Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Chapter 32

Revenge must be avenged, and business must be done.

It only took Cao Yang a few days to finalize the plan to retaliate against Chuncheng's attack, and then personally took Zhang Fugui to Chuncheng.

As the base of China's automobile industry, Spring City Automobile Group is China's first automobile factory. It has now developed into a large automobile group that can produce commercial vehicles, passenger cars, special vehicles and other vehicles.

Naturally, it also has a number of parts companies of its own.

The four major automotive processes are stamping, welding, painting, and final assembly. Each vehicle has a large number of stamping parts that need to be produced.

Except for the large parts such as four doors and two covers, which are produced by the car company itself, other stamping parts are purchased from outside.

In this way, neither Spring City Automobile Group nor Spring City Volkswagen can only have one supplier of stamping parts: Spring City Stamping Factory.

Today, Cao Yang and Zhang Fugui are in the conference room of the Spring City Fourth Ring Factory, chatting happily with Zhou Benqiang, the director of each other's purchasing and sales department.

"Mr. Cao, are your PRG molds really available for sale?"

It’s not that Zhou Benqiang doesn’t know how good PRG technology is, but the purchasing channels for PRG molds in China are very limited, and they basically need to be imported from Japan, Germany and other places.

As a result, the cost is not as cheap as using the TDM process.

After all, after using the PRG process for a part, the processing fee may drop from five yuan to one yuan, but the shared cost of the mold may increase from two yuan to ten yuan.

Not worth it!

The wages of Chinese workers are very low these days, and the disadvantages of low production efficiency of the TDM process are not yet obvious.

If it were placed in 2023, if an auto parts stamping factory still widely uses the TDM process, it would be waiting to go bankrupt.

"Our Nanshan Auto Parts Factory is not only a parts company, but also a mold factory. Our mold center now has an annual production capacity of more than 100 sets and can be further expanded in the future."

"It is impossible for Spring City Volkswagen to supply the medium and large stamping parts produced by your company to us. Long-distance transportation, quality and cost are also big issues."

"In this case, if we only earn a little money from molds, it will be a win-win situation for Nanshan Factory and Sihuan Factory."

Cao Yang did not use diplomatic jargon to fool Zhou Benqiang, but communicated with him in a very practical way.

Sure enough, after hearing Cao Yang's explanation, Zhou Benqiang immediately stopped worrying about this issue.

Any automobile group has some affiliated companies of its own.

Even if some parts are made cheaper by others, they will only be produced by affiliated companies.

"As far as I know, your PRG mold is currently only used on nut plates, and you have no production experience for large, high-strength skeletal parts such as A-pillars and B-pillars."

Zhou Benqiang started to find fault, but Cao Yang was not nervous at all.

"You are right, we have never produced these parts, but the structure of the PRG mold is different from that of TDM. In terms of technical difficulty, the design of the PRG mold for the inconspicuous nut plate is much more difficult than that of the A-pillar and B-pillar. Dozens of processes are concentrated in one set of molds, which simultaneously meet the needs of deep drawing and tapping, which is not required for other skeleton parts."

"Theoretically, this is the case, but large stamping parts also have difficulties with large stamping parts. In particular, some skeleton parts use high-strength steel plates. When designing the mold, the springback of the steel plate and the compensation of tolerances need to be taken into consideration. The situation is something a nut plate doesn’t need to consider.”

Zhou Benqiang also had a technical background back then. In addition, he also needed to purchase some molds from outside these years, so he was naturally very familiar with the stamping process.

"Your concerns are very reasonable. I am simply explaining here, and my persuasiveness is relatively limited. However, our Nanshan Auto Parts Factory can promise that if the mold we make cannot produce parts that meet the drawing requirements, then the mold fee will not be charged a dime. receive!"

Cao Yang made a promise very domineeringly.

This made Zhou Benqiang feel relieved.

However, he was also a little curious and asked: "I heard that you are now the second-tier supplier of Spring City Stamping Factory. If we want to sell your PRG mold, aren't they the best customers?"

Although the Spring City Stamping Factory and the Spring City Fourth Ring Factory are both subsidiaries of the same automobile group, the competition between them is quite fierce.

The relationship between them is a bit like the relationship between China Mobile and China Unicom in the early 21st century.

"Chuncheng Stamping was researching PRG molds some time ago. Has Minister Zhou heard about it?"

"Of course! Their Dong Zong also invited the group leaders to attend the ceremony, but it is said that it was messed up."

Zhou Benqiang couldn't help but reveal a smile on his face.

Fortunately they messed up, otherwise the pressure on their Fourth Ring Factory would have been great.

"PRG mold technology is a relatively familiar but actually very unfamiliar technology to most domestic manufacturers. Spring City Stamping Factory suddenly entered this field, so it's not surprising that it messed up."

"It's a coincidence that this happened. A bizarre theft occurred at our Nanshan Auto Parts Factory more than a month ago. Someone entered the factory and stole the computer from the technical department, and secretly took photos of PRG molds at the production site."

"These PRG molds are used to produce nut plates for Jetta, A6 and other models, and these nut plates are supplied to Spring City Stamping and then sold to Spring City Volkswagen."

As soon as Cao Yang finished speaking, Zhou Benqiang was stunned for a moment.

Then he immediately showed excitement and asked: "Director Cao, do you mean that Spring City Stamping arranged for someone to steal your PRG technology, and then prepared to produce nut plates by itself and kick you out?"

Zhou Benqiang felt that he had caught one of his opponent's pigtails.

Although I still don’t know what the purpose of this little braid is, it is definitely a clue.

"Minister Zhou, I didn't say that. I just shared some information with you. As for who is stealing the PRG mold technology of Nanshan Auto Parts Factory, we have never known it. Even after calling the police, there is no result yet. "

Although Cao Yang said this, everyone actually understood what he meant.

"I understand!"

"Director Cao, I agree in principle to this matter. It just so happens that there are a batch of stamping parts made of high-strength steel in the Jetta. We are currently reviewing the localization. Spring City Stamping Factory and we both want to win it."

"As long as your quotation is not too exaggerated and you can promise quality, we will definitely have a happy cooperation in the end."

Although it was the first time for everyone to meet, they were all in the same circle, and Zhou Benqiang did not mince words.

Of course, the most important thing is that Nanshan Factory and Sihuan Factory have a common enemy.

"Mr. Zhou, are you interested in grabbing some of the parts that Spring City Stamping is currently producing in the future?"