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Chapter 378 See the sanctions again!

"Ahem, 50 billion...does it take so much to make lactide?" Chen Hao coughed and asked with some uncertainty.

50 billion is not a lot of money to him, he is worth hundreds of billions.

But worth, assets and cash flow are two different things!

There are really only a handful of people in China who can casually spend 50 billion or even 100 billion.

"Lactide is used as a raw material for polylactic acid (PLA). If you want to mass-produce this, you can't make it without a capital reserve of 50 billion yuan and a cash flow of 100 billion yuan."

Fang Haosen smiled wryly, and then said: "It's not that our domestic companies don't want to do it. The key is that the investment is really not a small amount, and even if the investment is made, there is no guarantee that it will be produced, so basically we can only buy it abroad if we want to use it."

"Nautreworks, a company in the beautiful country, is a giant in this industry. It has controlled polylactic acid for so many years, but they have been doing it since 1997 and invested billions of dollars. It is only in the past few years that they have begun to make profits." In the end, Fang Haosen couldn't help sighing.

Nautre Works is backed by Cargill Cargill.

No big deal for Cargill, the world's largest grain producer.

The other party has sufficient capital reserves and technology, and is not afraid of burning money.In this case, Nautre Works spent ten years and invested billions of dollars to create an exclusive two-step production process to successfully produce polylactic acid.

One can imagine how high the threshold of this industry is!
Chen Hao gritted his teeth when he heard that, there are too many places in our country that are stuck by foreign countries.

But in any case, he would not give up, and said: "The development of our country cannot be hindered by basic materials such as PLA! We should not only produce lactide, but also polylactic acid!"

Polylactic acid, also known as polylactide, is a material that can be fermented from cornstarch to form lactic acid. Lactic acid is dehydrated and polymerized to form lactide, which is then polymerized to form polylactic acid.This material is a bio-based polymer material that can be degraded by composting to produce carbon dioxide and water. It is a very degradable and environmentally friendly material.

And PLA is two industries and three technologies: lactic acid and polylactic acid.The lactic acid threshold mainly comes from the strain and the purity of lactic acid.Polylactic acid is mainly lactide and polymerization technology, of which "lactide" is the most core, and few companies in the world can do it well, and the main production capacity is controlled by foreign companies.

Fang Haosen was naturally happy when he heard Chen Hao's words. This was also what he thought in his heart, but he had to explain clearly the pros and cons of it.

"Judging from the decades of development of Nature Works, 5000 tons is basically a profit point. It is difficult to make a profit with less than this amount. At present, our domestic enterprises are struggling to make [-] tons." But then, Fang Haosen also said something Rather inspiring words.

"The reason why PLA (polylactic acid) has been difficult to start in China is that domestic companies lack effective industrial solutions for the production of lactide from lactic acid, which restricts the bottleneck of the development of the PLA industry. So as long as we break through the lactide synthesis technology , the mass production of polylactic acid can be realized, and the gap between our domestic and foreign countries will gradually narrow.”

"It seems that the problem is not small." Listening to Fang Haosen's words, Chen Hao also basically understood.

But after seeing clearly, the determination in his heart became even greater.

Why has been stuck abroad on the basic material of polylactic acid?
Because the investment is large and the profit is difficult!

However, with the development of the mainland, environmental protection will be a big problem in the future.

Like the upcoming ban on plastic bags, we can see the determination of the capital.There will be fewer and fewer plastic products in the future, and this new biodegradable biomaterial is an unavoidable technology in the future!
Huaxia must do it!
Things like this that involve basic people's livelihood must be available in the country, otherwise sanctions will easily occur.

However, he still believes in the lactide synthesis technology research group led by Fang Haosen and Chen Chong. He used academic eyes to find out that the research and development success rate was as high as 65%!

Chen Hao said comfortingly: "Professor Fang, don't worry, you just need to figure out the lactide synthesis technology, and you don't need to worry about the subsequent transformation of the results. I will take care of it!"

Fang Haosen said rather excitedly: "It's not that there is no good side. A few days ago, Zhenhai Biology, a leading enterprise in the domestic polylactic acid industry, has announced to the outside world that it will polymerize lactide by itself to solve the problem of polylactic acid. It should be that the research has already achieved some results. breakthrough."

"Really? That's good, but we can't give up if they mess with them." Chen Hao was taken aback for a moment, but didn't really care.

He is not short of money, and besides, this industry does not make money.

According to the data in 2017, the total production capacity of degradable materials in the world is about 200 million tons, of which there are more than 3.7 million traditional non-degradable materials, and biodegradable materials account for less than 0.5%.

For biodegradable materials, the market prospect is very large, and there is no fear of competitors at all.

After giving some final instructions, Chen Hao left the laboratory.

……

Pretty Country, Minnesota.

Nautre Works corporate headquarters.

Mark Weber, CEO of Nautre Works, NO.1 in the PLA industry.

At this moment, he is listening to the report of his subordinates in the office.

After listening, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, as if there was a hint of sarcasm.

"You said Huaxia's Zhenhai Biology announced that it would polymerize lactide by itself?"

"Yes, this is an urgent message from our Huaxia branch just now." The subordinate also held back a smile and said, "Boss, should we let it go or teach the other party a lesson?"

Weber smiled, as if he was talking about something insignificant, "Oh, this Huaxia company is so confident, so I think the other party should have broken through the lactide synthesis technology?"

"That's already broken, so you don't need to buy it from Nature Works anymore?"

Seeing that Weber blinked at him, the subordinate understood instantly, but he was a bit hesitant when he thought about something, "Boss, will this cause dissatisfaction in Huaxia?"

"So what if you are dissatisfied? If you want the raw materials of polylactic acid, you must cooperate with us! Otherwise, who else can provide these to Huaxia enterprises except our company? Isn't it?" Weber shrugged with confidence.

Since someone feels that their wings are stiff, that's good, let the other party see what the power of capital is!
After the subordinate responded, he withdrew.

Immediately afterwards, a piece of news suddenly sounded like thunder on the Internet.

It didn't take long to spread to Huaxia.

As soon as this news appeared, it directly detonated the domestic Internet!

As soon as Zhenhai Biology announced that it would independently develop lactide technology, Nature Works announced that it would immediately stop supplying lactide to Zhenhai Biology.

In other words, Zhenhai Biology was sanctioned by Nature Works!

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