Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 541 Processing Plant

"Is this your design? Great! Great!" After Liang En met with Mr. Varma who came here specially and showed his design, Varma was stunned for a moment, and then showed an ecstatic expression .

Obviously, this Liang En felt that this piece of jewelry, which was purely for showing off skills and of ordinary artistic value, was a very good thing in Mr. Valma's eyes, which was why he was so excited.

"As long as you like it—" Seeing Mr. Varma's excited face, Liang En felt that his idea was a bit too artistic. After all, this is a commercial creation, and the client's idea is more important.

"Of course, of course I like it." Indians are often more willing to express their inner thoughts than Europeans and Americans, so Varma expressed his inner joy with a slightly exaggerated expression.

"I didn't expect you to design such a jewelry. Not only is it very beautiful, but it can also perfectly promote my company. You really bothered."

The designed jewelry is a ring. The design of the ring is based on the Indian favorite calendula. It looks about as big as the bottom of a Coke can.

Unlike common symmetrical designs, each petal in the ring has a unique shape, and the eight-tier creation is a perfect blend of symmetry, design and arrangement.

According to Liang En's design, this exaggeratedly large ring will weigh more than 150g, and it will be inlaid with about 12600 broken diamonds, which add up to more than 38 carats.

This design was chosen because Liang En found that no one in the world had thought of making such a thing with exaggerated numbers of inlaid gemstones to attract attention, so if this kind of thing appeared for the first time, the advertising effect should be full.

In particular, Mr. Varma's main business is diamond processing, and there is no other jewelry that is more suitable for his business than this piece of jewelry.

At the same time, the price of diamonds will rise geometrically with the size of a single diamond. Compared with a 38-carat diamond, more than 38 broken diamonds with a total of 1 carats will be higher than a single diamond with the best quality. A diamond is much cheaper.

Therefore, if this ring is expensive, it will not be expensive in terms of materials, but in processing. After all, setting more than 1 diamonds on this ring is not an easy task.

But this is not a problem for Mr. Varma. Although he lacks core design masters, the number of diamond processing workers under him is definitely not small.

"I'm just worried that this thing might be a little too fancy." Looking at the final design product with every inch of space studded with gems on the computer rendering, Liang En also bluntly expressed his worries.

No matter how many things he has experienced and no matter how many art masters he has inherited, Liang En is still a Chinese at heart, so he always feels that this kind of overly dazzling thing is not up-to-date.

"Do you need to worry about this kind of thing?" Varma looked at Liang En with some doubts after hearing what he said. "This is the most valuable part of this ring."

Aesthetics is still related to the cultural traditions of this cultural circle. For example, in Liang En’s view, the practice of being studded with diamonds is a symbol of elegance and luxury in the eyes of Indians, so this is a big selling point in their eyes. .

In the following time, Liang En and the others quickly followed Mr. Varma to his processing plant, but unlike the previous method of taking the elevator to the top floor, they went up floor by floor this time.

The reason for doing this is that Mr. Varma hopes to show his diamond processing ability in front of Liang Fen, and let Liang En have a comprehensive understanding of his diamond processing level.

After all, the two sides are about to cooperate now, so it is better to show some basic things to each other. Now that Liang En has shown his design level, it is now Mr. Varma's turn to show his diamond processing level.

From these workplaces, it can be seen at a glance that the reason for the low cost of India’s diamond processing industry is not only because of low labor costs, but also related to the equipment environment in the processing workshop here—most of the equipment is extremely simple, but it can process good finished diamonds. .

However, this also limits the industrial upgrading in India, because for them, if they want to upgrade, it is equivalent to changing the entire equipment, and most people cannot do this.

Because the processing is mainly due to broken diamonds, the security work in the room is very strict, even reaching the level of three workers for one security guard.

After all, the size of the diamonds here is too small. If the security policy is not complete, it is easy to be entrained or lost after being stolen.

Of course, in order to achieve this, the security guards in the factory are not the kind of security guards like the gatekeepers, but armed security guards equipped with sticks and guns.

Considering the class situation in India, Liang En believed that it was absolutely impossible to maintain order here only by discipline or law. These guns could explain some problems.

And as they continue to go up, the working environment of the workers is getting better and better. At the same time, the grade of diamonds processed in their hands is getting higher and higher. Even the top processing area on the fourth floor has private cubicles and air conditioners.

According to Mr. Varma, the lowest-grade diamonds are processed in the old factory buildings outside, because the conditions there are worse, so it is not suitable for VIPs to visit.

However, at Liang En's request, they took a look at the situation inside those bungalows from the window, and found that the situation inside was really bad. Not to mention the density of people, even the mill was shared by several people.

Considering the poor processing environment, meager salary and high-intensity work of 8-12 hours a day, Liang En thinks it's no wonder others can't compete with them, but all of these are completely legal in India.

What's more, this processing factory is still the processing factory with the highest welfare in the whole region. If you go to other processing factories, you will find that the situation of those processing factories is even worse than this.

After visiting the diamond processing factory, Liang En and the others went to the jewelry manufacturing factory behind. This factory has just been expanded recently, just for the launch of its own brand.

Judging from most of the Indian-style jewelry on site, the current business here is mainly aimed at those consumers in India, but these jewelry with strong local culture may not have a big overseas market.

So in the next negotiation, Liang En and Mr. Varma negotiated about his jewelry design work here, that is, depending on the design, Liang En can get a sum of cash plus a part of the dividend after the design is sold. .

Of course, this dividend ratio is also determined according to the sales of the jewelry. The greater the sales of these jewelry, the higher the dividend ratio Liang En will get.

Although the negotiation was full of verbal confrontation between the two sides, each expressing their own opinions, and quarreling for the sake of benefit, Liang En soon got an invitation from Mr. Varma to visit his hometown after the negotiation ended.

Obviously, he should be very satisfied with the result of the negotiation this time, that's why he issued such a personal invitation. Considering that this cooperation will bring him a lot of benefits, Liang En gladly accepted the invitation.

(End of this chapter)