They walked into the Guangtu Titanium Smelting Plant together. Inside the smelting plant, the high titanium slag was being purified.
"This is Guo Min, Master Guo, our chief technician. This open-top electric furnace was improved under his design. It has increased from 1800 KVA to 4300 KVA. "
The high titanium slag experience device was mainly a high-temperature electric furnace. The design of the furnace was very complicated. The higher the power of the furnace, the higher the purity of the high titanium slag refined.
Guo Min was in his fifties. Like Sheng Wenyan, he looked very old. Lu Zixin stood in the middle of them like a young junior.
"Master Guo, this is General Lu from Hongxin Group. He is here to inspect our smelting plant. If he is suitable, Hongxin Group will provide us with technical support to improve our titanium smelting technology. "Sheng Wenyan introduced. Guo Min quickly greeted him.
He was a little surprised. Guo Min originally thought that Lu Zixin was a small leader or a government official. Who knew that he was actually the CEO of Hongxin Group?
"Master Guo, what are the main difficulties in refining high titanium slag?" Lu Zixin asked. After all, the information that Hong Xiaoxiao inquired was the official information. It was not as accurate as actual inquiry.
Guo Min had already summarized this matter many times. He immediately replied, "There are several difficulties. First, the quality of the ore! "
"Although our country is rich in titanium resources, most of them are titanium ore. The quality is low and the impurity is high. This kind of material can only be refined by sulfurization. However, sulfurization causes serious environmental pollution. Many places have stopped using it. Now, they usually use chlorination to refine. But because of the problem of our refining process, we can't use titanium ore. We use titanium concentrate. "
"Titanium concentrate is expensive and rare. It is usually made from titanium ore. These are the two costs."
"The biggest difficulty is the electric furnace. Our open-top electric furnace can only refine high titanium slag with a purity of more than 80%. Next to us, Pancheng Steel Group has the best semi-enclosed electric furnace in the country. Their high titanium slag purity can reach 90%! "
"What is the top international standard?" Lu Zixin asked.
"If we're talking about the best in the world, it should be Canada's Quebec Titanium Corporation. They own about 30% of the world's titanium slag market. Their titanium slag smelting technology is the highest, and the fully enclosed high-power electric furnace can purify the high titanium slag with a purity of more than 92%, and further processing is done to remove the calcium and magnesium impurities. It is almost the best industrial titanium raw material in the market.
"Is that so? Is it convenient to scan the various data of the electric furnace now?" Lu Zixin asked.
"Well …" Guo Min looked at Sheng Wenyan. Although their electric furnace was not the most advanced, it was still a technical secret. Many ore refiners were still not at their level.
Without any hesitation, Sheng Wenyan said, "Of course. Master Guo, please cooperate fully. There's nothing to hide."
"That's good." With Sheng Wenyan's assurance, Guo Min was relieved.
Lu Zixin had already asked someone to bring equipment to scan the electric furnace in all aspects. Its data would be stored in the quantum information database for analysis and research.
"Alright, that's all for today." Lu Zixin said to the two, "I think it won't be long before we can introduce a more powerful electric furnace. We will improve the purification process of the high titanium slag to the world's top level. During this time, the processing plant can reduce the output and stock up more raw materials. "
Guo Min agreed, but in his heart, he did not agree. He thought that Hongxin Group was going to do some research and improvement. Who knew that they would just bring some equipment to scan the electric furnace and leave!
What can be improved? At least they should have a comprehensive understanding of the process. From this, it seemed that the other party was just going through the motions and did not expect anything.
Sheng Wenyan had the same idea as him, but he did not say it out loud. He was already thinking about other ways to deal with the consequences of the change in raw material prices in the international market.
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Canada, Quebec. This was the largest provincial administrative unit in Canada, a French-speaking cultural area. The world's largest titanium industrial raw material production group, Quebec Titanium Corporation, was located here.
At the headquarters of the Quebec Ferrotitanium Corporation, a group of guests from Australia had just arrived. Several senior executives of Rio Tinto were secretly discussing important business secrets.
"Mr. Fillion, our group has fully adjusted the price of iron and titanium ores. As long as you maintain a united front with us, I think the price of iron and titanium ores should not fluctuate in this period of time. "As the representative of Rio Tinto, Joyce said.
Last time, the failure in Nigeria made him controversial in the company. Fortunately, he had a strong backing. It was a big British consortium behind the group, so he could be entrusted with important tasks again.
"We have also fully reduced the price of titanium ores from Huaxia. In addition, we have reduced the export of high titanium slag. I hope this cooperation will be a win-win situation for both of us. "The president of Quebec Titanium Corporation, Fillion, replied.
These two international mining giants reached a price control cooperation because Rio Tinto knew that Huaxia Guangtu Mining Group had obtained a large number of iron and titanium ores in a short period of time and was eager to sell them.
They could lower the price and buy them at a lower price. Then they would use their titanium refining technology to process the ores into high-titanium slag or titanium sponge, titanium dioxide, and then sell them as industrial products. One low price and one high price, they would make a lot of profits in the price war.
"We still have a concern. What if Guangtu Mining Group processes their own titanium ores?" A senior executive of Quebec Titanium Corporation asked Joyce.
Joyce smiled confidently and said, "Don't worry, they will process some, but with their processing technology, they can only produce sulfurized titanium raw materials. We have already eliminated this technology.
"According to the market demand, they must turn these ores into high-purity high-titanium slag. They don't have the technology, so they can only sell the ores to us!"
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In the Wanjie Technology chat group, Lu Zixin was asking the group members about high-titanium slag refining technology.
Mr. L: "Does anyone know how to smelt titanium ores?"
Peter Parker: "I don't!"
Red Queen: "(Frustrated emoji: It's useless to tell me this because I'm just a computer.)"
Mr. L: "Red Queen: (Panda hostage emoji: Really? I don't believe it!) "
Red Queen: "(Spread hands emoji: If you think this way, I can't help it.)"
Lu Zixin looked at her and knew that the Red Queen must know. He immediately said, "Red Xiaoxiao sang me a song just now. It was very nice."
The Red Queen was immediately interested and asked, "(Expectant emoji: Where, where?) Mr. L, play it for me! "
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