Rebirth 99 to become a car giant

Vengeance must be avenged, and business must be done.

It only took Cao Yang a few days to finalize the plan of retaliation for Chuncheng's stamping, and then he personally took Zhang Fugui to Chuncheng.

As the headquarters of China's automobile industry, Chuncheng Automobile Group is the first automobile factory in China, and now it has developed into a large automobile group that can produce various vehicles such as commercial vehicles, passenger vehicles, and special vehicles.

Naturally, there are also a number of parts and components companies of its own.

The four major processes of automobiles are stamping, welding, painting, and final assembly. There are a large number of stamping parts that need to be produced on each car.

Except for the large parts of the four doors and two covers, which are produced by the car company itself, other stamping parts are purchased.

In this way, no matter whether it is Chuncheng Automobile Group or Chuncheng Volkswagen, it is impossible to have only one supplier of stamping parts like Chuncheng Stamping Factory.

Today, Cao Yang and Zhang Fugui are in the conference room of the Fourth Ring Factory in Spring City, chatting happily with Zhou Benqiang, the head of the purchase and sales department of the other party.

"Mr. Cao, can your PRG molds be sold outside?"

Zhou Benqiang is not ignorant of the good PRG technology, but the procurement channels for PRG molds in China are very limited, basically they need to be imported from Japan, Germany and other places.

In this way, the cost is not as cheap as using the TDM process.

After all, after a part uses the PRG process, the processing fee may drop from five yuan to one yuan, but the cost of the mold may increase from two yuan to ten yuan.

Not worth it!

The wages of Huaxia workers are very low these days, and the disadvantage of low production efficiency of the TDM process is not obvious.

If it is placed in 2023, if an auto parts stamping factory still generally uses the TDM process, it will wait to close down.

"Our Nanshan Auto Parts Factory is not only a parts company, but also a mold factory. Our mold center now has an annual production capacity of more than 100 sets, and it can be further expanded in the future."

"It is impossible for Chuncheng Volkswagen to supply the medium and large stamping parts produced by your company. Long-distance transportation, quality and cost are also major issues."

"Since this is the case, if we only earn a little money for molds, it will be a win-win situation for Nanshan Factory and Sihuan Factory."

Cao Yang didn't use diplomatic terms to fool Zhou Benqiang there, but communicated with him in a very real way.

Sure enough, after hearing Cao Yang's explanation, Zhou Benqiang immediately stopped worrying about this issue.

Any automobile group has some affiliated companies of its own.

Even if some parts are made cheaper by others, they will only be produced by affiliated companies.

"As far as I know, your PRG molds are currently only used on nut plates, and you have no experience in producing large, high-strength bone parts such as A-pillars and B-pillars."

Zhou Benqiang started to criticize, but Cao Yang was not nervous at all.

"You are right, we have never produced these parts, but the structure of the PRG mold is not the same as TDM. In terms of technical difficulty, the design difficulty of the PRG mold for the inconspicuous nut plate is much higher than that of the A-pillar and TDM. B-pillar. Dozens of processes are concentrated in a set of molds to meet the needs of deep drawing and tapping at the same time, which is not needed for other skeleton parts.”

"In theory, this is the case, but large stamping parts also have the difficulty of large stamping parts. In particular, some skeleton parts use high-strength steel plates. When designing the mold, it is necessary to consider the springback of the steel plate and the compensation of tolerances. Circumstances are beyond the nutboard."

Zhou Benqiang also had a background in technology back then. In addition, he also needed to purchase some molds from outside in recent years, so he was naturally very familiar with the stamping process.

"Your worry is very reasonable. I am simply explaining here, and my persuasion is relatively limited. However, our Nanshan Auto Parts Factory can promise that if the molds we make cannot produce parts that meet the requirements of the drawings, then the mold fee will not be a dime receive!"

Cao Yang made a very domineering promise.

This made Zhou Benqiang feel relieved.

However, he was also a little curious and asked: "I heard that you are now the second-tier supplier of Spring City Stamping Plant. If you want to sell your PRG molds, aren't they the best customers?"

Although both Spring City Stamping Factory and Spring City Fourth Ring Factory are subsidiaries of the same automobile group, they compete fiercely with each other.

The relationship between them is a bit like the relationship between China Mobile and China Unicom in the early 21st century.

"Chuncheng Stamping was researching PRG molds some time ago, has Minister Zhou heard of it?"

"Of course! President Dong also invited the leaders of the group to attend the ceremony, but it is said that it was messed up."

Zhou Benqiang couldn't help showing a smile on his face.

Fortunately, they messed up, otherwise the pressure on their Sihuan factory would be great.

"PRG mold technology is a relatively familiar but actually very unfamiliar technology to most domestic manufacturers. It is not surprising that Chuncheng Stamping Factory suddenly entered this field and messed up."

"Speaking of which, it's a bit of a coincidence. More than a month ago, a bizarre theft occurred in our Nanshan Auto Parts Factory. Someone entered the factory and stole the computer of the technical department, and secretly took photos of PRG molds at the production site."

"These PRG molds are used to produce nut plates for Jetta, A6 and other models, and these nut plates are supplied to Spring City Stamping and then sold to Spring City Volkswagen."

After Cao Yang finished speaking, Zhou Ben was stunned for a moment.

Then he immediately showed excitement, and asked: "Director Cao, you mean that Spring City Stamping arranged someone to steal your PRG technology, and then planned to produce nut plates by itself, kicking you out?"

Zhou Benqiang felt that he had caught a small braid of his opponent.

Although I don't know what the use of this little braid is, it is definitely a handle.

"Mr. Zhou, I didn't say that. I just shared some information with you. As for who is stealing the PRG mold technology of Nanshan Auto Parts Factory, we have never been clear. After calling the police, there is still no result. "

Even though Cao Yang said that, everyone understood what he meant.

"I see!"

"Director Cao, I agree to this matter in principle. It just so happens that Jetta has a batch of stamping parts that use high-strength steel. It is currently undergoing a review of localization. Both Spring City Stamping Factory and we want to take it down."

"As long as your quotation is not too exaggerated and you can promise the quality, we will definitely have a happy cooperation in the end."

Although it was the first time for everyone to meet, they were all in the same circle, and Zhou Benqiang didn't beat around the bush.

Of course, the most important thing is that Nanshan Factory and Sihuan Factory have a common enemy.

"Minister Zhou, Chuncheng Stamping is currently producing parts, are you interested in grabbing some of them in the future?"