Chapter 17: Long-term Consideration

  Long-term consideration

  After the alloy steel pipe is cast, it cannot be sent to the construction site for construction immediately. Instead, it needs to undergo grinding, polishing, and chrome plating processes in the electroplating workshop of the metallurgical plant. Only then can the final product meet the design and construction requirements of the 'Diamond Building'.

  Duan Lei took a look at Guo Wei's sparkling eyes and knew he was definitely interested in this batch of steel pipes. However, Duan Lei didn't say anything and waited for him to speak up instead. In Duan Lei's plan, the superalloy would definitely become one of 'Makka Biology's' key products in the future, but everything had to wait until the 'Diamond Building' was completed and production increased. For now, if they could attract the attention of the Metallurgy Institute, they wouldn't have to worry about lacking cooperation partners in the future.

  In the future, after the 'Diamond Building' is completed, the output of special alloys will increase, and Duan Lei will not hesitate to cooperate with some institutions and enterprises to produce special steel.

  One thousand tons of steel pipes, neither too much nor too little, were quickly sent to the next process under the huge mechanical power. In a mechanized civilization, sometimes people feel powerless.

  "Ding Ding, are there similar factories or equipment on the planet of Makka?" After visiting the steel pipe production process, Duan Lei immediately came up with such a question.

  "Similar devices are definitely still available, but the source of raw materials is quite different from Earth."Ding Ding has already gotten used to Duan Lei's sudden questions and reacted quickly, saying: "All material sources on planet Makka come from various plants, fungi, and even animals, rather than mechanical excavation like on Earth."

  "Like this superalloy?" Duanyue tilted his head and asked.

  Nodded and said: "Wait until later, you will understand slowly"

  On the planet of Makka, people are more skilled at using various biotechnologies to obtain the resources they need from natural resources, not only convenient but also will not cause too much damage to the environment, this civilized thinking is completely different from that of Earth.

  The longer Duanduan was in contact with him, the more Duan felt that there was a layer of thin fog on Duanduan's body, and no matter how he looked at it, it didn't seem real. Sometimes he thought he understood, only to find that behind her back, she had an even bigger mystery.

  However, Duan Yue would not be a person who gets bogged down in details, and things he can't figure out won't bother him too much. After all, Dingding has brought him more benefits and a brighter future.

  That's it, today's smelting process has also come to an end, and Duan Lei has reached the time when he should leave. After all, this semi-military unit of Metallurgy Institute is already very rare for ordinary people to come in once.

  After the steel pipes are galvanized and sent to the construction site, it is considered the end of the first transaction. The subsequent handover work will naturally be handled by Jin Xin and others from the Metallurgy Department, and there is no need for Duan Lei to appear every time.

  After seeing off Duan Wei and his party, Guo Wei didn't even have time to rest. He immediately returned to the workshop and began a series of tests and analyses on the superalloy steel ingots and alloy steel pipes that had just been produced.

  At first, Guo Wei obtained some technical parameters of alloy steel pipes from Duan Lei's mouth, and he was both suspicious and very interested. As a veteran who had been in the special metal smelting industry for twenty years, Guo Wei was familiar with the current situation of China's steel industry.

  Indeed, our country's crude steel output last year approached the staggering figure of 700 million tons, surpassing the total output of the six countries ranked second to seventh in global steel production and ranking first in the world. However, these impressive figures are built on the basis of severe environmental pollution, high energy consumption, and manual steel production that is less than one-third of the world average.

  In addition, we export billions of tons of crude steel to foreign countries at extremely low prices every year, but need to import more and more expensive special steel materials. In this way, the steel industry in our country is just using huge resources to support the steel giants abroad.

  Our country is at best a big steel-producing nation, but by no means a strong steel-producing nation.

  We can produce billions of tons of steel, and blast furnaces emitting black smoke can be seen everywhere from south to north, but we cannot produce high-quality steel plates for warships, precision machine tools, cylinder blocks for large engines...

  After graduating from vocational school, Guo Wei entered the Haigang Group and worked his way up from an ordinary worker in the casting workshop to a backbone engineer at the Special Metallurgy Plant. He has spent 20 years working and living at Haigang. The most precious 20 years of his youth were dedicated to the steel industry, making Guo Wei a true steel man through and through.

  Steel has become the most important thing for Guo Wei, his wife jokingly said that she is only the second wife, steel is the first wife.

  Guo Wei was initially a bit resistant to this alloy smelting task, thinking that some leader had taken the Metallurgical Research Institute's public resources out to show off and curry favor.

  However, when he communicated with Duan Yue, after understanding some properties of alloy steel, his originally slack mind quickly became active, and there were more ideas in his heart. Before smelting, Guo Wei easily intercepted a piece of alloy, wanting to see how the performance of these alloys was afterwards?

  After seeing off Duan Wei and his party, Guo Wei began to conduct a detailed analysis of the alloy steel ingots and alloy steel pipes. The results of this analysis made Guo Wei almost unable to believe his eyes, even suspecting that he was having hallucinations.

  Let's not mention the performance of alloy steel pipes, that 20-kilogram steel ingot is not the best in terms of rigidity, extensibility, corrosion resistance, heat resistance and other properties, but it's hard to find that these excellent properties are concentrated on the same alloy, which is enough to shock Guo Wei.

  Of course, after detailed mass spectrometry analysis, Guo Wei found that this alloy steel ingot contains a large amount of precious metals such as silver, gold, tungsten, chromium, nickel, etc., and the cost will not be low. This alloy is unlikely to be used on a large scale, but if it can be applied in some key areas, it can also achieve very good results, such as aircraft engines, rocket propulsion systems, etc.

  However, Guo Wei mobilized all the instruments and equipment of the entire metallurgical plant, but still could not study out the proportion of the alloy steel ingots and its smelting process. It seems that the answer to all this still lies with Duan Lei.

  If the alloy steel ingot brought to Guo Wei was a surprise, then the alloy steel pipe that had just been cast today made Guo Wei even more surprised, because this is a high-performance alloy steel with low cost and great market promotion value.

  As a special smelting company, after all, is still a market-oriented enterprise, as the technical backbone of it, Guo Wei inevitably has to deal with external companies and has certain market sensitivity, not that kind of old academician buried in piles of books.

  Based on Guo Wei's understanding of the special metallurgy industry, he had never seen similar products in any journals or papers before. Perhaps someone had developed them but they were not known to the outside world. This time, the owner of the alloy steel pipe obviously wanted to apply these alloy materials to construction, and this smelting was probably just a beginning.

  In recent years, with the rapid development of China's domestic economy, our country has become a world factory, and the words "Made in China" can be seen in every industry. From Guo Wei's perspective, such high-performance alloy steel has a wide range of applications in fields such as building materials, equipment manufacturing, automotive parts, mechanical processing, and more.

  Guo Wei knew that if he could find the owner of this alloy steel formula through this task, cooperation between the two parties to carry out large-scale production would be beneficial for both the Special Metallurgy Company and his own career development.

  Thinking of this, Guo Wei could no longer sit still, picked up the inspection report in his hand and rushed to the office to find the leader of the Special Metallurgy Institute for research.

  ……?……

  Duan Yue naturally did not know that after he left, Guo Wei used such a fast speed to conduct a thorough inspection of the alloy steel ingot and alloy steel pipe, and came up with an idea for cooperation.

  In Duan Yue's view, the 'Diamond Building' requires 5,000 tons of steel pipes. It is always necessary to find a smelting company for smelting. If Guo Wei discovers the excellence of alloy steel pipes and is willing to cooperate, Haigang Special Smelting Company is also a good cooperative partner.

  Hai Gang Group is one of the largest industrial enterprises in Hai City, and if we can establish a good cooperative relationship with them, it will also bring great benefits to the future of "Makka Biotechnology". Another reason is that Haigang Special Metallurgy Company is domestically top-notch in terms of technical strength and equipment, and will not let Duan Lei's superalloy be affected.

  As for the worry of being cheated by a big store, Duan Yue wouldn't be too worried. It's not that just because there's risk, you don't do things. The production of superalloys will definitely be tightly grasped in Duan Yue's hands. If the cooperative object is not satisfied, then change to another one.

  Including future cooperation with Gu Yu Liang to produce mirror metal building materials, Duan Lei will still tightly grasp the core secrets of raw material production and formulas, trying to keep the initiative in his own hands.

  ……?……

  On the way back to the base, Han Shi Yuan's face no longer showed the anxious expression of the past few days. The most urgently needed building materials for the initial construction of the 'Diamond Building' had been settled, and he could finally get a good night's sleep. Han Shi Yuan's mind was completely fixed on the construction of the 'Diamond Building', and he wouldn't think of anything else except for matters related to it. Therefore, he wouldn't know that behind today's alloy steel pipes, there were many more doors and things would extend from them.

  However, the solution to the building materials problem allowed Han Shi Yuan to speed up the construction progress without any distractions and strive to complete the entire project before the start of school. By then, in September, Hai Da Jian Gong will join forces with Hai Daxue Sheng Hui, Xiao Tuan Wei and other departments to promote the 'Diamond Building' inside and out, as a gift to the 65th anniversary of the founding of the country.

  Sometimes, the project itself must still be subject to the overall development of the entire enterprise, and nothing can exist independently.

  Long-term consideration