Chapter 547: Joint venture, but not comprador (page 12)

After all, Torch Group is nominally a supplier, so Chang Haonan certainly cannot directly participate in the negotiations between Bingfei Group and AgustaWestland.

In fact, now he doesn't have as much time and energy as he did last year to personally battle with others about various details.

Under normal circumstances, it is good to set a general direction, and more specific operations can be left to other people.

Anyway, the design patent for the helicopter's low-noise rotor is in the hands of Torch Group, which means that it has the final say and final decision-making power no matter what.

What he was more interested in were actually the other Italian companies that came with Agusta.

They came to China with no specific purpose. Simply put, they were looking for business opportunities.

There's nothing we can do about it.

When Chinese people do business with foreign countries, especially in the first ten or twenty years after the reform and opening up, they actually rely heavily on inertia.

Regardless of whether it was a plan or a coincidence, Germany and Japan seized the opportunity at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, thus taking advantage of the dividends in the following decades.

Even until the time before Chang Haonan was reborn, the products and companies of these two countries still had a filter in the minds of many Chinese people.

The Italians missed that window of time, and by the time they reacted, there were only scraps left.

In the original timeline, they ultimately failed to replace Japan and Germany on China's side.

However, for Chang Haonan, who has knowledge twenty years ahead of his time, these businessmen from Southern Europe are indeed very good partners.

On the one hand, it is clear who is more likely to make concessions, a country that is eager to do business and open up its market, or a country that has made money in China for twenty years.

On the other hand, Italy is known as the "China of Europe". Although the two countries are thousands of miles (km) apart geographically, they have some similarities in cultural customs.

It is difficult to quantify how much impact this kind of thing will have on international exchanges, but what Chang Haonan knows is that in the future foreign acquisitions of Chinese companies, Italy will be the least obstructed.

So it’s absolutely right to plan ahead now.

When visiting the helicopter in the morning, Chang Haonan had already deliberately tested it.

When he talked about Torch Group's exclusive technology in finite element calculations, several people's eyes immediately became hot.

Therefore, he is very sure that quite a few of them have the intention to cooperate with him.

Therefore, after lunch that day, Chang Haonan went to Lin Hai, the deputy director of the International Cooperation Department of the Science and Technology Commission, who was accompanying him, and asked for a specific list of the Italian delegation.

He originally wanted to find a lucky person among them and induce him.

As a result, the initiative shown by the other party far exceeded expectations.

Lin Hai handed the information Chang Haonan wanted to the latter, and then reported:

"Mr. Chang, a member of the Italian delegation, Mr. Mattia Chiravadi, the representative of CB Ferrari, just found me and wants to meet with you in private."

Chang Haonan was stunned when he heard the company name.

But he knew that Ferrari, which built sports cars, was probably just a brand under the Fiat Group, and it had already cooperated with Jinling Motors.

So this company is most likely another company.

So Chang Haonan pretended to be steady and opened the information that Lin Hai brought to him, and soon found the CB Ferrari company.

It is a company specializing in high-precision CNC machine tools.

It seems to have little to do with Ferrari in the automotive world.

When it comes to cooperation technology, it certainly exists.

In the process of developing heavy-duty die forging presses, many patents were generated to optimize the machine tool structure and processing methods based on numerical calculations.

However, because the Chinese machine tool industry lagged far behind in more basic areas such as topology optimization, tool life and positioning accuracy, his patents could not be used for a while.

It can be used as a bargaining chip for cooperation.

Thinking of this, Chang Haonan closed the document in his hand, raised his head and said to Lin Hai, who had been waiting beside him:

"No problem, let's find a conference room nearby in No. 603. It's best if it's just the two of us."

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It turns out that Italians can escape the free-spirited stereotype as long as there is business.

Soon, Chang Haonan met Mattia Chiravadi in a small but private conference room.

The two of them actually had relatively close contact when they were in the outfield, but the late winter in Hojing was not very warm after all, so everyone covered themselves up tightly at that time.

So, when the two met again, they were almost simultaneously shocked by each other's age.

The first thought that flashed through my mind was:

"Why is he so young?"

Fortunately, both of them have been through many battles and have rich experience, so they no longer easily show their inner activities on their faces.

So after just some opening remarks of compliments and compliments, we quickly got to the point.

However, this content cannot be said to be completely meaningless at the beginning.

At least Chang Haonan knew that the CB Ferrari company was a combination of three surnames, and the Ferrari among them was Giuseppe Ferrari, which happened to have the same name as Enzo Ferrari.

Mattia Chiravadi is the son of another company founder, Augustus Chiravadi.

It’s no wonder that he reaches such a high position in the company at such a young age.

"Dr. Chang, when I was outside, I heard you and Dr. Gambelli say that your company can solve the problem of unstructured mesh generation efficiency in high-precision finite element calculations and the strong divergence caused by numerical oscillations? "

Chiravadi wasn’t going to keep practicing Tai Chi, but would get straight to the point.

In theory, you cannot add a doctorate title when you are studying for a Ph.D., but don't slap the smiling face. In addition, with Chang Haonan's current situation, normal people would not think that he is at risk of not graduating, so in many cases, this title is directly Added to the loan.

"Yes."

Chang Haonan nodded:

"This involves a brand-new grid generation method. Our company currently has nearly a hundred patents in related application fields and is the world's leading solution provider. If you need it, you can go to Torch Group Contact our Numerical Computing Business Department on the official website.”

According to international practice, algorithms as rules and methods of intellectual activities cannot be directly patented. Therefore, many of Torch Group's patents rely on TORCH Multiphysics software and are registered in some specific application fields.

Having said that, Chang Haonan knew that if the purpose of the other party's trip was just to find Torch Group to solve technical problems in the field of numerical calculation, then there was no need to come over specifically to find him.

What I just said was just a hard-to-get trick.

Sure enough, seeing Chang Haonan's business-like appearance, Chiravadi further clarified his purpose:

"Dr. Chang, our company's next-generation five-axis linkage machining center plans to use a full linear motor driver and a new honeycomb structure to increase the tool feed speed and realize the quick-release and quick-change capabilities of the machine tool spindle."