The rise of nanometers

Five buses and a dozen secretly escorted off-road vehicles stopped at the gate of Dongying Laohuanghekou Desalination Plant.

A group of people wearing masks filed out of the bus.

Badir Shah was the leader of the Holy Land expedition team. He knew that he had arrived at his destination through the translation of the translator.

Looking around, the old Huanghekou desalination plant covers a very large area, and there are factories under construction on both sides of the plant.

The person in charge of entertaining the delegation was Tian Huazhang, deputy general manager of Huaguo Water. He pointed to the desalination plant and introduced: "Mr. Shah, this is our desalination plant. It can currently produce 2.3 million cubic meters of pure water every day."

The translator translated Tian Huazhang's words to Badir Shah.

Shane Shah looked at this inconspicuous factory and asked with some surprise: "Tian, ​​is this a seawater desalination plant? Can it really produce 2.3 million cubic meters of pure water every day?"

After a moment, Tian Huazhang nodded: "Yes."

Abubakar Saud, the leader of the Saudi Kingdom's inspection team, took a look at the factory. They have a large number of desalination plants in the country, but they are basically exchanging oil for fresh water.

Even the richest people feel pain when faced with the efficiency and cost of old-fashioned desalination plants.

The group passed the inspection station at the entrance of the factory and, under the leadership of the director of the desalination plant, visited the production process of the water purification workshop.

When they saw the pure water flowing out of the water purification equipment, Abu and Shane showed eagerness and desire in their eyes.

For a sand kingdom whose land is mainly desert, fresh water is undoubtedly a more important resource than oil, and the rows of pure water reservoirs in front of them really make them envious.

Abu asked: "Tian, ​​I wonder how many pieces of equipment there are? Of course, if you are willing to transfer the technology, we will also give you a satisfactory price?"

"Mr. Abu, our company has no idea of ​​transferring technology for the time being." Tian Huazhang directly refused.

After listening to the translation, the tripartite inspection team was not surprised. With this kind of technology, China would definitely not transfer it easily.

"The price is also very cheap. A water purification equipment with a daily output of 100,000 cubic meters only costs 60 million yuan. This is the specific equipment quotation. You can take a look."

The assistant beside Tian Huazhang handed the quotation sheet prepared in advance to the three inspection groups.

Abu, Shane and others hurriedly looked through it.

There are three models of water purification equipment, namely 50,000 cubic meters, 100,000 cubic meters, and 300,000 cubic meters. The prices are 30 million, 60 million, and 180 million respectively.

This offer is really acceptable to the wealthy Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Emirates. The only one that feels a bit expensive is the Holy Land Republic.

However, this is only the equipment quotation, as well as pipeline laying, factory building construction, supporting facilities, and the most important water purification membrane.

In particular, water purification membranes that need to be replaced regularly are replaced every six months on average, and the price is quite impressive. For water purification equipment of various specifications, the cost of replacing a water purification membrane is 500,000, 1 million, and 3 million respectively.

In addition to the patent fee of 0.5 yuan per cubic meter of pure water, as well as equipment depreciation costs, electricity costs, labor and maintenance fees, etc., the cost of pure water per cubic meter is about 1.2 to 1.3 yuan.

If you add in the cost of sea salt treatment and water transportation, the average price is 2 to 3 yuan per cubic meter.

Although it is much cheaper than what they do themselves, the current cost of mainstream seawater desalination is usually 3 to 5 yuan per cubic meter, and large-scale production is still a problem.

At present, the scale of seawater desalination in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reaches 12 million cubic meters per day, accounting for about 15% of the world's seawater desalination scale.

As for China, there is a rhythm of catching up from behind. According to the plans of Blue Era and BEWG, it is expected to reach a daily production capacity of 200 million cubic meters by 2015.

After weighing the pros and cons, Abu asked: "Tian, ​​can you authorize us to produce the film ourselves? We can pay the patent fee."

"I'm very sorry, the membrane can only be produced and installed by us." Tian Huazhang knows what it means. This is no longer a matter of money.

As the previous leader in seawater desalination technology, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will not compromise easily. After all, in the drought-stricken West Asia, water is more important than oil. Otherwise, they would not invest large sums of money in developing seawater desalination technology.

Although the pure water in front of you is cleaner than the desalinated water in Shadi, after adding trace elements, it is basically the level of drinking water.

But this kind of situation of being controlled by others is definitely not what Abu wants to see. He would rather use the Saudi Kingdom's own technology, because his own technology is controllable.

Similarly, the United Emirates and the Holy Land Republic also feel worried. In this model, they see the existence of a crisis. Once China's water service cuts off the supply of membranes, the consequences will be disastrous.

It's just the cost issue that really bothers them. The wealthy Saudi Arabian Kingdom and the United Emirates are fine.

As for the Holy Land Republic, which is not rich, it is simply unrealistic for them to adopt Sandi's technology.

On the one hand, it has a price advantage, but it has safety risks; on the other hand, it is expensive, but it can ensure autonomy and controllability.

It's a tough choice.

Judging from the current situation, through official relationships, Battier can get a relatively favorable price, but the risk still exists, which requires their domestic senior management to make the final decision.

The three inspection groups inspected the Dongying Desalination Plant for a long time, then temporarily stayed there, and then contacted them back home to report on the results of this inspection.

In addition to the inspection groups from these three countries, inspection groups sent by other countries also arrived in Dongying one after another.

Those countries that wanted to purchase technology were rejected by Tian Huazhang.

Currently, the only countries interested in purchasing are Greece, Morocco, Malta, and Egypt, while the others are in a wait-and-see mode.

Among them, Egypt and the island nation of Malta, which are in urgent need, are currently in negotiations.

Huaguo Water Affairs Corporation is not too eager to develop the international market. At the same time, it has no intention of giving in to many conditions, as if it wants to buy or not.

As an island country in the hinterland of the Mediterranean with a population of 430,000, the Republic of Malta was the first to sign a memorandum of cooperation.

The two parties signed a contract for 250,000 cubic meters per day.

Morocco, which followed closely behind, signed the first phase of the contract, with a desalination scale of 1 million cubic meters per day.

These small countries with no geographical vitality are inherently neutral countries and are not that concerned about strategic security considerations.

So they signed the contract first.

the other side.

Saudi Arabia, the Holy Land, the United Emirates and other parties had too many things to consider, and they were in a deadlock for a while.

On the other side of Blue Star.

Tetra Pak's Swedish headquarters.

CEO's office.

André Rolland, the current president of Tetra Pak, suddenly became solemn after reading the report from the Greater China region.

Greater China's revenue accounts for one-third of the group's revenue. You must know that Tetra Pak's revenue last year was 10.6 billion US dollars. This is a crucial market.

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