Chapter 611: The Environmental Protection Industry Moving Forward with Difficulty
At this point in the meeting, the situation here has basically been introduced, and by the way, they have also helped them solve their financial problems. Ye Zishu is basically satisfied with their previous work, and they have also solved a big problem, so they are naturally happy.
Although it is already 11 o'clock in the evening, Ye Zishu did not end the meeting because he knew that the furniture industry alone would not be able to absorb much production capacity.
The reason why the wood consumption was high in the previous life was that most of it was used to make paper. The amount of wood actually used in the furniture industry was actually very small, perhaps only 10 to 20 million cubic meters would be enough.
Their current production capacity is more than enough for the domestic furniture industry, and it is not easy for the rest of the world to digest it. It is necessary to develop the types of end products.
Regarding this issue, Ye Zishu believes that there are several categories that are more suitable for consuming these production capacities. The first one is solid wood flooring. In the past, solid wood flooring may have various problems, causing many people to prefer to use ceramic flooring.
These are not difficult for Kylin Wood Industry Group. They can freely control the growth of fibers, and at the same time provide wood materials that are not found in nature.
It is completely possible to develop a special solid wood floor with excellent performance, which combines excellent features such as easy cleaning, good waterproof, not easy to deform, good physical experience, and excellent floor heating conductivity.
If such an excellent solid wood floor is developed, it can be sold all over the world. Compared with ceramic tiles, solid wood flooring is easier to install and disassemble, can be reused, and is more environmentally friendly.
With the technology they have mastered, although such product development is difficult, it is not impossible. Many research and development ideas have emerged in Ye Zishu's mind.
If such a solid wood floor appears on the market, it will definitely be very popular. It may be because the price is more expensive than ceramic tiles, and the domestic market is still uncertain.
He believes that the foreign market should not be low, mainly because the consumption power of foreign countries with developed economies is relatively strong, and the lowest-end products are 200 yuan per square meter, which should be very competitive.
But this price is quite high in China. If you decorate a house of 100 square meters, you need to spend 20,000 yuan for the purchase of solid wood flooring, which is a bit distressing for many ordinary people.
He predicts that if managed properly, the solid wood flooring industry alone may digest their production capacity of more than 20 million cubic meters, with an annual output value of more than 300 billion yuan.
Then there is the decoration wood, which is difficult to evaluate. It depends on whether the decoration materials they make are popular in the market, but it can still absorb a lot of production capacity, even if it is only 1 million cubic meters.
Finally, there is an all-wooden villa. He had this idea before. If it is unrealistic to use wood for high-rise buildings, it is better to use reinforced concrete.
However, it is not difficult to use special wooden materials to build a villa with about three floors. It is not only more environmentally friendly, but also has good stability, and there is no need to worry about natural disasters such as earthquakes.
If it is an ordinary rural house, it may not be able to afford the construction cost of this kind of villa, but for those who can live in a villa in the city, there is no pressure.
For a 2-story wooden villa covering an area of 100 square meters, the cost of wood will start at about 300,000, and the price will vary according to the quality of the wood.
Although he also doesn't know how big this market is, he feels that there should be good sales in overseas markets in today's increasingly stringent environment.
As for the domestic market, it may take a few years before it explodes. If the per capita monthly income reaches more than 10,000 yuan, for many families, building such a villa will not be too much pressure.
Leafbook asked Kylin Timber Industry Group to do a good job in villa design and building tutorials. After customers place an order for the villa they are satisfied with, they only need to mail the whole set of materials.
Customers can easily build a whole set of villas according to the construction tutorial. During the construction of the villa, try not to use third-party firmware, and use ancient mortise and tenon structures for splicing.
Build a wooden villa like this,
Just like building blocks, this feature can save customers a lot of labor costs in developed countries with expensive labor costs.
On the other hand, due to the large-scale production of industrial assembly lines, they can also save a lot of production costs, which can not only make them more money, but also make them more competitive in the market.
Customized services can also be provided, customers can provide their own drawings, here can customize raw materials according to the drawings, but the price is much higher.
Although these managers don't know how big the specific market is, they all feel that this is a good direction. Compared with the fir that is widely used in nature, the villas built with wood are obviously more comfortable.
The frame wood they provide is not worse than the reinforced concrete frame, and the service life can be as long as hundreds of years, but this kind of wood is more expensive.
Anyway, compared with natural wood, the characteristics of artificial wood are much better, because it can be customized according to people's intentions, and the goal of natural wood growth is definitely not to be a wedding dress for people.
In addition to these businesses, Leaf Book also asked them to investigate more industrial uses of wood, some of which do not necessarily require good properties, as long as they are cheap enough.
After the meeting, I went back to the hotel and continued to be busy until four in the morning before going to bed. Early the next morning, after breakfast, I drove to Shangrao, where the headquarters of Kylin Environmental Industry Group is located.
When Ye Zishu arrived at their headquarters, what he saw was a small four-story building in front of him, which was comparable to the office space of Taiji Group's headquarters back then, and it was also very simple.
This group company was established relatively late, and its business was also gathered from the environmental protection business of the previous groups to establish such a group company.
Therefore, most of the business personnel are in other places, and the scientific research personnel are basically staying in Wuhan. Only the management and administrative departments of the company are left here.
Since environmental protection used to be an internal matter of each enterprise, it was basically not profitable. For many enterprises, it was a cost-consuming business.
As a result, although Kylin Environmental Industry Group has collected these businesses, it has not made much money. They cannot get equipment costs, and now they can only get maintenance fees and consumable materials.
They have been established for more than half a year, and they have only obtained a total revenue of more than 2 billion yuan. This is a lot of income for small businesses, but for them, it is dispensable and can only maintain the company's basic management costs. .
Kirin Industrial Group allocated them 20 billion yuan of funds, but these funds are used to invest in research and development and production, and they are reluctant to use this money to improve office conditions.
The business of Kirin Environmental Industry Group has also been discussed earlier, including industrial pollution and waste treatment, domestic pollution and waste treatment, seawater desalination, urban water supply and other businesses related to environmental protection.
Although there are so many businesses, few have actually been developed. At present, most of the businesses in industrial pollution and waste disposal come from sister companies, and their current revenue mainly comes from here.
Domestic pollution and waste treatment have not yet been carried out, and the business license has just been obtained, but it is relatively difficult to carry out smoothly.
As for seawater desalination, it is still under research and development, and they currently do not have enough funds for the construction of seawater desalination plants.
The urban water supply has just been approved. Although the technical conditions are already met, it is not so easy to carry out the business. Every city has its own water plant, so how can it be easy for others to intervene.
If you want to obtain the urban water supply market as soon as possible, the best way is to acquire these waterworks, but let alone whether they can be acquired, it will definitely consume a lot of funds.
Finally, there are other miscellaneous businesses, such as the reusable shopping bags they are building to replace the existing plastic bags and reduce the environmental pollution caused by plastic bags.
White garbage is becoming more and more a disaster for the natural environment, and these garbage also flow into the ocean in large quantities, causing marine pollution and threatening the survival of marine water environment and animals.
The eco-friendly shopping bags they launched use the sugar molecular structure, which can be as thin as ordinary plastic bags, and the weight can be about the same. The most important thing is that the cost can be less than 0.02 yuan.
Such environmentally friendly shopping bags are not only edible, but also degrade quickly, and can have different degradation times according to different materials.
Like a disposable shopping bag, it takes a month to degrade normally. If it is soaked in water, it can be completely degraded in 3 hours, and only carbon dioxide and other products will be produced in the end.
Others include environmentally friendly disposable beverage bottles, which consume hundreds of billions of them globally every year, which is not much less than the annual consumption of plastic bags.
In fact, they want to research environmentally friendly products that completely replace plastics. Leaf Book has provided some technologies before, but more technologies need to be developed by themselves.
Plastics can be used on a large scale, and they must have their good properties, such as strong plasticity, easy processing, and low price, which make them widely exist in our daily life.
Leaf Book is supporting their ambitious plan. The environmental pollution caused by plastics has seriously affected people's health. Plastic particles are difficult to metabolize after entering the human body and will exist for a long time.
If this problem can be solved, it will benefit human beings and creatures in nature, and by the way, they can also get a lot of income. This kind of business will make people feel more comfortable.
Not to mention other uses, the market size of packaging plastics alone is as high as tens of billions of yuan, not to mention occupying all of them, even if they occupy half of the market, there are hundreds of billions of yuan, which is not a small number.
As long as it has the characteristics of the same type of plastic products, if the price is basically the same as that of similar plastic products, most companies are still willing to use more environmentally friendly alternatives.
It’s just that if they want to achieve this level, they need to develop many kinds of substitutes. If Ye Shushu does not intervene, it may take a long time to complete their goal.
