Chapter 20 Shipbuilding Steel

Hearing Qin Tao's words, Liu Minggang's expression became serious: "Producing steel for shipbuilding? The technology is not low. If the steel is not up to standard and the ship sinks, your Uncle Liu will go in."

The requirements for steel used in ships are very high. The scrap steel they recycle can be used as floor slabs, but it is difficult to build a ship!

"This is originally marine steel." Qin Tao said: "The performance is very good. After you return to the furnace, as long as you strictly control the smelting quality, there will be no problem. By the way, you also need to recruit an expert from a large steelmaking plant. .This way we will be more confident.”

 Qin Tao knows about shipbuilding, but he doesn’t know about steelmaking, or in other words, he only understands the principles and not too many details. However, he can definitely point out a general direction for Liu Minggang.

After finishing speaking, Qin Tao looked at the slipway again: "This is just the beginning for us. In the future, we will get more scrap ships. Ship scrapping will become a major focus of our Mingzhou Shipyard in the past ten years. Karma, so..."

Qin Tao is drawing a pie for Liu Minggang.

 Liu Minggang is a man with a flexible mind, otherwise he would not be able to bring the Mingzhou Steel Plant to life. If there is an opportunity to continue to develop, Liu Minggang will definitely not refuse it.

  However, precisely because he is very smart, he cannot be fooled by Qin Tao and invest huge sums of money in new machinery and equipment. He must think carefully.

 “More scrap ships?” Liu Minggang looked at Qin Tao.

"Yes, we have special channels to get more scrap ships, even scrapped warships. The quality of the steel is very high. After re-smelting, it can be used to build civilian ships without any problems." Qin Tao said: "Uncle Liu, the price of steel plates for shipbuilding is at least several times that of steel bars for construction, right?"

Liu Minggang nodded: "Yes, the profit is good, but the purchase of equipment is also a huge sum of money. Even though our Mingzhou Steel Plant is already alive now, in fact, there is not much money on the books at all. If you want to purchase For the equipment, you have to take a large loan from the bank, which is not a small risk.”

"Uncle Liu, only with risks can there be gains. When you led the steel plant out of trouble, didn't you also take a lot of risks? Where was your courage to fight and rush? When running a business, don't just look at the current profits. , we still have to see how it develops in the future!”

“Director Qin, your son is so awesome and so eloquent that he almost convinced me.” Liu Minggang said, “Let’s finalize the scrap steel issue first. As for the production of steel plates, let’s talk about it later!”

 Qin Tao smiled. He knew that Liu Minggang was not someone who could do anything just because he was hot-headed. He just planted a seed for him today, and it would slowly sprout and grow in the future.

“I see that the removed steel plates are almost enough for one car.” Liu Minggang continued: “Director Qin, I will call a tractor and take away these removed steel plates.”

 “It’s easy to say, just pay in cash.” Qin Baoshan said.

The contract with the Yellow River Water Conservancy Bureau has not yet officially come into effect, and the other party's down payment has not been paid. Now, the oxygen and acetylene used to cut the steel plates are all on credit, and the first car of scrap steel can be paid in cash.

"No problem at all."

Soon, a tractor drove over and stopped at the dock. A crane on the side directly lifted the scrap steel onto the tractor.

Qin Tao commanded from the side: "Just keep the dismantled hull steel and the flanges and the like for me. They are all good things!"

The ship is dismantled and sold for scrap steel, which is ordinary ship scrap steel. Many things in the ship have higher value, ranging from flanges to engines and propellers. Qin Tao also plans to use these wastes, no? It will be given to Liu Minggang.

 “Stingy guy!” Liu Minggang glanced at Qin Tao.

A cart of scrap steel was pulled away. After arriving at the steel plant, Liu Minggang did not directly ask people to throw it into the steel-making furnace. Instead, he picked up one of the pieces, put it into his artificial leather handbag, and then went straight to Huating No. 1 The steel plant was the largest steel plant in the entire region. A few years later, it was restructured and Baosteel Group Corporation was established.

"Brother Jun, please help me test the internal element composition of this scrap iron, and estimate how strong the steel produced will be after it is hot-rolled into steel plates after being remelted." Liu Minggang was at Zhao Ji Restaurant outside the steel plant. Here, I invited my friend Wang Jun to dinner. After eating and drinking, he took out a piece of scrap steel as big as a palm.

Liu Minggang and Wang Jun grew up together. Wang Jun had good academic performance and later passed the technical secondary school entrance examination. After graduation, he was assigned to Huating No. 1 Steel Plant. After a few years, he entered the inspection department of the factory.

“Why, you are not satisfied with making steel bars and want to make steel plates? This is not easy...” Wang Jun said as he took the piece of scrap steel.

It was cut with an oxygen-acetylene flame, so its edges were all covered with iron slats, and the surface was rusty, making it look very shabby. Wang Jun shook it with his hand, then took out a folding fruit knife from the key chain at his waist, and then slashed it.

  A scratch appeared on the rusty surface, from shallow to deep.

 “Not good!” Wang Jun exclaimed.

"What's wrong?"

 “The tip of my knife!”

Wang Jun looked at his fruit knife made of high-carbon steel from the factory with distress. The tip of the knife was actually blunt. Looking at the white metallic luster coming from the scratches on the steel plate, he couldn't help but sigh: " This should be D-grade steel, where did you get it?"

"Scrap steel obtained from ship dismantling." Liu Minggang said: "We want to use it to smelt hot-rolled steel plates and then use them to build ships..."

"Well." Wang Jun frowned: "In principle, there should be no problem. But, your factory's technology... Forget it, I will work the night shift today and take the time to test the ingredients for you. I will do it tomorrow morning. It can give you results.”

 “Thank you very much.” Liu Minggang was very happy.

In principle, there is no problem. All you need to do is recruit experienced skilled workers from large steel plants. After all, the workers in the Mingzhou Steel Plant are all half-way monks. They are half-skilled, and the probability of producing **** is much higher than that of finished products. They are Unreliable.

the next day.

"This is not ordinary low carbon steel, but alloy steel, doped with chromium." Wang Jun handed a list to Liu Minggang: "Based on various laboratory data, it is certain that this is the island country's WEL- TEN780C marine steel is of quite good quality. It is generally used to manufacture high-end civilian ships."

“It seems that it should be no problem to reuse it as ship steel after hot rolling.” Liu Minggang said.

"Yes, but you have no technology on the one hand, and no funds on the other hand... By the way, Mingzhou Steel Plant, does it have a large amount of blast furnace slag?" Wang Jun suddenly remembered something: "A few days ago, there was an island country A businessman came to our steel plant to buy blast furnace slag, and the price he offered was not low. I will give you his phone number at the Huating Hotel. He should not have left yet..."

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