"Mr. Feng, congratulations to you, the ruthenium catalyst ammonia synthesis process you just completed is the most exciting achievement of the synthetic ammonia industry in the past 20 years. This breakthrough has made China a powerful global synthetic ammonia industry."

“I dare predict that all new synthetic ammonia projects around the world will adopt this new process in the next 20 years unless its owners are willing to lag behind.”

"I think the process is mature, it is built on dozens of core patents provided by European companies, and no one needs to doubt its stability and reliability."

Binhai Second Fertilizer Factory, representatives from more than a dozen European and American chemical equipment manufacturers, visited the entire factory and listened to the introduction of the ruthenium catalyst synthesis process made by Wang Hongtai, a professor at Pujiang Jiaotong University, and praised it with high praise and gave high evaluations of this new process. Westerners are not as subtle as Orientals, but like to speak very much, making people feel so confident.

Hagner, deputy minister of the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture, who was invited to attend the ceremony, was mixed in a crowd, listening to this person's words and then the person's words, and he had already entered a state of confusion. Previously, he had heard about the refusal of Ikegai Production Institute to issue synthetic ammonia process licenses to Chinese companies. He came here and wanted to hold a final consultation with China on this matter. If China still has not obtained the license so far, he would have planned to give up cooperation with China.

What he did not expect was that the Chinese side actually claimed that it had developed a synthetic ammonia process with independent intellectual property rights, and the efficiency of this process was 10-20% higher than that of the Chiguchi process and several other synthetic ammonia processes owned by European companies. This is simply unbelievable.

China seemed to know that Hagner would not believe their words, so he invited more than a dozen internationally renowned companies to stand up for him in one go. Hagner does not understand industry very well, but he has heard of names such as Germany's Bronze, Netherlands' El, and the United States' Kremer. The executives of these companies all kept saying that China developed a high level of new technology technology, so what reason does Hagner have to believe it?

"But you haven't mentioned this new technology before!"

Hagner found Jiang Xianyu and asked him in confusion. This time, Chinese companies participated in the bidding for the Argentina large fertilizer project, and Beihua Machinery and Xinyang Secondary Machinery. As the technical director of Beihua Machinery, Hagner has dealt with him. In Hagner's impression, Jiang Xianyu has been talking to him about the Chigu craftsmanship, and he did not reveal the meaning of a new craft.

Jiang Xianyu smiled and said, "Mr. Hagner, I'm going to tell you that our ruthenium catalyst process has been developed for six or seven years and has been improving the technical details. We didn't expect the technology to be finalized so quickly, so we didn't mention the issue of using this technology, because we will not recommend an immature process to foreign customers."

"But why are you able to shape this process now?" Hagner asked.

Jiang Xianyu pretended to be contemplative and said, "This is because we have to be responsible for our customers."

"..." Hagner was messy. What does this mean?

"Mr. Hagner, let me explain it to you." Feng Xiaochen came out from somewhere. When Hagner came to China, Feng Xiaochen came out to entertain him, so Hagner knew Feng Xiaochen and knew that Feng Xiaochen was a government official in charge of the equipment industry, and his speech was much heavier than Jiang Xianyu.

"According to normal progress, it will take two to three years for our ruthenium catalyst process to complete technical verification. If so, if we have to undertake the large fertilizer project in Argentina, we can only use the backward Japanese Ikegaya process, or the Dutch process that is also slightly more advanced than the Ikegaya process. We clearly have very advanced technology on hand, but we have to let our customers accept a backward technology, which is not allowed by our professional ethics."

Feng Xiaochen said endlessly. Jiang Xianyu was secretly ashamed of being beside him. Feng Xiaochen had taught him these words, but he was embarrassed to say them. The reason was that his professional ethics made him unable to lie. However, Feng Xiaochen's words were really not a lie, because China has been studying ruthenium catalyst technology for many years and has also been verified on medium-sized synthetic ammonia devices. This time, the equipment company spared no effort to organize a major battle, which led to the rapid formation of the process. If such a process is ignored, it can be said that it is for the Argentine side.

"So, how did you do it?" Hagner was fooled by Feng Xiaochen's big talk and couldn't help but ask according to his words.

Feng Xiaochen said: "We compressed the process verification that originally took two years to complete in half a year, and we paid a high price for this. I will take you to see our waste yard and you will understand."

Hagner was taken to a waste yard in a corner of the factory, where hundreds of various equipment and containers were piled up everywhere, which looked spectacular. Feng Xiaochen told Hagner that these were all equipment that were proven to not meet the requirements of the new process during the experiment. In order to catch up with the progress, China did not have time to fully demonstrate the suitability of the equipment, but produced the equipment first and then replaced it when it was found that it was not suitable, so a large number of wasted equipment was generated.

"This centrifugal pump costs $400,000 and was removed after only one use, and it will not be used on other devices in the future."

Feng Xiaochen pointed to a device and introduced it to Hagner. This centrifugal pump is actually the equipment used in the original Chigu process. After being replaced with a ruthenium catalyst process, the centrifugal pump will not be used. However, it will not be really abandoned, but can be transported to other built fertilizer plants as backup equipment. In addition, its price is far less expensive, and the domestic manufacturing cost is only 400,000 yuan.

Hagner didn't know this. He almost felt a little distressed when he heard Feng Xiaochen say this: "Oh, this is such a pity. I see it is almost brand new."

"It's useless." Feng Xiaochen said in a deep pain. "When we found that it was not suitable for the new process, we redesigned a centrifugal pump and replaced this one. This is the tuition we paid to complete the new process verification as soon as possible."

"Are these all the tuition fees you mentioned?" Hagner asked, pointing to the hundreds of devices.

"Yes, and it's far more than that," said Feng Xiaochen. "There are some useless equipment that we have brought back to the original factory. Maybe it can be used after modification. These are completely impossible to modify."

"But, Mr. Feng, this can only prove that you have paid a lot of money for the development of this new process. Well, I mean, I have paid a lot of money for the maturity of this new process as soon as possible, but this does not mean that your new process is mature." Hagner's follower Burley questioned. He was a little skeptical about Feng Xiaochen's words. Who knows where Feng Xiaochen was transported to fill the storefront at the scene?

Feng Xiaochen glanced at Burley and said, "Just just now, the experts from Brown Company and El Company have made high evaluations of our new technology, and Mr. Burley also heard it."

Burley nodded and said, "Yes, I did hear their comments, and we also see that the production of your country's second fertilizer plant using this new process looks very stable at present. But..."

"Berley doubts the credit of those gentlemen?"

"No, no, I think their credit is very reliable."

"So, Mr. Burley thinks that the fertilizer plant he sees now is not real?"

"I don't mean anything, I'm just worried... Well, it's a new craft after all, right?" Burley couldn't stand it anymore.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Yes, it is indeed a new process, a new process that can improve efficiency by 20%, and its cost will be more than 20% lower than the same production capacity equipment provided by Japan's Ikegai Manufacturing. Our country's insurance companies are willing to guarantee the reliability of this new process. The premiums to be paid are entirely borne by us and you do not need to increase your expenditure."

"But, there is..." Burley scoured his stomach and looked for a new reason.

"Berley, we should believe in the evaluation of experts." Hagner spoke coldly. He knew that his subordinates had a close relationship with the Japanese and had always advocated not to wait for Chinese companies and should sign contracts directly with Japanese companies. Hagner himself actually believed in Japanese technology more, but the quotations of Japanese companies were more than 15% higher than those of Chinese companies, and he performed very harshly in terms of construction periods, after-sales service, etc., which was far less easy to talk to than Chinese people.

After a set of large fertilizer equipment is put into production, it will take decades to use. Later maintenance and repairs are also a considerable expense. The after-sales service offered by Chinese people is much lower than that of Japanese people. Argentina is not a wealthy country. Such places can save a little bit.

If the Chinese did not develop a new process, but were bound by Chigu's process license and could not undertake the Argentina project, then Hagner would give up. Now that he heard that the Chinese had developed a new process, the efficiency of this new process was quite high and recognized by more than a dozen internationally renowned companies, Hagner's psychological balance was tilted towards China.

"Berley, after you go back, you should start the bidding process, so that Chinese and Japanese companies can provide their bids separately. We will give the option to the experts of the bidding committee."
Chapter completed!