New Frankfurt City.
As an emerging city, New Frankfurt City's industrial level continues to rise, and a large number of high-quality projects have landed in the area during First Five-Year Plan. In particular, high-quality industries such as textile industry, equipment manufacturing and automobile manufacturing, and electronic product manufacturing are booming.
New Frankfurt City's regional advantages are mainly reflected in the field of transportation. The local area is one of the most important land transportation hubs in East Africa. Waterways, railways and highways intensively intersect here, stretching across East Africa like the tentacles of an octopus.
A section of the artificial canal in East African Grand Canal passes through the New Frankfurt City area and is used to connect the Congo River basin and Zambezi River basin water systems. Of course, it does not pass through the city, but passes through its subordinate jurisdiction.
This canal has already connected the copper mining belt and the southern cities and opened some sections of the Congo River tributaries and Zambezi River tributaries to navigation. The entire section is more than 180 kilometers long. This kind of frenzied project is not unique in East Africa in recent years. A large number of black people have fallen under the horrific scale of infrastructure in East Africa.
The artificial canal takes advantage of the topography of Katanga Plateau and flows from northeast to southwest, so the main water source comes from Congo River basin which has more abundant rain. This not only improves the navigation capacity, but is also a water diversion project that effectively supplements Zambezi River basin.
Its river source mainly comes from the tributaries of the Lualaba River upstream of the Congo River, so the overall water volume is relatively abundant. There is a ditch system for farmland irrigation along the river, which plays a major role in stabilizing the grain output around Rhine City.
After all, the annual precipitation around Rhine City has reached more than 800 millimeters. Through the water diversion project, the safety of water sources near the capital area and the entire Central Province can be basically guaranteed.
Central Province is originally located in the climate transition zone between savanna and tropical rainforest, so the precipitation is more and more stable as you go north, so the East African Grand Canal Central Province section is very important.
As the area where the canal passes, New Frankfurt City is actually still some distance from the urban area. However, the future urban development of New Frankfurt City will inevitably move closer to the canal section.
Some key enterprises, especially the New Frankfurt City textile industry, chemical industry and other water-intensive industries are converging here, and in the Central Province canal section, the New Frankfurt City man-made fiber factory is located here.
The factory was a key enterprise during the First Five-Year Plan and New Frankfurt City periods. It was officially built in March last year and has now begun production.
New Frankfurt City The man-made fiber factory is not large in scale and can only be regarded as a medium-sized enterprise, but it is highly valued by the government. Ernst came here specifically to inspect the first man-made fiber factory in East Africa.
Facing His Highness the Crown Prince, the employees and management of New Frankfurt City man-made fiber factory were naturally very nervous. After all, man-made fibers had received Ernst's focus from the beginning, and today Ernst was here to inspect the results.
"Your Highness, this man-made fiber technology was introduced by us from the J. P. Bemberg Company in Germany. This technology has already appeared in the early 1990s."
"At that time, two German scientists, Brunner and Fremer, made artificial cupro ammonia by dissolving cellulose in cupro ammonia solution, and obtained an invention patent."
"Then in the late 1990s, J. P. Bemberg Company successfully used the cuprammonium method, a new fiber manufacturing method, for industrial production. The government obtained the relevant technology through cooperation with Germany, and the industry was finally implemented New Frankfurt City."
This is the cupra silk from the previous life, but Ernst doesn't know much about this aspect, because the development of man-made fibers or chemical fibers around the world has just started.
In 1884, the famous French chemist Chardonnet put nitrocellulose into alcohol and ether to make slender and beautiful rayon, and began mass production in 1891.
In 1891, British Crus and Bevan decomposed cellulose with strong alkali and carbon disulfide, and then used a spin box to dehydrate and spin under the action of centrifugal force to produce viscose rayon.
This safe and cheap method of man-made fibers quickly became popular and is the most widely used method of producing man-made fibers.
It can be seen from the time period that chemical fibers first started in the 1980s, and began to develop by leaps and bounds in the 1990s. New technologies continued to emerge, and the cupro wire technology introduced in East Africa was a product of the 1990s.
Therefore, it is not too late to start the development of East Africanization chemical fiber business, and New Frankfurt City chemical fiber factory is one of the important symbols.
Several key cities in the textile industry including Bulawayo city, Mogadishu city, Nairobi city and Jezira City have also introduced this technology.
New Frankfurt City's textile industry is also relatively developed. It is one of the important distribution centers for inland cotton, and the reason why cupro wire technology overlaps with that of East Africa's developed cotton textile industry is.
It has an important relationship with the raw materials it requires. The main raw material of cupro wire is cotton lint, which is the fluff on the outside of cotton seeds. The fiber extracted from the cotton lint through special processing is cupro wire.
Therefore, cuprammonium fiber is a regenerated cellulose fiber. It is made by dissolving natural cellulose raw materials such as cotton linters in a concentrated ammonia solution of copper hydroxide or alkaline copper salt to form a spinning solution. In the coagulation bath, cuprammonium cellulose molecules are chemically decomposed to regenerate cellulose. The resulting hydrated cellulose is post-processed to obtain cuprammonium fiber.
Cupro wire, as the name suggests, has characteristics more consistent with "silk". The cross-section of cupro fiber is circular, without a sheath-core structure. The fiber can withstand a high degree of stretching, and the resulting monofilament is thinner. Therefore, the fabric of cupro silk products feels soft, has a soft luster, and has a silk feel.
In addition to cotton wool, cupro ammonia solution is indispensable for cupro wire. East Africa is an important copper-producing country, and ammonia production has also started, so there is no shortage of both.
New Frankfurt City began to use ammonia to produce cupro ammonia fiber based on the textile industry and chemical industry.
"With the help of German experts, our factory has completely mastered this technology and is now ready for large-scale production."
Later, under the guidance of technical staff and management, Ernst visited the entire production process of cupro wire. Everything went smoothly and there were no mistakes. At the same time, Ernst personally experienced the feel of the finished product.
Ernst nodded and said, "The quality is acceptable. At least it feels somewhat similar to ordinary silk. It seems that you have indeed understood the relevant technology."
The factory director said, "Your Highness, in addition to the help of Germans, the main reason for mastering this technology is our own talent advantage. It only took them a few days to master it. I don't think a rough guy like me is as smart as the college students today."
East African University students with high academic qualifications and certain knowledge of chemistry have obvious advantages over ordinary people, and with the help of Germans, it would be embarrassing if they couldn't learn it.
Because this is not a new technology that I have broken through. In fact, East Africa must have trained many chemical talents in recent years, but it will take some time to produce results.
After all, East Africa mainly learns from the European United States family, and the European United States family's chemical fiber has just started. If East Africa can quickly follow up, it has already met Ernst's psychological expectations.
The chemical industry is definitely one of the emerging industries of this era, and Germany is the leader. This also provides convenience for the development of the chemical industry in East Africa. That is to say, East Africa and Germany have a close relationship. If United States and British have the right to speak in the industry, it will be much more difficult for East Africa to obtain relevant technologies.
Of course, if some emerging technologies can be obtained from other countries, it will definitely be beneficial to East Africa. However, East Africa itself has many chemical talents. As long as time is given, East Africa will definitely occupy a place in this field in the future.