Reborn Industrial Tycoon

In the clothing factory, Wang Kaiping carried a box and walked into Li Weidong's office.

"Director, please see if this is the sheep shearling you are looking for." Wang Kaiping put down the box and continued: "As long as it is available in our Qinghe market, I have got it for you."

"Yes, this is it." Li Weidong picked up a sheepskin fabric, rubbed it in his hands, and said, "It's not soft enough!"

"I think it's okay. The fur collar of my military coat is much stiffer than this one." Wang Kaiping replied.

Li Weidong picked up several other pieces of sheepskin fabric, rubbed them in his hands, and then frowned.

"No, it's too hard to use!" Li Weidong said.

"Director, I have bought all the sheepskin fabrics available on the market. There should be nothing softer." Wang Kaiping said.

"At this level, it is definitely no problem for us Chinese to use it ourselves. If it is exported, foreigners will dislike it. Therefore, our new products must use softer sheepskin fabrics." Li Weidong sighed lightly.

"What should we do?" Wang Kaiping asked.

"That's it for fabrics. We can't buy imported fabrics. Now we can only find a solution from the softener. We have to change a softener." Li Weidong thought for a while, picked up a pen, and wrote

He picked up a few things and handed them to Wang Kaiping.

"Follow the instructions above and help me buy some." Li Weidong said.

"Balance, beaker, volumetric flask, thermometer, PH test paper..." Wang Kaiping raised his head: "You are going to do a chemical experiment!"

Li Weidong nodded: "You go buy equipment, I'll buy some raw materials, and we'll do experiments when we get back."

"What are you going to do?" Wang Kaiping asked subconsciously.

"Make softener!" Li Weidong said, picked up the motorcycle keys and walked out of the office.

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In his previous life, after Li Weidong ended his career as a trainee, he returned to China with more than 200,000 hard-earned money.

Afterwards, Li Weidong did some research and decided to open a small chemical factory.

Li Weidong rented a factory, bought a second-hand boiler, a second-hand reactor, a few stainless steel pipes, a few mixers, and a few electric stoves, and even built a small chemical workshop.

At that time, the first product Li Weidong made was softener.

Softener is a chemical substance that can soften fibers. After softening, textile products will become softer, smoother, and more comfortable to the touch. Softeners are used in many textile products, such as those that make hair

Softeners are also added to smooth shampoos.

The production of textile softener is not very difficult. It is nothing more than three main raw materials: stearic acid, epichlorohydrin and glacial acetic acid, plus all other auxiliary materials, heated and stirred to carry out a chemical reaction. The key is to master the PH value.

Li Weidong spent 30,000 yuan to hire a money-hungry engineer from a joint venture chemical factory in the special zone, and learned the production method of softener.

Strictly speaking, Li Weidong's behavior of stealing others' patents is infringement.

But at that time, although the country already had a patent law, it was little more than a decoration. Small chemical plants like Li Weidong's were worth millions, and infringement of other people's patents was a common occurrence. Even if the patentee wanted to defend his rights, he could not sue.

It was the mid-1990s, when the Four Asian Tigers were upgrading their industries, and many textile industries had moved to China. This also resulted in a shortage of textile-related chemical products.

Li Weidong took advantage of this good opportunity and made a lot of money, and then he had the capital to engage in the import business of second-hand construction machinery. As a result, he was deceived by Sakurada Co., Ltd.'s hydraulic equipment.

In addition to softeners, Li Weidong's small chemical factory also has three other main products. One is table glue, which is mainly used for the printing and dyeing of textile products; the other is a printing agent, which is also used for printing and dyeing of textile products. The third

It is a detergent used for cleaning textile products before and after dyeing.

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Li Weidong bought the raw materials, and Wang Kaiping bought beakers and other experimental equipment. The two started experiments in Li Weidong's office.

After a while, the whole office was filled with a special sour smell.

"I forgot to ask you to buy two gas masks." Li Weidong said, bringing two towels, one wrapped around his mouth, and the other was given to Wang Kaiping.

"Director, the smell is indeed a bit strong. It seems that after returning home today, your sister-in-law will definitely not let me go to bed." Wang Kaiping said.

The two chatted and experimented, and after a few hours, they finally made a beaker full of softener.

Li Weidong tore off a piece of pH test paper, dipped it in softener, took it out, compared the chromatogram, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Go to a piece of sheep shearing material and get a pair of scissors." Li Weidong ordered.

Wang Kaiping found a piece of sheep shearling material, and Li Weidong used scissors to divide the material into two halves, pour softener on one half and begin soaking it.

"You still need to find a hair dryer." Li Weidong continued.

"This is not easy to find. I have one at home. I want to go home and get it now," Wang Kaiping said.

"Ride my motorcycle." Li Weidong directly handed the motorcycle key to Wang Kaiping.

Wang Kaiping rode on Li Weidong's motorcycle and went back to get the hair dryer. When Wang Kaiping returned, Li Weidong had already taken the piece of sheepskin material out of the softener and washed it again.

"Come, let's blow dry it!" The two began to hold a hair dryer and blow dry the soft sheepskin material.

When it was 80% dry, Wang Kaiping began to stroke half of the sheepskin material with his hands.

"It feels much smoother than before!" Wang Kaiping sighed.

"Don't worry, let's dry it completely after a while and compare it with the other half." Li Weidong said.

Finally, the half piece of sheepskin material was dried.

Li Weidong held the soft sheepskin material in his left hand, and the other half in his right hand, and squeezed it at the same time. As expected, there was a huge gap.

"Try it." Li Weidong handed both pieces of sheep shearing to Wang Kaiping.

Wang Kaiping put it in his hand and rubbed it, and he was suddenly surprised: "It has softened so much! If you simply touch it, these are completely two pieces of material!"

"The material has become softer, and the hair on it has become fluffy and smooth. This is the quality that export products should have!" Li Weidong nodded with satisfaction.

When Li Weidong opened a small chemical factory in his last life, it was already in the mid-1990s. At that time, Li Weidong also used the process and production technology of the mid-1990s, and the product quality also reached the level of the mid-1990s.

This set of technology in the mid-1990s was definitely at the top level in the country in 1987. Li Weidong can guarantee that at least the chemical plants in Qinghe area cannot produce such a good softener.

Li Weidong also considered applying for a patent with this softener formula and then selling it for money. But after thinking about it carefully, Li Weidong rejected this idea.

The production process of softener is not difficult, as long as you have a high school education level, it is not difficult to learn. Therefore, softener is also a chemical product that is easy to imitate.

In China, it is useless to register a patent for something that is easy to copy. If you just register a patent today, tomorrow there will be a large group of people launching imitations based on your patent, and even upgrading the imitations.

Many of these infringing imitations are produced by small private workshops. These small workshops do not even have individual business licenses, so it is impossible to protect their rights through legal channels.

Therefore, in China, the patented products that can be protected are those that are difficult to copy.

For example, in various high-end manufacturing industries, if you don't have the technology, even if you want to imitate it, you can't make it. If you want to use other people's technology, you can only buy other people's products or pay patent licensing fees.

The beaker of softener that Li Weidong created in the laboratory can only be used as a sample. If it is used on a large scale, if Li Weidong is expected to make it beaker by beaker, it will take years of the monkey and horses and months!

If clothing factories want to use softeners, they have to rely on industrial production.

Industrial production requires chemical production equipment, boilers for heating, reactors for reaction and stirring, etc., which are all essential.

Li Weidong has to rush to attend the next Canton Fair and does not have time to build a new chemical factory to produce softener, so the best way is to use other chemical factories in Qinghe to borrow chickens to lay eggs.

So the next day, Li Weidong came to Qinghe City Second Chemical Plant.

The director of the Second Chemical Plant in Qinghe City is named Han Guohao, who is in his fifties this year. Han Guohao has a technical background and was the workshop director of the Qinghe Chemical General Plant when he was young.

Later, the second chemical plant was established in the Qinghe area. Hanguo Hao led a dozen of his men to build the second chemical plant. Later, he introduced some new products, and it was likely to compete with the Qinghe Chemical General Plant.

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Han Guohao is also a ruthless person. Since he became the director of the factory, he has promoted his confidants and suppressed dissidents. Important positions in the Second Chemical Plant are either Han Guohao's confidants or relatives of Han Guohao. The entire Second Chemical Plant is run by Han Guohao

Like an iron barrel, it is difficult for outsiders to intervene.

The prefectural committee did not want the emergence of such a monopoly enterprise, and once sent people to the Second Chemical Plant to serve as leaders, but the leaders sent were soon replaced by Han Guohao.

The entire No. 2 Chemical Plant was full of people from Han Guohao. When the new leader left, everyone acted in a submissive manner and could not carry out their work at all. In the end, they had to be transferred out in despair.

Now Li Weidong plans to cooperate with such a strong man to produce softener.

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In the director's office of the Second Chemical Plant, Li Weidong met Han Guohao.

After the two exchanged pleasantries, Li Weidong took out a piece of sheep's wool from his bag.

"Director Han, take a look at this piece of material." Li Weidong handed the sheep shearing to Han Hanhao.

Han Guohao took the piece of sheepskin wool, first looked at the color, then touched it carefully for a long time, and finally smelled it with his nose.

"This material is so soft, the wool is very smooth, and it feels good to the touch. I thought it was an imported material, but after a closer look, I found that it was shearlings from Inner Mongolia sheep, so this material was impossible.

It’s imported.”

As Han Guohao said, he returned the sheep's velvet to Li Weidong, and then said: "Director Li, if I guess correctly, this sheep's velvet is not made of ordinary softener, right?"

"Director Han is indeed an expert!" Li Weidong extended his thumb and continued: "This piece of sheep's wool does use a new type of softener. Now the formula of this new type of softener is in my hand.

Do you know if Factory Director Han is interested in cooperating with me?"