Nanshan Special Steel's action is not slow.

This kind of thing, procrastination is not good for the acquisition.

Anyway, Nanshan Special Steel did not expect to excessively lower prices by prolonging the negotiation time.

As a listed company, Shaogang's market value has a certain reference significance.

Directly throwing out a plan for a 10% premium acquisition is not bad for hundreds of millions of yuan.

As a listed company that is about to bring "ST", Shaogang in the loss does not have too many bargaining chips.

Not to mention that the boss of Shaogang and other relevant personnel have all been taken care of by Xie Lingyun.

Nanshan Special Steel has also had a lot of cooperation with Shaoshan Iron and Steel in the past, and most of the employees of Shaoshan Iron and Steel are like lambs waiting to be fed, thinking of joining the big family of Nanshan Group as soon as possible.

In this case, even if Baosteel, the major shareholder, wants to stop it, it is meaningless.

It's a big deal, Xie Lingyun went to the relevant departments to say hello.

It's not for you to sell the company at a loss, this kind of thing that is in line with the general policy, there must be someone who is willing to stand up and support Nanshan Group.

After thinking about these problems clearly, Lai Liang, the general manager of Baosteel, personally led a team to negotiate with Cao Yang.

In this way, the communication between the prince and the king will obviously be much more efficient.

Speaking of which, when Lai Liang was the general manager of Baosteel Southern Company, he had contact with Cao Yang, and everyone was an old acquaintance.

In recent years, Baosteel's development speed has not been slow, and it has become the leading iron and steel enterprise with the largest strength in China.

The monthly steel price adjustment of various iron and steel enterprises is based on the data released by Baosteel.

It can be said that in China's domestic steel market, Baosteel has a certain pricing power.

Of course, the premise is that Baosteel can produce those steels in large quantities.

For example, special steels such as bearing steel for high-speed rail and aircraft carrier steel plates will definitely not have anything to do with Baosteel.

"Mr. Cao, the hot-stamping steel plate developed by our two sides has now become the most profitable project in Baosteel's automotive steel."

"In recent years, hot stamping parts have been used too much in the automotive industry, and we can be regarded as making a lot of contributions to my car safety."

When the big boss talks about things, it's definitely not a trivial thing to quarrel with as soon as it comes up.

Many times, quarrels happen below, and when it comes to the boss, it is a harmonious mess.

Although Lai Liang had dealt with Cao Yang earlier, after all, it was many years ago, and everyone was not particularly familiar with it.

Therefore, it is most appropriate to greet each other first and find a common topic for both parties to communicate.

One of the most in-depth cooperation projects between Baosteel and Nanshan Special Steel is hot stamping steel plate.

At the beginning, in order to promote the vigorous development of hot stamping technology in Yangcheng Huaqiang Factory, Cao Yang, who did not want the hot stamping steel plate to be monopolized by ArcelorMittal, chose to launch a special cooperation with Nanshan special steel technology, and Baosteel produced the production line and was responsible for production.

Through this cooperation, the hot-stamping steel plate used in Yangcheng Huaqiang Factory has been localized, which has further promoted the development of hot-stamping technology in China.

"Mr. Lai, I heard that ArcelorMittal is ready to cooperate with Valin Steel and authorize them to produce hot-stamped steel plates."

"Then Nippon Steel also cooperated with ArcelorMittal, and the two sides granted each other the technology of hot-stamping steel sheets through mutual patent licensing."

"Their HQAS1500H hot-stamped steel plates may also be used by companies such as Yangcheng Honda and Zephyr Nissan in the future."

Anyway, Nanshan Special Steel has no intention of producing hot-stamping steel plates by itself, so Cao Yang doesn't mind reminding Lai Liang to pay attention to the movements of competitors.

As a relatively profitable type of automotive steel, hot stamping steel plate must also want to come in and get a piece of the pie.

After all, there is not much cost difference between the production of hot-stamped steel sheet and the production of galvanized sheet, which is different from JAC270C.

But the selling price is more than 4,000 yuan a ton, and one is almost 10,000 yuan a ton.

The high profits inside here are scared to death.

Of course, as the competition becomes fierce, the price of hot stamping steel plate is bound to continue to fall.

Even so, the profit is still higher than that of other automotive steels.

And if you compare it with ordinary steel, it's even more different.

After all, automotive steel is a type of steel industry with relatively high profits.

"I have also heard this news, ArcelorMittal's previous market focus has always been in Europe and Tianzhu, and now it seems that he also wants to come to the Chinese market to get a piece of the pie."

"The domestic steel production capacity is already so high, it can be said that there is a serious surplus."

"In this case, we don't really need the capacity of these steel companies."

Lai Liang definitely doesn't want to see other companies robbing him of money.

But there are some things that he is not willing to do.

Of course, this topic was just an introduction, and the two chatted briefly and then moved on to the main topic.

"Mr. Cao, Nanshan Special Steel, as a leading enterprise in the domestic special steel industry, I have always admired it very much."

"However, as an important part of Baosteel's national layout, Shaogang is actually of great significance to us."

Although Lai Liang knew that Shaogang would definitely be sold to Nanshan Special Steel in the end, there would definitely be no harm in being able to fight for more benefits.

In recent years, in order to become the largest steel manufacturer in China, Baosteel has been trying to merge various domestic enterprises.

Lai Liang also felt the benefits of this merger activity.

For example, pricing power is also the result of Baosteel's continuous mergers and acquisitions of other steel mills, and its own influence has been increasing.

Otherwise, why would you let everyone else follow your price fluctuations?

"There is overcapacity in domestic steel, but we still need to import a lot of special steel from abroad every year."

"This contradiction between supply and demand is actually a structural contradiction."

"Steel manufacturers like Shaogang, which do not have their own fist products, are manufacturers that need to consider eliminating part of their production capacity on the ministry side."

"Otherwise, domestic steel companies will become a state where no one can make money, which is certainly not what everyone wants to see."

"Rather than letting Shaogang continue to lose money and become a burden for Baosteel, it is better to stop losses in time."

Be reasonable and set out the facts.

Who wouldn't?

Cao Yang can also find a lot of words that are beneficial to his acquisition of Shaogang casually.

Besides, whether it is the people of Shaogang, the headquarters of Baosteel, or the people of the ministries and commissions, they all know that it is a good thing that Nanshan Special Steel acquired Shaogang.

With this premise, Cao Yang is naturally full of confidence now.

"Every industry has developed to a certain stage, it will enter a bottleneck period, and the domestic steel industry is now in a bottleneck period."

"After this period is passed in the future, iron and steel enterprises will naturally be able to usher in their own good days."

Lai Liang's words cannot be said to be problematic.

After all, no matter what industry it is, there must be a time when you can make money.

For example, in the years before and after 2022, steel prices have skyrocketed, and as long as it is a steel mill, it can make money.

"Some time ago, Wuhan Iron and Steel contacted us and said that they have a branch that intends to cooperate with Nanshan Special Steel."

"On Shougang's side, the relevant departments also hope that we can cooperate with them in depth."

"Needless to say, Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. has been very positive about various plans to strengthen cooperation since we developed the aircraft carrier steel plate together."

"For us, the only advantage of Shaogang is that everyone is familiar with it, which saves the time for running-in."

Cao Yang didn't want to talk too much nonsense with Lai Liang.

You don't want to sell Shaogang to Nanshan Special Steel, and there are a lot of people who want to cooperate.

A person in a position like Lai Liang can be said to be the best at interpreting the meaning of other people's words.

He obviously knew what Cao Yang meant.

Although Baosteel is a very powerful large-scale enterprise in China, as the general manager of Baosteel, his level is not low.

But in front of Cao Yang, the richest man in the world, it is obviously not something particularly handy.

He is also afraid that the cooperation will really collapse.

After all, Cao Yang is so young, in case he is "young and vigorous", it will be embarrassing.

After thinking about these clearly, he immediately changed his tone and said: "We are naturally willing to strengthen cooperation with Nanshan Special Steel." ”

"This is indeed in line with the major policies of the ministry and commission, and I will fully support it."

"However, I think the cooperation between the two sides, in addition to selling Shaogang to Nanshan Special Steel, can actually explore more cooperation in other aspects."

"For example, some steel grades that Nanshan Special Steel does not prepare to produce by itself can be handed over to Baosteel for production like hot-stamping steel plates."

"To put it mildly, although there are many domestic steel manufacturers, there are no more competitive than Baosteel."

Shaogang is definitely going to sell to Nanshan Special Steel, but he definitely wants to get more cooperation opportunities.

In China, as long as the project has a relationship with Nanshan Group, it is a good project.

This has been proven by countless cases.

"Our Nanshan Automobile Group now needs to consume a large amount of automotive steel every year, and there are currently four or five suppliers of these automotive steels."

"In the future, as long as Baosteel has an advantage in QCD, we can give priority to purchasing materials from Baosteel."

"Even the steel plates used by the suppliers of Xingchen Automobile, Future Auto and Jaguar Land Rover, we can consider purchasing them from Baosteel and then giving them to the suppliers."

Cao Yang knew that if he didn't give any benefits, Lai Liang would definitely be unhappy.

Anyway, some steel products are to be bought no matter which material manufacturer they buy from.

It's better to take this opportunity to sell Baosteel a favor.

"Thank you Mr. Cao for your support, you can rest assured, as long as it is the steel that Nanshan Automobile Group needs to buy, we will definitely provide the most cost-effective quotation."

Take it when you see it.

Lai Liang knew that he didn't have a lot of chips in his hand, so he didn't make any more excessive requests.

In case the time really collapses, it will be Baosteel's turn to beg Nanshan Special Steel to acquire Shaogang.

The two bigwigs reached an opinion on the general direction, and the relevant acquisition procedures were naturally carried out at the fastest speed.

The efficiency of the relevant departments of Huaxia can definitely exceed your imagination when there is a need.

Soon, Shaogang was suspended, and officially issued an announcement, saying that Nanshan Special Steel would acquire all shares of Shaogang at a premium of 10%.

This information immediately attracted the attention of many people.

"Mr. Cao, are you finally planning to enter the crude steel smelting process?"

"If you want me to say, you should have given full play to your technical strength a long time ago to make the special steel business bigger and stronger."

"With the current production capacity, it can't meet the market demand at all."

As the president of Anshan Iron and Steel Research Institute, Zhou Mulan cooperated with Cao Yang to tackle many technical problems when she was researching aircraft carrier steel plates, and she also has a very good understanding of the technical strength of Nanshan Special Steel.

Of course, she also knows a lot about Shaogang's situation.

In her opinion, Shaogang is an ordinary local iron and steel enterprise, with no technical characteristics, otherwise it would not fall into a state of loss.

But Shaogang, which has become a subsidiary of Nanshan Special Steel, is in a different situation.

Not to mention the Nanshan equipment that has production equipment in Nanshan Group, just Nanshan Special Steel can make a big difference by optimizing the process parameter setting and making some improvements in management.

Zhou Mulan is obviously very clear about this.

Therefore, within Anshan Iron and Steel, many people are a little worried that Nanshan Special Steel will compete with Anshan Iron and Steel for the market of marine steel plates in the future.

Don't underestimate this market, with the rapid development of China's shipbuilding industry, the market for marine steel plates is actually very large.

The most important thing is that the competitors in this field are relatively small, and the profit margins are slightly larger.

Therefore, Angang knew that Zhou Mulan had a good relationship with Cao Yang, so he asked Zhou Mulan to call to find out.

"Some time ago, I saw the news of the breaking cable of the American aircraft carrier, which made me further realize the importance of special steel."

"There are more or less some special steel grades under our various companies that are purchased from outside, which also gives us the motivation to increase the production capacity of special steel."

"So we will mainly focus on special steel grades that are closely related to our own industry."

Cao Yang is not stupid at all.

Zhou Mulan, who usually doesn't have much contact, suddenly called, and it was definitely not as simple as congratulations.

If you want to congratulate, I don't know how many things to congratulate the various companies in the Nanshan system have happened throughout the year.

He didn't see Zhou Mulan call to congratulate him before.

"The mold steel of the automobile industry and various special steels on the chassis, engines and other parts of the market prospect is indeed very broad."

"With the technical strength of Nanshan Special Steel, it can fully promote the localization of 100% of steel used in the automobile industry."

"This is actually very important for the development of the domestic automobile industry."

Zhou Mulan secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

I can give the leader an account.

At least Nanshan Special Steel should not have the intention of producing aircraft carrier steel plates or submarine steel plates and other marine steel plates by itself.

Of course, she also knows that nothing is absolute.

Maybe when Nanshan Special Steel's idea changed, it's not surprising at all.

……

Lang has a concubine intention, and departments at all levels are very supportive.

The staff of Shaogang are also very cooperative, and I hope that the personnel of Nanshan Special Steel will come over and incorporate them as soon as possible.

So soon, when some procedures were not completely completed, Xie Lingyun personally led the team to settle in Shaogang and made some adjustments to the personnel in some major positions such as finance and procurement.

The relevant departments take this opportunity to conduct a big survey of the situation in the field of domestic special steel, and see what special steel belongs to various domestic steel manufacturers that cannot be produced, and Nanshan special steel is needed to tackle key problems.

This kind of industrial exploration is not the first time that China has done it.

When the aircraft carrier blocking cable was unexpectedly completed before, the relevant departments made a big investigation.

I don't know if I don't investigate, but there are really a lot of unexpected discoveries in an investigation.

Including the breakthrough of Nanshan Chemical stealth coating and Nanshan Carbon Fiber's high-end carbon fiber products, etc., also let the relevant departments know that some technologies that cannot be handled within the system may have been made by private enterprises.

After all, whether a lot of materials can be developed or not really has a little to do with luck.

There are so many private enterprises in China, it is impossible for each of them to have so bad luck, right?

"Mr. Lai, the relevant departments a few days ago preliminarily sorted out the situation of the industrial survey in the field of special steel, among which there is a special steel that everyone has not noticed before, and it is 100% dependent on imports."

"So the people in the relevant departments asked us if we could produce this special steel."

On Baosteel's side, Jin Tai, the sales director, reported to Lai Liang the relevant information of the industrial survey.

As the most influential steel company in China, after finding some steel that cannot be handled, the relevant departments will definitely think about whether Baosteel can produce it.

Obviously, the situation is not very optimistic from the current situation that Mrs. Kim is grasping.

"Where do you use special steel?"

Lai Liang put down the pen in his hand and looked at Mrs. Jin calmly.

There are so many types of special steel, and many of them cannot be produced by Baosteel, which is not a surprise to him.

Mrs. Jin will come to report to herself, and it is obvious that this material Baosteel cannot produce now.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be what it is now.

"The little beads on the nib of the ballpoint pen, a special kind of steel."

"After this meeting found this problem, the leaders of the relevant departments were a little angry, thinking that Huaxia, as the world's manufacturing and steel power, can build high-speed railways and rockets, why can't it realize the complete independent research and development and production of small ballpoint pen nib materials?"

When Mrs. Jin said this, Lai Liang couldn't help frowning.

"Is it so hard to produce ballpoint beads on the tip of a ballpoint pen?"

Hearing Lai Liang say this, Mrs. Jin knew that he must not know much about the things in this subdivision.

"Mr. Lai, although the ballpoint pen is a small invention, it has a profound impact on human civilization."

"That nib is a ball with a diameter of 0.5-1.0 millimeters, and that's where it writes."

"When we write with a ballpoint pen, the ink distributed in the refill flows to the ball base of the nib and attaches to the 'writing point' under the dual action of atmospheric pressure and ink gravity."

"When writing, the ink adheres to the paper due to the rolling of the ball, resulting in clear, bright, clean handwriting."

"Because the 'writing point' of the ballpoint pen needs to withstand a lot of pressure when writing, the ballpoint pen on the tip of the pen needs to be made of hard, wear-resistant materials."

"Ballpoint pens were first introduced to the market, but they were very expensive because they were difficult to produce as writing points and the ballpoint pen was very expensive."

"At that time, it was made of chrome alloy balls and ball steel with good wear resistance."

"Later, tungsten carbide became a common material for making steel balls."

"The hardness of tungsten carbide is similar to that of diamond, and the chemical properties are stable, so the ball made of tungsten carbide has a longer life and writes more smoothly."

"Huaxia produces more than 40 billion ballpoint pens every year, making it the world's largest producer of ballpoint pens, but for a long time, the core secret of special steel for nib beads has been in the hands of a few countries in the West."

As soon as Mrs. Jin explained this, Lai Liang probably had a feeling.

However, he still felt strange and said: "Although this special steel needs to be imported all the time, the amount used should not be particularly large, right?" ”

"According to the current situation, the production of nibs requires the import of more than 1,000 tons of special steel, which is about 200 million yuan a year."

"However, the price of this special steel has never been rising, and I have not seen it lower its price, which has annoyed the relevant companies."

"So this time the industry is in the bottom line, and several companies have raised this issue."

Mrs. Kim explained a little helplessly beside her.

As a professional in the industry, he is naturally able to understand the various reasons behind this problem.

Is there a threshold for the special steel used on ballpoint pens?

The answer is absolutely yes!

But is this threshold really high enough to have no way to customers?

The answer is absolutely no!

This material, when it does not involve sensitive technology, is a simple private trade.

Considering that the annual demand is only about 1,000 tons, the capacity of steel plants is measured in millions of tons at every turn.

In this case, it is not surprising that they are reluctant to simply produce a type of steel with such low demand.

But once this kind of thing is found out and exposed on the Internet, the nature is different.

The majority of consumers will think that Huaxia's steel technology is not good, and such a simple special steel on daily necessities cannot be done.

This invisible impact is actually quite large.

"This kind of special steel, even if we immediately arrange someone to study it, when the R&D investment is amortized to the production cost, I don't know when it will be able to return to the cost."

"And the excessively high amortization expense is likely to cause the price of domestic special steel to be more expensive than that of imports."

Lai Liang obviously didn't have much interest in this thing.

More than 1,000 tons, if there is more than 10,000 tons, how much can be done.

"The relevant departments have now launched a 'R&D and industrialization of key materials and preparation technologies for the pen industry', and we are currently one of the target manufacturers who have been invited."

"If the company doesn't plan to do it, then I'll find a reason for insufficient capacity to refuse them?"

Mrs. Jin immediately felt Lai Liang's attitude, and at this time, he naturally had to arrange the next move according to the attitude of the leader.

Otherwise, you will be put in small shoes in the future.

"Give up, there's no need to do this thankless thing."

Lai Liang didn't think much about it, and directly gave his own answer.

There are so many domestic steel manufacturers, let those manufacturers who are idle and have no projects to do toss.

At that time, even if this steel is successfully developed, the market demand is very small.

This kind of thing, Lai Liang definitely doesn't want to touch.

(End of chapter)