividends of countless official cars before.
Otherwise, Zhu Zhengfeng would not have thought of letting Nanshan Hongqi focus on the official car market first, and then slowly develop ordinary consumers at the same time.
As long as the first step is done, the second step is easier to do.
"The frequency of official cars on the street is much higher than that of ordinary consumers, and the publicity effect is much greater."
"I think that when the time comes, we can also cooperate with Nanshan Group to make a group preferential car purchase plan, so that we can further expand the market outside of official cars."
Although Chang Lei is not engaged in sales, R&D and sales often require frequent docking, so he also has a good understanding of sales.
What configuration is needed for a model, the most influential is in the sales field.
But in the end, to implement these configurations, the most critical thing is to see whether the R&D department can handle it.
"This thing can be done, Nanshan Group has 80,000 comes, right?"
"Although they also have Xingchen Motors and Jaguar Land Rover, most of the employees should not be able to afford them."
"Now come up with a preferential plan to buy Nanshan Hongqi, maybe it can contribute tens of thousands of sales every year in the future."
"At the same time, we can also engage in a preferential car purchase program for employees within Chuncheng Automobile Group to increase sales."
The cooperation of two large groups can digest a large part of the production capacity by relying on the purchase of cars by employees alone.
This is also one of the advantages of Nanshan Red Flag.
"No problem, I'll arrange someone to make a plan immediately."
Listening to Zhu Zhengfeng's instructions, Tao Wen immediately moved.
However, when Chuncheng Automobile Group was discussing the matter of Nanshan Red Flag with such great interest, Cao Yang, as one of the most critical figures, went to Chang'an City to inspect Nanshan Carbon Fiber.
The matter of Nanshan Red Flag was completely left behind by him.
There are so many people in the group, and Nanshan Hongqi also has its own management team, and Cao Yang is not ready to spend too much energy there.
After all, the development of Nanshan Hongqi is more about grabbing the market, and the impact on the technological improvement of automobiles is very limited.
But Nanshan carbon fiber is different.
It has mass-produced T800, the world's mainstream high-end carbon fiber product, and is now well-known in the international market.
Because of its appearance, the sales of carbon fiber giants such as Toray in China can be described as a cliff-like decline.
The high-end market has been robbed, and the low-end market has Nanshan Carbon Fiber and Guangwei Group's factory production, where is Toray's business?
That is, some foreign-funded enterprises habitually continue to buy carbon fiber from carbon fiber manufacturers such as Toray, and more than ninety percent of other Chinese manufacturers have turned to Nanshan carbon fiber.
If an ordinary enterprise does its job at this point, it may begin to enjoy life on the credit book.
Anyway, T800 is a carbon fiber, and it is unlikely that there will be competitors in China in five years.
Nanshan carbon fiber can live a good life comfortably for a few years.
However, Cao Yang knows that carbon fiber giants such as Power and Hearst in the United States are researching more advanced carbon fiber products.
"Mr. Cao, our T1100 carbon fiber has begun to be produced in small batches, with a tensile strength of 6600MPa and a tensile modulus of 324GPa."
"Although Toray claimed to have developed carbon fiber with similar performance in the laboratory in the 90s, it has not been commercialized until now, and the highest-end model in mass production is only the T800."
"On the Hearst side of the United States, the most advanced product currently in mass production is also the IM7, which is equivalent to Toray's T800."
"However, I heard that their IM8 and IM10 are already in development, and there should be a chance to reach mass production in the near future."
"According to the information we have, once we successfully achieve large-scale production of T1100 this year, then Nanshan Carbon Fiber is the first manufacturer in the world to master this technology, and will be able to achieve further market expansion in aerospace, high-end sports and other fields."
Zeng Jianying is in a very good mood now.
Before joining Nanshan Carbon Fiber, he studied carbon fiber all his life, but he only produced the carbon fiber of T300 and T400 in the laboratory state, and had no chance to commercialize it, let alone commercialize T700 and T800.
But now it's time to start preparing for mass production of the T1100.
This kind of technological progress and sense of accomplishment is definitely different.
At his level, a sense of accomplishment is a very important pursuit.
Nanshan Carbon Fiber fully meets his needs in this regard.
"This situation, the above knows everything, right?"
Cao Yang knows very well that carbon fiber products such as T1100 are made by Nanshan Carbon Fiber, but who can be sold to them in the future and where they can be used are definitely not Nanshan Carbon Fiber.
Even if it is only in the next few years, there is a high probability that T1100 is not allowed to be exported.
Of course, Huaxia is a big consumer of carbon fiber, even if it can't be exported, there is no need to worry about the lack of market for the products produced.
And, with the emergence of T1100 products, the control of T800 will definitely be relaxed in the future, and T800 is likely to become the most profitable product of Nanshan Carbon Fiber.
After all, even in the world, the T800 is the best product.
Not only will it be used in large quantities on various civilian airliners and military aircraft, but also all kinds of rockets, missiles and other aerospace-related products will be in demand.
Even high-end golf clubs, fishing rods and the like are the main products used in the T800.
"I already know that when the laboratory was in the state before, an expert group came to accept and confirm."
"This time, in the small-scale trial production on the mass production line, there is also a special team of experts and personnel from some special departments to confirm, and even a building inside our factory is dedicated to the use of special department personnel and security personnel."
Nanshan carbon fiber covers a large area, and it has a security department itself.
However, because the high-end carbon fiber produced is a very sensitive material, not only domestic competitors want to know about the relevant process, not to mention foreign opponents.
There are even many people who hope that Nanshan Carbon Fiber can have an accident.
In this way, in addition to Nanshan Carbon Fiber's own security team, there must be some other security forces within the company.
Cao Yang also knew about this matter, but he didn't know too much.
There's no need to know too much either.
Anyway, when I was engaged in carbon fiber, I just didn't want to be stuck in the neck, and now this goal has been achieved, and the rest of the development doesn't need to worry too much about it.
"During the development of the T1100, has the process of the T800 evolved?"
Compared with the T1100, which may not be mass-produced in the short term, the T800 is obviously more practical, and there are already more use cases in various industries.
For example, it often takes a year or two to do various verification work, even if it is on auto parts, and it will only be mass-produced after the final verification is passed.
For the aerospace industry, the use of a completely new material requires even more validation.
For example, the wing of an aircraft is now using T800 carbon fiber composite materials, and if you want to replace it with T1100 carbon fiber composite materials, the verification project that needs to be done cannot be completed in a few years.
Even although T1100 has been produced, how to maximize its performance advantages also needs to be verified with other resin materials, and finally become a carbon fiber resin material.
This process will definitely take time.
Although the most difficult step has been completed, the rest of the work will also take time.
So at the moment, Cao Yang is paying more attention to the situation of the T800.
"In the process of building the T1100 production line, we made some improvements to the equipment, and some of the improvements were achieved by only adjusting some parameters, which can be rolled out horizontally to the T800 production line."
"At the same time, we also found some solutions to reduce the production cost of the T800 during the development process."
"Just to give full play to these advantages, it may be necessary to make some changes to the production line, or even build a new production line."
Zeng Jianying naturally knows this problem.
In the past year, he has spent almost all of his time in the laboratory and production site of Nanshan Carbon Fiber.
Otherwise, even if Cao Yang accidentally dialed it from time to time, T1100 would not have entered the stage of small-scale mass production so quickly.
You must know that Toray's Toray company has been researching products similar to T1100 in the laboratory in the 90s, but in order to change the product from the laboratory state to industrial production, it took them almost 20 years, and they have not completely broken through.
Of course, there may be some other considerations in this.
For example, the T800 has been able to meet the market demand, and there is no need to achieve mass production of the T1100 so quickly before making enough money.
Otherwise, the T800 is of little significance.
"The market demand for T800 should have an explosive growth in the future, before our production capacity was mainly focused on T700 and its products, and the next step is to directly build a new factory for T800."
Without any hesitation, Cao Yang decided to build a new factory.
In the future, Huaxia's demand for carbon fiber will only increase, not decrease.
T800 is a product that no one can produce in China at all, and foreign exports are also restricted, so there is no need to worry about no one buying it after it is produced.
Even because of the emergence of the T1100, the T800 of Nanshan carbon fiber can be exported in the future.
Then, the market space is completely different.
After all, T800 has a lot of application achievements in the overseas high-end market.
These materials are sold to others, and the other party only needs to do some basic material performance confirmation before they can consider starting to use.
Invisibly, this also greatly shortens the cost of Nanshan Carbon Fiber's T800 product market expansion.
"No problem, I'll arrange someone to do the planning immediately, and make an appointment to give you a special report when the time comes."
Seeing that Cao Yang so generously approved the plan for the construction of the new T800 production line, Zeng Jianying was also in a good mood.
As the general manager of Nanshan Carbon Fiber, he definitely hopes that the company's production capacity is as large as possible.
According to the things produced by Nanshan carbon fiber, there is no second one that can be produced in Huaxia, and there is no need to worry too much about market problems at all.
"By the way, we T1100 began to be mass-produced on a small scale on the mass production line, do the relevant departments have any special explanations?"
Cao Yang knows that the T1100 is a material that needs to be kept secret, at least before the appearance of similar foreign products, it needs to be kept secret.
So offline ceremonies and the like, there is a high probability that they will not be engaged.
But it's better to ask clearly.
"From now on, this production line will have a special security force to guard all around, and there are some special management measures in terms of entry and exit."
"In addition to being responsible for technical matters, we have to listen to the opinions of the representatives in the factory for a lot of other things."
Zeng Jianying said this, and hurriedly added, "This situation is also normal, after all, the T1100 must be used in aerospace first, and it has its own confidentiality requirements." ”
As the world's first manufacturer to achieve mass production of T1100 carbon fiber, Nanshan Carbon Fiber is definitely the highlight moment of Nanshan Carbon Fiber, but there is no way to publicize it to the outside world.
Zeng Jianying was also worried that Cao Yang would have opinions.
At that time, if your boss is young and makes some wrong decisions, then the scene will be a little embarrassing.
That's why Zeng Jianying was a little worried about making a supplementary explanation.
How do you know that Cao Yang doesn't care about these things at all.
Anyway, Nanshan Carbon Fiber's position is now very solid.
However, the fact that Nanshan Carbon Fiber does not advertise does not mean that all information can be completely confidential.
(End of chapter)