Rebirth 99 to become a car giant

High-speed rail is a business card that Chinese people can be proud of.

China can build the world's leading high-speed trains and high-speed railway network. No country can match the safety, efficiency and extensive coverage of China's high-speed rail network.

However, the bearings that support the operation of high-speed rail locomotives are subject to foreign restrictions and have long been dependent on imports.

This has made many outsiders curious about how difficult it is for high-speed rail bearings and why technological breakthroughs are so difficult.

One of the most important reasons for technological backwardness is the lack of talent.

It used to be that there were bearing majors in colleges and universities and engineering colleges, but now they are included in other majors. There is less training of professional talents, and it is natural that the technology cannot keep up.

Of course, it started late and had a weak foundation, and overseas technology blockades were implemented. This is also an important reason why it has not been able to conquer high-end bearings.

The manufacturing of high-speed rail bearings involves a wide range of disciplines, and bearing giants such as Schaeffler are leaders in both heat treatment technology and sealing and lubrication technology.

And often high-end technology is the key to owning high-end industries.

This is also the reason why foreign high-speed rail bearings are far superior to those from China in terms of service life, accuracy, vibration, and reliability.

Only good steel can produce good bearings.

The materials required for high-end bearings are bearing steel and high carbon steel. The carbon content is generally 1% and the chromium content is up to 1.5%. They are required to be very pure, have few impurities, and have uniformity. The diameter and particle size of the crystals inside are required to be uniform. .

Although Huaxia can produce the steel needed for bearings, it does still have some shortcomings.

Even Nanshan Special Steel has not been involved in the field of high-speed rail bearings before.

In addition, high-speed rail bearings have not been domestically produced, and there are also reasons why the equipment and tools used for processing are not good enough.

The production equipment of domestic bearing manufacturers is not very precise.

For example, machine tools have poor vibration resistance, and there are also problems with grinding wheels, grinding discs, coolants and process parameters.

However, foreign production equipment, smart tools, and high-end CNC machine tools do not have these problems.

However, this aspect is the strength of Nanshan Group, and it has basically caught up with its international counterparts.

It has even surpassed its peers in some segments.

Under this circumstance, Nanshan Group is naturally the most likely manufacturer to realize the localization of high-speed rail bearings.

But in business, Cao Yang didn't want to make wedding clothes for others.

If Nanshan Group develops high-speed rail bearings by then, CSR Group will require technology transfer or something.

Even putting pressure on Cao Yang from the moral high ground is definitely unacceptable.

I have to earn the money for the products I develop.

At most, manufacturers like Schaeffler earn ten times the profit from one bearing, while I only earn two or three times.

This can be considered a win-win situation.

Whether it is directly asking for supply at cost price or transferring technology, it will definitely not work.

And as long as I can do it and the price is advantageous, you have to give me most of the orders.

Otherwise, if Nanshan invests so many resources in research and development, is it really generating electricity for love?

"Mr. Cao, I can tell you with certainty that as long as Nanshan Group really develops high-speed rail bearings that are comparable to imported bearings, then all future import orders will be handed over to you."

"There is no reason for us to look for others to import anymore."

Nie Jian is well aware that investment in research and development of high-speed rail bearings involves all aspects and requires a lot of investment.

Bearing steel, testing equipment, bearing production equipment...

These require a lot of manpower and material resources.

If the money is spent and the product is released, but the market is not reached, then it will definitely not work.

This is not CSR’s original intention either.

"And I can also help communicate with CNR. As long as Nanshan Group can produce high-speed rail bearings, their locomotives will also use your products."

When Nie Jian saw that Cao Yang didn't nod immediately, he immediately added his conditions.

CSR and CNR are now two relatively independent companies and will not be merged so soon.

The two can even be said to be competitors now.

However, when it comes to high-speed rail bearings, everyone actually has the same idea.

Otherwise Nie Jian would not dare to say such words.

The high-speed rail bearing localization project is no longer a simple parts localization project, but a project with special heights.

No one dares to fool around with this kind of thing easily.

"If this is the case, then our Nanshan Group will take over the high-speed rail bearing localization project!"

"We also conducted a preliminary study on some of the previous technical requirements yesterday."

"Although there is no way to give a very certain time, within three years at the latest, our Nanshan Group will definitely produce qualified high-speed rail bearings."

"If all goes well, maybe next year there will be results."

As soon as Cao Yang said these words, Nie Jian was overjoyed.

"Mr. Cao, can it really be done in three years?"

Obviously, for Nie Jian, being able to finish it in three years is already a good result.

After other bearing companies took over this task, they did not even dare to give a forecast time.

As for Cao Yang's words that there would be results as soon as next year, he pretended not to have heard it.

In his opinion, bearing steel needs to be researched, testing equipment needs to be researched and produced, and the technology of high-speed rail bearings itself needs to be studied...

All aspects of preparation work may not be finalized this year.

The possibility of producing qualified products next year is almost zero.

"I heard that China now spends hundreds of millions of dollars importing high-speed rail bearings every year."

"In the future, it may become more than a billion dollars, or even billions of dollars."

"Mr. Nie has already placed such a big cake in front of us."

"Of course I have to eat it in my mouth in the shortest possible time."

Cao Yang gave his reply happily.

If others don’t have confidence in high-speed rail bearings, how can he not?

If the bench equipment and other equipment hadn't been released by then, and there was no way to prove that his bearings met the requirements, he would have dared to say that qualified products would be available as soon as the end of this year.

"good!"

"Ambitious!"

"As long as Nanshan Group can really produce qualified high-speed rail bearings within three years, I, Nie Jian, will definitely help you get all the orders!"

Nie Jian patted his thigh and made the promise with excitement on his face.

Objectively speaking, his behavior is definitely impulsive in the workplace.

Especially as the chief engineer of a state-owned enterprise, it would be of no benefit to him to make such a promise.

Next, the two parties had a detailed exchange on the specific technical parameter requirements of high-speed rail bearings, and then Cao Yang and Dai Hanbiao returned with a batch of high-speed rail bearing samples from various imported manufacturers.

With a big piece of fat in front of him, Cao Yang is naturally very motivated to grab orders from European and American bearing giants such as Schaeffler.

So on that day, people from Nanshan Special Steel, Nanshan Equipment and Nanshan Auto Parts were called together to set up a high-speed rail bearing project team, which officially launched the project within the group.

"The Huaxia High-speed Railway has a large geographical span, requiring bearings to adapt to various climates and harsh environments."

"When running on the railway, once a failure occurs, it will directly affect the entire railway transportation system, so high-speed railways have strict requirements for bearings."

"Furthermore, even if the bearings used in high-speed rail are of high quality and resistant to high temperatures and wear, they still have to be replaced every 1 million kilometers."

"This indirectly illustrates the high quality requirements and the broad market prospects of high-speed rail bearings."

Cao Yang looked at the participants and officially started the meeting.

"The bearings used on high-speed rail are mainly axle box bearings, gear box bearings, traction motor bearings, cooling fan bearings and other series of shafts."

"Axle box bearings directly support high-speed rail vehicles and are high-speed rail bearings in the general sense as everyone understands them."

"This kind of bearing has the largest usage and is what we need to make the most breakthrough."

"If this kind of bearing is damaged, it may have a serious impact on the safe operation of the vehicle."

“Shaeffler uses high-purity bearing steel, optimized bearing internal structures, and conducts non-destructive testing of materials to avoid this problem.”

If high-speed rail bearings are developed purely by relying on existing technical personnel, there is a high probability that they will not be developed within three years.

In the previous life, Luozhuan worked together with Anshan Iron and Steel and other institutions, and finally, starting in 2007, it took more than ten years to develop qualified high-speed rail bearings.

And not all types of high-speed rail bearings.

Under such circumstances, since Cao Yang promised to Nie Jian to produce high-speed rail bearings within three years, he naturally had to personally lead the technical staff to conduct research and development.

Therefore, he planned to work with technicians during this period to start the research direction of high-speed rail bearings and prepare related equipment and materials.

"The selection of the axle box bearing sealing method and sealing material has a great impact on the bearing life."

"We need to determine further based on surface velocities and environmental conditions."

“In response to the need to not disassemble bearings for a long time, we adopt technology that inhibits grease degradation and engineering plastic cages to avoid grease leakage and the entry of external foreign matter.”

"Gearbox bearings are installed on the pinion shaft and large gear shaft of the gearbox. Japanese manufacturers mostly use tapered roller bearings."

“However, European manufacturers use cylindrical roller bearings and ball bearings for pinion shafts.”

“If the pinion shaft uses a tapered roller bearing, the axial clearance must be adjusted during installation.”

"The main gear meshing vibration of the gearbox bearing causes cage fatigue failure and wear problems, which are solved by soft nitriding surface treatment of the cage."

Obviously, the technical content of this kind of bearing is also quite high.

These simple introductions may not seem like much, but it is not easy at all to produce them smoothly.

Although everyone present knew something about bearings, it was their first time coming into contact with high-speed rail bearings.

In this case, naturally everyone was listening carefully and taking notes.

As for why Cao Yang knew some information about his competitors, they didn't worry so much.

Some information can still be collected by just giving time to investigate.

But just because you have collected them doesn’t mean you can cook.

For example, nitriding surface treatment, everyone knows what it means and understands the principle.

But how to set up the specific processing technology is completely unclear.

Another example is the adjustment of the free gap. Everyone knows that it needs to be adjusted to the appropriate position.

But what is the right location?

This is another unanswerable question.

As for content such as lubricants and grease, it is even more fantasy.

Who doesn’t know that good lubricating fluid and grease have a great impact on the performance of high-speed rail bearings.

But whether you know it or not, whether you understand it or not is another matter.

Fortunately, Cao Yang did not expect that the high-speed rail bearings would be successfully developed just once.

This is simply not realistic.

"Traction motor bearings are the only transmission components in train brushless motors."

"Bearing life has become the determinant of the maintenance interval of the motor. Schaeffler has adopted measures such as changing the grease base oil, improving the grease pocket, using engineering plastic cages and ceramic rolling elements to improve the performance of the traction motor bearings."

"In this case, the further use of insulating materials in the outer ring of the bearing can effectively prevent electrical corrosion problems."

“The requirements for cooling fan bearings are similar to those for traction motor bearings.”

“For fully electrified drives with frequency converter-controlled three-phase asynchronous motors, the use of such motors increases the risk of current passing through rolling bearings and severely damaging the raceways.”

"So the research and screening of insulating coatings are very critical."

"The gearbox and motor combination used in hybrid models that Nanshan Transmission is studying should have done some analysis on the bearings under this working condition."

"At that time, some technical personnel can be transferred from their project team to provide support."

Obviously, Cao Yang attaches great importance to high-speed rail bearings.

Buddha competes for a stick of incense, and people compete for a breath.

Nanshan Group is now the largest bearing manufacturer in China, but all high-speed rail bearings need to be imported.

To a certain extent, this is also a slap in the face of Nanshan Group.

If you can't make high-end products, no matter how many low-end and mid-end products you make, people won't think that this industry is your specialty.

“Since high-speed rail locomotives accelerate quickly from start to finish, have short braking distances, and run at faster speeds, high-speed rail bearings must have high reliability, strong impact resistance, and the ability to withstand changing impacts under high-speed and high-acceleration operating conditions. load capacity.”

"Take the several models of high-speed rail trains that Mr. Nie explained to us yesterday as an example. Based on the average estimate, the load of each set of bearings is about 68.7KN, and the maximum rolling element load is about 7.6KN. The inner ring raceway and rollers The contact stress is about 810MPa."

"When the high-speed rail travels at 300km/h, the bearing speed is approximately 1,730r/min."

"In terms of bearing service life, locomotive bearings with different operating speeds have different requirements."

"The specific data can be divided into several levels. The quality guarantee period of key bearings of high-speed rail locomotives operating at speeds within 200km/h is 900,000 kilometers or 4 years."

"And the service life is not less than 2.8 million kilometers, and it is mandatory to be scrapped if it is used for more than 10 years."

"Bearings with speeds greater than 200km/h are maintenance-free for 1.2 million kilometers, and will be scrapped after maintenance and use until 2.4 million kilometers."

"The bearings of high-speed rail locomotives operating at speeds above 300km/h have a service life of 3.5-5 million kilometers, and a reliability of 99% for 500,000 kilometers."

"Of course, this is a design requirement. In order to ensure 100% safety during actual use, a discount will be made on this basis."

"Replacement of axle box bearings every one million kilometers is based on this consideration."

Dai Hanbiao also attended the meeting yesterday. Cao Yang had already explained it for a long time, so he naturally wanted to share the relevant requirements with everyone.

"The requirements for high-speed rail bearings are so high. In addition to the high requirements for machining precision, the requirements for bearing steel are also very high."

"Bearing steel has the title of 'King of Steel'. It is one of the most stringent steel types in steel smelting."

"The axle box bearings of my country's high-speed train units all use double-row tapered roller bearings."

"This kind of bearing is mainly composed of four parts: inner ring, outer ring, rolling elements and cage."

"The material of the inner and outer rings and rolling elements of the bearing is mainly bearing steel. This kind of high-speed rail bearing mainly works under high-speed and heavy-load motion. The service conditions are extremely harsh, and the requirements for bearing steel are very high."

“First of all, in terms of metallurgical quality, the oxygen content should be less than 10ppm; the calcium content should be less than 10ppm; inclusions B fine ≤ 1.5, B coarse ≤ 0.5, D fine ≤ 1.0, D coarse ≤ 0.5, DS ≤ Level 1.0; band tissue level ≤ 1.5.”

“Then there’s the very demanding contact fatigue strength.”

"The contact fatigue life of high-speed rail bearing steel should reach the 9th power of 10 at 4000MPa cycles, and the bending fatigue ultimate strength should be greater than 900MPa at the 7th power of 10 cycles."

“Then there’s the very demanding wear resistance.”

"Rolling bearings operate normally with rolling friction and sliding friction."

“The main parts where sliding friction occurs are the contact surface between the rolling element and the raceway, the contact surface between the rolling element and the cage pocket, and the contact surface between the cage and the ferrule guide rib, etc.”

“If the bearing steel has poor wear resistance, the rolling bearing will lose precision prematurely due to wear, resulting in a reduced service life of the bearing.”

"Therefore, high-speed rail bearing steel must have high wear resistance."

Following Dai Hanbiao's introduction, Xie Lingyun, general manager of Nanshan Special Steel, also frowned.

Such high requirements are much higher than the bearing steel used in current wheel hub bearings.

Even though these parameters seem to be known, how to produce it is not easy at all.

"In addition to the requirements just mentioned, appropriate hardness is also a must."

"The hardness of rolling bearings directly affects the life of rolling bearings."

"The hardness of the bearing is usually determined based on the way and size of the load the bearing bears, the bearing size and wall thickness. The hardness must be appropriate. Too large or too small will affect the service life of the bearing."

"The surface hardness of carburized steel and components used in high-speed rail bearings used by CSR Group is required to be no less than 820HV."

Hearing Dai Hanbiao talk about carburized bearing steel, Xie Lingyun couldn't help but ask, "Carburized bearing steel? Not high carbon chromium bearing steel?"

Obviously, the bearing steel now produced by Nanshan Special Steel is high carbon chromium bearing steel.

Otherwise Xie Lingyun wouldn't ask like this.

"Carburized bearing steel is a high-quality low-carbon alloy steel with the characteristics of high strength, impact resistance, high surface wear resistance and contact fatigue performance after carburizing heat treatment."

"Compared with high-carbon chromium bearing steel, carburized bearing steel has better core impact toughness and is very suitable for manufacturing high-speed railway bearings that can withstand larger impact loads."

"After all, high-speed rail bearings will bear large impact loads during service."

“Therefore, bearing steel is required to have a certain impact toughness.”

"The original intention of using carburized bearing steel is to ensure high hardness and wear resistance on the surface while having high strength, toughness and hardness in the core. Generally, the yield strength of the core is required to be not less than 1100MPa, and the tensile strength is not less than 1300MPa."

When Dai Hanbiao explained this, Xie Lingyun could not refute anything except frowning.

This is definitely not a requirement set by Dai Hanbiao himself, but a research and development direction given by CSR Group based on the situation of imported bearings.

"The requirements for bearing steel this time are very high. In addition to the processing technology control requirements of Nanshan Special Steel, the crude steel of the base material also needs to be carefully selected."

“This needs to be explained clearly to Shaoguan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. so that they can also pay attention to this project.”

Cao Yang also put forward a note in a timely manner.

"In the field of bearing steel, our Nanshan Special Steel is currently at the leading level in the country."

"However, we mainly produce bearing steel for automobiles and machine tools. We have never produced bearing steel for railways."

‘In that field, Xingcheng Special Steel and Anshan Iron and Steel have more experience than we do. ’

"Mr. Cao, in order to develop bearing steel used in high-speed rail bearings that meets the requirements as soon as possible, I want to recruit a group of senior engineers from Xingcheng Special Steel or Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. at a high price."

Xie Lingyun knew that now was not the time to complain about how difficult the problem was.

How to find the right way to solve the problem is what he needs to consider.

He alone would not have the confidence to produce bearing steel with such high requirements.

Otherwise, do you really think that so many steel mills in China are just doing it for a living?

At this time, it is very necessary to recruit a group of talents to work together.

Otherwise, I don’t know where to start.

He even thought about whether he could recruit some engineers from abroad.

It would be better if there are bearing steel R\u0026D engineers from SKF.

"No problem, just dig it out boldly."

"I will also arrange for people to find some information on bearing steel for high-speed rail. Then we will stand on the shoulders of giants to develop it, and the progress should be faster."

Cao Yang will definitely need some help at that time to come up with some bearing steel formulas for high-speed rail bearings.

At that time, what Xie Lingyun will think of these formulas needs to be considered in advance.

With Cao Yang's words aside, Xie Lingyun would most likely think that Cao Yang had arranged for someone to obtain other manufacturers' bearing steel formulas through various methods such as commercial espionage.

Anyway, most steel companies have not applied for patents for this kind of thing.

As long as you can master this method, it will be difficult for others to sue you even if they want to.

Of course, if Nanshan Special Steel wants to apply for patents in these subdivisions, other companies can quickly imitate it.

Therefore, some high-precision technologies are not suitable for patent application.

"After high-performance materials are solved, what remains is high-quality processing. High-speed rail bearing manufacturing involves many disciplines. Europe and the United States are able to master ultra-long-life steel technology, fine-grained heat treatment technology, advanced sealing and lubrication technology, etc. Producing high-quality bearings.”

"This also leads to a large gap in the accuracy, bearing vibration, life and reliability of high-speed rail bearings at home and abroad."

"At that time, Nanshan Equipment will need to design some specially designed machine tools."

“Especially the special grinding machine for bearings plays a very important role in accuracy.”

Dai Hanbiao also began to assign tasks to Nanshan Equipment at this time.

In this high-speed rail bearing project team, Cao Yang is nominally the patriarch and he is the deputy team leader.

But he must be responsible for some coordination work and daily management and communication work.

Otherwise, it would be unrealistic to wait for Cao Yang for everything.

"This shouldn't be a big problem. Our machine tool technology is not said to be world-leading, but there is still no problem keeping it at the same level as the international advanced level."

"In terms of processing equipment, there are not many essential differences between high-speed rail bearings and automotive bearings."

"We just have to make some adaptations."

"On the contrary, heat treatment technology and sealing and lubrication technology need to be researched by Nanshan Auto Parts themselves."

Pan Jinxing was the calmest one among the people present.

Bearing steel is difficult to get.

The processing technology of bearings is very difficult.

But the bearing processing equipment is not that difficult for the current Nanshan equipment.

At least relatively speaking, the difficulty is not that high.

"As long as we can successfully develop high-speed rail bearings, we will be the well-deserved king among the more than a thousand bearing manufacturers in the country."

"For bearings in other industrial fields, we don't need to place orders, and they will come to us proactively."

"So this time, everyone must pay full attention to the research and development of high-speed rail bearings."

"I will also specifically participate in actual research and development work, and strive to have a specific research and development direction after the Spring Festival, so that Europe in various departments can start to move."

At the kick-off meeting, the research and development direction will not be discussed in too many special details.

These things all require everyone to go back and review them. After simulating them on the computer, we can then start proposing plans and making samples for confirmation.

It may not seem like a complicated thing, but it actually takes a lot of time to do.

However, the people of Nanshan Group are full of enthusiasm.

They once beat manufacturers such as SKF and NTT to death in the fields of automobiles and machine tools.

If they can continue to defeat them in high-speed rail bearings, then the survival space of these foreign bearing giants in the country will be really small.

Of course, CSR Group has convened several domestic manufacturers to work on high-speed rail bearings, which is not a small move.

In addition, some people within the company have relatively good relationships with manufacturers such as Schaeffler and SKF, so naturally there is no way to keep these things completely confidential.

Soon, people at Schaeffler knew about this.

"Zhang, your news is not new at all."

"The CSRC and NRC's desire to find qualified high-speed rail bearing suppliers in China is not something that just happened now."

“But after all these years, have they found qualified suppliers?”

As the general manager of Schaeffler China, Tops has lived a very comfortable life in the past two years.

Although Schaeffler is not as well-known as SKF and NTT in terms of automotive bearings, they actually produce many bearings on Mercedes-Benz and BMW cars.

The most important thing is that Schaeffler has a relatively high market share in high-end bearing fields such as high-speed rail bearings and wind power bearings.

Bearings in these fields have much higher profit margins than automotive bearings.

With the same turnover of 100 million, the profit of automobile bearings is only more than 10 million.

But put it on high-speed rail bearings...

Tops was simply unwilling to share this data with the people in the Huaxia branch.

After all, high-speed rail bearings are produced by the headquarters, and the Huaxia branch imports them for sale.

The biggest profits are kept at the headquarters.

"Tops, things are a little different this time."

"CSRC specially invited Nanshan Group to participate in the public relations of high-speed rail bearings. They probably also shared all the information they collected in the past with Nanshan Group."

"I am not very worried about other domestic bearing manufacturers in China, whether it is Luozhou, Wanxiang, Wanxiang, Renben, etc."

"With their current level, they won't be able to produce qualified high-speed rail bearings for another ten years."

"But Nanshan Group is a little different. In terms of automotive bearings, they have caused a lot of suffering to rivals such as SKF and NTT."

"Even various machine tool companies in China purchase bearings from Nanshan Group."

"The key is that Nanshan Group can not only produce bearings themselves, they can also produce bearing steel and machine tool equipment."

"We have also done some research on the bearing steel produced by Nanshan Special Steel before. Their quality is indeed quite good, and some of their properties are even better than our automotive permanent bearing steel."

As the sales director of Schaeffler China, Zhang Guoyi is naturally very concerned about the company's business development in China.

High-speed rail bearings and wind power bearings are now the company's main sources of profit.

The fact that he was able to receive a high salary of one million yuan in 2007 has a lot to do with the company's excellent performance in the past two years.

He didn't want to lose his job.

"I know everything you said, but high-speed rail bearings are different from automobile bearings, and they are not even on the same level at all."

"Nanshan Group can produce good wheel hub bearings for automobiles, but it does not mean that they can produce high-speed rail bearings."

"If you have this time, you might as well promote wind power bearings. I think this is also a blue ocean market."

Topps is very confident in Schaeffler's technology.

All the high-speed rail bearings they produce are imported.

Domestic engineers are not clear about many aspects of high-speed rail bearings.

Or maybe you know it but don’t know why.

Schaeffler, SKF and other peers also have a certain tacit understanding not to import any high-speed rail bearing-related technology and talents to China.

Under such circumstances, if Chinese manufacturers can produce high-speed rail bearings that are comparable to Schaeffler, Topps will not believe it under any circumstances.

At least something he doesn't think will happen within the next ten years.

So when Zhang Guoyi came over and reported to him that CSR Group had convened several domestic bearing manufacturers to engage in technical research, he was not nervous at all.

"That……"

Zhang Guoyi hesitated for a moment and finally said nothing more.

Although he is already the sales director, Topps still has the final say in the company.

He has already said that, if Zhang Guoyi still reports this matter to the headquarters, he will definitely be beaten.

Don’t think that foreign companies are really paradise.

When it's time to fight, people won't be merciful at all.

However, although Zhang Guoyi did not bother with this matter within the company, he did not want to waste the news.

"Holm, SKF's business in China, except for high-speed rail bearings, has been completely destroyed by Nanshan Group."

"Of course, what I said doesn't sound nice, I hope you don't mind."

In a bar in Shanghai, Zhang Guoyi made an appointment with SKF's sales director Holmer.

For example, in some European and American companies, if the position of sales director is already held by a Chinese, the development in China is often better than that of companies that continue to be held by foreigners.

Many European and American giants are slowly realizing this, so in the Huaxia branch, the number of Huaxia executives is increasing.

Schaeffler's development speed in China in the past two years is significantly higher than that of SKF.

This is partly due to Zhang Guoyi's contribution.

"Zhang, you asked me out, didn't you just want to ridicule me?"

"If so, congratulations, you succeeded."

Holmer looked at Zhang Guoyi a little unhappy.

They are also old acquaintances.

In fact, the sales directors of several bearing giants know each other.

They even get together regularly.

Especially in subdivided fields such as high-speed rail bearings and wind power bearings, they have many matters that need to be communicated with.

"Holm, it's not the first day you've met me. Am I such a boring person?"

Zhang Guoyi spread his hands and stopped teasing Gormo, "I got some news and thought it might be of some use to you, so I wanted to share it with you."

"You should know this old rival of Nanshan Group very well, right?"

Hearing this name, Golm's face suddenly turned ugly.

Which pot is this that I don’t want to open?

If it weren't for Nanshan Group, he, the sales director, would have become the general manager of the Huaxia branch.

How is it possible that you are still standing still after so many years?

"As long as they are making bearings, there is no one in China who has not heard of Nanshan Group, right?"

Not understanding what Zhang Guoyi was selling, Holm asked back.

"Yes, that's exactly what you said."

"They have caused a lot of trouble for everyone in terms of machine tool bearings and automobile bearings."

“What was originally a high-profit industry was suddenly transformed into what it is now.”

"I believe that not only you, SKF, but other manufacturers such as NTT and NSK also have very strong opinions on Nanshan Group."

"Before, everyone was lucky that Nanshan Group was only working in these fields and did not compete with us in other markets."

"But now the bad news has emerged."

When Zhang Guoyi said this, Holm slowly figured out something.

"Is Nanshan Group going to do something new again?"

"High-speed rail bearings! They are going to make high-speed rail bearings!"

"What? They also want to do high-speed rail bearings?"

Holm's first reaction was not whether Nanshan Group could produce high-speed rail bearings, but why Nanshan Group didn't leave any way for itself to survive.

He had suffered too many losses at the hands of the other party, and his confidence had been hit hard.

"Yes, I have received accurate news that CSR Group is contacting several domestic bearing manufacturers in China to engage in localization projects of high-speed rail bearings."

"Among them is the Nanshan Group."

Zhang Guoyi responded firmly.

This made Golm's face suddenly look much uglier.

Some time ago, because North and South Volkswagen switched the bearing order of Nanshan Group back to SKF, he obviously felt that his life had become more comfortable.

The future is promising.

But within a few days of such good days, the situation changed.

Are you kidding yourself?

"Zhang, you may not have a full understanding of Nanshan Group, but we at SKF have conducted a comprehensive investigation and research on Nanshan Group."

"CSR Group found Nanshan Group to develop high-speed rail bearings. Although I don't know when it will be available, it will be available in the end."

"You need to explain this clearly to Tops."

Holm gave his judgment very solemnly.

He knows the situation of Nanshan Group very well.

This is definitely a rival worth taking seriously.

"I think so too, but Topps doesn't think Chinese bearing companies can produce qualified high-speed rail bearings at all."

"Otherwise I wouldn't have discussed with you about future countermeasures."

Zhang Guoyi hopes that SKF can do something. Otherwise, if the situation continues to develop, it is estimated that everyone will not have a good life in China for a few years.

"Assign people to inquire about the progress of the Nanshan Group's high-speed rail bearing project at any time. As long as you are willing to spend money, you can eventually get some information."

"In addition, we also need to let China's high-speed rail manufacturers see how powerful we are and stop thinking about replacing us."

"Now that they have brought Nanshan Group in, we can join forces and find any reason to increase the price starting from the next batch of parts."

Holm gave his proposal very directly.

High-speed rail bearings are now monopolized by a few of them. No matter how much the price increases, CSR and CNR will have no choice but to accept it in the end.

Otherwise there will be no bearings available.

Just like the chip crisis in later generations, a chip that usually costs 5 yuan will cost you 500 yuan on the market. You want to buy it or not.

Anyway, if you want to use 5 yuan to continue buying chips, then you have to wait until you can't afford to wait.

The tricks used by Holm today on high-speed rail bearings are actually similar.

Of course, the situation of high-speed rail bearings and chips is different after all, and the specific operations will definitely not be exactly the same.

"Price increase?"

"In this case, wouldn't raising prices under such circumstances further stimulate Chinese people to engage in localization work?"

Zhang Guoyi looked at Holm in surprise.

Before this, he really had never thought about this plan.

"Yes, since Chinese manufacturers will enter this field sooner or later and want to kick us out."

"Then let's just make more money and further increase profits."

"Even if the business shrinks, the money we earn will be enough."

When Holm said this, Zhang Guoyi found that he had no way to refute.

However, he was a little confused as to whether such a bad attitude would have any consequences.