reborn industrial empire

Not much more to say, please give me some strength, brothers!

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Anyway, Huayang Power plans to expand production capacity in the next few years, and in order to balance the interests of developed countries in Europe and the United States, they will have less restrictions on Huayang Power. Therefore, this year's production line of 1.5 million vehicles will definitely be from Europe.

And purchased from the United States.

In line with the principle of saving when you can, Jin Xiaoqiang naturally targeted GM, which is currently engaged in a global lock-down strategy.

In the past few decades, GM's expansion has been too fast, and when the economy was good, they also started to expand many factories.

At that time, because the domestic economic situation in the United States was good, there was no need to worry too much about sales. But now, with the decline of the American automobile manufacturing industry and high labor costs, GM has had to close many factories in the United States.

, of course many of these factories are brands not worth saving.

For example, last year Jin Xiaoqiang acquired a production line with an annual output of 500,000 vehicles from General Motors. It is a production line belonging to the Oldsmore brand owned by General Motors.

Speaking of this brand, it was once popular in the United States and the muscle cars that still influence American car culture were created from the Rocket 88 brand under this brand!

Moreover, this Rocket 88 model was sold for fifty years. Until recent years, as the international crude oil price became longer and more expensive, Oldsmolby's R&D strategy and direction did not keep up with the times.

They were building muscle cars with high horsepower and high fuel consumption, which led to them being completely eliminated from the market. After several attempts, GM failed to restore the decline of this brand in the market, and finally had to announce that it would abandon this brand.

After announcing the abandonment of the Oldsmolby brand in 2004, they shut down the last production line of this brand until 2005.

This production line with an annual output of 500,000 vehicles was newly added around 2000 in order to save the Oldsmolby brand. The robots, machine tools and other equipment inside are still very new, so they can be considered

Let Jin Xiaoqiang get a big advantage.

Just make adjustments to the parameter settings, make adjustments to the installation, and refresh the computer control equipment of the production line. The production line is in the factory building of the second branch of Huayang Power in Dongkou City, China, immediately

It was reborn and started its continuous manufacturing career again.

According to the predictions of the company's engineers, as long as the production line is properly maintained, it can be successfully upgraded in the future. Even if the production line is used for thirty years, there will be no problem.

But this time Jin Xiaoqiang had his idea set up at the head of GM's Saturn production line in Tennessee!

In fact, last year, Jin Xiaoqiang was already thinking about the Saturn brand and its production line. If conditions allowed, he planned to build a Saturn production line last year. After all, if he could get a Saturn production line. For Huayang Power

In other words, it can be said that it requires the least cost, the least adjustment, the least post-modification cost, and the most cost-effective production line.

Saturn is a young brand under General Motors. It was founded in 1982. The original etiquette of General Motors in establishing this brand was to make this car compete in the market with the increasingly fierce invasion of economical and energy-saving Japanese cars.

The purpose of this brand is to concentrate GM's most advanced technology, design, and produce small American economical models. In 1990, Saturn was put into production and officially launched in 1991!

As a young brand, Saturn has no historical and cultural baggage. The purpose of its brand is to 'make the models that consumers need'. It is under the influence of this concept and the support of the advanced technology assembled by General Motors.

Next, in just three years after its launch, Saturn ranked among the top ten best-selling models in the U.S. auto market.

In 1993, Saturn ranked second only to Lexus and Infiniti, and in 1997, Saturn ranked first with Lexus.

It can be said that GM's goal of creating the Saturn brand to compete with Japanese cars such as Toyota, Honda, and Nissan has been achieved. By the mid-1990s, Saturn once dominated the U.S. market of cheap compact models.

, once became one of the most popular car models in America.

But later, in order to save Oldsmolby, Buick and other brands, GM had to withdraw a large amount of funds from the Saturn brand, which also seriously affected Saturn's research and development and introduction of new models.

So not long after, Saturn was like a short-lived meteor, quickly retreating from the U.S. market, and was once again evicted from the altar by Toyota and Honda.

Since 2000, General Motors has been in a bit of trouble, and has no intention of evaluating the young brand Saturn. Therefore, the products of this brand have become more and more degraded, and they are no longer as brave as they used to be.

As GM has suffered losses for years and is shrinking operations and tightening money globally, many factories of the Saturn brand are facing closure due to poor performance.

Although GM does not want to give up this brand yet, as the number of models of this brand becomes less and less on the market, they have to close several large factories of this brand.

At the beginning of this year, they closed a Saturn brand factory in Spring Hill, Tennessee. At that time, the annual output of this factory was designed to be between 500,000 and 800,000 vehicles.

And after its establishment, it has undergone several equipment updates and technology upgrades, so the production lines in this factory are still very poorly maintained. Even more than 40% of the machinery is new machinery that is less than eight years old.

equipment.

There are also 50% of the machinery and equipment, which are old machinery with a history of about ten years, and the remaining 10% are the latest machinery production lines, purchased and used for less than five to three years.

For other automobile manufacturing companies in Europe or the United States, it can be said that such machinery and equipment can be completely abandoned, because in their countries, such second-hand machinery and equipment only costs a lot of money to dismantle, transport, and reinstall.

The cost of labor and transportation is enough to buy a new production line.

And even if GM doesn't sell this production line to other car manufacturing companies and just put it somewhere, the annual cost of maintenance and upkeep will not be very low. This is not the price that GM currently wants to pay!

But for Huayang Power, if it can buy such a production line, it will undoubtedly be a big bargain. After all, even if it is a production line that has been used for more than ten years, it is still a good thing when it is brought to China.

, as long as it is properly maintained, it will not be a problem for another twenty or thirty years.

Moreover, from the parameter design of their production lines, it is possible to reversely study many of GM's technical designs of the year, as well as other people's production management methods. These are very valuable experiences, and they are exactly what Huayang Power needs.

Moreover, the Saturn products that were born on this production line were products that once overshadowed the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord, so such a production line is exactly what Huayang Power needs.

So how could Jin Xiaoqiang miss such a good deal?

"Oh, buy it! Mysterkin, you are really good at business. You actually thought of our Saturn production line..."

After Nick heard Jin Xiaoqiang made such a request, he couldn't help laughing. This guy is such a businessman, so cunning!

"Haha, I am also doing this based on the principle of no waste. Anyway, the production line is left there. It costs a lot of money for annual maintenance and upkeep. And if you sell it to other car manufacturing companies, you

Let’s see if they are willing to buy it. According to the labor prices in Europe and the United States, if they buy a second-hand production line like this, they might as well buy a new one..."

Jin Xiaoqiang began to lobby Nick constantly, but what he said was always the truth.

"Okay! I admit that what you said makes sense, so will this production line be sold to you for one billion dollars?"

Nick thought for a while and then told Jin Xiaoqiang that the Saturn brand happened to be within the scope of his management, so he could still make the final decision on this deal.

It just so happens that the company also wants to deal with this production line! If someone is willing to take over and sell it at a good price, that would be great!

"One billion dollars? Did I hear it correctly? Nick! At this price, you can buy a brand new production line!"

Haggling is of course inevitable.

"Okay! US$900 million, it can't go any lower!"

"$500 million!"

"Eight hundred and fifty million!"

"Five hundred and fifty million!"

"............"

In the end, the two parties settled on the resale price of this second-hand production line at a price of US$750 million!

Indeed, it is no longer the time when Jin Xiaoqiang just founded Huayang Power three years ago. At that time, with such a price, it was completely possible to purchase a brand new automobile production line.

But in the past three years, the United States has made a fortune in Iraq. It has robbed almost all of Iraq's oil fields, and by binding the U.S. dollar to oil, it has kidnapped the whole world, devalued the U.S. dollar significantly, and printed money like crazy to make the world pay for it.

They paid for the war, so three years later, the actual purchasing power of the U.S. dollar has indeed dropped a lot compared to three years ago.

Coupled with the rise in international raw material prices and labor costs, etc., it is almost impossible to assemble a complete automobile production line at the price of US$500 million three years ago. The current market price is at least

It should be two to two and a half times that of that time!

Therefore, it is quite a bargain to be able to get a second-hand Saturn production line from General Motors for US$750 million.

Of course, this includes the costs of dismantling, transporting, and reinstalling and debugging this production line!

This transaction can be said to be a happy one for both parties! (To be continued)

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