They walked into the Guangtu Titanium Smelter together. In the smelter, high-titanium slag was being purified.
"This is Master Guo Minguo, our chief technical engineer. This open electric furnace was improved under his design. It has been upgraded from the previous 1800KVA to the current 4300KVA."
The high-titanium slag experience device is mainly a high-temperature electric furnace. The design of the electric furnace is very complicated. The higher the power of the electric furnace, the higher the purity of the high titanium slag extracted.
Guo Min is in his fifties, and like Sheng Wenyan, he looks older. Lu Zixin stood among them, like a young junior.
"Master Guo, this is Mr. Lu from Hongxin Group, who came specifically to inspect our smelting plant. If appropriate, Hongxin Group will provide us with technical support and improve our titanium smelting process technology." Sheng Wenyan introduced, Guo Min Say hello quickly.
He was also a little surprised. Guo Min originally thought that Lu Zixin was a small leader or government official, but who knew he was actually the boss of Hongxin Group, with a big background.
"Master Guo, what are the main difficulties in refining our high-titanium slag?" Lu Zixin asked. After all, the information Hong Xiaoxiao inquired was official information and was not as accurate as actual inquiry.
Guo Min summarized this for an unknown number of times and immediately replied: "There are several difficulties. The first is the quality of the ore!"
"Although our country is rich in titanium resources, most of them are ilmenite ores with low quality and high impurity content. Such raw materials can only be refined by the sulfidation method, which seriously pollutes the environment and has been stopped in many places. . Nowadays, the chlorination method is usually used for refining, and due to problems with the refining process, we cannot use ilmenite ore as raw material, but use titanium concentrate.”
"Ilmenite concentrate is high in price and small in quantity. It is generally processed from ilmenite. These are two costs."
"The biggest difficulty is refining the electric furnace. Our open electric furnace can only extract high-titanium slag with a purity of more than 80% at most. Pancheng Iron and Steel Group next to it has the highest semi-enclosed electric furnace in the country. The purity of their high titanium slag can reach 90%!”
"What is the international top level?" Lu Zixin asked.
"To be top in the world, it should be Canada's Quebec Ferro-Titanium Company. They occupy about 30% of the world's titanium slag market. Their titanium slag smelting technology is the highest, and the fully enclosed high-power electric furnace can purify the purity to 100%. More than 92% of high-titanium slag has been further processed to remove calcium and magnesium impurities, making it almost the best industrial titanium raw material on the market.”
"Is that so? Can all aspects of electric furnace data be easily scanned and tested now?" Lu Zixin asked.
"This..." Guo Min looked at Sheng Wenyan. Although their electric furnace was not the most advanced, it was still a technical secret. Many ore refining companies could not reach their level!
Sheng Wenyan said without any hesitation: "Of course, Master Guo, you will cooperate fully. There is nothing to keep secret."
"Okay." Guo Min felt relieved after Sheng Wenyan spoke.
Lu Zixin has already brought equipment to scan all aspects of the electric furnace, and its data will be stored in the quantum information library for analysis and research.
"Okay, that's it for today." Lu Zixin said to the two of them, "I think it won't be long before we can launch an electric furnace with stronger performance. During this time, we will improve the purification process of high-titanium slag to the world's top level. , processing plants can reduce production and stock up on more raw materials.”
Guo Min said so, but in his heart he disagreed. He thought that Hongxin Group was going to do some research and improvement, but who knew, so he brought some equipment over, scanned the electric furnace, and left!
What can be improved by this? At least you have to fully understand the craftsmanship and so on. From this point of view, the other party is probably just going through the motions without any hope of repayment.
Sheng Wenyan had similar thoughts to him, but he didn't say it out loud. He was already considering other ways to deal with the consequences of the changes in raw material prices in the international market.
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Quebec, Canada. This is the largest provincial administrative unit in Canada and a French-speaking cultural region. The world's largest titanium industrial raw material production group, Quebec Iron and Titanium Company, is located here.
The headquarters of Quebec Ferro-Titanium Company is welcoming a group of guests from Australia at this time. Several senior executives of the Rio Tinto mining company are secretly discussing important business secrets.
"Mr. Fillion, our group has comprehensively adjusted the price of iron-titanium ore. As long as you maintain a united front with us, I think there will be no fluctuations in the price of iron-titanium ore in the world during this period." A man from Rio Tinto Mining Company representative, Joyce said.
The failure in Nigeria last time made him controversial in the company. Fortunately, his backing was strong enough and it was a large British consortium behind the group, so he was able to be entrusted with important tasks again.
"We have also comprehensively reduced the price of ilmenite ore purchased from China. In addition, we have reduced the export of a large amount of high-titanium slag. We hope that this cooperation will bring a win-win situation for both of us." Fillion, president of the Quebec Iron-Titanium Company, replied.
The two international mining giants reached a price control cooperation. The reason is because Rio Tinto Mining Company learned that Huaxia Guangtu Mining Group had obtained a large amount of iron-titanium ore in a short period of time and was eager to take action.
By lowering the price, they can purchase it at a low price, and then use their titanium refining technology to process it and turn it into high-priced high-titanium slag or sponge titanium and titanium dioxide into industrial products and then sell them. One low, one high, and in the price war, they made a lot of profits.
"We still have a worry, what if Guangtu Mining Group processes their ilmenite ore themselves?" a senior executive of Quebec Iron and Titanium Company asked Joyce.
Joyce smiled confidently and said: "Don't worry, they can certainly process some, but with their processing technology, they can only produce titanium raw materials processed by vulcanization. We have eliminated this technology long ago."
"According to market demand, they must turn these ores into high-purity high-titanium slag. They don't have the technology and can only sell the ores to us!"
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In the Wanjie Technology chat group, Lu Zixin was asking the group members about the technical issues of refining high titanium slag.
Mr. L: “Does anyone know about titanium ore smelting?”
Peter Parker: "I don't understand!"
Red Queen: "(Frustrated expression: It's useless for you to tell me this, because I'm just a computer.)"
Mr. L: "@红后, (Pandaren’s questioning expression: Really? I don’t believe it!)"
The Red Queen: "(Expression of spreading hands: If you think so, there is nothing I can do about it.)"
When Lu Zixin saw her talking like this, he knew that the Queen must know. He immediately said: "Hong Xiaoxiao sang a song for me just now, and it was really nice."
The Red Queen immediately became interested and asked: "(An expectant expression: Where, where?) @Mr. L, play it to me!"