Chapter 583: Black Hand

Looking at everyone's bland reactions, Steven was suddenly a little embarrassed, this was really embarrassing.

However, for the reaction of the people, it was not beyond his expectations, such a performance data still wants to compete with Huapan Group for the market, without the support and acquiescence of major consortia and governments, it is really not enough.

After all, everyone is an expert, what is the real performance of these titanium alloys, look at the performance data given, and then slightly discount, and it will come out.

It seems to be a bit miserable and miserable, but this is also something that can't be helped, not that they don't want to make these experimental data look better, and now these performance data displayed on PTT are already the best performance of their experimental data, not that according to the normal experimental requirements, multiple experiments, and then take the median value.

In other words, the titanium alloy that these manufacturers can actually produce according to the formula must be less than these manufacturers estimated.

It sounds a bit embarrassing.

But this is the result of their best efforts, and for the past two years, the researchers have worked more than 100 hours a week.

No way, these days, cheap things are easy to have, good things are easy to have, but it's too difficult to be good and cheap.

If we talk about quality, not to mention the titanium alloy they developed, it is the titanium alloy researched by Huapan, which is much worse than the real aerospace titanium alloy or the titanium alloy parts used in titanium alloy submarines.

And if it is cheap, ferrous metals, that is, steel, among which high-quality steel, such as die steel, heat-resistant steel, etc., can reach the titanium alloy they developed, about 60% of the performance.

And the price is only one-fiftieth of titanium alloy, and the most expensive is not more than one-twentieth.

But it's the only thing, it's good and cheap, it's too hard, it's too hard.

After all, in this world, it has always been that you get what you pay for, you get two cents for a dime, and you get three dollars for every dollar.

For example, the price of the iPhone is three or four times that of the average mobile phone, but the functions it has, as well as the various feelings it brings to people, are it really worth three or four times more expensive than the average mobile phone?

A big question mark can be put here.

Therefore, high quality and high price are the most difficult.

Now the titanium alloy formula they give is really the result of their hard work.

The existence of both quality and price is taken into account.

At this point, they can truly feel what a genius the enemy they are facing is.

With so many of them, many of them internationally renowned scholars, two years of hard work are not worth a very casual work of a teenager.

After all, looking at Chu Hao's publication of E-type miscellaneous theories and his research on graphene, we know that Chu Hao must not have invested much energy and time in low-cost titanium alloys.

It can only be said that people are more popular than people.

However, Professor Steven felt that his mentality was okay, after all, in the final analysis, these titanium alloys were not studied by him, and the miserable point was miserable.

If everyone in the audience knew that this titanium alloy formula was not researched by Professor Steven, I am afraid that they would be shocked.

You know, although it is not known who is manipulating this matter, but they all nominally accepted Professor Steven's invitation to come here.

Now, Professor Steven is not the actual researcher of this titanium alloy formula.

Well, that's right.

It can even be said that he has invested very little energy and time in this titanium alloy formula.

After all, before he came to the United States, he was simply a street rat, everyone shouted and beat him, and no one and no one would help his research.

Even if he came to the United States, his main job was not to study the formula of titanium alloys, after all, other researchers had been studying it for about a year, and he could only say that it would increase friction and waste time.

Besides, he was not invited to study the titanium alloy formula, but to let him study Huapan to see what weaknesses Huapan had.

In other words, let him think of a way to see how to deal with Hua Pan.

It's just that after observing and thinking for a long time, he sadly found that Hua Pan was already an invulnerable existence.

At the beginning, Huapan still had a weakness, that is, the titanium alloy production line, Huapan could not produce, and could only buy other people's.

It's just that this weakness has already been used by the Danieli group.

As for the effect?

It can be said that he is laughing and generous, lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot, stealing chickens and not losing rice to describe it with adjectives.

At that time, the Danieli Group used a lot of manpower and material resources, and even spent money to hire a lobbying group to add the titanium alloy production line to the embargoed list, that is, the Wassenaar agreement.

The result is good, Huapan has developed a 20-ton titanium alloy production line, which not only does not need to import the production line of Danieli Group, but takes away hundreds of millions of dollars of turnover from the hands of the three major metallurgical manufacturers every year.

This makes the three major metallurgical manufacturing supplies and the Wassenaar agreement extremely embarrassing.

After all, such a blockade means that they have given up the entire Huaxia market to Hua Pan for nothing, and Hua Pan can take the money out of their pockets.

Moreover, they also have to bear the wrath of Huaxia.

The most important thing is that it is enough to see that if they do not succeed in sanctioning Huapan this time, Huapan will take more and more turnover from the three major metallurgical manufacturers every year.

It's so embarrassing.

This is also why, in the end, they chose to compete in normal business, rather than some other off-market tricks that they are better at.

With this lesson of the Danieli Group, no one dares to say anything about blocking the Huapan Group again.

If this is not good, Hua Pan will study something again, their main business, they will not be able to live in the future.

Soon, everyone looked at their surroundings in amazement, how could the representatives of several famous steel companies, Anselmittal, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal, Tata Group, etc., be so calm.

It seems that I have known the properties of the titanium alloy developed by Professor Steven for a long time.

Professor Steven coughed, which aroused everyone's thoughts, he looked around and said loudly: "Moreover, we have signed agreements with ArcelorMittal Group, Tata Group and other famous steel groups, and several major steel groups will guarantee that the titanium alloy supplied will be permanently five percent lower than the price of similar products of Huapan Group. ”

Everyone present suddenly told the truth, their eyes widened, and they looked at Professor Steven in disbelief, their ears were not mistaken.

"Yes, you heard it right, the major steel groups will guarantee that the titanium alloy they supply will be permanently five percent lower than the price of similar products of Huapan Group, and no matter how Huapan lowers the price, we guarantee that it is cheaper than him. Professor Steven shouted with a wave of his hands and a red face.

Hearing Professor Steven's reassurance, everyone really believed it.

Suddenly, there was a lot of discussion in the audience.

Today's meeting has been going on for so long, and I finally saw the meat drama.

It can be said that the words that Steven said earlier are no different from nonsense, that is, the two sentences just said are a bit interesting.

In fact, representatives of major automobile, aviation, chemical, medical equipment and other industries have already made up their minds, and they will go back and give some business to several major steel mills, which can be counted as an explanation.

It is impossible to completely abandon Huapan's titanium alloy.

After all, no one is going to have trouble with money.

No matter how much the government hints, they won't pay attention.

In the final analysis, the government also has to listen to them.

But now, Steven and several major steel mills have promised at the same time that the price of Huapan titanium alloy will be permanently reduced by five percent, which is interesting.

You must know that although the price of titanium alloy has dropped a lot compared with previous years, they use titanium alloy, which is also very painful.

After all, although titanium alloy is only used in key positions, the amount is not small, and it is foreseeable that the amount of titanium alloy will be larger and larger.

According to their calculations, the company will spend as little as three or four million dollars a year just using titanium alloy, and as much as five or six billion dollars.

And if Professor Steven and the major steel companies can really guarantee that the price of titanium alloy has been reduced by 5% compared with Huapan Group, then they can save tens of millions of dollars a year on average.

This is not a small amount, you must know that 90% of the world's listed companies do not have an annual profit of more than 10 million US dollars.

And now, since Steven has made such a promise, they can indeed consider replacing the titanium alloy they use with several major steel companies other than Huapan.

After all, to be honest, they don't want to cultivate such a terrifying competitor as Huapan.

It is terrifying that a company that has only been established for two years wants to occupy 20% of the world's titanium alloy market and be the world's first in titanium alloy metallurgical equipment.

Hua Pan's growth rate is enough to make everyone fearful.

Professor Steven trumpeted all kinds of bright prospects on stage.

And above everyone's heads, on an observation deck extending from the second floor, several old men who looked extraordinary were watching Professor Steven's performance and everyone's reactions with wine glasses.

If the people sitting in the audience were lucky enough to come to this room, he would find that these old men were the most famous people in the world.

Among them, there are presidents of Morgan, GM, Ford, Toyota, Volkswagen, as well as ArcelorMittal, Tata, Boeing, Airbus and other world-famous companies.

It can be said that this is the gathering place of the bigwigs.

"I don't know if we're too cautious when we deal with a baby with such fanfare. Lakshmi Mittal said.

Lakshmi Mittal is the Chairman of ArcelorMittal Group, the world's largest steel company.

Lakshmi Mittal may be of Indian origin, but he is the richest man in the British Empire.

"It's just an episode, just an aperitif for a hearty dinner, Huapan is just a little ant, what we really need to pay attention to is the rise of Huaxia. ”

The chairman, John Chris Morgan, said slowly.

"Well, that's right, Huaxia has risen too rapidly in recent years, and it has gradually surpassed our grasp. ”

The oldest of them, more than ninety years old, said Lawrence Rockefeller in a deep tone.

Lawrence Rockefeller, as the head of the Rockefeller consortium, has been in control of this huge consortium for more than 50 years.

The Rockefeller consortium, the real behemoth, is not only one of the top ten consortiums in the United States, but also the first of the top ten consortiums, the founder J.D. Rockefeller. It is the largest monopoly group in the United States based on the oil monopoly of the Rockefeller family, and extends its sphere of influence to all sectors of the national economy through continuous control of financial institutions.

When it comes to American history, it's hard to avoid the Rockefeller family name: Standard Oil and the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as Chase Bank, the Museum of Modern Art, the Rockefeller Center, the University of Chicago, Rockefeller University, and the Twin Towers that saddened the collapse of 911 in the United States of America.

The oil empire founded by Rockefeller and its successors, Exxon and Mobil and Chevron, together with Texaco and Gulf, which started in Texas, British Petroleum and its Anglo-Dutch Royal Shell oil company, are known as the seven sisters of oil, becoming the seven largest multinational oil companies in the world.

In other words, among the seven largest multinational oil companies, the Rockefeller consortium occupies three.

Although the Rockefeller consortium has been declining in economic strength since the 80s, its status has also declined, and it has been surpassed by the Morgan consortium.

However, the main reason for this is that the American consortium has infiltrated each other, and the large enterprises to which the Rockefeller consortium belongs, such as Exxon, and the large banks, such as the Chase Manhattan Bank, have been infiltrated by other consortiums and have become enterprises under joint control. On the one hand, the Standard Oil Company he founded, at its peak, monopolized 80% of the oil refining industry and 90% of the tubing business in the United States. On the other hand, Rockefeller was a Christian, and the foundation named after him was committed to the purpose of "benefiting mankind in the world", with a total donation of $500 million.

The Rockefeller consortium is typical of the control of industrial capital by bank capital. It has a large financial network, with Chase Manhattan Bank as the core, and more than 100 financial institutions such as the Chemical Bank of New York, MetLife Insurance Company and Equitable Life Insurance Company. Through these financial institutions, many industrial and mining enterprises are directly or indirectly controlled, and they occupy an important position in various economic sectors such as metallurgy, chemicals, rubber, automobiles, food, air transport, telecommunications, etc., as well as in the arms industry.

The arms companies under its control include McDonnell Douglas, Martin Marietta (jointly controlled with the Mellon consortium), Sperry Rand and Westinghouse Electric (jointly controlled with the Mellon consortium), among others. The Rockefeller consortium also controls, individually or jointly with other consortiums, the five largest U.S. airlines, United Airlines, American Airlines, Trans World Airlines, and Eastern Airlines.