Chapter 542
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Honeywell International Corporation, Department of Aerospace Industry.
The Ministry of Aerospace Industry was established in 1986 after Honeywell acquired Sperry Aerospace. With the technology and materials of the former Sperry Aerospace and Honeywell International's investment, the Ministry of Aerospace was established or controlled more than 20 companies involved in aviation, automation, special materials, and power. They became the world's leading aerospace industry integrated manufacturer.
Honeywell Aerospace Industry Department. The marketing and technical department executives were having a meeting to discuss the Chinese Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing Company's order.
"From the information sent by Anderson Fergus, it is clear that Hongxin's materials department has taken control of the new carbon fiber composite material manufacturing and mass forming technology." The marketing director said, "In the order, we have to cancel all sales that exceed 30 million USD."
"This is a huge loss for us. This quarter's sales in China will drop by 25%! "
"This is not what I am most worried about. I am worried that the Chinese Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing Company will also start to manufacture and sell this material. Based on the description, their manufacturing speed is faster than us, but their cost is lower than us. They will soon compete with us in the global market. "The deputy marketing director said.
"I would like to apply for 150 million USD of R&D funds to invest in the new carbon fiber composite material research and the filament spreading machine." The technical director said.
"We can apply and wait for the approval." One of the executives nodded.
"The most important thing now is how to maximize our profits before Hongxin completely invades the aviation materials industry." The marketing director said. "We cannot just let go of this order!"
The technical director said, "Didn't they want us to help them with the engine blade material manufacturing technology? We can sell part of the technology to them at a high price. It should be at least a few hundred million USD. "
The marketing director asked, "This is one of our core technologies. Can we sell it to them?"
"Yes, we will not sell the core technologies, but we can sell some of the non-essential technologies. I think with Hongxin's technology, they will be able to develop it in a few years. It is better to sell it earlier and make a profit. "
"The company's business intelligence team said that the UK's Rolls-Royce company is also contacting the Chinese Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing Company. If they sell the technology to the Chinese first, we will not be able to make any profit!"
The British Rolls-Royce Company, also known as the "Rolls-Royce" Company. However, this company was different from Rolls-Royce. After the split of the Rolls-Royce brand, it was an aerospace technology giant that specialized in manufacturing aircraft engines. Together with America's General Electric Company and America's Pratt & Whitney Company, they were known as the world's three aerospace engine giants!
Not only did the civil aviation of various countries require their aircraft engines, but some countries' military fighters also used their aircraft engines.
"I agree with this proposal. It can also be submitted to the board of directors together with the application for research and development funds."
According to the "Honeywell Management Ordinance", commercial activities like this that involved the sale of technology and hundreds of millions of dollars required the approval of the board of directors.
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Huaxia Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing Company. Lu Zixin, accompanied by Peng Zhengge and Gao Wei, visited their aircraft engine research group.
In addition to being the director of the Aviation Materials Research Institute, Gao Wei was also the chief designer of the commercial aircraft project.
He introduced, "The aeroengine can be said to be one of the most complicated engineering systems in human history! Currently, the C919 commercial aircraft that we have already produced uses foreign aircraft engines. "
"In terms of the manufacturing of the aeroengine, the military had given us a lot of support. Just the research and development of the aeroengine engineering machine alone, we had spent more than 10 billion Chinese dollars. But there is still a long way to go before we can develop the core technology of the aeroengine. "
Lu Zixin agreed. He had read up on the relevant information. The research and development of the aeroengine accounted for about 30% of the total aircraft!
This was only for civilian commercial aircraft engines. It was even more difficult for military aircraft! The latest military aircraft engine in the US took more than 10 years to develop, and the research and development cost was nearly 8 billion USD! This was no longer a business competition between companies. It was a technology and military competition between countries!
They still did not have the ability to research the high-performance military aeroengine. They could only hope to solve the civil aviation problem first.
Gao Wei continued, "Let's not talk about the overall structure first. Just the engine blade alone is enough for us to struggle. The Aviation Materials Research Institute had a big project in the past 6 months, which is to solve the problem of low-pressure turbine engine blade material. "
Zhang Ming interrupted, "I saw it in the research institute. You are preparing to manufacture titanium aluminum blades, right?"
"Yes, the titanium aluminum alloy material." Gao Wei nodded, "Titanium aluminum alloy has the same strength and stability as traditional nickel-based alloys, but its density is only half of that of nickel-based alloys. It can increase fuel efficiency by 20%."
Aviation fuel consumption was a large part of the cost of commercial airlines. If the fuel efficiency could be increased by 20%, such an engine would be very popular in any industry.
Peng Zhengge said, "A few days ago, the vice president of Rolls-Royce Company in the UK contacted us and wanted to support our titanium aluminum alloy blade manufacturing technology. But the price is 50 million Euros! "
50 million Euros, according to the current exchange rate, was close to 400 million Chinese dollars. It was hard to say how much the other party's technical support was mixed with.
"What surprised me was that Anderson also expressed to us today that Honeywell is also willing to support our blade material technology. The price is lower than Rolls-Royce! "
Lu Zixin said, "I think you can reject them directly."
"Why?" Peng Zhengge said, "I think we can let them compete with each other and lower the price. Even if we spend 200 to 300 million Chinese dollars to buy this technology, it is still worth it compared to our R&D investment. "
"Because we can solve this kind of small problem, so President Peng, you can reject them." Zhang Ming said.
"Professor Zhang, you can solve the low-pressure turbine engine blade material problem?" Gao Wei was shocked and turned to ask.
"Of course, it is only titanium aluminum alloy. Hongxin's Materials Research Institute already has the relevant technical reserves. " Zhang Ming had a matter-of-fact expression. In fact, this material technology was also obtained by Lu Zixin from Bruce Wayne.
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