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Chapter 615 Heavy Truck

At this time, the marketing director seemed particularly excited. Once this happens, Karuizawa Heavy Industries will not only come back to life, but also truly achieve phoenix nirvana and rebirth from the ashes.

Let’s not talk about the heavy-duty trucks produced by Karuizawa Heavy Industries, are they any good? As long as there is a document from the Karuizawa Group stating that the transport vehicles of Karuizawa Steel must use heavy-duty trucks from Karuizawa Heavy Industries, there will be no need to worry about sales.

The reason why Karuizawa Steel has become the economic pillar of Wakayama City, accounting for more than 80% of GDP, is that it is a giant steel enterprise group.

The Karuizawa Steel Plant alone consumes 8000 million tons of iron ore every year. Not only that, steel plants are also large consumers of coal.

The annual demand for coal is 1500 million tons. Including others, the steel plant alone has a transportation volume of more than 9500 million tons from one side of the port terminal.

This does not include the transportation volume of steel produced by steel plants and transported to Wakayama Port, as well as urea, fertilizers, etc. produced by related ancillary and ancillary products.

The general load capacity of a heavy-duty truck is only thirty to fifty tons. How many heavy-duty trucks are needed to complete such a high annual transport volume?

Furthermore, it is possible that the Karuizawa ship will be located in Wakayama City. There is also a distance between the shipyard and the steel plant! This transportation is absolutely indispensable.

According to the marketing director, large bulk carriers can load 30 tons of iron ore at a time. However, the Karuizawa Steel Plant requires 8000 million tons of iron ore a year.

Just such a ship, whether it is shipped from Brazil to Japan, or from Australia to Japan... it still has to make 267 trips.

Not to mention one such ship, even ten such ships would definitely not be able to transport them all within a year. After all, just one trip would take at least a month on average.

As long as Karuizawa Steel does not go bankrupt, there will be a steady stream of transportation going on at sea, on roads, and even on railways day and night.

The head of the accounting department blurted out: "Where are the funds? This requires a lot of funds."

Ishihara Hideki was not trying to paint a pie for them at all: "In terms of funds, you don't have to worry at all. The president has promised that I can use the funds without an upper limit.

This first 10 billion US dollars of funds will be transferred from the Karuizawa Group to our public account of Karuizawa Heavy Industries through Karuizawa Commercial Bank in a week. "

The head of the accounting department said succinctly: "Then I don't have any problems."

Makoto Mizukawa also expressed his worries: "The difficult problem we at Karuizawa Heavy Industries will face is not a problem of money, but a problem of talent.

The president has made it clear that we will focus our research and development on heavy-duty trucks first. As for the specific tonnage, it is still decided by the technical department.

Universality and versatility are absolutely necessary. Especially for the transportation of bulk commodities such as iron ore, iron ore sand and coal. If it is just a simple assembly, it is very easy.

We can directly buy relevant parts from Hino Motors, Mitsubishi Fuso, Isuzu and other car manufacturers. This is not what we want.

Heavy-duty trucks are just the first step in building our true reputation as Karuizawa Heavy Industries. In terms of agricultural machinery, we did not give up directly. We only stopped because of the current shortage of manpower. "       The Minister of Technology explained all his concerns and said: "As the saying goes, every other line is like a mountain. Although they are all in the mechanical field, those of us have never worked on heavy trucks before. "

Ishihara Hideki encouraged: "No one is born with this skill. Toyota didn't specialize in building cars at the beginning!

The product that enabled the Toyota family to get started was the improved textile machine, and the Mitsui family's subsequent heavy investment in it allowed the Toyota family to build textile factories one after another, and even opened them in China.

Is there any direct connection between automobiles and textile machines? Not even! In my opinion, the reason why the Toyota family has been able to successfully transform is that on the one hand it has seized an opportunity in the development of the times, and on the other hand it is the support and heavy investment from the Mitsui family. Regarding funding, we have completely solved it.

In terms of technology, although Japan is far ahead in this field, there have been many scandals.

It is impossible for our Karuizawa Heavy Industries to manufacture military equipment such as tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored vehicles, and self-propelled artillery right away. Our best entry point is still in civilian use.

What's more, Japan as a whole made huge economic and political sacrifices in order to develop the automobile industry.

Especially at that time, the entire Japanese textile industry caused a large number of bankruptcies of companies and the tragic situation of workers losing their jobs.

Why Japan at that time would rather sacrifice the textile industry than bet on the automobile industry? It was because it knew that the former had little future, and the latter was the real way out.

When the Japanese automobile industry first started, it was also humiliated by Europeans and Americans. The first car made in Japan was regarded by them as a toy and not a car at all.

It is said that the Japanese cannot build cars at all, and they can just engage in the textile industry. You have all heard about this, right? "

Seeing that the president was determined, the head of the technical department said no more, "I don't have any problems anymore."

Hideki Ishihara knew the importance of unifying internal thoughts. Otherwise, someone will inevitably do it randomly. He learned early on the importance of using carrots and sticks.

While promising them rewards, Ishihara Hideki also did not forget to exert due work pressure and said: "After you go down, you must pass on the spirit of our meeting.

I am not a pie-in-the-sky person, but a pragmatist. As long as they do a good job, I will not hesitate to give them promotions, salary increases, or even extra high bonuses.

On the contrary, don't blame me for having my salary reduced, demoted, or even fired directly. To be honest with you, I have never believed in the lifetime employment system and the seniority system.

I believe in meritocracy. If all of you here today do not work hard, you will no longer have your place in the future.

After Karuizawa Heavy Industries becomes bigger and stronger, you will definitely be the heroes. To put it more vulgarly, when each of you reaches retirement age, you can get more retirement benefits, right?

If Karuizawa Heavy Industries does not make significant development and progress, and is still in the current situation of dying, I am afraid that you will be unemployed before you can retire.

Don't even think about retirement pay or anything like that. To be precise, there are two opinions as to whether Karuizawa Heavy Industries is still there. Therefore, I hope that everyone will work hard both in public and private affairs. "

(End of this chapter)