By March 1, Muyang asked his employees to compile statistics on last month’s orders and payment collections.

In February, I worked for a total of 25 days and completed orders worth 4.05 million yuan. There were 13 cooperative companies and more than 2 million yuan have been paid back.

In March, orders worth 3.5 million yuan have been obtained.

The company already has 21 plasma spray welding equipment and a total of 33 employees.

According to Mu Yang's estimate, Xinghai Company will use 500 tons of cobalt-based alloy powder for welding consumables every year. It feels like it is very uneconomical to purchase welding consumables from manufacturers, which costs 240 yuan/KG before tax and 271 yuan/KG after tax.

That is 271,000 yuan/ton.

So should we make our own STL6 welding materials?

In the past, the order quantity was small and we did not carefully calculate the manufacturing cost of welding materials.

Mu Yang knew something about the manufacturing method of STL6 welding materials. He had seen it at a welding material factory in his previous life, but he did not carefully calculate the cost of manufacturing welding materials. Recently, he checked the information and calculated it.

Metal powder manufacturing methods: divided into physical methods and chemical methods.

Physical methods include mechanical ball milling, mechanical impact pulverizing, jet mill pulverizing and ultrasonic pulverizing, etc. Chemical methods include electrolysis and carbonyl method.

The most commonly used physical method for cobalt-based alloy powder is mechanical ball milling.

The manufacturing method is not difficult, the equipment is not difficult to buy, and most of the raw materials are not difficult to buy. The difficulty is that some rare metals are not difficult to buy.

The cost of STL6 welding consumables is mainly related to the raw materials, among which the cobalt content is the highest, accounting for about 54~55.3% of the weight, and the unit price is also the highest.

The current cobalt price has dropped to 320,000 yuan/ton. If the weight ratio is 54.5%, the raw material cost of bare cobalt per ton of welding material will reach 174,400 yuan.

If the cobalt content ratio is lower, the cost of welding material raw materials will be lower.

Next is chromium, with a content of 29%. The current price of chromium is about 58,000 yuan/ton.

The content of other elements accounts for about 16.5%, and the cost is not high.

Muyang estimates that the raw material cost of STL6 is about 195,000 yuan/ton. The processing cost and other costs are very low compared to the high raw materials. The estimated production cost is 197,000 yuan/ton, and the pre-tax sales price is 240,000 yuan/ton.

The gross profit is 43,000 yuan/ton, huge profit!

The after-tax estimate is about 32,000 yuan/ton. If you make it yourself, you can save 16 million yuan a year.

Excluding millions in equipment costs and space, it is estimated that tens of millions of dollars can be saved every year.

If Xinghai Company can manufacture 500 tons of STL6 welding materials every year, which is not less than 400 million yuan, the gross profit will be 260 million yuan. There is no need to calculate the profit of 10 million yuan in welding material manufacturing.

After careful calculation, Mu Yang felt that there was really no need to make STL6 welding materials, and it was impossible for him to occupy the profits of the entire industry chain.

This calculation is not meaningless, and it roughly estimates the cost price of STL6.

Calculated based on the current cobalt price, the purchase price is still a bit high. It is estimated that it can be reduced to 220,000-225,000 yuan/ton. According to the future plan, the annual consumption of 500 tons of welding materials can also save millions of yuan a year.

The current monthly consumption is very low. After a month or two, when the purchase volume is large, we can negotiate with the welding consumables manufacturer and the boss.

Moreover, Muyang calculates the manufacturing cost of welding materials based on the market price of raw materials. The welding material factory purchases large quantities, so the price must be slightly lower than the market price. The estimated cost price of welding materials is only 190,000 yuan/ton.

Although the gross profit margin is very low, the gross profit is high, with a gross profit of tens of thousands of yuan per ton.

Nowadays, the price of 304 stainless steel plates is only about 14,000 per ton, and the steel factory's gross profit per ton is only 2,000 to 3,000. Mu Yang did not carefully calculate the cost of 304, but I believe that the gross profit deviation will not be too big.

Comparing based on gross profit, the profit earned by a welding consumables factory from selling 500 tons of STL6 welding consumables is equivalent to selling 10,000 tons of stainless steel.

Mu Yang calculated the money on hand.

The house loan has been approved and I got a loan of 2.7 million yuan.

He also took out other loans and got a loan of 1 million yuan.

Including the value of the stock, his current available funds are about 10 million yuan, of which 3.2 million yuan is still a loan.

There are currently 34 employees, including five insurances and food expenses, and the monthly labor cost is about 180,000 yuan.

The tea shop is under preparation to establish a Naixue Catering Management Company in H City, Jiangnan Province, with a maximum investment of six million yuan. Mu Yang holds 95% of the shares and Song Xuelu holds 5%. When Mu Yang is busy, Song Xuelu will assist in management

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Xinghai Machinery Company is currently developing smoothly, making money every day, and will be profitable by the end of March.

Although new plasma cladding equipment is constantly being manufactured and nickel-based alloy cladding equipment is being invested, the manufacturing cost of each piece of equipment is less than 100,000 yuan, which has little impact on the company's operations.

The development speed of Xinghai Machinery Company is somewhat beyond Mu Yang's imagination.

In fact, not only him, Song Xuelu was also surprised.

At the beginning, Song Xuelu didn't like Mu Yang's Xinghai Machinery Company very well.

But as he learned more about it, Mu Yang built the country's first plasma surfacing equipment for cobalt-based alloys and helped him organize the information, the more he discovered that it was not easy.

Years ago, Mu Yang got an order of 100,000 yuan. She began to believe that Xinghai Company was improving. She felt that if she received hundreds of thousands of orders a month and could make millions of orders a year, she would be profitable.

No longer worried about him losing money.

But what she didn't expect was that Xinghai Company's order volume in February had reached 4 million yuan, and its development was booming, with extremely high profit margins.

The number of employees in the company is also increasing, reaching 34 currently.

Therefore, in her eyes, Mu Yang is a very shrewd and capable entrepreneur who can turn corruption into a miraculous entrepreneur.

A business that others cannot see, a seemingly ordinary OEM business, but he can stand out and excel.

But for Mu Yang, he is more concerned about the upgrade of the reading system.

I am very much looking forward to any new features after the upgrade. As always, only monetary rewards will be added. When the reading system is at level 3, reading 10 words is equal to 1 yuan. After upgrading to level 4, will the rewards increase tenfold?

Or nothing has changed?

This damn system has no prompts for anything, so I can only figure it out on my own.

Sometimes, Mu Yang feels that the system that beeps all day long is quite cute.

Of course, Mu Yang was just complaining.

Being able to have a golden finger that allows him to go back to 2008 and make up for his regrets is already a great blessing, and he should be grateful for it.

Upgrading to level 4 still requires 300,000 experience points, which takes about ten days.

The closer the upgrade time came, the more Mu Yang looked forward to it.

Regarding school matters, Mu Yang went to class and went to the library as usual.

In my free time, I go to play basketball with my roommates to exercise and relax.

He likes to play basketball and also plays football, but his skills are not very good, so he has some advantages because of his physical fitness.

This reading system does not have the skills in this area, otherwise, he would want to improve his physical fitness.

Sure enough, the body still needs to exercise on its own.

When Song Xuelu came over and met him playing, she sat quietly near the court and watched him play. The group of hormonal boys were very excited when they saw a little beauty watching the game nearby.

In terms of learning, since the last class meeting, the comprehensive ranking results of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering have come out. Muyang ranks first in the freshman mechanical engineering and automation major with an advantage of 1 point over the second place.
Chapter completed!