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Chapter 705: Protective Umbrella and DuPont (Part 2)

Strictly speaking, there is no contact between Umbrella, or Adelson, and DuPont.

General Motors is currently cooperating with Intel under Catherine to develop a new CNC machine tool.

——General Motors is controlled by the DuPont consortium. Of course, they do not hold it alone, but in partnership with the Morgan consortium.

In fact, General Motors is having a tough time right now.

In 1967, the Twelfth Street Sāoluàn in Detroit and the desegregated bus industry caused a large number of whites to flee. Coupled with the continuous immigration of African Americans from the South, the percentage of black residents in Detroit increased rapidly. As

Retailers and small business owners left, and city tax revenue continued to decline. Within a decade, a large number of buildings and houses in the southeastern part of the city were abandoned.

As a car city, Detroit can be said to be the home of the American automobile industry. Japanese cars invaded and Detroit whites fled in large numbers. These circumstances made life difficult for the American automobile industry.

Only those shameless "elites" would think of cleaning up Detroit and say - this is a good thing.

All in all, starting in 1967, DuPont began its transformation.

Originally, this matter seemed to be going smoothly.

But within two years, DuPont was stunned by two hammers.

The collapse of the Bretton Woods system made the U.S. dollar worthless, and the U.S. currency was not as popular as before.

After supporting it for about a year, due to the external depreciation of the U.S. dollar, which stimulated export consumption, DuPont gradually began to recover, and even felt like it was "smoothly rising".

Then at this time, DuPont's oil business encountered another problem - the Arab world tripled the price of oil in one fell swoop, which directly caused DuPont to suffer huge losses.

If it weren't for the war, which allowed DuPont to make a fortune, DuPont would have lost money.

You must know that DuPont's economic strength is mainly industrial and mining. The capital of industrial and mining accounts for more than 60% of the DuPont consortium.

Industrial capital is mainly concentrated in DuPont and General Motors.

DuPont is the largest chemical company in the United States, and 80% of its raw materials are petroleum.

Were they tricked, tricked, or tricked?

——There is no doubt that they were deceived.

Without Catherine, things would not have happened so far in advance, and DuPont would have had more opportunities and development.

"You have to know that using 'Kevlar' instead of nylon and glass fiber can reduce the weight of the bulletproof vest by 50%. With the same mass per unit area, its protective power can be at least doubled, and

It has very good flexibility. This is completely different from previous products.”

Marco was explaining to the other party.

"That's why we found you DuPont." Only the price issue cannot be compromised.

Although both sides are talking about Kevlar.

But at this time, no one realized that this was a product with unique characteristics.

Historically, DuPont and the Pentagon spent 6 years and 2.5 million yuan to develop a helmet made of "Kevlar" material, thus ending the era of the famous "steel helmet" as a symbol of the U.S. Army. This helmet

Weighing only 1.45 kilograms, its bulletproof performance is 33% higher than the original standard steel helmet.

This can be said to be the first helmet explosion of the US military.

It only cost 2.5 million US dollars, but the profits it brought later were more than 1,000 or even 10,000 in return.

This is the magical power of Kevlar.

"This new material is formed by superimposing layers of materials, which means that there is no room for further reduction in this body armor." Michel pointed out this defect of Kevlar that is not a defect.

At this time, no one knew that in the future, the US military would even develop a Kevlar material underwear to be worn by real US troops in Iraq...

Marco was invited by Copeland. Although his ability is not outstanding, it is still above average.

At least at this time, the other party will not let DuPont suffer.

Although some preliminary intentions have been reached, there is still a little way to reach a conclusion.

After all, this is a big deal.

In fact, this incident has already alarmed the decision-makers of DuPont.

There is no doubt that Umbrella is a holding company with a global presence.

The best bodyguards in the world come from mib, which is already recognized around the world.

DuPont, especially Copeland, takes this matter very seriously.

The umbrella company with tens of thousands of employees around the world has a large purchase volume. More importantly, the other party can attract enough attention, and as long as DuPont takes the opportunity to publicize it, the effect will be amazing.

The DuPont family attaches great importance to the cultivation of family members. All male members of the family must start from the grassroots level. After working hard for five or six years, several elders will evaluate their performance. If the conclusion of the evaluation is not good, he will be dismissed.

Please come out of the company; if the evaluation is high, you will be further promoted and trained. This is how Copeland, the fifth-generation manager of the family, was trained.

It is also because of this that after the 21st century, as a listed company, although the proportion of family members on DuPont's board of directors has become smaller and smaller, the DuPont family still controls the company's major decision-making.

Copeland is undoubtedly one of the most important figures in the history of the DuPont family. Before Copeland, the DuPont family was just a traditional family. People outside the DuPont family could not hold top management positions. The backward method of endogamy was even adopted within the family to prevent

Family wealth spilled over.

This is exactly the same as Rothschild.

The only difference is that DuPont chose to be open, while Rothschild continued to be closed.

And by the 21st century, there are not even a few people left in the Rothschild clan...

Now DuPont is eager to find a major business that can replace the industrial and mining industries, and Umbrella Company came to Men, but it gave them a lot of help.

In the end, DuPont believes that it doesn't matter if it loses a little profit, as long as it doesn't lose money, and using the reputation of the umbrella company to promote this kind of Kevlar material body armor to the United States is what DuPont wants to do

.

The bottom line was set, and although DuPont's tone was still tough, the two parties reached an agreement within a short period of time. The two parties would cooperate in developing Kevlar body armor, and the Umbrella Company would receive priority purchasing rights and 10% of the profit.

After the negotiation was completed, everyone was happy, and the two parties soon began to cooperate in research.

The people at DuPont don't know that they were tricked by a person named "Catherine Edson", so they are still here developing body armor for umbrellas...

…

"Ah sneeze——"

Her nose felt a little itchy, and Catherine sneezed.

"Sorry." She smiled coquettishly at the man in front of her.

"It's nothing." The other party looked innocent.

"In other words, do you want the pipboy2601 fire control system we developed?"

pipboy2600 is a product used for ground equipment such as tanks, but pipboy2601 is a product used on helicopters.

But speaking of it, although the difference between pipboy2601 and pipboy2600 is only one number, the price difference is indeed more than twenty times.

The technical content of pipboy2601 far exceeds that of pipboy2600.

After all, this is a product developed for helicopters.

While DuPont was negotiating with Umbrella, Catherine was also approached by the consortium.

The other party was sent by Bell Helicopter Company, but Catherine knew that standing behind Bell Helicopter Company was the Boston Consortium.

As a successful capitalist, if Catherine said that she did not know the top ten financial groups in the United States, she could simply dig a hole and jump into it herself.

Bell Helicopter is a manufacturer of helicopters and tilt-wing aircraft, formerly known as Bell Aircraft Company and invented by Lawrence Bell.

Bell Aircraft manufactured several fighter jets during World War II. In addition, the Bell X-1 it manufactured was the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in level flight. Bell Aircraft began developing helicopters in 1941 and in 1943

Bell 30's maiden flight.

Bell died in 1956, and the company struggled financially in the following years, eventually being acquired by Textron in 1960.

At this time, standing behind them was the entire Boston consortium.

After being acquired, Bell Helicopter's development gradually got on track. This arms exporter is still manufacturing helicopters for the Pentagon and foreign countries.

The purpose of the other party's visit this time is also very simple. They hope to cooperate with the Ark Group to develop the fire control system for Bell's helicopters.

"It's just that so far, our products have been developed exclusively for the Pentagon. You have to know that the price needs to be weighed."

I don’t know who said it, but Catherine remembers this saying, all problems in the world are economic problems.

Although it is a bit too extreme, it can be used to deal with the current problem.

In fact, the pipboy series was originally a prop used by Catherine to defraud the Pentagon for funds, but she did not expect it to be unintentionally cheated. Now this product seems to have become very popular. The pipboy2600 fire control system also competed well in Israel because of the m70a1

The battle made him famous.

It's not surprising that someone came to me at this time.

But...the price needs to be discussed carefully, right?

…

The second update and the third update are coming.

After deducing it again, I found that Catherine really tricked Dupont..."_"