The rise of nanometers

Take out a delicate electronic scale from the tool room, put the milk bottle on the electronic scale, and a line of numbers pops up on the LCD screen: 78.6g

"The Zibo Milk Company is so bold, using such low-quality milk bottles. Aren't they afraid that the bottles will break and hurt people?" He Zhongli said to himself.

wrong!

He immediately overturned his previous thoughts, because when he threw the milk bottle into the trash can, there was nothing at the bottom of the trash can, and it hit the bottom directly.

Given the thickness of the wall of this milk bottle, if it falls from a height of 40 centimeters, it will basically break into pieces.

But this bottle was actually intact.

"Strange, maybe it's an angle problem."

He Zhongli, who became curious, took a plastic bag and wrapped the milk bottle. He let go at a height of 40 centimeters and the milk bottle suddenly fell to the ground.

But the result was unexpected. I didn't hear the sound of glass breaking. I opened the plastic bag and sure enough, the milk bottle was still intact.

He scratched his hair. The milk bottle in front of him surprised him. This kind of light and thin glass bottle was so resistant to falling.

"I still don't believe it." He Zhongli, who had lost his temper, raised the height again and fell again. This time the height was about 80 centimeters.

The milk bottle fell to the ground, bounced slightly, rolled around a few times, and then stopped, as if mocking his weakness.

He Zhongli, who did not believe in evil, tried several more times. Although the height was increased again and again, the milk bottle was still intact.

The hardness and strength of milk bottles exceed those of ordinary milk glass bottles. Ordinary milk bottles are made of high borosilicate glass material. With such a thin body, it is basically impossible not to break at such a height.

"What kind of glass is this?"

As an engineer engaged in glass research and development, he knows the physical properties of glass. Although the hardness of glass is higher than that of ordinary steel, its toughness and ductility are very poor. It is a typical brittle substance. Basically, once it exceeds the tolerance range, it will become irresistible. Reversal of brokenness.

But the milk bottle in front of me shows strength and anti-brittleness that ordinary glass does not have.

I came to the study room, opened my laptop, and searched for relevant papers on several domestic and foreign paper websites.

Although there are similar papers, there are few physical objects, or they are in the laboratory stage. This is not in line with the expected results, because this kind of glass is used to make milk bottles, and it is definitely a technology that can be mass-produced.

"There is no reason. Could it be confidentiality technology?" He Zhongli thought for a while and then tried to enter Zibo Milk Company on his laptop.

The web page jumps to an unfamiliar official website. Zibo Milk Company belongs to Shandong Province Milk Company, and Shandong Province Milk Company belongs to Shandong Province Blue Age Breeding Company, and the breeding company is a subsidiary of Blue Era.

In the last blue era, there is another parent company - Suiren Company.

Like Lucia's matryoshka doll, those who are not familiar with it will probably be stunned.

I consulted the manufacturer of the glass milk bottle on the other party's official website, and the other party gave an unexpected answer. The manufacturer of the milk bottle comes from Snail Industry, another subsidiary of Suiren Company.

The specific manufacturer is Northern Glass Manufacturing Company, which is affiliated with Snail Industry.

After looking at the official website of Suiren Company, He Zhongli realized how huge the company was. It had five first-level subsidiaries, and under each subsidiary, there were also second-level subsidiaries and third-level subsidiaries.

Entering the official website of Northern Glass, he discovered that this company was a subsidiary acquired by Snail Industry at the end of October. It currently mainly produces glass milk bottles.

Regarding the specific technology used, the other party only mentioned a vague term: silicon nano-coating.

"Silicon nano-coating? What technology is this?" He Zhongli searched the term again on the paper website, but the results he got were wrong.

After dinner, He Zhongli, whose curiosity was aroused by the milk bottle, tossed and turned all night. It was about two o'clock in the morning before he fell asleep.

When he got up early in the morning, he took two milk bottles and rushed to his company. His company was Shandong Pharmaceutical Glass and the largest manufacturer of medicinal glass products in the country.

"Good morning, Dr. He."

While changing into work clothes, He Zhongli ordered: "Xiao Jing, ask the people in the testing department to prepare immediately. I want to test a glass bottle."

"OK."

Ten minutes later, in the professional glass inspection room, a group of researchers began to conduct a comprehensive and detailed inspection on one of the milk bottles.

They didn't take it seriously at first, but as each piece of data came out, they went from being careless before to being dumbfounded at this moment.

If it hadn't been tested several times, they would have suspected that there was something wrong with the equipment.

He Zhongli, who participated in the inspection, discovered the horror of this milk bottle. The strength of the milk bottle is about 2.1 times that of manganese steel, the Mohs hardness is about 8.2, and the amount of impurities precipitated is zero.

In the test of low and high temperature changes, the performance of this milk bottle was also very excellent.

You should know that most of the pharmaceutical bottles and vaccine bottles produced by Shandong Pharmaceutical Glass Company are low borosilicate glass bottles, and a small number are medium borosilicate glass bottles.

Low borosilicate glass bottles are cheaper to make, and the disadvantage is that the amount of impurities precipitated out of the glass bottles is slightly larger, resulting in poor water resistance; while medium borosilicate glass bottles are currently relatively expensive, and the technology is also in the hands of foreign manufacturers.

To put it simply, "water-resistant" means that in the bottle-making factory, harmful alkaline oxides such as potassium and sodium are adsorbed on the inner wall of the bottle during subsequent processing.

The fewer oxides inside the bottle, the better the water resistance, and the better the water resistance, the better the pH, clarity, stability and other indicators of the drug.

The inner surface of low borosilicate bottles is water-resistant, the domestic standard is 2.6m, and the inner surface of medium borosilicate bottles is water-resistant, the standard is 1.3m.

The water resistance of the inner surface of this milk bottle is zero. That is to say, the inner wall of the milk bottle has no chemical residues mixed in during processing, and the silicon nano-coating itself will not precipitate silicon atoms, boron atoms, etc.

"It's a waste of resources. They use this technology to produce milk bottles. This company really doesn't know what it's about." Another engineer shook his head and said.

In this regard, He Zhongli said nothing. After all, the technology was developed by the other party, and it was the other party's freedom to use it to make milk bottles.

The key now is whether Suiren, the company that owns this technology, realizes its value.

The other party can use it to produce milk bottles, which also means that it can be used to produce medicine bottles and vaccine bottles, and the cost will never be too high.

If Suiren Company knows the value and starts to develop products such as pharmaceutical bottles, it will definitely be a dimensionality reduction situation for Shandong Pharmaceutical Glass.

After all, the performance is higher than that of medium borosilicate glass bottles, and the price may be lower than that of medium borosilicate glass bottles. However, their Lu Province Pharmaceutical Glass currently does not even have the quality of medium borosilicate glass bottles. How can they compete with the other companies?

After receiving the notice, General Manager Hu Chengjun hurried to the laboratory. After listening to He Zhongli's explanation, his face suddenly became solemn.

Even if Hu Chengjun is very arrogant, he is aware of the seriousness of the matter. Once the other party launches related products, it will definitely have a huge impact on the pharmaceutical glass market in Shandong Province.

It can be said that Shandong Pharmaceutical Industry is facing a life and death test.

Hu Chengjun immediately held an emergency internal meeting to discuss how to deal with this matter.