Basic industry is a general term for the industrial sector that provides basic means of production for the national economy. It includes metallurgy, petroleum, coal, electricity, chemistry, machinery industry, etc.

This topic is too big, and Mu Yang cannot include all basic industries. What he pays more attention to now are two types, the machinery industry and the metallurgy industry.

China is now the world's largest steel producer, with a production of 1.1 billion tons per year, exceeding half of the world's steel production, but it is China's shortcomings in special steel.

Special steel is the core and key materials required for major equipment manufacturing, major engineering construction, strategic emerging industries and advanced national defense weapons, and is a symbol of a country's comprehensive competitiveness.

China's equipment manufacturing industry is mainly controlled by others in core technologies and core components. Among them, core technologies mainly refer to control systems and software, and core components mainly have materials that are not up to standard. Especially, high-strength steels such as aircraft landing gear, high-speed train axles, bearings, etc., high-temperature resistant, radiation-resistant stainless heat-resistant steel pipes for nuclear power plants, high-temperature alloy blades of gas turbines, turbofan engines, etc., are currently not yet mass-produced.

From a global perspective, Japan and Germany have the highest level of special steel industry, with the two countries accounting for 20% and 18% of the global special steel market respectively. The gap between China's special steel products is mainly reflected in the variety structure.

When Varyag was transported back to China, experts found that China could not repair it, so why did not have qualified aircraft carriers use special deck steel? This is why it was placed there for three years after it was transported back to China.

In the end, the country was forced to make great efforts to develop special steel for aircraft carriers. It took more than three years and more than one billion yuan to produce suitable deck steel, and then began to repair the aircraft carrier.

Mu Yang’s current idea is to obtain some basic industrial data through computer information stealing, but there are too many categories. What Mu Yang asked Sarah to do now is mainly the metallurgy industry and the mechanical processing industry.

Of course, many of these online information cannot be complete, because no country or any company will put such important information on the Internet, but Mu Yang believes that there will always be some gains.

Mu Yang still focused on the acquisition.

More than ten days have passed, and the procurement of Rudi is on schedule. Sarah is still familiar with the use of new computers. After all, with a brand new speed and brand new software, Sarah needs to be familiar with many places. Emerric of the technology procurement team has not contacted Mu Yang. Mu Yang estimates that their progress must be very difficult.

But at this moment, Mu Yang received a call from Emerric. On the phone, Emerric said to Mu Yang with some excitement: "Boss, I have a message to report to you. If this matter is completed, maybe we can solve all the problems we purchase in a number of technical issues this time."

Mu Yang also became interested, "Emerick, hurry up and talk."

"Boss, I don't know if you have heard of the airport brand "Indykes". Their headquarters are in Stuttgart. It is an old airport company with a century-old history. It is a medium-sized scale, but it has reached the top level in some fields. It used to be very brilliant, but it has declined recently." Emmeric said.

Mu Yang has also seen the name "Indyx", but as Emmeric said, it is a medium-sized airport company and is famous for producing high-quality lathes and having its own complete technology CNC systems.

In Mu Yang's opinion, Indyx is a bit like a stubborn person in the social group. They insist on being high-end and advanced, and insist on being independent. However, in the real world, Mu Yang has not heard of any problems with this company.

"Boss, because Dies produces about 500 to 800 precision CNC machine tools every year, they always stick to themselves, which is very famous in the machine tool industry. In the past, their machines were very famous, with a complete range of machine tools and cutting-edge CNC technology, exceeding the generalized Siemens system, but something happened to them."

"Six years ago, because Dix invested heavily in researching a 68-axis CNC machine tool, it failed to succeed in the end. The second year, because Dix's sales were not good, this made the company's property fall into a dilemma. In the following years, demand for global machine tool companies was weak, which made Dix even worse, and it was a trend of slump."

"Our team studied his situation and found that it is very suitable for your boss's requirements for machine tool technology. Because Diex's technology is very comprehensive, involving various machine tools, and has the most advanced CNC system. If we acquire their technology as a whole, it may be a good idea, so that we will save you the same search, but the price may be much higher." Emmeric said.

"Have you contacted the other party?" Mu Yang didn't care much about the price issue.

"Yes, we have initially contacted the company's current helmsman, the third generation. He seems to be interested in selling the company as a whole, but he is not very happy to only sell the technology in his hands. After all, their core thing is technology. If the factory and machine tools are left, it is really not worth much." Emmeric said.

"You estimate how much it will cost to acquire technology, and how much it will cost to acquire Indyx Enterprise as a whole," Mu Yang asked.

Emmeric said after hesitating, "We had evaluated Indyx's technology at that time, and it was worth about 88 million euros, which included all technologies, including machine tool production processes, CNC systems, etc. We did not make a specific assessment of the overall acquisition, but the estimated price would cost about 130 million euros. After all, they also have a complete set of production equipment, and more importantly, they have more than 400 technical workers."

"Emerick, send me a detailed information, I need to study it." Mu Yang said.

"Okay boss."

After hanging up the phone, Mu Yang received an email. After opening it, Mu Yang started reading it because of the detailed information of Dix Enterprise.

But as Emmerich said, this company has always been a company that is committed to investing heavily in research and then generating the most cutting-edge machine tools. In Muyang's view, their model is actually problematic. They only do the best, but do not focus on promotion, which makes the company's capital chain very dangerous. Just like the last time, in 2014, because Dix's latest machine tool research failed, it has never recovered.

After reading it, Mu Yang felt that this was a godsend opportunity. Perhaps through this acquisition, he could obtain all the technology of a machine tool company.
Chapter completed!