Chapter 80 Plan B
Luo Jia continued to write quickly on the whiteboard, listing the domestic manufacturers of lithium battery positive electrodes one by one, as well as their market share and technical level.
"From this table, we can clearly see that the current market share of lithium battery cathode materials in my country has reached 53% of the world, and it is still accelerating."
"So, if we enter the battery industry, positive electrode materials will adopt a strategy of cooperation with domestic suppliers. At the same time, we also need a research team to study the possibility of positive electrode materials improvement."
After Luo Jia finished speaking, he picked up a new whiteboard.
"The next one is the negative electrode material, that is, graphite. The negative electrode material accounts for 10% of the total cost of the battery. The top three in the world are my country's Bertray, Neon's Hitachi Chemical, and the unemployed Shanshan Group."
"Their three giants together account for 70% of the global share of negative electrode materials, and have completely monopolized the market. The technology industry is cruel, and the new energy industry is the same. The former overlords of negative electrode materials, Neon Carbon, Mitsubishi Chemical, Neon JFE, have all fallen, who did it?"
"Of course it was Betray and the unemployed Shanshan. They did it. I guess the next step is that they will attack Hitachi Chemical, the last overseas manufacturer among the three giants."
Hahahaha~
Everyone in the conference room burst into laughter and then applauded.
Everyone feels that they are more and more fond of listening to Luo Jia’s pre-war meetings. Perhaps knowledge can really change a person’s temperament. Before they know it, Luo Jia has become more and more confident, and at the same time, there are also some funny little humors.
Luo Jia and everyone's laughter stopped, and he took out a third whiteboard and wrote it on it.
"The third largest raw material is electrolyte, which is lithium hexafluorophosphate. Before starting the analysis, I will tell you a little story."
"Before 2011, the price of lithium hexafluorophosphate was as high as 340,000 yuan per ton, but this year's price was only 80,000 yuan per ton. In a short time, the price was cut in half and then halved, plummeting all the way to 23.5% of the original price."
"Why?"
"Because the monopoly was broken!"
"Before 2011, Neon Rising Chemical, Morita Chemical, and Kanto Electrochemical monopoly the global market. For every ton of lithium hexafluorophosphate from them, they can get 80% of the net profit!"
"But when Chinese manufacturers made lithium hexafluorophosphate, they realized that this thing was sold for 80,000 yuan per ton, and this was the price of technology monopoly!"
Everyone sighed. Everyone has heard of the same thing. Because of the lack of technology, the tuition fees paid over the years are really amazing. The road to scientific research is a long way to go.
Luo Jia wrote the names of several companies on the whiteboard, "The current market structure is that my country's Dofluoro is the world's number one, Neon Morita is second, Neon Rising is third, and my country's Tianci and Bikang are fourth and fifth respectively."
"So our lithium battery project will directly purchase electrolyte from domestic manufacturers."
Then, Luo Jia picked up the fourth whiteboard and his expression suddenly became serious.
"The last of the four major raw materials for lithium batteries is the diaphragm."
"Unlike the three previous raw materials, this industry is still dominated by giants. After Neon Asahi Kasei acquired the American celgard, he formed the world's strongest diaphragm manufacturing group, and his followers are Neon Dongran, Neon Ube, and South Korea sk."
"There are three major companies in my country participating in the competition, namely Xingyuan, Zhongke, and Jinhui. Among them, Xingyuan and Sichuan University cooperate, which is the only domestic manufacturer that masters the stretching and pore-forming method and the phase separation method and the two film making processes. According to this year's data, they are already the fourth largest player in the world and have achieved good results."
"But unfortunately, we have higher requirements for technology. The thickness of the diaphragm is currently used on the market is 7 microns, and we must strive to compress the thickness of the diaphragm to below 3 microns. After all, the diaphragm is an important material to ensure the safety of lithium batteries. We must not joke about safety. In addition, the thickness and weight of the diaphragm material will also determine the most important parameter and energy density of a battery."
"In order to achieve this goal, we need to conduct in-depth research on the upstream materials, PP and PE of the diaphragm, and conduct in-depth research and development of the equipment used to manufacture diaphragms, mainly mold temperature machines."
Luo Jia talked about her requirements and ideas, and the smiles on everyone's faces gradually disappeared.
The first three raw materials have mature manufacturing systems in China, which gives everyone the illusion that it is easy to make lithium batteries.
Starting from the diaphragm, the difficulty of R&D has increased dramatically!
The experts in the conference room who were engaged in materials, machinery, chemistry, and heat research all felt that their breathing was short and their hearts were beating faster and faster.
It is worthy of the blood of the technology industry. It is so damn difficult to build this small lithium battery!
Luo Jia's speech speed was getting faster and faster, and he took out the fifth whiteboard, the sixth whiteboard, the seventh whiteboard, and the eighth whiteboard!
"After solving the problem of diaphragm, there are still more problems waiting for us." Luo Jia said seriously, "In addition to hard packaging of alloy materials, industrial lithium batteries also need to be soft packaging. However, the aluminum-plastic film used in industrial soft bags is currently dominated by giants. my country's self-produced aluminum-plastic film accounts for only 7% of the world."
"Neon dnp, Neon Showa Dento, Neon Letterpress Printing, Neon Limura, monopolizes the global aluminum-plastic film industry. We need to develop aluminum-plastic film forming process and develop corresponding machines."
"In addition, there are winding machines, to pole-piece slitting machines, to welding and winding integrated machines, electrode lamination machines, assembly machines, four-in-one molding machines, and all of these special machinery and equipment are not bad, we have to overcome them!"
Luo Jia's voice became excited, but the conference room was already silent.
Everyone couldn't believe their ears. Even the top elites in various industries were a little scared at this moment.
People always feel that a small lithium battery has no technical content.
But after listening to Luo Jia's in-depth investigation and research, everyone was about to collapse!
It is indeed not difficult to create it casually.
But if you want to build lithium batteries well and challenge the global overlord Panasonic, you will have to spend countless money and invest more than a dozen or even dozens of top R&D teams!
This is probably the charm of the technology industry. Few people really understand that behind an inconspicuous technology product, there is such an amazing investment hidden and how much effort the R&D personnel have been consumed.
Luo Jia shrugged, "Now you understand, why do I say that the lithium battery project is a hard bone? Because it is really hard, it is never easy to chew it down."
"And this is just Plan B. Since the battery project is so important and it is related to the future of all mankind, the company will launch a two-line combat plan for the first time!"
After saying that, Luo Jia took out the ninth whiteboard of today!
Start writing quickly.
Chapter completed!