The rise of nanometers

Just as the management of the four major ABCD grain groups were discussing how to respond to the Suiren Department's fertilizer offensive.

Adami President Yaris' phone rang.

Although he was in a meeting, few people knew this number. There must be something urgent before he called.

"Sorry, I'm taking a call."

"It doesn't matter." Roger nodded.

Walking to the next office, Yaris answered the phone, and there was a rushing voice on the other side of the phone.

"President Yaris, the oilseed and feed processing companies we control in China have had their services suspended by the local sanitation company, and they are demanding higher pollution treatment fees."

"What?" Yaris frowned and then asked: "How much improvement do they ask for?"

"3 times."

"Three times?" Yaris' voice suddenly broke.

The voice on the other side of the phone contained anger and urgency: "Yes, it's three times. The contract expires this month, and they demand three times the pollution treatment fee."

"Damn it, are they raising prices for other companies too?" a frustrated Yaris asked hurriedly.

“NO, just for our company, it’s like the holding companies of Cargill, Bunge and Louis Dreyfus.”

The furious Yaris yelled: "Fake Squid, do they think there are only three of them in this pollution treatment market?"

"Mr. President, there are only three of them in China. The processing technology of other small companies is difficult to meet the standards. Recent environmental protection investigations and punishments have been very strict. If we don't solve this problem as soon as possible, we may be suspended for rectification." The person in charge of Greater China His voice was full of helplessness and worry.

After walking back and forth several times in the office, Yaris still felt extremely troubled.

At that time, Blue Age, United Group and Beijing Enterprises Group promoted pollution treatment contracting and provided many discounts. In addition, the technology was also very powerful. As a result, the person in charge of ABCD's Greater China region did not notice this problem.

After all, at that time, the Suiren clan had not fully entered the agricultural field, and the two sides were unable to fight against each other.

After Fengmin Agriculture was established, Blue Age did not interrupt pollution treatment services, causing them to subconsciously ignore this blind spot.

Now when the Suiren Group gets into trouble, it launches an all-round attack. It first manipulates the ore market and squeezes the profits of international fertilizer companies; then it slaps them in the face of pollution treatment.

After calming down, Yaris took a deep breath and ordered: "Make a plan. Let's purchase pollution control equipment. Don't rely on the Blue Age."

Although he knew this was the best choice, the president of Greater China hesitated: "But if we do this, we may have to pay five times the price to reach the current level of pollution control, plus the cost of equipment procurement."

Five times the price, this figure made Yaris silent. He once again felt the technical pressure of the Suiren system, which was so terrifying.

Adami Company can pay five times the price to deal with the factory's sewage problem, but the economic connection behind this is too great.

After all, other companies do not have to pay 5 times the cost of pollution treatment, but Adami has to pay 5 times the cost of pollution control. In this case, it will only lead to a decrease in the competitiveness of their products and threaten their product price advantage in China.

However, Yaris was unwilling to accept three times the processing fee.

After hanging up the phone, he returned to the conference room.

At this time, the presidents of the other three companies were also on the phone. Roger, who had just returned, saw Yaris's expression and knew that the other party had also suffered a blow from the Suiren system.

About ten minutes later, Solomon and William also returned to the conference room.

Roger was the first to speak: "It seems that we have all encountered it. The environmental protection of the Suiren series has given up."

"What are your plans? Accept three times the processing fee? Or purchase the processing equipment yourself?" Solomon sounded a little aggrieved.

Yashili has calmed down: "It would be five times more expensive to handle it yourself. They deliberately quoted this price to disgust us."

This price is really disgusting to them. It is 40% cheaper than their own price, but it is three times higher than the original price, which is just around the bottom line of their price.

Now they are in a difficult situation. If it is not solved as soon as possible, various factories in China will have to temporarily close down for rectification.

Fortunately, as the Spring Festival is approaching recently, there is still buffer time for the Spring Festival holiday.

However, it is impossible to complete the equipment purchase and installation in more than ten days. This time will take at least half a year to pass.

The problem is that the Suiren Department did not want to give ABCD half a year, so they gave it three days to consider. Either they would accept three times the pollution treatment fee, or they would break up.

As for suing Blue Age for abusing its market power, just think about it. Even if this kind of thing is sued, the lawsuit will not last for several years, but it will not be able to do justice to the legal department of Suiren, which has hundreds of people.

The greed and rationality of the capitalists made the little old man Roger choose to compromise: "Promise for now! Then slowly think of ways to build your own pollution treatment system."

"There is another bad news." William paused and continued: "China plans to improve its environmental protection standards in the near future, and may have to fully benchmark the environmental protection standards of the Western Continent Alliance."

"Oh! NO!" The shrewd Roger naturally saw the impact behind this.

The improvement of environmental protection standards means that the standards of factory sewage discharge are higher. With the technology of ordinary environmental protection management companies, higher treatment costs are required.

However, the treatment technologies of the three major environmental protection groups themselves meet the standards of the Xizhou Alliance, and are even more perfect and complete.

Their previous five-fold fee was calculated based on China's old environmental protection standards. Once it reaches the Xizhou Alliance's standards, the processing fee may be about 7 to 8 times.

It is foreseeable that once the new standards are introduced, the three major environmental protection groups will find excuses to raise prices again. When the processing fee is raised to 5 times, they will be disgusted again.

As a Gaul, Roger suggested: "Contact Veolia and Suez. If you package it collectively for them, you should be able to get a lot of discounts."

Because these two companies are currently the giants in the global environmental protection industry, second only to Blue Age, United Group and Beijing Enterprises Group.

It was also a company in Gaul and Britain, so Roger naturally wanted to use their technology.

Although they knew the little thoughts of Roger, an old fox, the other three people still made a rational choice after weighing the pros and cons.

Without the introduction of Veolia and Suez, they will be beaten to death by Suiren in terms of environmental protection. Obviously ABCD will not accept this passive situation.

They asked the person in charge of Greater China to temporarily agree to the prices of the three major environmental protection groups.

On the other side, Roger took the lead and secretly contacted Veolia and Suez to discuss overall contracting for the pollution treatment of factories in China.

The sense of crisis brought about by the new environmental protection standards forces them to prepare in advance to deal with future crises.

While ABCD was acting secretly.

The management of the Suiren Department, COFCO and Beidahuang Group also held a secret meeting in Tongliao. The purpose of this secret meeting was to discuss the future layout.

On the one hand, it is to deal with the ABCD matter, and on the other hand, it is to further strengthen the industrial layout at home and abroad and ensure the security of food supply.

The purpose of choosing to hold the meeting in Tongliao was actually to examine the recent sand transformation of the Horqin Sandy Land and the laying of the Qintong water pipeline.

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