Domestic Materials

"It seems so!"

The sales manager of Tian Feng Chemical felt both pleased and displeased.

Displeased, naturally, because Watanabe Jiro had left him speechless.

Pleased, naturally, by the content of Watanabe Jiro's words. As a member of Tian Feng Chemical, he felt a sense of pride.

Thinking about it carefully, Watanabe Jiro's words were completely valid.

In the field of optical materials, if Tian Feng Chemical dared to claim second place, no one in the world would dare to say they were first, not even Eagle Country's King Material would dare to pound their chest and claim first place.

In the field of optical film materials, King Material could say that.

But in the entire field of optical materials, King Material didn't have the confidence to say that.

Tian Feng Chemical is a mountain that simply cannot be bypassed in the global optical field. Starting from making cars, after decades of development, their side businesses have become leaders in the optical field. Many lighting patents belong to Tian Feng Chemical, such as the most well-known LED light source.

LED, also called a light-emitting diode, emits white light or various other colors of light when voltage and current pass through it.

For the white light emitting patent, Tian Feng Chemical is a rising star. In the past one or two decades, they have snatched the top spot from the founders and have remained the leader ever since.

In China, all LED manufacturers have obtained Tian Feng Chemical's white light emitting patent.

For the highly popular miniLED and micrlLED screens, the basic white light emitting patent still belongs to Tian Feng Chemical.

If the Chinese public knew this, they would undoubtedly feel frustrated and despair. So, what you're hyping up is just using someone else's patented technology, and you're just doing some superficial modifications?

And this is just the most basic.

Patents are also divided into domestic versions, global versions, and limited versions for countries that are doing well. The price of each version is different. The domestic version is the cheapest, but you must buy it. For every LED sold, a patent fee must be paid; the global version is second, but it is 50% more expensive than the domestic version, and similarly, for every LED sold, a patent fee must be paid; the ultimate version is the version for countries that are doing well, it is a special supply version, designed for products exported to places that are doing well, and the price is 50% more expensive than the global version!

This is exactly the same routine as mobile phone chips, using this to suppress you, and you have nothing to say.

Thinking of this, the sales manager of Tian Feng Chemical naturally felt that Watanabe Jiro was not exaggerating.

That's right, in a place with such research and development conditions, what truly valuable things could be developed in this field of optical materials?

If the foundation is not strong, the ground will shake!

For China to catch up with them in the field of optical materials, they must at least lay a solid foundation first. Furthermore, patent hegemony is in their hands, and they are one of the main members of the BOSE patent alliance. Unless China suddenly gets a boost and overtakes them on a curve, it is absolutely impossible to catch up with them in a short period.

The same is true in the field of optical materials.

Having figured this out, the sales manager finally remained silent.

And as the sales manager quieted down, the others also had nothing to say, after all, this was not something they needed to worry about.

The general manager presiding over the meeting saw that they had nothing to say, and naturally did not think this would be a problem, so he ended this topic and moved on to the next one.

In his opinion, he really wanted someone in China to surpass or threaten Tian Feng Chemical's position in the field of optical materials, but unfortunately, there was no one! At least not within one or two decades!

Besides Tian Le Material and Tian Feng Chemical, some manufacturers in other optical material industries, mobile phone industries, and traders engaged in some related industries also noticed this newly established Fei Yang Optics.

However, either they didn't care, or their own strength was insufficient, so they did not make contact immediately, but decided to wait and see first.

There were also those who were interested in making contact immediately, but the results were all that they did not receive much response.

Of course, there were also those who didn't care at all, such as the headquarters of Eagle Country's King Material established in China, which even completely forgot about this information after seeing it.

King Material Company, headquartered in Eagle Country, has a domestic headquarters as well, but it's just an office and doesn't engage in production or business operations, nor does it have an R&D center or anything similar.

The sales of King Polymer Optical Film in China are entirely handled through distributors. The office merely coordinates trade activities and handles import/export documentation. As for the original task of collecting competitor product information, it has completely disappeared with the slow progress of the domestic optical material market over the past few decades. Few people in the office even remember such a task existed.

King Polymer Optical Film sells very well in China. Even the defective products produced in Eagle Country sell extremely well domestically, categorized as B-grade, but still sold at A-grade prices. At most, it's just a matter of face between traders, offering a small discount.

Most importantly, King Company sells this material in China entirely through cash transactions. It's a hand-to-hand exchange of money and goods, so it doesn't bear any risk.

For companies unwilling to use cash transactions and requiring payment with credit terms or acceptance bills, King Company doesn't engage in direct transactions with them. Instead, it goes through traders, transferring the risk to the traders. The traders pay them first, and the customers owe the traders money, acting as an intermediary.

"New optical material? Is it just coated with some metal again?"

The head of King Material Company's domestic office happened to see this news while scrolling on his phone. He curled his lip in disdain and then completely forgot about it.

No matter what metal you coat it with, I'll handle everything with one constant: polymer materials crush everything!

Dongwan City, Oupai Company!

"Is this the FY-01 material promoted by Hua Long Technology? Its performance is indeed astonishing! No wonder Hua Long Technology, Zhong Wei Technology, Qian Jia, and Di Guang couldn't help but jointly invest in this material!"

Looking at the preliminary test report in his hand and the news playing on the computer about the four companies jointly establishing Fei Yang Optical New Materials, Li Dingguo, the head of Oupai's product division, couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

He was in charge of the previously developed and bid-on Dual Punch-Hole Screen project. At first, he thought this low-to-mid-range volume project would go to Zhong Wei Technology. However, Hua Long Technology suddenly intervened and won the bid, causing Zhong Wei Technology to stumble unexpectedly, which greatly surprised him as well.

Working with the Hua Long Technology team on this project these past few days, he finally understood Hua Long Technology's trump card. It turned out they had obtained an FY-01 material with even better performance than King Material. No wonder the cost was brought down, and they were confident they could make this project a success.

Even he, upon seeing the test report for the FY-01 material, couldn't help but feel shocked and was very tempted to invest and get a piece of the pie.

As a high-level executive at the level of Oupai's product head, he naturally quickly abandoned this idea. There was really no need.

Li Dingguo quickly thought about the application of the FY-01 material, thinking, Finally, one item on the list of domestic material substitutions can be completed!