On the other end of the phone is Zhao Xiaojie, the director of the procurement department. This is a veteran of the Sanqing Dynasty. He has always worked diligently and completed his tasks very well, and never made any mistakes.

Zhao Xiaojie's voice was a little frightened at first, but he quickly calmed down.

"Mr. Wei, this is the thing. Our gene sequencers are usually purchased from the industry leader Inmena Company. We ordered three batches in total. The first two batches were mainly used for the biological laboratory and the shared laboratory of Longtu. The arrival was very smooth, so the third batch signed an order with them.

"The third batch was mainly prepared for the scientific research team and postdoctoral fellows of the National Key Laboratory, and was originally intended to be installed at the new headquarters."

"The first two batches arrived on time, but the third batch has not arrived for a long time. It has exceeded the arrival date agreed in the contract."

"I have been urging manufacturers to ship the goods on time since three months ago. The manufacturer agreed well and said that it would definitely not be postponed. As a result, they would make excuses every time the delivery time was almost up."

"The first time I said that the factory was on fire and needed time to renovate. The second time I said that the workers went on strike was ridiculous. The third time I said that the shipping was too difficult to order and it was changed to land transportation. Then I dragged it for a while and said that the train could not be booked and that I had to queue up again for the warehouse, and so on."

"It has been almost a month since I have not received the shipping information. Now I have to contact them once a day, but the reason I give me is always to wait in line for the ship."

"I feel something is wrong now. Maybe something is wrong. This is definitely not a normal business practice."

Wei Kang sneered: "Of course this is not normal. But, do you have no plan?"

Zhao Xiaojie hurriedly said: "I have been contacting other manufacturers since the first postponement. I have both looked for Thermo Fisher and Roche, but they all said that if I place an order now, the fastest delivery date will be half a year later."

"Mr. Wei, you also know that in the field of gene sequencing, Inmina is the leader in the industry, with a high market share, and our machines are all from it, and the supporting reagents are also the same. If it is suddenly replaced by another manufacturer, there may be problems."

"As long as you have been working well before and have never had any problems, the machine repair and reagent purchase will go very smoothly. They also attach great importance to customers and often send people to the door for maintenance."

"Mr. Wei, it was my fault this time. I did not foresee this situation and make a good response plan."

After hearing this, Wei Kang felt a strange feeling. He naturally realized that the manufacturer was deliberately making trouble, and none of the other alternative manufacturers successfully replaced him.

This is certainly due to the reason why Zhao Xiaojie is not aware of crisis and the alternatives are not done well, but the meanings revealed by these Western manufacturers seem to be very obvious.

Is this a united targeting the Three Pure Land?

Wei Kang tapped the balcony railing with his fingers and couldn't help but fall into thinking.

Gene sequencing is to determine the base arrangement order of DNA through sequencing equipment, thereby interpreting the genetic code of DNA and providing guidance for life science research, clinical diagnosis and treatment.

Gene sequencing devices are essential equipment for gene detection and are currently mainly used in the fields of clinical testing and scientific research services.

This industry is different from the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industry is in line with its many heroes, and the top ten giants in the industry are not very different.

However, the gene sequencing industry has formed an oligopoly pattern. Because Miner mainly engages in the production and sales of gene sequencing instruments and reagents, accounting for more than 90% of the global market share. The second and third largest industries are Thermo Fisher and Roche, respectively, sharing the remaining market share together.

Inmena's largest product line is the Qualcomm sequencer, which is also the instrument ordered by Sanqing this time.

High-throughput sequencers are one of the largest revolutionary technologies in life sciences in recent years. Their appearance and development have greatly accelerated the entire process of biological science research and changed the application field and the ideas of clinical research and diagnosis.

Since the first generation of sequencing technology was launched, there have been four generations of gene sequencing technology on the market. However, the second generation of sequencing technology born in 2005 still occupies the mainstream in the global market, because Mina relies on its monopoly advantage to build a profound technical barrier.

For a long time, almost all domestic gene sequencers have been imported from it, and Sanqing has always ordered the latest instruments, so I can only choose Inmena's products.

As a core tool for life sciences, gene sequencers have absolute barriers to access. In a sense, they are both the top of technology in the field of life sciences and the mother of this industry. Their value is no less than chip manufacturing and space engineering technology.

The research and development of gene sequencers has extremely high requirements for the quality of relevant personnel. R&D personnel must be familiar with many complex disciplines such as biology, physics, chips, and precision machinery. At the same time, its manufacturing process is quite complex, and it cannot be achieved overnight and can be easily imitated.

Gene sequencing instruments are typical soft and hard platform-type hard technology, and are the decoder of life data of humans, animals and plants.

It not only has a wide range of application scenarios in new drug research and development, gene research, and clinical treatment, but also plays a key supporting role in research in the agricultural field.

It can be said that it is the "lithography machine" of life science.

In a broad sense, lithography machines and gene sequencers have similar patterns in the sequence of technology trees.

One is based on silicon and the other is based on carbon, which are the two key keys to solving the proposition of human civilization "where to come from and where to go" so far.
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