Sail across the sea

Chapter 56 Why Can't I Sell It?

The surprise that followed made Gao Yiping, Meng Hai and others couldn't believe it.

It takes more than 150 hours to restore the traditional driving, and everyone is mentally prepared to wait.Who would have thought that after only three days, that is, less than 80 hours after the restoration started, the water would stop.Calculate the ratio of the actual water output to the theoretical water output, reaching 98.3%, which means that the entire driving time is only half of the previous one, and the driving cost has been saved by more than half.

The official production situation is even more gratifying. The ammonia synthesis efficiency of the new catalyst is significantly higher than that of the traditional catalyst. Meng Hai calculated the ammonia production per day and concluded that the daily ammonia production per cubic meter of the catalyst has reached 60 tons, which is higher than that of the traditional catalyst. 20%.

这一次合成塔装填的触媒总计是0.3立方米，意味着每天的氨产量可以达到18吨。按365天计算，合成氨的年生产能力从原来的5000吨提升到了6570吨。

The improvement of ammonia synthesis efficiency also effectively reduces energy consumption.Gao Yiping led people to make careful calculations and found that if the current production efficiency can be maintained, the fertilizer plant is expected to turn around.However, I dare not think about making profits. After all, the problem of equipment aging still exists, and new catalysts cannot solve all problems.

"Xiaofan, you have done a great job for the factory."

At home, Gao Yiping patted Gao Fan on the shoulder and praised.After finishing speaking, he turned his head and said to Ran Yuying who was standing aside:
"Yuying, do you know that some people wanted to see my jokes about the synthetic tower parking accident this time. As a result, Xiaofan came up with such a rare earth catalyst, and the effect is much better than traditional catalysts. The production these days has been very smooth , Energy consumption is [-]% lower than in the past.

"I have asked the production department and the technical department to sort out the information as soon as possible and report to the Chemical Industry Department. I guess a reward cannot be lost. Doesn't this turn a bad thing into a good thing? I guess, those who want to read jokes , and now his face is swollen from the beating."

"That is, who is my son? It's a pity that you always scolded him in the past." Ran Yuying said happily.

"Training him is also for his own good." Gao Yiping said, he turned his head to look at Gao Fan again, and said, "Xiao Fan, you did a good job this time, but you can't be proud, you have to know..."

"Dad, this matter is not urgent." Gao Fan quickly interrupted Gao Yiping's nagging, and said, "Now that the effect of using the new catalyst has come out, haven't you thought about other things?"

"What's the matter?" Gao Yiping asked.

Gao Fan stroked his forehead with his hands: "Father, you have really stayed in the planned economy for a long time. The central government proposes to develop a commodity economy, but you don't have any awareness of the commodity economy?"

"What do you mean by commodity economy consciousness?" Gao Yiping was a little confused.

Gao Fan said: "It's just doing business. The baskets are full of vegetables. The fertilizer factory is still losing money. You don't want to make up for the losses inside the dike and make up for the losses outside the dike. You can at least make up for the deficit by doing business?"

"You mean...we can sell the rare earth catalyst we made?"

Gao Yiping's eyes lit up.Yes, I have tested it myself, and the effect of rare earth catalysts is much better than that of traditional catalysts. Why can’t such a good thing be sold?
There are [-] to [-] small nitrogen fertilizer factories like Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory in the province, and the catalysts need to be replaced every year, but there is no professional catalyst factory in the province, so everyone can only purchase catalysts outside the province.If the Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory can produce catalysts, and the performance is better than that of professional factories outside the province, is it necessary for everyone to go outside the province to buy them?

Each enterprise needs to use about one ton of catalyst.The price of a ton of catalyst is more than 2000 yuan. If 50 enterprises in the province buy their own catalysts, the output value will be more than 10 yuan.

The cost of the catalyst itself is very clear. The cost of raw materials plus electricity for the electric furnace, at best plus a little hard work for the steel plant, the cost of catalyst per ton cannot exceed 1000 yuan.If 50 can be sold, it means that there will be a profit of more than 5 yuan, which can offset the loss of the main business.

"Okay, this is a good suggestion!" Gao Yiping became excited, "Let me communicate with Director Xu and ask the Chemical Industry Department to ask all the chemical fertilizer factories in the province to buy our catalyst. The price of a ton of catalyst is 2000 yuan, and the cost is 1000 yuan. We made a net profit of 1000..."

"Wait, Dad, let's buy catalysts from other provinces, how much is a ton?" Gao Fan asked.

Gao Yiping said: "A ton costs 2200 yuan, plus the shipping fee. It will cost almost 2400 yuan to ship to the factory."

"Since we buy traditional catalysts at 2400 yuan per ton, and our rare earth catalysts are much better than traditional catalysts, why only sell them for 2000 yuan?" Gao Fan asked.

"Our cost is only 1000 yuan, and selling it for 2000 yuan a ton is already half the profit. If it is more expensive, why don't people produce it themselves?" Gao Yiping retorted.

Gao Fan laughed and said, "Dad, you only counted the cost of raw materials, but you didn't count the money we invested in so much technology? For example, how much is a golden idea of ​​your son's worth? Doesn't it need to be allocated to the cost? "

Gao Yiping nodded subconsciously. Gao Fan's PUA towards him had already begun to take effect. He was not dissatisfied with Gao Fan's wild words, but felt that Gao Fan's words were quite reasonable.

"In your opinion, how much should our catalyst be sold for?"

"4000 yuan per ton, no bargaining."

"This... is a bit high, I guess other factories won't accept it."

"It depends on how well our advertisements are done."

"Do you still want to advertise?" Gao Yiping was startled.

Gao Fan took out a stack of manuscript paper, handed it to Gao Yiping, and said, "It's not a real advertisement, but a soft advertisement. Dad, look, this is a paper I just wrote. The data is obtained from Uncle Meng and the production department." Uncle Yuan wants it. Can you find some connection so that Maolin Chemical will be published in this issue.

"As soon as the paper is released, every chemical fertilizer factory will see it. The rare earth catalyst has short driving time, low energy consumption, and high synthesis efficiency. The cost saved in the driving stage alone is more than 4000 yuan, and they spent [-] yuan Come to buy our catalyst, what is there not to like?"

"Is that okay?" Gao Yiping was dumbfounded.The son's routine is too deep, and he feels that he can't keep up.

Thinking about it carefully, Gao Fan's calculation is reasonable.The use of rare earth catalysts can save more than 4000 yuan in the cost of driving, and the driving time is cut in half, which is equivalent to an increase of three or four days of production time, which is at least worth tens of thousands of yuan.In this way, can a catalyst of [-] yuan per ton be considered expensive?

As for letting those factories develop new catalysts like Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory, the possibility is almost zero.Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory perfected the production process of rare earth catalyst under the guidance of Gao Fan. Would other chemical fertilizer factories go to such trouble for a mere 4000 yuan catalyst?
Besides, even if they want to do this, do they have Gao Fan?

(End of this chapter)