Sail across the sea

"Why, Lao Yu, you don't want to tell me that you want to change your career to polyester?"

Gao Fan asked tentatively.

But Yu Guorong asked back: "Brother Gao, do you think this business is worth doing?"

"I'm just a student, how do I know." Gao Fan chuckled and avoided Yu Guorong's question.

In fact, he would rather just say "I'm still a child", but thinking about it, Yu Guorong definitely doesn't understand this kind of stalk of later generations. If he really said that, it would be a very cold joke.

Yu Guorong pretended to be dissatisfied and frowned, and said:

"Brother Gao, why do you need to dress in front of my brother? Now we are in the entire Renqiao, I dare not say everyone, at least the group of people who do chemical industry, who doesn't know that Chen Linfa and his son climbed to Maolin Province The relationship of a genius, now counting money every day until the fingers are covered with calluses.

"You said that you are a student, and I'm still a farmer. My brother came here to ask you for advice during the Chinese New Year. Can't you teach me?"

How could Gao Fan be easily bluffed? He smiled and said: "If Mr. Yu wants to say that, I really dare not stay in this room anymore, my little brother. There is still soup stewing on my stove. You have to go back and have a look."

He said so, but his butt seemed to be stuck to the stool, and he didn't intend to leave in a hurry.

Yu Guorong then knew Gao Fan's thoughts, he sighed, and said, "Oh, I am convinced by Manager Gao's city. To be honest, after hearing Mr. I'm a little excited.

"I've heard people say that the polyester plant in our Shuinan Huanglan Chemical Plant has an annual production capacity of 6 tons, and the investment is more than 5 million yuan. The investment for a combined production capacity of 1 ton is 1 yuan.

"The device developed by Mr. Pan and the others only costs 5000 million yuan for 1200 tons, and only 1 yuan for 2400 ton, which is a difference of four times.

"In terms of production costs, I also heard Mr. Pan say that the input of raw materials is about the same, that is, the water consumption, electricity consumption and labor are more than double that of Huang Lan's device.

"I made a rough calculation. According to the data mentioned by Mr. Pan, taking into account the depreciation of the equipment, the price of polyester produced by small equipment will not be more expensive than that of Huanglan Chemical Factory. .”

Gao Fan and Yu Guorong fought each other in order to let Yu Guorong speak out his thoughts first.Now that he heard this, he no longer kept the joke, but asked seriously: "You mean, you have a market for polyester?"

"Great!" Yu Guorong said, "Brother Gao, you don't make plastic products. You don't know how popular polyester is now. In fact, it's not just polyester, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, polypropylene, that's all. Come on, no matter what kind of plastic, it is very tight.

"When I opened this plastic product factory, half of my energy was spent on raw materials. As long as I have raw materials in hand, I can sell them at a higher price."

"I understand."

Gao Fan nodded.

Most of the polyester produced by Huanglan Chemical Plant is used to produce polyester, and only a small part is used to produce plastic products, which are divided into bottle flakes for manufacturing packaging materials and diaphragms for making films, tapes, etc. .

In recent years, people's living standards have improved, and the consumption of beverages and packaged foods has continued to increase, which has brought about a strong demand for polyester packaging materials. At the same time, the domestic supply of polyester is very limited. The contradiction is very serious. …

Yu Guorong himself made plastic products, so he naturally knew about this situation.For businessmen, the existence of a contradiction between supply and demand means that there is excess profit.

Before that, Yu Guorong didn't feel that he had the ability to obtain a large amount of polyester bottle flakes. Some of the polyester bottle flakes he got through his relationship were only enough for his own company to produce, and he was not willing to resell them in the market.

However, the information disclosed to him by Pan Yue made him see an opportunity to enter the field of polyester production.The unit cost of the polyester produced by the small-scale polyester plant is not higher than that of the large-scale plant, which means that the polyester produced by it is equivalent to the cost price of Huanglan Chemical Plant.

He can add some premium to the market price, and then sell it to his former colleagues, making much more money than making plastic products now.

The advantage of being an upstream industry is that the competition is not as fierce as that of the downstream industry. For a long time, it can even be said that there is no problem of market competition at all, and you can make money lying down.

The investment of a set of equipment in Huanglan Chemical Factory is nearly 6 million yuan, which Yu Guorong dare not think about.However, the small polyester plant developed by Pan Yue has an investment of only 1200 million, which is within the reach of Yu Guorong.

"Old Yu, I can't see it. You actually have such a large net worth, and you just took out the investment of 1200 million." Gao Fan said jokingly.

Yu Guorong quickly clarified: "No, no, brother Gao, you misunderstood. I don't have any wealth. I just thought, if this business can be done, I will find some friends and get together. In Renqiao, There are still some rich people, and I have a little confidence in scraping together 1200 million."

"So, what about the raw materials?" Gao Fan asked again, "The production of polyester requires PTA and EG. Now the country mainly relies on imports. How can you get the raw materials?"

The so-called PTA is purified terephthalic acid, and EG is ethylene glycol, which are the two main raw materials for the production of polyester.To produce one ton of polyester, about 0.87 tons of PTA and 0.37 tons of EG are needed. Both PTA and EG are petrochemical products. China's technology in this area is very backward, and domestic PTA and EG are almost entirely imported.

The development of China's synthetic fiber production technology has gone through a long and tortuous process.The earliest synthetic fiber raw materials were completely dependent on imports. Later, through independent construction and technology introduction, independent polyester (PET) production capacity was formed, but PTA, the main raw material for the production of polyester, mainly relied on imports.

Later, the country began to build large-scale PTA plants, which achieved import substitution to a large extent.But what follows is that the raw material PX required for the production of PTA, that is, p-xylene, needs to be imported from abroad.

China then started the construction of PX devices. By the time of Gaofan’s time travel, the domestic PX production had reached a large scale and got rid of the dependence on imports.

As for the higher-level raw material of PX, that is, crude oil, it can only be rewarded by God.The oil reserves under China's feet are limited and can only be imported from abroad, so there is nothing to say.

China's polyester industry chain is gradually developing from the downstream to the upstream. Every time a level is solved, a part of the premium paid to foreign countries can be reduced.However, in the current period, China has just begun to pursue the independent production of polyester, and the independent production of PTA and PX cannot be taken care of for a while.