The second is their new product category, agricultural solutions. In the final analysis, they are pesticide products. This is a product category that was only started to be developed after Pusi Chemical's internationalization.
Because they discovered that pesticides had a huge share in the international market, they quickly organized a large number of manpower and material resources to specialize in pesticide products. They also consulted Zhao Yi at that time.
Zhao Yi originally wanted to keep it for them to develop later. Since they took the initiative to develop pesticide products, of course he would not stop them.
However, if the products are similar to those developed by other chemical giants, their competitiveness will be limited, so Zhao Yi provided them with some research and development ideas and related technologies to reduce the side effects of pesticides and improve the safety of agricultural production.
In particular, the characteristic organic molecule technology provided by Zhao Yi can be used to develop targeted organic molecular structures for specific animals and plants.
This organic molecular structure has obvious single-targetedness, preventing large-scale spraying of pesticides from causing harm to other animals and plants. It also has rapid degradation characteristics and can effectively reduce pesticide residues. Of course, the effect is also leveraged.
With such outstanding characteristics, Pusi Chemical's agricultural solutions shocked the entire chemical industry once they were launched. If they simply listened to Pusi Chemical's lectures, they would only think they were bragging.
Of course, the use effect slapped them in the face. This new type of pesticide not only reduces the damage to the environment, but also greatly increases the safety of agricultural products.
Six months after this new pesticide product was launched on the market, it has defeated other chemical giants in this field and has occupied 15% of the global pesticide market share, with operating income of US$4 billion.
This is because their launch time is too short, their production capacity cannot keep up, and their marketing has not yet been launched globally. I believe that next year, this turnover will reach more than 10 billion US dollars.
Nowadays, the domestic pesticide market is dominated by Pusi Chemical and has become a de facto monopoly. However, the domestic sales price is not high and the profit margin is very low.
There is no way around this. We cannot give up on the domestic market and let other giants come in. If the product is too expensive and cannot be popularized on a large scale, we can only implement a low-price strategy and capture the domestic market first.
As for the surge in sales of petrochemical extension products, it was mainly due to the rapid development of Huansha Textile Enterprises in 1983, and the international market share made little progress.
Because the development of this raw material is already very mature and there is not much room for improvement, almost all of the sales of 6 billion US dollars are contributed by Huansha Textile Enterprises.
In the future, Pusi Chemical's main development direction will still be on chemicals and specialty products, as well as pesticide products. In these two aspects, they have huge technical advantages and can have huge competitiveness in the world.
As for petrochemical extension products, they mainly meet the raw material needs of sister companies.
Another company that is rarely mentioned like Pusi Chemical Company is Byte Data Company. This company has a relatively single product line and currently only focuses on data storage.
But its market share has indeed reached a terrifying 98%, completely monopolizing the global data storage market, and the remaining share is occupied by other small and extremely small companies.
Among them, the market share of mechanical hard drives is 90%. Their mechanical hard drives occupy 100% of the market share in the server market due to their stability and large capacity.
In the personal market, because the price is not low, the share is only 80%. The remaining 20% is occupied by other data storage at low prices, such as Seagate, Western Digital, Toshiba, etc., which can only rely on low-price strategies to compete.
In 1983, in addition to continuing to vigorously develop in the field of mechanical hard disks, Byte Data's other heavyweight product was flash memory chips.
This is a new data storage method. After it was developed, Polaris Company first used it in their personal computers, and then quickly expanded to all new personal computers.
At present, the main application direction of flash memory is USB flash drives. Now in the new personal computer field, it has completely replaced floppy disks. Even some personal computers are not even equipped with ROM-CD devices and only provide USB interfaces.
Now the USB interface has become an international standard, and many personal computer peripherals have begun to use USB interfaces.
Byte Data not only launches electronic devices related to flash memory chips, such as USB flash drives, but also provides such flash memory chips to the outside world. Now it has occupied 100% of the flash memory chip market share and has a large number of flash memory chip patents. Other companies that want to study this technology cannot avoid it.
The maximum capacity of the USB flash drive currently launched is 128M. Such a large capacity is absolutely enough to meet personal daily needs. Since Byte Data's own main control chip has stable quality and will not break down at any time, it has a market share of 128M. The ratio reached 80%.
To sum up, throughout 1983, Byte Data's revenue reached US$10 billion, an increase of about 4 times from the previous year, and its net profit reached US$5 billion. This is the terrifying profit brought by monopoly.
There won’t be such a high growth rate in the future, because the market is so big, and the annual market growth is not unlimited. In addition, other companies enter this industry, and the annual growth rate can reach 30%. It is already very good. This still depends on The personal computer industry is booming.
However, Hengtong Communications Company is now vigorously building local area networks, which has also brought information needs to some traditional enterprises and indirectly expanded the data storage market.
The Internet will be vigorously promoted in the future. By then, a large number of Internet companies will be born, and the demand for data storage will show an explosive growth.
Later, we need to wait until the cloud business expands on a large scale and data centers are constructed on a large scale.
In 1983, all the generating units planned by Xinhui Energy Company were completed and connected to the grid to generate electricity. Now cities across the country cannot have the problem of power shortage and will not suffer power outages at every turn. This is what Xinhui Energy Company will do. The result of a direct doubling of the national power generation capacity.
There is still a problem of insufficient power supply in vast rural areas, but it will not affect the electricity demand for industrial production nationwide for the time being. However, as people's income increases, home appliances will surely sell well on a large scale, and residential electricity consumption will continue to grow. situation.
In order to cope with this situation, Xinhui Energy Company will increase the proportion of new power generation to more than 40% every year, because the current domestic GDP growth rate is very fast, and the growth rate of industrialization and residential electricity consumption is much higher than in the previous life. Such a high increase in Power generation is closely related to GDP growth.
In addition to thermal power generation, Xinhui Energy Company will also explore hydropower generation technology, wind power generation technology, solar power generation technology and tidal power generation technology.
They plan to build an experimental tidal power station in the offshore waters of the East my country Sea in 1984 to verify their tidal power technology.
If the results are good, large-scale tidal power stations will be built in the East China Sea, Bohai Sea, South China Sea and other sea areas to provide power to coastal areas nearby.
At the same time, solar power stations will be built in XJ, Gansu, XC and other places. The solar panels currently developed by Xinhui Energy have an energy conversion rate of 25%, which has reached the level of building commercial solar power stations.
You must know that the energy conversion rate of general polycrystalline silicon solar panels is only about 10%, while the conversion rate of monocrystalline silicon is 20%. This is still the technological level of a few decades later.
From this we can see how advanced Xinhui Energy Company is in solar panel technology. It is precisely because of such high conversion efficiency that Xinhui Energy Company dares to build solar power stations.
You must know that the cost of thermal power generation is now very low. If the solar energy conversion efficiency is very low, it will not be competitive at all.
In order to reduce the manufacturing cost of solar panels, Xinhui Energy Company urged Cornerstone Materials Company to develop technology to reduce the cost of silicon crystal production.
In the past, the production of silicon crystals required a large amount of electricity, and no matter how much this cost was reduced, there was a limit to it. Therefore, Cornerstone Materials Company focused on chemical purification technology.
During the research and development process, Cornerstone Materials also asked Zhao Yi for advice. Although Cornerstone Materials came up with this idea, they were at a loss as to how to proceed.
In the helpless situation, it was better to ask a technical expert for advice. Zhao Yiyi spent a long time and gave them a chemical extraction technology.
Since then, the cost of silicon crystal production has been reduced to cabbage prices. At the same time, the sources of silicon raw materials have become more extensive. Ordinary sand can be used as raw materials. Of course, this cost is known internally and is not publicized to the outside world.
Like the solar panels developed by Xinhui Energy Company, if you use them yourself, then the internal price will be calculated, so that both parties can make money.
However, solar panels with such high energy conversion efficiency cannot only be used by Xinhui Energy Company itself. The larger market should be Western developed countries.
Because their economic level is higher, they can afford higher electricity bills, and at the same time, they have a strong awareness of environmental protection and are willing to use this clean energy.
At present, the production of solar panels is limited, and priority is given to supplying it for own use. When production capacity is expanded later, it will be time to export on a large scale.
But the price for takeout is calculated according to the market price, and the price of silicon crystal materials on the market is not low, so Cornerstone Materials Company and Xinhui Energy Company can make a lot of profits.
In addition to mature solar power generation technology, Xinhui Energy Company also has wind power generation technology, but the current cost is still relatively high.
According to the current domestic electricity prices, building wind power stations will definitely result in a loss, and the cost of wind power generation technology is difficult to reduce, so wind power generation technology will not be used in the country.
Similarly, this technology is still very popular in foreign countries. The price of electricity in developed countries is relatively high, allowing power plant owners to afford the higher cost of power generation.
The power generation efficiency of Xinhui Energy Company's wind turbines is about 20% higher than that of foreign advanced technology, and the price is calculated based on international prices.
In fact, the wind energy capture efficiency of the impeller of the wind turbine is limited. This physical characteristic has a limit value, which can only reach a maximum of 59.3%. This is the Bates limit, which means that wind power generation technology does not calculate other consumption, and can at most The efficiency of converting wind energy into electrical energy is 59.3%.
But the reality is that a large amount of energy is consumed by the mechanical rotating device and the internal structure of the generator set. Therefore, in order to improve the efficiency of wind power generation, Xinhui Energy Company has conducted a lot of research on the generator set and the rotating structure before converting the entire power generation The efficiency increased by 20%, which is already a quite amazing achievement.
With such a large technological lead, Xinhui Energy Company believes that its wind turbines can compete internationally. (End of chapter)